RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

This is a wiki page that has links to live binders by grade level and subject area. This is a great resource for teacher to use because the binders have already been found and organized for you. I found some great ideas to use in my classroom.

This wiki is awesome! I plan on introducing this technology to my team this month! Thanks, Kayla!

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.

K-1 magazine that can be read and/or listened to online.

Another resource to be aware of.

Scholastic BookFlix is a new interactive online literacy resource for Grades PreK-3 that pairs fictional video storybooks from Weston Woods with classic nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic.

I love this site. We use it all the time.

Storynory has published a free audio story every week since November 2005. The stories are delightfully read by professional actors. There are many different types of stories on this site.

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!

OMG!! This site has it ALL! Students can read about world events, check out a map of story location, book reviews and links to other great web-sites. Will share with 4th grade team. Thanks Jamie!

This is great site, especially boys, who are most interested in graphic novel and comic type reading and writing. Here, kids can write and create their own comic styled writing and illustrations!

This is a cool site. You can make a bookl too! Free account.

You can use your photos or videos in animoto, add your own music, and change the background theme that all runs automatically. You can register as a teacher and get the paid subscription for free! I use this program in my class for book talk videos, and my students love using it!

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

This is a remarkable site. Access to free, great books for your students and an opportunity to earn free books for your classroom or others through the "Read for My School" campaign.

If you haven't registered an account and started using this site with your kids, the question becomes, "WHY NOT?!"

I use this site with my students and it really is great!

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!

This website has WebQuest for grades K-12. The WebQuest are divided by grade level. There are WebQuest based on literacy instruction. There are quest on books and authors.

A website where your students can create storybooks and movies. There are also resources for teachers on how to implement it in the classroom and activities are provided.

Task cards are a great way for students to work independently by being prompted with a series of activities to complete or questions to answer. Task cards are easy to make and are very efficient. Listed on this website are some Literacy based task cards created by Mrs. McDavid for Literacy Centers.

One of the self-teaching early childhood modules created by FPG. Nice discussion and materials to help teachers understand and implement dialogic reading practices.

Not pushing this learning system. Don't know a thing about it. However, CAR is a great interaction pattern for parents/teachers of developing readers during storybook reading and there are other dialogic reading and reading resources linked at this site.

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.

This is a web-based literacy program for boys. There mission is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers. Research shows that boys are having trouble reading, and that boys are getting worse at reading.

TIME FOR KIDS is a news magazine geared toward students in grades K-6. Timeforkids.com offers age-appropriate news stories and features about children's books, movies, the environment, science, world cultures and other high-interest topics. Students can find easy-to-use homework help, grammar and punctuation practice, writing tips and a flash-card maker. My kids like seeing whats going on in the world and we read it as a class. I know also, that our literacy program next year (Treasures) is using time for kids too!

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