RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

This article provides definitions from numerous people at EDC.

Twitter's search engine. Excellent for finding what interests in the Twitter chaos.

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

Students can make their own storybooks or even collaborate with another student by taking turns to create a finished product.

inFocus, highlight and share your focus on the web. This website allows you to highlight exactly what you want your students to look at.

Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner

Online activities for letters, numbers, and shapes! You can choose from English, French, Spanish, or Dutch, too, so this is would be a great resource for Spanish speaking children as well.

The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.

This site gives before, during and after reading ideas. I like the "thinkmark" idea... I had never heard of it before. Sounds like a neat way to have students respond to reading.

Another good site for science articles and topics for a little non-fiction reading either individual, small groups or as a whole group!

Math & language arts games for Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th grade students. Homework help, worksheets & printables.

This is the follow up post to the theoretical Wondering About Hyperlinked Writing. The post ended with Now...on from the wondering, theory and resources...to the practice in the classroom. Ready to bring hyperlinked writing (and reading) as an important genre into the classroom?

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.

Reading games that can be used on smartboards.

Create on online timeline for free. This website allows you to generate time lines. Could be great for social studies unit.

Eric Sailers, an SLP, created and updated this extensive list of apps for all sorts of uses with all sorts of students in special education. Wonderful resource last updated Oct. 2011.

This website has silly stories on different topics. They also help to work on comprehension.

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.