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"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."

With Fiction Express, ebook chapters are released every Friday at 3:00. The readers vote on what should happen next and the author writes the next chapter. What a cool idea!

"iF Poems is new poetry app for the iPad, described as 'a poetry app for school-age children and for adults of any age'. It's the first great poetry app I've seen for the iPad - apologies for the spoiler but I needed to mention that right off the bat. The app includes 270 classic poems which have been carefully selected as works that the publishers feel are 'a joy to pass down the generations, to share, to educate and enjoy'. Many of the included poems have audio clips. These are read by the actors Helena Bonham Carter, Bill Nighy, Harry Enfield and Tom Hiddleston. Here are some of its other key features: You can record yourself reading a poem. You can email a poem and email your recording of a poem. You can tap on any word for a dictionary definition. You can save poems to a Favourites page. You can search by title, author, first line or by any word. You can get a dictionary definition of any word."

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.

Some great apps for creating books on the ipad and mac. We have book creator and ibooks author here at school.

bubbabrain key vocabulary practice site organised by level and subject

spelling games, lists by book and school, online tests and more

"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.

"WELCOME to myvocabulary.com and DAILY WORD PUZZLES - a free resource used in over 24,000 schools to enhance vocabulary mastery & written/verbal skills with Latin & Greek roots"

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!

free courses and documentaries

"Simmons presents a series of creative activities that have advanced her high school students' vocabularies and impressed on them the power of words."

A good interactive video English resource from the BBC about how to deduce ideas from texts.

Book trailers

not by kids really, but good nonetheless

digital book talk student book trailers

"MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn."