Priceless Resource

Today I found a great literacy resource for teachers. Literacy is Priceless blog post contains links to several sites that have activities for K-2 readers. One site www.Free-Reading.net has activities related to favorite trade books. Literacy is Priceless

Little Researchers

Through my delicious account, I found a recommendation for a kid friendly research search engine. This would be a good choice for our animal research papers that are coming up. KidRex for reseach.

Keep it safe!

Mr. Crosby's class created assignments related to internet safety. Areli's group wrote a vignette to express the need for internet safety. I think this is a great resource to share with my students to show them why it is important not to share to personal information on the internet. Skyeping with Mr. Crosby's Class

Just Peachey

Nik Peachey's blog offers a variety of suggestions on how to enable students to use technology in the classroom. There are several tutorials that help teacher learn ways to incorporate technology into everyday classrom use. Check out some of the previous topics to learn more.

Online Student Read Alouds

Through Ferlazzo's best of sites, there are lists of good holiday related websites. With Lincoln's upcoming 200th birthday, I thought it would be important for my students to learn more about this important President. I visited the Scholastic page link where there was read aloud for students. This audio-text makes the information accessible to beginning readers and advanced readers. This resource is a good tool to use during literacy centers. Click here to teacher resources for your class.

Science on Site

Through Larry Ferlazzo's best of Science and Math sites for ELL's, I found a great way for students to review and learn concepts. There are interactive games that give facts about scienct topics. Students can then play to reinforce learned information. Click to check out this science site.

Let's Get Reading

Larry Ferlazzo's website had a list of good sights for ELL students. I visited Sight words with Sampson, an interactive website that is a good resource for ELL students as well as beginning readers. This website allows students to see and hear sight words spelled and used in sentences. Then the students are directed to a game that is a review of the lesson that they have just learned. The audio text is very helpful for students as they learn to read and write. The graphics make it an enjoyable site for students to visit. Click here to visit Sight Words with Sampson.