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Lots of resources for English teachers seeking ideas for tech supports for English language arts. Not focused on kids with disabilities, but lots of teaching ideas, links, and resources.

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!

Interesting free formative assessment tool enabling just-in-time teaching or real-time results summaries. Worth exploring.

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.

Reflections on and resources for digital writing and digital writing instruction.

Some ideas on teaching question asking.

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs. Behind the Lesson provides information and teaching resources for each strategy.

I have used this in my class!

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.

Interesting article. Time for a change. Best practices redefined.

Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better.The reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

I have gotten really great reading strategies from this website.

This site has a ton of reading tips, strategies, lessons, technological resources, and activities geared to help parents, teacher, and all involved with teaching/learning reading! There are author interviews here as well!

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!

This is a neat blog I found that has cool ideas about ipad integration in the classroom, apps to use, and other resources for 21st century learners.

Sue Buckley and colleagues research-based intervention. Unfortunately focused to narrowly on word level decoding and meaning.

This article gives you tools to help you go paperless. Thought it could be useful since the amount of copies have been cut, at least where I have been.

Free Interactive Primary or Elementary Key Stage 1 ages 4-5 years, Literacy and English Teacher Resources and Kids Games. English learning as a second language. Teach your child how to spell, read, and write to improve their grades at school. TEFL teachers and ESOL students will love these resources.

Cool blog where she regularly posts interactive games that can be used on the smartboard. The index at the top of the blog lets you easily find a game that matches with what you're teaching.

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.

Creative way to teach reading and writing especially to the emergent, early/beginning readers. Through reading and writing poetry your children will be able to express their feelings, thoughts and imagination about silly to serious topics. We read and write lots of different poetry in first grade. Here you'll find poems for each month of the year.

Vocabulary is Fun! Whether you're learning or teaching analogies, antonyms and synonyms, compound words, figurative language, homophones, parts of speech, root words, prefixes and suffixes or contractions to your English speakers or your ESL students, Vocabulary *is* fun!

I didn't realize this was already shared. It is a really neat site.