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"Complex issues of academic language (e.g. vocabulary, syntax, grammar, semantics) impact the choices teachers must make about literacy instruction. Increasing evidence suggests that academic language is today's "hidden curriculum" - rarely explicitly taught, but essential to success in the academic world. This has enormous implications for all educators, from pre-kindergarten to college. The following websites support inquiry into this complex topic."

FREE Handouts, Listening & Quizzes in Simple English - Printable Lesson Worksheets, Podcast and RSS Feed.

The first online book rental site with a dedicated experience for children.

(Basically, Netflix for books & kids) A little pricey, but an interesting concept.

In the e-library eBooksRead.com you can always download ebooks, dictionaries and manuals for FREE!

I choose the Launch iTunes because it has a nice display by grade level.

POETS ONLINE offers you the opportunity to try writing a poem to our current monthly writing prompt. Write it for yourself, or submit it - and if it is selected, you'll share it with the online world. We will only consider poems that are in response to our current writing prompt.

Welcome to Planet eBook, the home of free classic literature. All our novels and books are entirely free for you to download and share with your friends, classmates, students, anyone!

Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 26,008 eBooks available here and they're all free!

Online Multimedia Educational Games for Kids in Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary Grades

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"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here."

"Engage, inform, and educate your students with TweenTribune and TeenTribune. These sites let students interact with the news, while fulfilling requirements for language arts, computer skills, and other classes. Kids love it - and so do their teachers" Teachers can sign up and customize Tween Tribune and TweenTribune for your classroom. Free

"I am passionate about Reader's Workshop and use picture books in every mini lesson. Along with teaching comprehension strategies (activating prior knowledge, making connections, visualizing, etc.) I integrate the use of them with story elements (character, plot, setting, and theme.) Below is my top 10. "

The goal of this site is to give a nice cross section of short stories in the hope that these short stories will excite these people into rediscovering this excellent source of entertainment.

Start and manage your own book club. Invite your friends to join. Have discussions online or in person. Find other people with similar book interest."

KidderLit is a fun way to discover new books and authors. Every morning, while sensible people are sleeping, the folks at KidderLit and its sister site TwitrLit are hard at work, combing through the stacks of the local library. Why? So that when you wake up and rush to your computer, there will be a new literary teaser waiting for you. Every morning we'll post the first line of a young adult or children's book here at KidderLit.com. The trick is that we don't tell you what the book is or who the author is. To find out, you have to click the link to be taken to the book's page on Amazon.

This is a kid Twitter thing!

"Puppet Animation is an innovative application that lets you create an animation using the image of your choice. You just need to prepare one image. No need to prepare many time lapse animation pages! The application has a simple user interface and there are no difficult controls like usual animation softwares."