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Elementary Classroom Connections: This is a site which requires a membership. It gives the students practice with various content areas. The ELA section specializes into author's purpose, and other areas within ELA. It also allows the students to log in so that their progress can be tracked. It is a site which requires a membersip

3-8 Factsheets, quizzes and activities to build skills in math and literacy. Classroom Connections: Students can use independently as a center choice to reinforce skills in math and literacy. Teachers can use to project on SmartBoard for introducing concepts and whole group practice and reinforcement of concepts.

Elementary Classroom Connections: A site that has math and ela games to improve your skills in these areas. Puts content into fun practice for students.

This is a web-based thesaurus that provides a physical representation of synonym and antonyms.

This works really well in an ELA class for choosing character traits or crafting a writing piece. There is a limit to how many times it can be accessed without a subscription, but it's workable. You simple go back a page and start again. What I like best about this site is that the site will provide you with relatable words to what you're looking for and they don't have to be exact matches. By illustrating them at a distance, it is communicated that this is the nature of the connection. 4-12

Farmville is an online virtual farm.

K-6 Farmville is not a traditional classroom activity, but there are characteristics from many content areas. Agriculture, Math, ELA, Literacy, economics, social studies, etc... Students can become one another's neighbors and help to build a community in which they care for one another's farms. A downfall to this application is that it is blocked by my district and I would suspect it would be blocked by many. If you choose to request permission from you tech department, please note that this is a web 2.0 tool.

Create your own timeline and publish to your blog or website

7-12 With plot diagrams becoming a thing of the past. Students can now use timelines instead to outline the plot of a story. There is rarely one clear climax or one moment of resolution. Now students can explore plot further using timelines. One drawback is that it seems that these timelines are most popular for factual information. For ELA, this can be done as a pre-reading strategy, but the plot outline would be for fictitious stories.

Framework, activities, resources for reading comprehension strategies Can be adapted for all grade levels Classroom Connections: * Comprehension activities can be used to set a purpose for reading and to organize and make sense of information in the content areas and literacy * Activities can be used to differentiate learning in the content areas * Framework and activities reinforce skills needed for the NYS ELA tests--without "teaching to the test"

Grades 3-8 A website for teachers that explores comprehension and content reading strategies and when to use them in social studies. This site can be used to help teachers enure their students have the necessary strategies to understand social studies content.