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Download this free app for your Google Chrome browser. Within Google Docs a TextHelp toolbar provides many features including: highlight and read text, dictionary, picture dictionary, translater and collect highlights. While there are some glitches - I noticed that the highlight and collect feature didn't always pull what I highlighted - this free tool is a great additional to supporting students reading and writing.

Check out free online thinking tools/graphic organizers. Also explore the Online Interactive Resources. These are text heavy/dependent resources so consider how you can make them accessible to all learners. For example, use word prediction support, recreate them in a tool such as Inspiration that allows learners to add ideas in pictures, words and recordings. Or recreate the graphic organizer in another format such as an interactive whiteboard application - build in supports for success.

Developed by the Ministry of Education of British Columbia, Canada, this free 6-page guide discusses the process of determining appropriate adaptations and modifications for instruction

The most useful image search engine, and its free! You choose and use the images you want.

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Lots of terrific Web 2.0 resources. Winner of the 2011 Merlot award for exemplary online learning resources.

"Markup lets you draw on any webpage with a variety of tools to express your thoughts, make a point or just simply edit." This is a bookmarklet -- no download required!

A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository, research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills - from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs.

Yodio uses your phone number to recognize you and get your recording to the right account. The next step is to create something. Begin thinking about an interesting topic, recent trip, or business idea to record. Or, grab a photo and tell its story!

The Fifty Tools Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something.

Interactive Map.

This wiki provides an extensive list of math support such as links to math games, videos and manipulatives.

Great instructional website that models and reviews writing frameworks such as recount, persuasive, explanation, description. Animation reviews the components of each framework. Exemplars show the progression of the writing format from Grade 1-6. Templates are downloadable.

Great site for teachers and students. Focuses on reading strategies including video, songs, interactive games, posters, lesson outlines, research.