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The ePals® approach provides an effective way to instruct and reach today's technology savvy students and teachers. ePals provides digital content designed for collaboration and self-paced, self-directed learning as well as a safe platform to share work globally. Authentic ePals projects are centered around meaningful content and experiences that require teamwork, digital literacy skills, higher-level thinking and communication. By engaging in authentic learning experiences about relevant issues, students, teachers and mentors learn and work together, strengthening core learning while motivating learners and building self-confidence and skills necessary for future careers. At the same time, ePals helps teachers learn to use technology effectively in their classrooms, providing professional development, curriculum, contests and other resources.

Learn together in the classroom and share your projects with the world. Photopeach is used by educators and students in hundreds of schools world wide, including schools in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, England, Pakistan, Argentina,Thailand, and more. The combination of images, music, and text helps students learn about presentation, expression, writing, communication skills, art appreciation, and media literacy. The quality of the finished work is great and students will remember it forever. Start creating fun slideshows with captions, soundtracks, quizzes, and easy editing controls!

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OKAPI! is a web-based application that allows you to enter a text sample and to format that sample as a set of Examiner and Student Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA) reading probes. The application also computes a readability index for the sample. OKAPI! can save you hours of work in creating correctly formatted CBA reading probes that include estimates of reading level. OKAPI! gives you a range of options. You can for example change the font-type and letter-size for the CBA probes. Additionally, you can specify that either the Spache or Dale-Chall Readability Formula be used to compute a passage's readability index.

Check out these interactive reading interventions for elementary kids!

"These pages are designed to help you and your students to get the most out of the Poetry Archive. Here you will find a wealth of information, lesson plans and ideas for inspiring activities to bring poetry to life in your classroom."

The aim of the game Grow your own story from the story plant.

Gudli is a unique online experience for kids where they enjoy learning. With our interactive educational games children develop skills in maths, logic, memory, words, creativity and more.   Gudli is free, full of fun, easy to use and the ideal learning space for preschoolers to second grade kids.

Students select a picture and then spell the name of the item.  Or, students can see the word and select the correct picture.

The Absolutely Free And Totally Fun Way To Improve Your Spelling.  helps to dramatically improve your students ability to learn and retainspelling words. OVER 6,600 WORDS TO PRACTICE WITH

VocabularySpellingCity.com has: Over 42,000 spelling words with customizable sentences and definitionsA REAL person who says each word and sentenceFree home pages for teachers and parents to save listsTeacher training videosFree printable handwriting worksheetsFree teaching resources with lists and lesson plansTwenty-five games to play online or to print:Spelling, Vocabulary, Alphabetical Order,Word Meaning, Unscramble, Parts of SpeechA free forum and newsletters

Interactive spelling games online