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A Horn for Louis, how Louis Armstrong found his passion. Great anecdotes about Armstrong, Marc Chagall, and Harry Houdini that lead to Kimmel's books.

You can even create a classroom account to manage your students so they don't have to create their own account. Link to the classroom set up guide: http://www.storyjumper.com/main/classroom

Reading recommendations by grade level, if you liked...then try..., lots of recommedayions

Megan Daley's blog post before her EduTECH 2015 presentation.

Read or personalize classic tales and have them read back with word highlighting. Nice collection of children's classic picturebooks. Registration allows you to save your personalized books and share with others. Use on an interactive whiteboard or available as an app for ipod Touch, iPhone, or iPad.

Making your own comic at the website is a simple matter of first choosing a layout. On the next screen, you are shown your layout and must add characters, objects, settings and bubbles to each frame. There are menu controls: flip, delete, make bigger/smaller, bring forward/back and rotate to help customise the pictures. The speech bubbles are easily edited for text. Kids can also see sample pages for inspiration. Once done, a child's creation can be printed out, or he can take a screen grab to save a digital copy.