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Grade K-2 A research based, comprehensive reading intervention program that helps improve reading proficiency, reading skills, and reading devlopment. This site can be used int he classroom as a reading center for students to help practice reading skills.

k-12-Professional Virtual tours of reading and writing workshops---14 videos of all components of reading/writing workshops Classroom Connections: * Use videos to see how to set up your classroom for reading writing workshops * Use videos to see how to conduct a reading and writing workshop, as well as conferences and sharing * Use blog to communicate with other educators to learn more about managing a reading/writing workshop

Grades K-5 A resource for lesson plans and guided reading books, worksheets and comprehension questions for students, Teachers can print reading books that have worksheets and comprehension questions to along with each book to use in guided reading activities. Students can also practice reading these books online in the classroom or at home with raz-kids. Con-have to pay to be a member

Grades K-2 A supplemental reading program to help young readers. This can be used as a reading center to help students with reading skills and strategies.

Professional- K-12 Tool to measure the Lexile reading level of given text. Cut and paste or type in a portion of a text and the tool will analyze and give the readablity of the text. Classroom Connections: Teachers- use to to ensure students are reading the appropriate text for their reading levels.

Grades K-12 A resource for teachers and students to receive practice and resources for reading and language arts instrucion. A great tool for teachers to use to assess students reading and language art skills.

Grades Pre-K-2 A comprehensive supplemental reading program to help young readers This interacitve website can be used as a reader center for students to practice beginning reading strategies.

K-6 Audio children's stories--Narrated, illustrated, with text for students to read along. Fairy Tale section Classroom Connections: * Use for Daily 5- Listen to Reading activity-- to improve fluency and comprehension * Have multiple students listen to chosen stories and form a discussion group

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.

Purpose of the Website: This website has a directory of fairy tale podcasts available. Students can listen to popular fairy tales read aloud to them. Podcasts can also be downloaded to iPhones and students can take them back to their desks. Grade Level: K-12 Classroom Connection: This is a great resource for any teachers that teach fairy tales during Readers Workshop in their classroom. One great way to use this website is as a listening center. Students can listen to popular fairy tales as an individuals or a small group. Following the listening activity, students can work on reading reflection activities. This would be a great way to prepare students for the listening portion of the New York State tests.

Purpose of the Website: This website is a tutorial created by a librarian at SUNY Albany. The tutorial is an introduction to using the Internet. The readability of the website allows for use by secondary students. The information covers topics such as domain names, programing language, how to search, applications, etc. Make sure you read the "About" section to see what the permissions are for using this website in your classroom. Grade Level: 9-12 Classroom Connection: This website would be great for a library or computer class in high school. Librarians or computer teachers can use this as a reading assignment for students and create an application based activity to go along with it. I am not very comfortable with which kind of activities would be appropriate for a secondary level students since I am an elementary teacher.

Grades K-2 Offers strategies, lessons,activitiesand resources for struggling young readers. This site gives helpful information and resources to teachers and parents to enure their children become confident readers.

Grades 2-5 The Screen Actors Guild Foundation reads stories aloud to children. The site offers writing activities to go along with the stories. This site can be used as a center to help students that have difficulty with fluency.

This is an online resource for lesson preparation.

This site is accessible by all, but if you want to unlock all that it has, you must purchase a subscription. There still is a lot to be accessed for free though. I really like the fonts that they use. Check out their holiday lessons. They teach the history of holidays-such as Valentine's Day. The Valentine's Day activities have been very interesting to my ninth graders over the past few years. You may be surprised to find out all that you don't know. K-12

Grades K-12 A resource for building comprehension questions,math and spelling tests, and puzzles for all subject areas. Teachers can find reading comprehension practice activities,spelling activities and math activities to use as assessment tools. Con- you have to be a member

Professional for K-12 teachers Reading comprehension strategies and activities to prepare students for state tests- without "without teaching to the test", presented by Mary Blow. Includes a blog area. Classroom Connection: * Refer to and practice various types of questions daily and across all content areas so students are familiar with them for the test--as well as a life skill * Use "think pair share" to review homework, questions from assignments. * Use blog to communicate with other teachers about strategies to prepare students for state tests *K-2 teachers- begin to use strategies and teminologies with younger kids to familiarize them

Purpose of the Website: This website is a safe surfing website for children. The website was created by an elementary school teacher who wanted her students to have a safe place to gather information on the Internet. There are over 400 pages of information on various topics that students can explore. The information is easy to read and navigate. Grade Level: K-5 Classroom Connection: This is a great website for students to use when gathering information for homework, or small amounts of information for class activities.

Great source of technical reading materials and a great technology vendor

Elementary Classroom connections: This site puts social studies concepts into easy to read format for children. Although I tagged this on the Declaration of Independence, there are various topics throughout the site. It even has current events in the U.S., education, the world.

Grades K-12 Classroom Connections: There are tabs at the top to direct the viewer to the correct grade level. This site gives easy to read explanations of social studies concepts for kids.

All online newspapers overlaid on a Google Map. Search for content, zoom in and click on a placemark to view the paper. The website also has the ability to translate. Classroom Connection: *Foreign Language - read newspaper in the native language *Social Studies - compare/contrast a particular topic based on the location of the report; how would an incident in Egypt be reported out by American newspapers as opposed to an Italian newspaper?

Grade level- 7-12 CC- Students can analyze different perspectives on a current event by looking at all the different newspapers. Overview- Using google maps, a user can look newspapers from across the world. COns- Some newspapers do not correctly translate into English.