Teaching Tools

Teaching Tools is a wonderful website for teachers and parents. It offers interesting lesson plans that are sorted by grade levels. It also provides parent resources, and wonderful book lists for students.
One particular lesson plan for students in grades 9 through 12 deals with bullying in school. This lesson helps students understand problems that surround bullying in depth. It uses a realistic, high-interest novel (The Bully by Paul Langan) and interactive reading strategies (such as T-charts, response journals, and Readers Theater), students discuss and deal with the many issues that surround bullying. It also gives students helpful tips on what they can do to prevent bullying and who to contact if they are being bullied.
http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/lessons/390.html
There is a wide variety of book choices that are offered to the students. They are sorted by level and then year. This would be a great resource for students to use for their independent or required reading.
http://www.reading.org/library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/JAA1
I like how the book lists are generated by both teachers and students.
A text that would be a great supplement to my current teaching unit is Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust by Carol Ann. This was categorized under the Teachers' Choices 2007 list.
http://www.reading.org/library/retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598RT-61-3_TC.html