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Educational computer games that introduce kids to key ideas in media and digital literacy. This would be useful in lesson plans hat involve digital age literacy, it helps students learn while they are having fun.

This is another very beneficial teaching tool for language arts.This site is full of teaching strategies that I could use in my future classroom. It has ideas for helping struggling readers as well as more strategies that will be helpful.

Offers effective teaching strategies, activities, lessons, lesson plans, worksheets, exercises, skills, tests, assessments for reading comprehension, language arts, literacy, fluency, phonics and phonemic awareness for children, especially those with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. This would be a great tool for teacher to get quizzes and work sheets for their students. It's a great site for anyone who is in the education field to help kids read and write.

Language Arts/Reading (1): This website is a useful teacher resource. It includes classroom strategies, reading guides, and tips on how to help struggling readers. This website is very credible and has sections for teachers, principals, librarians, parents, and other professionals. Reading Rockets has produced several shows on PBS and those are posted on this website as well. They include a variety of topics about reading. This website would be a useful tool to use in my future classroom because it contains newsletters with new and relevant topics regarding reading that are research-based (dyslexia, closing the literacy gap, etc.).

Great resource for digital literacy, bullying, and cyberbullying resources for teachers.

I chose this site to look into further development for secondary students who still struggle with literacy. It has resources from computer instruction to hot topic programs to get students extra help.

Choice (1): As an English/Secondary Education major, I use this website to read journal articles and look at relevant topics in the field of literacy, English studies, and Language Arts. This website contains a ton of information including lesson plans, activities, etc. You can become a member of the NCTE and connect in other ways if interested. There are professional development opportunities (conferences, etc.) that are available, too. You can sign up for email newsletters and updates which contain new information in this field.

I chose this website, because not only does it work on science skills, but it also works on them while building literacy skills. I could use this for my learners that need a little extra help with their literacy skills, but who also love to learn about science.

Science: I chose this resource because it offers a lot of different topics that might be studied throughout the course of the year along with activities and lessons that can be used with those topics. I could browse through the activities based on my lesson plans and incorporate some of these activities to engage my students.

I chose this resource because it gives multiple teaching strategies that you can implement. I would use these strategies to help with vocabulary teaching, literacy help, and prior knowledge strategies for all subject areas.

I chose this website because it has many great ideas for helping with language arts. I would implement this into my teaching if I become a Middle School Language Arts teacher for reading/literacy, writing, vocabulary and more.

I chose this website because it gave many good activities that will help with literacy development. I will keep some of these activities in mind to use in my future classroom.

I chose scholastic as one of my literacy sources because it is both beneficial for the student and teachers. I would love to share this with parents/guardians to give them the option to order books for themselves, so I can earn things for the classroom.

I chose this site because it has many different sources for teachers to use. This site has book reviews, different types of graphic organizers, and different writing activities. For example, this sit has how to finger spell, I could use this site and find sheets to print off for the class to teach them how to finger spell. This site also has many different literacy workshops that I could use in my future classroom.

Loved this website! It was great for teaching strategies in reading. It also had a part on the website that was designed just for the students.

I liked this website because it offered professional development links and conventions. It also had classroom resources that ranged from K-12.

Great website for teaching upper grades and upper elementary. It has links for both students and teachers. It also has lessons for mentors.

This website has cool ideas for helping kids with spelling words. It's better than the traditional paper-pencil monotonous activities. This allows kids to interact with the words.

This is a site for spelling words. It offers multiple games on all different levels for spelling. The games are also clearly labeled as to how easy or hard they are. I enjoyed it, and some of the games were fun.

This website is definitely for the 21st Century skills classroom. It has many videos- more for teachers resource. I can use this website to explore and get ideas on many hard to find topics- like teaching email etiquette to exploring copyright wrongs.

I chose this site because it gives a lot of creative ideas of what can be done to teach students reading in a fun way. I could use this in my future class anytime I need an idea

I chose this resource because you can use it for all subject areas; math, science, social studies, and literacy. It gives you the option to choose form standards, grade level, and subject area and then gives you lesson plans! I would implement the lesson plans and ideas into my classroom.

I chose this site because I am a big fan of public media. I would use this site to show students a credible resource for news and history.

I chose this website because it gives resources for books you might use in your classroom and helps the teacher find books in the student's reading level. It is easy to navigate too; the teacher can choose the grade level, subject, and what reading level system you want to use.

Book wizard is another part of scholastic. It allows teachers to search by reading level, to find appropriate books for students.