Lucy's Library Blast
September 17, 2018
Need primary sources?
Starting this year, the Tennessee State Library and Archives is offering a DocsBox program to Tennessee schools in all 95 counties. These seven DocsBoxes are educational resources that provide hands-on original and reproduction materials and historical primary sources that supplement the Tennessee social studies curriculum standards. Topics range from various wars that Tennesseans participated in to the social and economic features of the Roaring Twenties. Each DocsBox includes creative and unique lesson plans created by current classroom teachers as well as all the materials needed for the different activities.
Each DocsBox has a two-week reservation period. If multiple teachers in a school want to use the DocsBox, it can be reserved for an additional week. This additional week must be confirmed in the original reservation. To cover the costs of shipping (both to and from your school), the fee for each DocsBox is $25.00. “School districts may pay this $25.00 fee by check. An invoice will be issued to the contact name and school listed on the reservation. The invoice should be paid before the DocsBox is shipped and within 30 days of receipt.”
The boxes include: Cotton, Civil War, World War I, the 1920's, Women's Suffragette, World War II, Vietnam War.
https://sos.tn.gov/products/tsla/docsboxNeed to generate custom worksheets?
10 Inspiring Texts About Education
For students, coming back from summer vacation means getting back into the swing of things with school routines, teachers, and peers. This fall, mix up your back-to-school agenda and inspire your students with 10 CommonLit texts about how learning can have an impact on your life.
https://blog.commonlit.org/10-inspiring-texts-to-start-the-new-school-year-da70b1135b53
Six ways to get free books for your classroom:
Dollar General Grants
6. DOLLAR GENERAL With the , you or your school can get up to $4,000 to buy books, materials or software for literacy programs. Applications are being accepted now through May 18, 2019.
Library of Congress
Reading Literacy Foundation
Lit2Go
t2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.
Kids Need to Read
ids Need to Read provides books, periodicals, and literacy resources to schools, libraries, and other organizations that administer literacy programs to disadvantaged children and adolescents. A school, library, or organization receiving books from Kids Need to Read must be a governmental agency or 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization located in the United States or its territories. These organizations must serve at least 50% of children living at or below the national poverty rate. Schools may use free and reduced lunch data for poverty level rates.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 57,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
Count Your Blessings!
Recently, We Are Teachers asked teachers on the WeAreTeachers Facebook page to share their most ridiculous school rules for teachers with us. And did they ever! We got so many great responses, and we were shocked by the crazy dress code rules in particular. Teachers shared one wild rule after another on this topic. These are some of our favorites.
By the way, these rules came from teachers around the world, in all kinds of schools—public, private, charter, union, non-union, you name it. All were shared by real teachers, though we’re keeping their identity private.