RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Whether you use a reading workshop approach or not, guided reading is a component of literacy that many K-5 teachers use in their classroom. I want our sessions to have a comfortable feeling where students can ask questions, try new strategies, and work together to become more strategic readers.

Tikatok is where you can transform imagination into stories and publish those stories into books to share with family and friends. You could have a classroom book published.

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

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.

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.

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?

Activities, books, ideas, lessons for reading! How to engage children and help them become lifelong readers.

Blog on different books, activities, and more to do in the elementary classroom!

Blog on a variety of different technology issues and ideas!

These free applications provide a wide variety of engaging learning opportunities for young students (and you can't beat the price). The Apple iPad is becoming more popular in our schools every day (just check out this EmergingEdTech video to appreciate how quickly the iPad is gaining hold in our schools).

Tag Literacy Center sounds great for small groups or independent work for young elementary school children.

Each May, the National Spelling Bee is held in Washington, D.C. Since most of your students won't be there, this week we offer lesson plans to help put them there next year!

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.

The National Reading Panel (NRP) was created by Congress and charged with the task of evaluating different approaches used to teach children to read and assessing the effectiveness of each.

Children's poetry by Meadowbrook Press. Lots of funny poems, poetry contests and more! Ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways.

Clever online mad-libs for 3rd grade and up to help with teaching parts of speech

Monster Exchange is designed to encourage the development of reading and writing skills while integrating Internet technology into the classroom curriculum. Classrooms from schools worldwide are paired together; the students in each classroom are split into groups, each of which designs an original picture of a monster. They then write a description of the monster and the other group must recreate the drawing using only their description.

Many wonderful free childrens books are available to read at Children's Storybooks Online. Stories span age ranges from preschool, young children, teens, through young adult.

Lots of children's books available here.

Many wonderful free children's books are available here. Stories span age ranges from preschool, young children, teens, through young adult.