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Martin Burrett 02 Feb 12 05:41:57 An English resources site with a large collection of games, worksheets, quizzes, videos and more. Find something wonderful to bring a buzz to your English lessons.

"ked with book trailers and language arts-related games, School library media Kids is designed to provide an interactive learning experience to get students motivated to learn on their own! Students can choose from exceptional literacy-related resources such as author and book review websites as well as superb educational tools including reference works and search engines."

Lissa Davies 31 Jan 12 03:28:44 The idea behind the site is to introduce students to a variety of books and form classroom book groups. How does Extreme Speed Booking work? A whole lot like speed dating. Students spend a little time with each book and then rate them accordingly with "I want to read more", "Interesting", "Not for me", or "I've already read". Students can also make a note of how interested they are in reading the book (maybe a 1-10 scale)? This process introduces students to a variety of books, genres and authors. Students may come across titles and authors they wouldn't otherwise find. It also helps teachers form classroom book groups that are of high-interest and investment to students because they had input. iLearn Technology

"Poetry for Kids: Pages List"

If you look way up at the top right hand corner on the homepage of abookandahug.com, you'll see Register An Account and Log In. These are great tools for getting kids to make and keep lists, to make lists with friends which promotes what I call social reading, or for a class or an entire school to create a shared list. I've had mothers come and tell me that their daughters and their BFF's have made a list and are sharing it with each other. Brothers and families are doing the same thing. People do some wonderfully creative things when handed a tool with possibilities.

"Encourage Lifelong Readership with Book Apps"

Welcome to Great global reads for kids...Are you interested in books written by good authors from other countries?This wiki offers booklists of great reads for students aged 12 to 16 + suggested by school librarians around the world.Enjoy reading across the globe!

I was just watching a ted talk by Alan November http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJHzpEy4bE&t=11m10s where he talks about a student who uses the site, as many do to write in the style of an author. Apparently there are a lot of kids who do it, motivation is intrinsic, their writing improves but most importantly they choose to do it and it is because they are published authors writing for the world, they have an audience, who reads there stuff and interacts with it.

read and submit stories based on geographic location

This might be a fun thing to do with our kids.

Macmillan children's books audio, reviews, quizzes and videos. Worth checking out.

Book trailers

not by kids really, but good nonetheless

"Studyladder, online english literacy & mathematics" Studyladder is a highly effective, logically organised, Mathematics and Literacy program. It has been developed by experienced educators to inspire and motivate learning. It is suitable for Elementary and Junior High School students and is very easy to use - students simply login with a username and password to access all the learning materials.