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Interactive graphic organizers! This is great because students who have difficulty writing can use these interactive writings to help creating notes and take down information. This is also a great research tool, when you have students go online to look for more  information for a research project.

A good site for younger students to practice phonics skills

A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books.

A free website to help students with their Phonics. Students work through various difficulty levels to help with their reading. This website can also be used for English Language Development.

This website has many resources organized by a teacher and a group of "at risk" students to empower students through reading and writing about historical and personal situations they can relate to.

Read, click, and win with Book Adventure - a free, motivational reading program available to children in grades K-8.

This website allows students to develop a list of their favorite books that they can return to at anytime. After each book, there is a quiz to help students with their comprehension.

Spelling City helps students with their vocabulary. Students can make flash cards and develop their own vocabulary tests. They can play games involving new vocabulary words to help expose them to unfamiliar words and gain practice using them.

There’s a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives..

Storyline Online contains many different books that are read to students. Students watch a video of someone reading these books. They can pick from various genres .

Reading Planet offers many games for students to play to help them with their vocabulary, such as alphabet soup. This website offers resources for bilingual students and can be used for English Language Development.

This article discusses a collaborative project between the School of LIbrary and Information Science and College of Education at the University of South FLorida and an elementary school in Tampa, Florida. Students were exposed to different cultural versions of the "cinderella" story. Students became increasingly interested in other cultures as a result

Vocabulary is Fun! Just ask our visitors. Learn English with vocabulary word games. Vocabulary and word games to build English language skills. Learn advanced English vocabulary analogies, opposites, synonyms, compound words, figurative language, and root words with hangman and crossword puzzle games.

This website includes many vocabulary and learning games. Students can practice spelling words, counting syllables and practice building words. There are also games and activities to assist students who are learning English.

Nice modelling of how to introduce a book for a student, and record a running record.

Lesson Plan Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension Students can use these printables to visualize how ideas fit together, and you can use them to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Graphic organizers help students construct meaning. The following learning tools can be used with any book and across all grade levels.

By making Thinking Notes, or metacognative markers, consistent between students when they are reading, you prepare them for a better discussion of the text. Watch how to use this simple strategy to help your students better understand texts.

Edmodo can be incorporated into classrooms through a variety of applications including Reading, Assignments, Collaboration. Current uses include posting assignments, creating polls for student responses, embedding video clips, and simply a venue for students and teachers to exchange messages on when to meet up at each others houses for "learning"

An interesting website with resources for teachers, students and parents who have or work with students with dyslexia

A great site for ELL students, parents, and educators. Can even be displayed in English or Spanish.

276 Great literacy lesson plans for all grades. Also student activities, books and authors, and strategies and tools.

computer literacy games for students. Subjects are cognitive development, creative development, reading, and more