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ABCYA is an interactive website with activities for mainly math and literacy, geared towards kindergarten through fifth grade students. Selections from the website that support literacy include narrated picture stories and leveled games for word recognition and grammar.

In this video, an elementary school is highlighted for their effective use of differentiated instruction and shows what differentiated instruction looks like. This particular school partnered with NASA and focuses on science, math, technology, engineering, and geography.

Jennifer Wagner takes the use of Wordle a step further by creating and posting Wordles that promote critical thinking skills among students. Her Wordle of the day could be anything from a Math problem to facts about different countries, literature and more.

Education City is an interactive website that helps students develop skills within Reading/Language Arts, Math, and Science classrooms. This site provides support for these subject areas by incorporating educational games and interactive lessons for teachers. Teachers can first introduce or review a concept as a whole/small group activity using their interactive whiteboards. Then, students can complete individualized activities on the website, or they can complete worksheets printed off from the site. The website correlates with state standards and is a great tool to use as a Response to Intervention (RTI) programs because it allows the teacher to track individual students' progress in each subject area. Education City is a learner-centered application because it focuses on cognitive growth of individual students by allowing teachers to differentiate instruction and provide support for special needs students.

This site is geared to creating traditional posters in a modern way. I enjoy this site because it takes away the frustration of scissors and glue while adding awesome dimensions of videos and sound effects. From the content differentiation standpoint, Glogster can be used as a unit review, as an interactive timeline, or multimedia notes. Glogster allows the user to embed text, images, voice, sounds, and videos and share the product with an embed code or hyperlink.