RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

This website allows you to create your own trivia games for your students. Could be great to use in the computer lab.

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

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!

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.

This app is great for mid/upper elementary students- especially boys! Students can create their own comics, begin with a story starter, or even author a ready-made comic illustration!

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

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.

This site is a subsriber site but it has a lot of free resources too so you can check it out. Lots of books read to you, songs and jokes. Very easy to use and organized well! Great for younger students!

This is a neat site that had some good resources for younger aged kids including games and activities but my favorite was the book center where there were books that are read to the students. Love those!

A free app to use for recording students' voices as they read for fluency practice. Formatting allows for email of messages that can be sent to a PC. Free storage up to 3MB.

A collection of pre-made webquests! There are several that go along with really great books such as Chrysanthemum and The Mitten. There are also quests for poetry and fables. Enjoy.

This is a link to a blog from a teacher who did a webinar on student book publishing with links to Student Treasures Publishing where you can publish class books for free. Neat idea!

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.

Popplet is an app for the web and iPad, where you can collect, curate and share your ideas, inspirations, and projects.

Students select a book and the book is read the the students by a famous actor.

DimensionU is a video gamebased learning resource for K-12 students. In DimensionU, students can access 3D multiplayer educational video games that help them hone their math and literacy skills, connect with friends, and compete and collaborate while learning.

Dance with Dash, write stories with Dot and watch Adventures with Hooper. Earn tickets for prizes and do fun literacy activities on PBS KIDS Island. Find videos and games for older kids on PBS KIDS GO. My kids love the characters on this site.

Welcome to Sesame Street! Play games and watch videos to engage children with fun educational activities. I let my kindergarten students use this website in the computer lab sometimes and they love it.

This site has games that work with words.