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"Lexile measures are powerful, versatile tools that educators can use to help their students grow as readers. When you use both Lexile reader measures and Lexile text measures, you can treat each student as an individual learner, rather than as below-grade, on-grade or above-grade. Site includes a "find a book" feature which allows you to search a book by title or author and find out the lexile level. There is a conversion chart on the site which will give you a guide to the approximate grade level equivalents as well. Here are some classroom ideas and applications to help you differentiate instruction for all readers in various situations."

"The Coaching Commons was an online news source for executive, business and life coaches from January 2008 through March 2011. Check this site for archived coaching news, original reporting, and provocative reader commentary. The Commons relied on a network of professional coaches, journalists and readers to cover and discuss the coaching industry during this growth period. In addition, you'll find stories about the history of coaching and archived research articles."

NuancePDF.com is a cloud-based conversion service that lets you turn PDF files into fully formatted Word and Excel files - right from the free Nuance PDF Reader!  With Nuance PDF Reader, you get the most accurate online PDF conversion available through NuancePDF.com - without having to install extra software. No more copying and pasting or retyping PDF documents. Just use our hosted web service to convert PDF to Word, Excel, RTF or WordPerfect using Nuance's industry-leading OCR technology. It's never been easier to upload, convert, and start using information previously trapped in a PDF.

Thanks to Beth McGuire for forwarding this one via email. This program is sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Readers from grades 4 - 12 can participate in this program by writing a personal letter to an author, living or dead, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves. The deadline is December 6, 2008.

The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores and in cooperation with affiliate state centers for the book, invites readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature, a national reading-writing contest.

Use a google spreadsheet to capture rss feeds.

If you're a Mac user, download and try this app. It reads pdfs, but it also allows you to add text boxes, highlight tet, etc, and all those changes are linked. Very nice for sharing pdfs with comments. And it's free!

Open Source pdf reader that allows you to leave comments on the document. For the Mac. Don't know if it's also for windows.

Students can access free Adobe and Flash Player software readers from this link if they do not have the Adobe software at home to open .pdf documents or certain multimedia files.

MeeGenius is an online library of picture books that kids can read independently or as a read along. Books can be personalized with students names, just answer a few quick questions and the book is rewritten for you. Each book comes with audio playback and word highlighting, perfect for beginning or struggling readers to read along.

Plus is an internet magazine which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics.

QR reader for webcam!

A new way for readers to browse NY Times content. The New York Times Article Skimmer is a grid of headlines and article stubs that enables you to quickly skim many articles from your choice of sixteen article categories.

Reader of JohnJonston created a simple cc flickr search engine that puts out a thumbnail image as well as a citation and linkback information

AdLit.org All about adolescent literacy, multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers

SHARING For readers and writers of short stories

A near comprehensive list, from mashable, of all the RSS readers, tools, browser plugins, tips, hacks and directories available on the web.

One such example is the posting on Slideshare the presentation about ed tech leaders made by Lisa Thumann and Liz Davis. If you're looking for some new people to follow on Twitter or in your RSS reader, I highly recommend viewing this presentation. You can view the presentation below. If you're viewing this in RSS you may need to click through to view the presentation.

Looking for great cultural and educational video? Then you've come to the right place. Below, we have compiled a list of 46 sites that feature intelligent videos. This list was produced with the help of our faithful readers, and it will grow over time. If you find it useful, please share it as widely as you can. And if we're missing good sites, please list them in the comments below.

In this second post of The Edublogger 'podcasting series' learn how to host podcasts on blogs so readers who know how to create video/audio can set up their podcast feed.

If you have created a Flip Chart presentation for your ActivBoard, the students will need to download this free reader at home to view it.

A list of guiding questions for readers to refer to while reading fiction.