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Technology can motivate students to read! Teachers must promote strategies to promote student engagement through technology. This is appropriate for week 4 lesson because it talks about how to integrate technology.

A running record is a tool that helps teachers to identify patterns in student reading behaviors. These patterns allow a teacher to see the strategies a student uses to make meaning of individual words and texts as a whole. Running records, when paired with comprehension inquiry, can be used to identify an instructional reading level for individual students.

Great for teaching students to read

A brief toolkit highlighting the 5 pillars of reading and giving example activities for each.

Reading Rockets helps to better understand how to see all students as literacy learners and provides helpful activities.

As anyone with a toddler knows, iPads are addictive for children. They seem to have some sort of special radar that lets them know when an iDevice is within their reach, and they'll do anything they can to get their hands on them.

Not to familiar with Twitter and what a Tweet is this link can help you understand it better.

To the Twitter-illiterate: The Anatomy of a Tweet. This infographic will clear things up for you right away so you can understand what you're looking at when you're reading a tweet.

The coolest part of this website is the interactive textbook! It would help students become engaged, as well as having somewhere they can read text, if they aren't allowed to take their books home.

I think this would be a good read for a teacher wanting to be creative. Further reading to go with pt1!

Funbrain Reading - Featuring Mad Libs, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tess's Tree and more!

Check out Education.com's list of the best educational iPad apps for elementary school kids, which includes elementary reading apps and elementary math apps.

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Blendspace for Schools: Student on the App Store. Download Blendspace for Schools: Student and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Students in the schools will be able to use this app to create their own blend space. If school districts have tablets or Ipads this will be a great app for them to use. Students can create presentations.

This website consists of exciting and informational reading games that will help make learning fun.

This article is a great read on some of the top Learning Management Systems.

This is a great article to read over when considering a classroom management system in your own classroom.

This website allows teachers to give helpful tips in classroom management by integrating technology. And also suggests not to only have a well-planned lesson, but also a plan B.

Children's Poetry includes several featurues that make it ideally suited for teaching phonemic awareness, word recognition, and reading fluency. -children's poems are short and easy to learn -Poems Play with the Sounds of Language -Poems Make Phonics more engaging Poems can range from simple to complex.

This article gives descriptions of many different types of whales. It is easy to read and gives students a lot of needed information to write a paper or create a project over the different types of whales