This resource offers math practice in a game format. Ratio Blaster Game is just what my fourth grade students need after completing their fraction and decimal unit. Advantage: students enjoy game formats. Disadvantages: some games lack error correction formats and students are exposed to lots of adds in margins of the window.

A website designed to promote reading using phonics for prekindergarten to second grade. Students can practice skills through the use of songs, stories and videos.

This website has many collections of flashcards ranging from basic sight words, Spanish vocabulary to studying to be a CNA. With this resource teachers and students can make virtual flashcards. Parent volunteers could easily monitor student practice of basic sight words and record words that need more practice. Teachers would no longer need to search for baggies of flash cards. Parents could practice with students at home.

This website offers many manipulatives to help students understand, practice and review math concepts. I particularly like the fraction manipulatives. Some of my students have difficulty perceiving fractions and I believe this will be an excellent tool for exploration, practice and review.

Video modeling has long been used in sports. Educators can use video modeling and video self modeling (VSM) to address problem behaviors, daily living skills, reading fluency, articulation disorders, selective mutism, and social skills training. A Meta-Analysis of Video Modeling and VSM Interventions (Bellini & Akullian, 2007) determined that video modeling met criteria for an Evidence Based Practice. This website has links to steps for Implementation and and an implementation checklist. Using video, helps the learner focus his/her attention on instructional cues and salient contextual cues.

This is a website where teachers can share Boardmaker activities. Boardmaker is a software program used by many special education teachers to enhance communication. It provides 4.500 picture communication symbols that can be used to create schedules, communication boards, calendars, bingo games, worksheets and more.

Many special education teachers in the district use Boardmaker software to make picture schedules, social stories, flashcards, etc. This website allows parents and educators a 30 day free trial. If you like what you see, talk to a special educator in your building.

10 million downloadable images available by subscription.

Good source to find video to use as an advanced organizer. I wish I had used this last Monday to show students video of Sonoran Wildlife before we read a selection set in the desert.

An online classroom - teachers can create a classroom, post questions, assignments and feedback. Students can answer question and post assignments.

Students can make online, multimedia posters. The website description: * A creative, dynamic, and innovative digital outlet that captures learner's excitement for online creations, keeps learners engaged in course content, and makes teaching and learning more fun. * A private and safe platform, monitored directly by teachers. Teachers control all the activities of their learners. * A valuable teaching tool that integrates diverse core subjects including math, science, history, art, photography, music and more for individual learner portfolios, unique alternative assessments, and differentiated instructional activities. For Learners: * A fun, imaginative, and powerful learning experience which fosters independent creative self expression, positive learner-teacher relationships, and teamwork on collaborative class projects. * A vibrant, multi-sensory learning experience which integrates learner's knowledge and skills into traditionally text-oriented subjects and motivates learner's desire to explore topics in which they may previously have been less interested.

Create a character to speak. Type text for character to say or record your voice. My son uses it for Spanish class. I wonder if I could use it for language arts

create online survey

Need to know how to pronounce "floccinaucinihilipilification" or other words?

Digital library - check out audio books to listen to on your ipod, electronic books for your electronic book reader.

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