Includes a highlighting tool and brief practice passages.

Beginning, Advanced, and Intermediate Levels of Passages with challenging questions geared toward cause and effect and context clues.

A downloadable 28 page guide to help educators develop digital story telling plans that are tailored to specific age groups and curriculum needs.

Free literary and reference materials. Over 30,000 titles available. It was mentioned in "Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom" (Shelly, Gunter, Gunter 2010), but I thought it was important enough to make another note of.

This is a very well, designed and user friendly classroom blogging tool. I have been using it with my fifth graders and it is working very well. I can review all of the content before allowing it to be posted. I can make comments and mark errors and re-submit it to the student to be corrected. I can even pull up a blog as an example and edit it in front of the class without telling them whose blog it is. Pretty cool :-)

Great website for educators to access royalty free clip art, lesson plans, clip media, and presentations.

This resource is excellent for K-6 Writing/Language Arts teachers. Teachers or students can spin four different wheels which will result in an interesting combination of four different plot elements that can be used to create a story.

If you teach 3rd-8th grade this is an excellent tool for reviewing parts of speech. Using the old "mad libs" concept of creating ridiculous stories by replacing words before reading the story, this site engages students in grammar, and they don't even know it :-) It includes a "parts of speech help button" and plenty of different stories.

Cool site for animated stories to share with the class. There are fiction and non-fiction. This site is unique because it keeps the stories short and to-the-point. User's can click on different links like "cool software" related to the story.

Great website for K-6 Educators for enrichment and supplemental materials for Science and Social Studies. Students can use the site to explore information that is formatted in a fun and easy-to-read way. Or, they can use the site to play games, take quizzes, look at photos and maps, look up crafts and recipes, enter contests, and more. Teachers can use the site to project on an interactive whiteboard for quizzes and whole-class games. I like the site because it is culturally-rich and informative, yet kid-friendly.

Well-organized resource for printable, supplemental materials for classroom use. It's easy to navigate and covers a variety of topics relevant to curriculum and just for fun.

Another good resource for supplemental material. Hundereds of topics from The Inquisition to Praire Dogs. Provides links to webistes that can be used as interactive lessons as well as links where educator's can find information and printable activities.

Great site for improving your tech-savy ways! Lots of info. on tools, apps, and software that you can access and use with your students. Also, great opportunity for continuing education program (Google Teacher Academy).

Really like this one! Categorized by K-5, 6-8, and Educator sections. Provides a lot of very relevant, interactive, hands-on, engaging ideas. I plan on using this one frequently as enrichment for my more advanced students as well as encouragement for my less-motivated ones.