Wonderful New Websites for Teachers to Check Out!!

by Rochel Abrams

The Five-paragraph Essay
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/index.html
It gives step-by-step instructions, tips, and prompts with suggestions for the student on how to write a five-paragraph essay. This site also has many links which will provide more information.

Coolmath: Fractions
http://www.coolmath.com/lessons/
This link takes you straight to some fraction lessons. The home site has other math topics, puzzles, advice for parents and teachers. It's great. Try it.

Daily Grammar Lesson Archives
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html
This site has daily grammar lessons that cover important topics. You can sign up for the site to e-mail you a grammar lesson to do every day with your students.

Exploring Adult Literacy: Journal Writing as a Tool to Enhance Adult Literacy Processes
http://literacy.kent.edu/cra/2001/vjoyappa_2001.html
Journal writing and it's importance for adult students is discussed in this article.

Focus on Basics: Seeing is Believing
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/%7Encsall/fob/2000/seeing.html
This article shows a concrete way to explain positive and negative numbers to adult students. Many of our students need to see why math works to understand it. This should help.

Workplace math skills
http://www.readiowa.org/workplacemath/contents.html
This site has math worksheets that students can use.

LINCS Special Collections
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/collections.html
LINCS has lessons that are designed for adults working toward the GED. Click on any of the special collections and then on student/learner, and you will find many wonderful websites. There are good science and math sites for teachers who need information to teach these areas.