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[] Use Dove Whisper as a computer center in your classroom. This site contains Internet games for all subjects. @http://www.wordle.net/ Use Wordle.net to introduce a new unit in reading with a vocabulary word cloud. Have students guess what the unit/story will be about. Set a purpose for learning. www.kerpoof.com Use KerPoof to allow your students to illustrate their writing, create a movie, and more! www.classtools.net Use Class Tools to randomly generate names, show a countdown timer, find graphic organizers, create time-lines, play puzzles, and access other neat tools. www.freerice.com Do you have an advanced student who is always done early? Let him or her get on Free Rice and practice challenging vocabulary! www.watchknow.org WatchKnow offers tens of thousands of videos for kids to learn new information. WatchKnow is a recently launched website that hosts educational videos. @http://www.mathplayground.com/ Excellent site for Math activities for K - 8. Be sure to explore the Mathcasts. Mathcasts allow students to review math when THEY need to. @http://www.writingfun.com/ An interactive writing help site that includes downloads for off-line use @http://reading.ecb.org/ Excellent reading comprehension resource - Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating, and Synthesizing - Geared toward K-4 @http://tarheelreader.org/ Here you’ll find a collection of [|easy-to-read books] on a wide variety of topics. Each book is switch accessible and speech enabled. You may download the books as a slide show in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. @http://www.planetebook.com/ Free classic literature to download (middle school and up) http://staff.prairiesouth.ca/~cassidy.kathy/browserbooks/index.htm "This website was created to allow beginning readers to read books on their web browser. Readers can click on the triangle in the lower right-hand corner of each page to turn the pages. If they are unsure of a word, they can click on it to hear a child's voice read the word to them. The books have been sorted by level and by subject according to the curriculum." (from the website) @http://www.hippocampus.org/ Hippo Campus is instruction on the web to help students with homework and studying. @http://www.knowitall.org/ Knowitall.org is ETV's educational Web portal, a collection of fun, and interactive websites for K-12 students, teachers, and parents. @http://www.inklesstales.com/stories/index.shtml Listen to stories including Dolch words. (use the control + keys to enlarge the font size if students are following along). @http://thinkfinity.org/EducatorHome.aspx Thinkfinity.org makes it easy for educators to enhance their classroom instruction with lesson plans, interactive activities, and other online resources. Thinkfinity.org also provides a wealth of educational and literacy resources for students, parents, and after-school programs. @http://www.internet4classrooms.com/index.htm Internet4classroom is a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, and reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the classroom and at home. It also includes online technology tutorials. @http://pbskids.org/read/ On PBS KIDS Island, play free reading games and activities. This site also includes activities for parents, teachers, and caregivers! Recommended ages: 3 – 6. @http://museumbox.e2bn.org/ Museum Box provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person, or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. http://www.mrsp.com/ This is an award-winning, free, interactive, digital storybook destination. Classic Children's stories are brought to life by TV star Kathy Kinney as Mrs. P. @http://alex.state.al.us/index.php @http://ilearntechnology.com/?cat=50 ILearn Technology is an Edublog about Integrating Technology into the classroom. @http://www.starfall.com Starfall is a free website to teach children to read with phonics. Activities are geared towards preschool, kindergarten, and first grade reading levels. There are exciting phonics games and online interactive books. @http://www.readingware.com/

media type="custom" key="5593129" FREE trial membership available now. Young children learn to read in the Readingware Book Club, an online resource for families and schools. The Readingware Book Club features phonics-based ebooks. @http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/  Math Practice Site