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"Yesterday we began our spider inquiry. We have been reading Charlotte's Web for the Global Read Aloud and the students were fascinated about how Charlotte sucks the blood from her victims.... So, our inquiry about spiders was born. This was a perfect time for this inquiry because we have been talking about how to link reading to non-fiction writing in our school and this project practically fell into our laps! "

Writer's Workshop poetry lesson with the iPad-1st graders in a 1:1 classroom as they draw their mental images during a poetry read aloud.

"One of the things I like the most about iPad is its ability to support all the major e-reader platforms. Its interactivity and audio capabilities have even added a new dimension to read alouds and bedtime stories, making it an ideal device for digital storytelling. And since Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already featured a List of The Best Digital Storytelling Tools ( web and desktop version ) then we deem it equally important to provide another list of such tools but this time for the iPad."

"Voice Reader is a low cost ($1.99) app for iPad or iPhone that provides text-to-speech that reads PDF' files aloud-in 21 languages, with 32 available voices."