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Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears -- Keeping Warm - Issue 17, December 2009
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is an online magazine integrating science, literacy, and the polar regions. In each month’s issue, you can:
* Explore the Arctic and Antarctica
* Learn science concepts and literacy strategies
* Read about misconceptions, equity, and technology
* Discover standards-based lessons and resources
* Integrate polar science into your curriculum
LiteracyAccess Online - LAO Home
LiteracyAccess Online is a resource that supports children, parents and other facilitators as they work together to improve children's literacy skills. We're happy you've come to read with us.
Online Activities | National Center for Family Literacy
November is National Family Literacy Month, and NCFL is celebrating online with new activities for families. The Smithsonian and the National Center For Family Literacy have jointly developed several brand-new learning interactives. They include a virtual sit-in at a lunch counter and an exercise to learn more about the American flag. All provide audio support for the text, and would probably be accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners
Tar Heel Reader
Books for beginning readers ...all ages
Elementary Teachers should only consider books rated for everyone
:: e-Learning for Kids ::
Nice interactives in all science, math, language arts, and more for ages 5-12
ict games
Many interactives for the IWB from UK (may have localized differences for money and measurement activities).
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Picture Match
Beginning letter sounds, short vowel sounds, long vowel sounds
Asks students to type name...just type a simple word or random letters.
Has audio instructions
Students can print out completed worksheet.
BBC - Schools KS2 Maths : Topics
Math interactives for ages 7-11: find resources by math strand. Other subject areas available.
Bitesize - Games for ages 5-7+
BBC - KS1 Math and literacy. Great for IWB. Better suited for upper age range (you decide:)
Literactive - Teaching Children to Read
Literactive is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students available online. The program is comprised of carefully levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities and a wealth of supplemental reading material which gradually develop a child's reading skills in a sequential and enjoyable manner. Developed and approved by teachers and parents across the United States, Literactive is the acknowledged leader in early learning online. All the material is available for free from this site but you need to register. NOTE: Great for IWB and literacy centers. Teacher must login to use. Check this site out!
Funbrain Reading - Web Books and Mad Libs
Madlibs junior
Top English Teaching: resources for English teachers
Welcome to Top English Teaching. here you will find lots of useful resources for English language teaching:
exercises, activities, worksheets, flashcards, powerpoints, lessons, etc.
You must register to download.
The Neverending Tale: The Stacks
This service is intended primarily for young people from the ages 8-16, as a creative and safe game on the Web.
Choose your own adventure style stories for readings. If you don't care for the "next choice", you can create your own. Directions are here: http://www.coder.com/creations/tale/instructions.html
Could be a fun whole class activity or group task.
Literacy Center Education Network - Play & Learn English
Clean, simple site with narrated activities for colors, letters, numbers, words, keyboard, writing
Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics
Lots to explore...
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials
ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom. GREAT website!
Learning Is Messy - Blog » Blog Archive » Write It!
This is a great lead in idea to learning to add comments to a blog
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