RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

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.

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!

Write a letter to your future self and read the public (but anonymous) letters from others

This is a great website for use with special needs children or all ages of children. It provides a user-friendly site in which there are not an over-running of ads. Also there are pictures and text! Great for looking up almost anything in guided reading, independent activities, and group activities!

Blog on a variety of different technology issues and ideas!

Here are 50 free educational apps to use with your iPad, iPhone or iPod. These look like great resources to use in your classroom!

This website has it all and is a super resource. You can find everything from Assistive technology videos to blogs to project based learning, strategies, and more. Tons of literacy rich ideas, tips, strategies!

I have recently been trying to find more ways that I could use my iPhone in my classroom- while searching for educational apps- I found this! Here are 50 apps for your iPhone that are more for the educator- but just had to share!

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

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

Creative Writing Prompts collection of writing prompts and story starters for writers. Come up with creative content for blogs and blog stories with the help of these creative writing ideas.

A good resource for building your apps on your iPad for school.

Vocabulary is Fun! Whether you're learning or teaching analogies, antonyms and synonyms, compound words, figurative language, homophones, parts of speech, root words, prefixes and suffixes or contractions to your English speakers or your ESL students, Vocabulary *is* fun!

I didn't realize this was already shared. It is a really neat site.

Quizlet is the largest flash cards and study games website with over 10 million free sets of flashcards covering every possible subject. It's the best place to play educational games, memorize vocabulary and study online.

Flickr Storm is similar to FlickrCC. The kids can search, click on a thumbnail and the photo comes up on the right. If you let the students click on the advanced search feature, it will allow them to limit their searches to Non-Commercial and Share Alike photos. An organization feature of Flickr storm is the "Add to Tray." You can add several photos to your tray and then when you open your tray, all the photos are there in large-sized format. It is like saving the pictures to a file, but instead it stays on the website. Anything like this website is good to begin brainstorming for writing.

StoryJumper: publish your own children's book.Storyjumper allows you to create online books using a variety of characters, scenes, and props. Teachers can create student accounts for them to have as like a file to store their stories. I thought this would be a neat way to provide online writing to support different reading elemnts (setting, characters, etc).

A great resource for teachers. It is a kid friendly and teacher friendly search engine for lesson plans, activities, and interactives. I use this a lot in my classroom, and the search results are great. I have found several reading links as well as social studies and science connection links for reading.

This blog gives the latest updates on the newly found educational apps for teachers and students. I have used this several times to see what is new or what is out there that someone else has tried and has had success with.

This is a good app website but is geared toward Pre-K.