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A site based on The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease, 6th edition, copyright 2006, focused on children's reading, children's literature, and the benefits of reading aloud to children of all ages; its goal is to create lifetime readers instead of just schooltime readers."

High school promotes literacy and increases student motivation to read through a "reading across the curriculum" program.

Slow readers practice reading to non-judgmental canine friends. Dogs and their trainers visit schools, libraries, and bookstores to provide opportunities for students with reading disabilities to read to the dogs.

Teachers find that audio books are sound reading tools. Students listen to recorded books while following along on paper. The process is repeated until they can read the books independently.

A new font for dyslexics makes sentences a snap. Read Regular treats individual letters as unique shapes so that the traditional uniformity of letters in many fonts doesn't so easily confound the struggling reader.

This podcast explores various ways to engage students in their reading and writing using the power of the Internet. Gain insight to ways you can capitalize on Internet resources to help students read, write, collaborate, and most importantly, be creative. This podcast examines practices such as blogging, wikis, digital storytelling and more.

This is the International Reading Association's (IRA) 2001 position statement on this issue of technology integration. The article, entitled "Integrating Literacy and Technology in the Curriculum," stresses the need to become proficient in the new literacies of information and communication technology (ICT). A PDF version is available for download.

This is a really nice interactive site providing games and activities for early readers. There is an "ABC's" section for beginning sounds, a "Learn to Read" section that addresses phonics, an "It's Fun to Read" section that provides extention learning activities, and an "I'm Reading" section that inspires young readers through age-appropriate stories.

Social networking tool for readers. It is similar to LibraryThing. Readers can use it to find new books they might like to read based on reviews or recommendations by friends or strangers with similar tastes.

Well known actors read aloud favorite children's books. Captions can be turned on or off. Stories can not be downloaded and must be streamed. Good books!

Cynthia Rylant: a collection of web and database resources from the The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. Let us guide you to the resources you need to help your children and students become effective learners. Sample lesson plans for teaching literature.

Use two fun Web 2.0 sites: LibraryThing and Goodreads. Both are fantastic book-oriented and library-oriented social-networking pages focused on something simple -- the books you love to read. Students can use sites to share book recommendations with one another.

Schools use technology to support adolescent literacy programs. Technology use is effective because it allows for the individualization of instruction.

For those Early Childhood and/or preschool teachers, Baby Smash is a free "keyboard banger" game for very young kids (ages 1-3 years). It disables all system keys such as ctrl-esc, alt-tab and the Windows key, so that the kids do not exit the program accidentally or harm the computer. When the child hits the keys, colored shapes and letters will appear on the screen. The names of the shapes and colors will be read out loud, as well as the names of the letters. Babysmash for Windows (created by Scott Hanselman) is a copy of the Alpha Baby software for Macintosh. It requires the .NET framework version 3.5 to be installed.

This article, retrieved from "Tools for TEKS- Integrating Technology in the Classroom" site, goes into why teachers should harness many of the new powers available to them now that read/write web (Web 2.0) programs are so readily available. Now that students have cell phones and are constantly posting to blogs, wikis, and YouTube, the author argues that we as teachers should put these things to good use in the classroom. Cell phones, as well as other digital audio and visual recording devices, can be used to gather and later present information for class projects.

In this article, the author describes a project where students in a 4th grade classroom complete Internet-based lessons about each region of the United States. They then use presentation tools like PowerPoint (which could now be Web 2.0 presentations tools, since this article was published in 2002) to create take-home reports to share with their parents. This artcile has some great ideas and insights into things that could be done differently the next time. Technology upgrades would also make the lessons more interesting, being that it is 2008.

This article talks about a project that was used in a social studies curriculum for 4 or 5th grade students where there is technology integrated into internet based lessons. They also use technology to prepare reports. The beginning gives a quick introduction about technology and the internet in schools today to prepare children for real-world situations. Then it goes into describing the project given to the students and how it affected them.

Very interesting project that well help students make personal connections to historical events. Students interview family or friends about life experiences related to world or local history. It is interesting to read what students in other parts of the world have written about events we are familiar with. I would love to see them organize the family stories by events as well as countries.

lesson that uses comic life and iphoto to sequence a story read to kids

This lesson plan--sure to be popular!--asks students to participate in a debate on whether video games help with literacy, based on a NYTimes article by Motoko Rich. This lesson allows kids to be reflective and analyze the differences between media beyond the debate question itself.

Shows how you can use Gmail to create "fake" student email addresses that come back to a Gmail account you manage. Read highlighted info.