Teachingbooks.net
Teachingbooks.net has sooo many wonderful resources
Teachingbooks.net is an incredible tool
What does Teachingbooks.net have?
- author movies
- book/excerpt readings
- lesson plans, guides, & activities
- standards
- curriculum connections and teaching tools
- readers' theater scripts
- book trailers
- shelf cards & other resources to print
- ability to create custom lists (you have to create an educator login)
- many ways to share out with students, colleagues, parents
- webinars and training resources (they even made a slide deck that you can use)
How do I (or teachers) log in, in the WSWHE region?
Here's a quick screencast on how to access Teachingbooks.net. WSWHE provides it for everyone; you don't have to log in, but if you create a login, you can create customized lists, share to Google Classroom, and more.
In a nutshell:
- If you are prompted to "log in", use your school email and click "sign in". Say you forgot your password and create an account from there.
- You can also go to the three horizontal lines on the left side (a "hamburger" menu) and click "educator login". Follow the above steps from there.
Student access, or generic, I-don't-want-to-log-in, access is this:
Student access for Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES School Library System:
- Username:
- Password: wswhesls
Access directions page to help you share Teachingbooks with teachers, parents, and students!
Did you know?
- Teachingbooks.net links to resources for each book!
- Great, easy, direct access for teachers.
- The book images are also direct links to the books in the WSWHE Sora catalog!
- Simultaneous access doc
5-minute overview, and training videos
Here are quick overviews to get you started.
(Here is my homemade version)
Training section, including pre-made slide deck for you to use and share
Webinar archives!
Teachingbooks.net has an archive of recent webinars for you to explore, including ideas for distance learning at elementary, middle, and high school levels.
Check out the search features in the "footer" section of the site
Hugely important help section
One of my favorite parts of well-built sites is when they have an amazing help section.
Their help includes tutorials, tips on how to share and promote, and FAQs.