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Great article on relationship of reading and spelling

This blog entry links to an article which promotes the use of webcams for improving children's reading fluency etc. Interesting stuff! Link to article here: http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2010/11/webcam-research-helps-kids-improve.html

Two New Free Games! Just in time for the Holiday Season - two brand new games! Test-N-Teach (TNT) is our new spelling game and Read-A-Word is our first-ever reading game. Both games are available to everyone!

Great ideas to help students with reading novels or writing book reviews or getting interested in reading

50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning - A good collection of early learning iphone apps

This is an interesting website which allows children to hear other children their age reading stories, some would be familiar, whilst others might be new. The stories are written by several authors who contribute to the site, and all the videos are screened before they are uploaded. Many of the videos include captions in other languages, so it may be a good tool for language learning, too. 

a blog post explaining a new feature within the Google search engine - the ability to filter results by reading level! This post defines how to do this and gives lots of examples.

Links to Reading Street Spelling and Vocabulary, MacMillan/McGraw Hill Spelling, Abeka Spelling, Harcourt Spelling, Essential Vocabulary, Journeys and Treasures, and Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary are also listed here.

I strongly recommend this read to all LT's - if this hasn't yet been a discussion at your school - I am sure it will be some time in the future. Recommend all primary and secondary staff to read this !

"5 Step Plan for Increasing Teacher Technology Integration" Worth a read

Interactive reading ebooks. Studnt & teachers able to annotate text

A great blog post on the rewards of teaching young students to blog. Well worth a read...

Interesting read- One teacher learned the hard way that just bringing iPads into the classroom won't truly change things-challenges teachers to redefine your practice.

Interesting read!

Many of the Web tools out there are restricted to users 13 and over. To save others at school some time,John Pearce has compiled a list of popular/well known Web tools that can and can't be used by children under 13 - 1), so we are legally covered in what we are allowing our students to use and 2), so they know what is available. Please note that generally the sites that allow for under 13s still ask for parental permission ( even Edmodo if you haven't read the Terms of Use) so a solid school user agreement is needed to use these tools. Some of the sites are not US based so are not bound by COPPA and CIPA regulations. It still requires schools to carefully check out what can be viewed on these sites to ensure they are appropriate to access."

A pretty cool site for creative writing. Puts a word on the screen and allows you to write for one minute. You can email the results. 

An interesting writing tool, no sign up. When finished read others writing on the same word. "simple. you'll see one word at the top of the following screen. you have sixty seconds to write about it."

And yet another great story of the iPad being a 'life changing' device for people with disabilities... please take the time to read- worth sharing with your staff and particularly of interest for students with special needs.

Really interesting article that explores the interconnected social media literacies of attention, participation, cooperation, network awareness, and critical consumption. Good professional reading to share with staff

Great for Kinder and Year 1 classrooms. Read the magazine online and use the lesson plans provided. Great for Science and / or HSIE

Some fantastic thoughts/suggestions on using/integrating/promoting the use of ICLT in the classroom - well worth a read.