Reading Bear is a free service that offers narrated lessons on recognizing and pronouncing letters and words. There are also some lessons on prefixes and suffixes. Students can control the pace of each lesson to match their needs.
After each lesson on Reading Bear students can take quizzes to test their skills. The quizzes present a picture and a set of words. Students have to match the correct word to the picture that they see. Through the narrator, students receive instant feedback on each question in the quiz.
Find Lessons for K-12 in earth science, physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, health/medicine, engineering, social sciences, technology, math/statistics, nature of science, careers.
All lessons at ScienceNetLinks include:
1. Purpose (essential question explained)
2. Context (content knowledge and application to real world
3. Motivation (advance organizer serving as a entry event building on need to know)
4. Development (specific lesson plans and scaffolding)
5. Assessment (range of formative, summative, content specific, and 21st century)
6. Extensions ( next steps, scaffolding, and differentiation)
7. Related resources (useful for related investigation).
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What it is: ABC Mouse is a complete online curriculum for pre-k and kindergarten students that provides a step-by-step learning path. There are six academic levels that include curriculum that includes over 350 interactive lessons and more than 2000 learning activities.
This is a comprehensive, well put together site that is FREE to public schools in the United States and Canada. It is a wonderful addition to the kindergarten classroom!
How to integrate ABC Mouse into the classroom: ABC Mouse is a fun website. Activities in ABC Mouse are fantastic for center use in a one-two computer classroom (or more). The activities and games are short enough for a center activity that students can cycle through.
When digging a little deeper he/she might recognize that blogging is more about WRITING than technology. But let’s roll blogging back even a little further and we will discover that blogging starts with READING!
Blogging is about writing, but it begins with reading. Teachers recognize that in order to teach about blogs, they have to read good blogs. Most want to jump immediately in and have their students start blogging, sit back and expect students to write quality blogs. It won’t happen. Teachers need to take time in reading other blogs, before they expect to be able to lead their students in quality blogging.
Start with your PASSION! Passion is what will make you read when you are too tired or have too many other things to do.
Look at the Clustrmap and see if you can answer any of these questions.
How many different countries have we had visitors from?
What continents have we had the most visitors from?
Have we had visitors from all seven continents?
We have eight more weeks of school. How many visitors do you think we’ll get?
Great question starter for authentic discussions using number sense and chart (also informational text), while also allowing exposure to outstanding educational blogs.
Great question starter for authentic discussions using number sense and chart (also informational text), while also allowing exposure to outstanding educational blogs.
This would be a great mini-lesson or a rotation at the computers in your room!