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This website puts up different pictures and you spin and spell the picture. You can pick your own picture or they can pick it for you. Cute game!

This website has a variety of online books. They are free and have read aloud audio. Besides the stories there are other tools on the site that can be used. I have used this is my class to read an Arthur book that I did not have. Great resource!

This is a great online picture book site for elementary aged children. Arthur and Toot and Puddle stories are here!

This tool allows students to create their own comic strips! Students can upload pictures, search pictures, pick how many panels, layout, colors, and more!

This is a cool site I found where you can use any picture and add words to it! Play around with it and see what all you can create! This could be used in so many ways! Enjoy!

This is a great website for use with special needs children or all ages of children. It provides a user-friendly site in which there are not an over-running of ads. Also there are pictures and text! Great for looking up almost anything in guided reading, independent activities, and group activities!

Flickr Storm is similar to FlickrCC. The kids can search, click on a thumbnail and the photo comes up on the right. If you let the students click on the advanced search feature, it will allow them to limit their searches to Non-Commercial and Share Alike photos. An organization feature of Flickr storm is the "Add to Tray." You can add several photos to your tray and then when you open your tray, all the photos are there in large-sized format. It is like saving the pictures to a file, but instead it stays on the website. Anything like this website is good to begin brainstorming for writing.

Visual Dictionary, where words are defined as pictures, for leaning the exact names of objects. Different from a traditional dictionary or from encyclopedia because the images replace the words.

Monster Exchange is designed to encourage the development of reading and writing skills while integrating Internet technology into the classroom curriculum. Classrooms from schools worldwide are paired together; the students in each classroom are split into groups, each of which designs an original picture of a monster. They then write a description of the monster and the other group must recreate the drawing using only their description.

Wide variety of audio books, some of them with accompanying pictures and/or text. Almost all free. Arranged in categories including alphabet resources, poetry, audio and video books, etc.

Online educational learning games and activities for various levels of learning. I just found it and I like using the labeling games to match labels to actual pictures! Check it out!

This is a neat website that would allow students to view and use panoramic pictures for a project.

BigUniverse.com is an online tool that has both fiction and non fiction texts and picture books for pre-k to 8th grade. Students can also write their own stories and take quizzes on books they have read!

TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love. Check out the free trial-- fabulous!

Multimedia composition tool. Tell a story using pictures, video, audio, and text. All are constructed in a timeline, or capzle.

At this website you can find all sorts of literacy activities for each holiday. Just click on the holiday and begin exploring! For St. Patrick's day you will find a list of picture books that are great for St. Patty's day... http://www.theholidayzone.com/stpat/books.html. There's also some neat discussion question ideas available as well. enjoy.