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ReadWriteThink has a printing press where students can make a booklet, flyer, brochure, or newspaper. There is a step by step guide to walk the students through with basic editing and graphics- but is great for students trying to learn how to use documents like Microsoft Publisher. My students know how to use Publisher now, but this printing press would have been a great way to teach them how to create some of those documents as a "beginner" type version. Great for younger grades!

ReadWriteThink has a printing press where students can make a booklet, flyer, brochure, or newspaper. There is a step by step guide to walk the students through with basic editing and graphics- but is great for students trying to learn how to use documents like Microsoft Publisher. My students know how to use Publisher now, but this printing press would have been a great way to teach them how to create some of those documents as a "beginner" type version. Great for younger grades!

Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.

I used this with my 5th graders last year. They seemed to enjoy using the site to study their spelling words. Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity!Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.

Leanne Gosey, a masters student in reading, reflects on writing instruction, technology integration, and teaching. Thoughtful stuff. Recommended to other students, beginning teachers, and teacher educators.

Raz-Kids is an online and print reading program. All their books you can print, show on the big screen, or read online. Each book comes with activity sheets and other extension activities. The online program allows kids to listen to a book be read to them or they can read it themselves. They are also able to take a comprehension quiz in the end. The program has levels A-Z and the teacher is able to place the student at the appropriate reading level. My students love the program, and they are in 5th grade. The readers for the online book read with such great expression, some of the images move and there is sometimes background noise to help students connect to what they are reading.

I also began using this program this year when I got a free year of it! It is great and I really want our school to get it for everyone next year. I love pulling up books on the smart board and letting students come up to point and read the books to us! So useful!

Thanks Amanda! I have added this to my DIIGO and plan to share it with my team.

This is from my tech site I check out every week. I thought it had some good advice and ideas for safe student blogging! I think it could be good for people who are wanting to blog with students. Hope you find it helpful!

A free resource that uses interactive video and games-based learning to teach students vocabulary. This website has a glossary that you can search to show your students a video of what a particular word means.

Songs for Teaching® The Definitive Source for Educational Music Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum - to students of all ages. This website has lyrics you can pull up for students to follow along and read while learning to sing the songs. We love using music in our classroom to introduce new topics and get students engaged!

These free applications provide a wide variety of engaging learning opportunities for young students (and you can't beat the price). The Apple iPad is becoming more popular in our schools every day (just check out this EmergingEdTech video to appreciate how quickly the iPad is gaining hold in our schools).

In this program you can create questions for students to answer and (if they had laptops, ipods, or ipads they could use at their desk) they could answer the questions. (this could be done as a center since we don't have enough laptops for all students) This could be a quiz or test.

Ways that students can experience space in the classroom on NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission. Remarkable science resource. Great use of technology to support learning.

This site is awesome. Use it to play literacy games with your students, use in a center, or even use to help students become familiar with keyboarding. Click on Storybooks and it will read to your students :).

Very cool site where kids can play tons of games on a variety of skills and topics and they are organized by grade level!

All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

This is a great example of what can be done in a classroom anywhere to connect students to the rest of the world. It is very inspiring!! Teacher Vicki Davis is very innovative. She uses wikis, blogs, podcasts, virtual worlds, and other new media tools to connect students in rural Georgia to the world.

Study Island is a web-based system designed to help students master their content standards. It includes academic content that is designed to be fun and engaging, and it consists of practice, assessment, and reporting tools built around each state's standards. Because it's web-based, students can use the system at school or at home.

Great site I use with my 5th graders! Study Island is a leading provider of standards-based assessment, instruction, and test preparation software programs for K-12 students.

Dana, a master's student in my class, had us create 6-word memoirs with the poetry section of Storybird.com and then import the final product into Padlet.com where they can be shared in a variety of ways.

Looks like great potential to support tech-supported process writing approaches. Free for teacher and up to 40 students.

Here's a cool idea for using reading to connect students around the world.

Some ideas on teaching question asking.

Ways that first graders use technology. Having a well equipped technological classroom can benefit students greatly in all areas including language arts.

Closing the middle school vocabulary gap with students performing below grade level takes just 15 minutes a day.With Vocabulary for Success students master the basic, academic and content area word lists that lead to high achievement. Learn More North Carolina preschoolers soon to be investigators!

Evernote is used to organize information. It is a free site that can be downloaded and used anywhere. You can save things you like, find, make, see, and hear. There are ways in can be used with students in the classroom and students could even use it at home.