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Another good website for learning and practicing language basics is Literacy Center.net. Literacy Center offers games for learning and practicing French, Spanish, German, and English. The Literacy Center is a 501c non-profit with a contract from the US Department of Education.

This literacy site provides activities for adjectives, naming nouns, eponyms, jigsaws

Looks like a good interactive site for children.

This link takes teachers, parents and students to a variety of resources related to literacy. You have to click on a topic of interest and then a list of topics will appear and you select one.

Glean Learning Tools are free science, math and information literacy teaching tools produced by Public Learning Media, Inc., an education technology 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Upgrade the typical book report with a digital spin! Integrate reading, writing, and 21st century literacy skills into an interactive and engaging project. Participating teachers will be helping students meet the demands of the Common Core, which include requirements for students to present ideas with "multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes."

A new public television show designed to teach children basic financial literacy. It covers personal finance topics, such as credit, saving, budgeting, investing, and charity. Free lesson plans are available online for each show. The program will air on public television stations around the United States.

Free site that looks like it would be fun for kids.

Interesting site for kids. Soon to be new television show on public television.

From A-Z classroom strategies for Teachers

Lots of resources for teachers.

Literacy made fun. Reinforce skills. Some of the games are dress up, math, matching and coloring. free

A great tool to help students create alphabet books and develop phonemic awareness.

Study Ladder is filled with free activities created by educators. The activities are categorized by content areas. Within the categories items are broken down by topic or grade level. It's a free resource, thousands of activities are available.

"The Graphic Map is designed to assist teachers and students in reading and writing activities. The organizer focuses on charting the high and low points related to a particular item or group of items, such as chapters in a book, amounts of money spent, events during a day, month, year, or life, or scenes in a play. The Graphic Map creates a graphic representation of these high and low points that displays related images and descriptions. The interactive can be used as a prewriting activity, as students map ideas for an autobiography; as a postreading activity, as students map the significance of events in a story; and as a reflection and assessment activity, as students map the high and low points of their inquiry process."

This site for kids approaches poetry with a sense of humor. Read new poems and rate them. The activities are terrific. there are also fill-in-the-blank poems and riddles that have rhyming answers. Be sure to visit the Poetry Theater in the Poetry Fun section.

Donna O'Briant provides a collection of multi-subject, preschool and kindergarten activities for teaching the alphabet. For more language arts and thematic activities created by Donna, go to the bottom of the page and click on Alphabet Soup.

This is a wikispace link to the American Treasures Box. The students. The LIU 12 in collaboration with Waynesburg University's Teaching with Primary Sources program is now offering American Treasures Boxes and digital resources, each based on a specific topic from American history. The American treasures boxes consist of a resource CD/flash drive, printed documents and images from the Library of Congress and ideas about how you might incorporate the materials into your classroom. Collection currently available are listed on this link.

Story Mapping Tool is designed to help teachers and students in prewriting and post reading activities. It contains four key elements of the story together with their graphic representations mainly : Character Map, Conflict Map, Resolution Map, and Setting Map.

"Today's kids connect, create, and collaborate through media. But who helps them reflect on the implications of their actions? Who empowers them to make responsible, respectful, and safe choices about how they use the powerful digital tools at their command? Our Common Sense Parent Media Education Program and our Digital Citizenship Curriculum give educators, administrators, and parents the tools and curricula they need to guide a generation in becoming responsible digital citizens."

Free materials on Internet safety, cyberbulling, digital citizenship, parent materials also included.

Stories read and written by kids for kids.

Cool site. Children writing and reading stories for kids.

This site provides Activity types for various content areas. If you click on each of the active content links you will see that a variety of activitie types are identified as well as types of technology that could be used to facilitate that activity. I found it very interesting and would be helpful for tech coaches or teachers.

This is a good site, It would be very helpful for a person just getting started to look at their content area and see the types of activities listed (select the content area and then select the activity type link within the page). Each activity listed also has a list of technology that could be used to facilitate that activity.

Interactive tool to aid inpoetry writing.

Interactive tool to aide in poetry writing.

The Elements of a Story site guides students as they create learn about the elements of a story and eventually create their own story.

Cool site for teaching students about the elements of a story. Referred to me by one of my grad students.