This site has many resources for teachers from a mentor teacher. There are also resources that have been made by her or other people and that she has links to on the site. Lots of great ideas and helpful resources...check it out!

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!

Guided Reading and Reading Games and software with Roy the Zebra. Includes words that rhyme, high frequency words, capital letters, full stops and much more. Ideal for using at school or home on interactive whiteboards or computers.

Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can find a book, take quizzes on what they've read, and earn prizes for their reading success. Start your reading adventure below or explore the site.

Kindergarten students can play free games that are easy to use and can be played independently or with partners. You can also use this on a board as a group! Enjoy! We like the alphabet game where you match letters!

Here is a site with lots of resources for reading- especially sight words and other links to reading sites for games! This is geared toward K-2 students.

Voki is a FREE service that lets you: A classroom management system for Voki I use a voki on my wiki to speak to people who visit- peope tell me they always play it to hear what it has to say. I should change it every week and put important things there so everyone will hear the news who visits the wiki. Maybe next year :) Try it out- its free and fun! You can even record your own voice or use one they have on the site.

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 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!

This site is great to use in your classroom to show current events that are happening all around the world. It has news, book reviews put up by students, links to other sites and maps! Sign up for a free account!

A partnership with the University of Maryland's HCIL COLLEGE PARK, MD: A recent article in School Library Journal looks at the educational value of E-Books. ICDL is featured, and some interesting uses and studies of E-Books in schools are described. COLLEGE PARK, MD: The New York Times included StoryKit in their list of "top picks."

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).

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!

Resources for all! There are many free things on here for various ages. Sign up for a free account and check it out!

Here is a great site for everything you need or want for SMART Notebook! Find great resources that are already made for you here!

This site has a series of how to about blogging. There are links to blogging tips for beginners, blog design, and even tips for writing content for blogs. Check it out if you are a beginner and need some extra help!

If you have never used Google docs...you should! Using these you can save anything you find on the web right into your Google documents that you can access from any computer. Here is some information on Google docs if you have never used it before! Enjoy!

Here is a short article about how education has changed over time and is now moving toward the technological era. It states that there are 3 ways education has become virtual, technical and computer generated.

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.