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iOS Apps that Support Learners who Find Reading and/or Writing Challenging

Amazing apps that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle.

Guided Reading Activities

Developing a Successful Yearlong Plan in Reading Workshop

Bands of Reading Levels... Characteristics

Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place. Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool (including TeachThought's favorite), and we've shared many of these great ideas here with you. Read on, and we'll explore 60 inspiring ways that teachers and students can put Twitter to work in the classroom.

Awesome website! 

Everyone knows how to do a simple Google search, but do you know how to read pages in languages you've never studied or track down the location of a friend's picture they took on vacation ages ago? Google wants to show you more tips on how to get the most out of its search results.

Readers Workshop

Powerpoint plus quiz at the end!

"Some of you are still probably not sure about the difference between what constitutes a copyright infringement and fair use. Well the post I have for you today might help illuminate the key differences between the two concepts. This post is based on  a two days work reading a wide variety of resources pertaining to copyright and fair use. Please check the references below to learn more about my sources."

Students with learning disabilities may have problems with reading, math, reasoning and recall. But given the appropriate tools, learning disabled students too can achieve academic success.The iPad has numerous apps to help learning disabled students compensate for their particular disability.

Downloading a document only to find that you do not have the application to open it can be frustrating. Thankfully however there are numerous web apps that help you out of this predicament. We have gathered 50 such online tools that help you convert not only digital documents but also images and various other media files. Read on to find the tools and see which ones suit your needs best.

For those unfamiliar with the GMAil platform this is a good read once you get your @ps10.org GMail account set up...

Free downloadable books - useable on an IWB for displaying and annotating text for the class

Kindergarten and 1st grade print concept apps. Range in price from Free - $5.99