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Carl's Corner Literacy Activities

Carl's Corner is LessonGateway's Website of the week! Many of our readers feel that Carl's Corner is an invaluable resource, and, quite simply, one of the best primary literacycarlscorner resources available. Read on to learn why!

Created by retired teacher and language arts specialist Cherry Carl, Carl's Corner provides resources and materials for classroom teachers, reading and resources specialists in the area of language arts. Carl's Corner contains hundreds of downloadable resources for classroom use. Some of the areas covered include the Alphabet, Centers, Games, Phonics, Reading, Monthly/Seasonal Calendar Activities, Themes/Holidays, World Family Activities, Word Study Activities and more. Carl's Corner also includes actiivites for teaching Spanish language students.

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Free Video for your Classroom
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LessonGateway Emerges!

gateway_thumbHaving recently undergone a re-branding process, LessonGateway has emerged as a new leader in K-12 teacher resources while remaining committed to its roots and its strengths when it was known as TeacherRated.com. All services remain free to all our visitors and, to better serve our community, we've enhanced our user interface, further empowered our search functionality and added even more resources to our collection. We feel that by offering our educators the ability to rank the resources in our collection, we're helping teachers find more polished and useful resources, and more quickly than they might otherwise.

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Earth Day Teaching Resources
earthday_logo.pngThe environment certainly is a hot topic lately and with Earth Day coming up on April 22 many teachers are thinking about how they can help their students become more environmentally conscious. Here's a list of our favorites - visit the link at the bottom of this article to access all the applicable web addresses.

Check out the online quiz provided by Zero Footprint Kids where students can calculate their ecological footprint. This calculator was developed especially for kids...
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