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"A "Hot Dog" is chosen each week from every class. This person get their picture taken in the "Hot Dog Hat," helps check the class out and is awarded with an extra book checkout. They then reviews that book for our "Hot Dog Review" page."

Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors and special features on great books are our specialties. And for even more reading fun we have trivia games, word scrambles and awesome contests!

Easy to read: TTJunior.com offers easy-to-read news stories for 2nd Graders, 3rd Graders and advanced 1st Graders, as well as remediation and ESL for all grades. Easy to write: Students can post blog comments that teachers review before publication. Click below to sign up. It's fast, easy and free!

"The time is finally here for my annual list of favorite sites of the year. This year I decided to up my post to the top 100 instead of 25 because of the number of sites that I reviewed and the popularity of the post. I tried to cover a wide range of sites, from flash-card creators to digital storytelling, and of course social networks, which really stood out in 2011. I hope everybody enjoys the list and has as much fun reading it as I did creating it."

Frolyc is a platform for creating assigning reviewing using & sharing interactive educational activities.

Children's Book Podcast - Children's book reviews and interviews with authors, illustrators, editors, publishers, teachers, librarians and more.

The Super3 is a simplified version of the Big6. Based on the original six steps, the Super3 uses Plan-Do-Review, three main steps, to help very young children think about what they need to do in an assignment, how they'll do the work, and finally to reflect on their work. The Super3 is a practical method to integrate information literacy standards into a primary school teaching environment.

Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.