Lots of online games to support the development of core numeracy and literacy skills. pupils can play alone or compete in competitions with classmates or students around the world. As a teacher you can track their progress, monitors strengths and weaknesses and control the topics & levels students work at.
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This site has online interactive games for a range of curriculum learning areas (literacy, mathematics, holidays) for a range of different ages (k-grade5). Very engaging with a large variety of games and activities!
A simple online tool for creating book covers. My grade Prep and 1 (Australia) students use this with few difficulties.
The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
Bring comics to the classroom with educational software that helps students create, share and collaborate on comics - without drawing a line. Use Bitstrips for Schools to teach reading comprehension, writing and digital literacy.
I have my students use this as a choice for book reports. It is a great choice for some of those creative thinkers, and it is amazing how much time/work they put into it.
I have read good reviews about bitstrips earlier too, seems a good tool for primary students, a nice way to introduce them to writing stories. Will try it!!!!!
super heros and super powers as well as evil characters are a good way to teach values to chilren and develop storytelling, focuss ideas, etc. I find visual thinking very good for early learning and being able to make comics is great. Thanks for sharing.
Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling.
Even the youngest pupils can create beautiful stories using this free tool. They simply select the images from a large bank of illustrations then just add their own words.
Love using this tool in the classroom to explore a range of topics from science to literacy. The coding games and tutorials teach a lot of problem solving, language development and collaboration skills.
Reading about the news not only makes use of literacy skills but also relevant knowledge and understanding about the world. This website provides age-appropriate news material, videos and pictures.
Great! This is a great resource to get some productive discussion started. Also, it can engage students into critical thinking and point of view analisys.
Writing this down on my Journal!