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Starfall has been teaching children to read with phonics for well over a decade. Our systematic approach, in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.

An outside the box application that measures the crowd in reference to a particular reading, Students are provided a text on their device and then highlight attributes in color to represent thoughts and understanding. The teacher and students are able to view the entire groups' thinking process in relationship to the reading.

While the word "literacy" alone generally refers to reading and writing skills, when you tack on the word "digital" before it, the term encompasses much, much more. Sure, reading and writing are still very much at the heart of digital literacy.

Take a browse through the No Sweat Shakespeare website using the navigation options at the top and right hand side of each page, or click the quick links below to take you to a specific article on Shakespeare: Shakespeare Basics: Brush up on some Shakespeare facts, read William Shakespeare's biography, see Shakespeare's life and work in a timeline or swot up on Elizabethan theatre and drama.

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

Before LeVar Burton was Kunta Kinte in the 1977 TV miniseries Roots or host of the long-running and much-loved PBS children's show Reading Rainbow, he was a little boy watching his mother read piles of books in their California home. It was that scene that would spark in the actor a lifelong passion for ­storytelling.

Instagrok is a great tool to use with students who are learning how to conduct online research. Students and teachers can access this application on any device. Teachers can create free student accounts and their own dashboard to assign tasks, provide search guidelines, and monitor student progress. To access all of the dashboard features, there is a relatively affordable yearly subscription. Through customized searches, students are able to read and assess information, take notes, create concept maps, and cite sources. Instagrok can also help students to collaborate on group projects and develop critical reading skills while collecting information for papers and assignments.

Shared Inquiry™ is a way to think critically and extract meaning from reading.

Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.

This learning activity is part of the Clifford the Big Red Dog series. Clifford's Big Idea for children is Be Kind. Students read or listen to stories and identify words that correctly complete sentences. Fun interactive games ask students to identify letters, sounds, and words.

Theme Units, Worksheets, Printables Math, Reading, Writing, Languages

(Please note the link to a Free Demo download on the right hand side of the linked page) Orwell is an episodic indie game that puts players in the role of an analyst working for a fictional surveillance state in the wake of a bomb explosion in a public square. Players are tasked with scouring news sites, social networking sites, message boards, blogs, text chats, and the like for clues as to the identity of the bomber and possible motivations for the bombing. Potentially relevant information is highlighted, but it is up to the player to decide whether each piece of information is worthy of inclusion in a report to be passed up the chain of command. The items selected create the narrative that law enforcement will act upon, but the player has no say as to what actions are taken beyond selecting what to include in the accumulated data. The story unfolds through the narrative that player-selected data constructs and the actions that result. Mistakes can result in the detention or prosecution of innocents. This forces the player to exercise research and critical thinking skills, particularly evaluating data as relevant or irrelevant, reading between the lines, and maintaining awareness of how each piece of information contributes to an overall narrative. Embedded in all of this is a clever critique of the surveillance apparatus and how it relates to our conceptions of freedom, safety, and privacy-a critique, I would argue, worthy of the game's name. I selected Orwell for this critical thinking post because it is essentially a gamified exercise in research, or, put another way, research with training-wheels. All of the pieces of data that the user can include are presented in context, and players must evaluate how a clue relates to both its context and to the investigation as a whole in order to make useful selections. That kind of consideration is essentially what we are doing as we research material for inclusion in an academic paper, and so I believe the game doe