Technology Resources

• Museum Box - develop a virtual box of information on people, times, or events in history
• Wallwisher - online bulletin board, interactive with lots of possibilities:  See 105 Ideas for Wallwisher, Nik's Learning Technology Blog on Using Online Sticky Noticeboards - provides great tutorial on Wallwisher
• Google Lit Trips - Use Google Earth to discover where in the world stories take them
  
• Wordle - create word clouds from text you input.  
• Tagxedo - Word Clouds made into pictures
  
• Skype an Author Network
• We Make Stories- make your own stories
• Using Google Docs in the Classroom - short presentation with 24 ways to use Google docs in your classroom
• Prezi.com- create cool presentations
• Kerpoof Studio -create stories and scenes
• Storybird - create short stories with friends and family
• Voicethread - create and share projects 
• Bubbl.us - mind mapping online

• Printable Stories
  
• Rare Book and Children's Literature - printable books
• Bookbox - Free PDF stories
• Highlights for Kids- printable stories
• Short Stories for Children -pick a book, then print
• Learning Island printable books
• Online Leveled Books- samples from eduplace.com & can be printed
• Goodnight Stories

Miscellaneous

• Character Education Book Lists- authentic literature that helps teach the character traits
• Free Reading Comprehension Powerpoints
• Forever Quest- online graphic novel
• Read Me a Book - listen to stories online, letters and sounds of the day
• Lightning Bug - create a story from start to finish
• The Lost Lunchbox - a choose your own adventure story/game
• Castaway - another choose your own adventure story
• Fairy Tales - From We Tell Stories, help to write the choose your own adventure story
• Mother Goose Club - online nursery rhymes with audio suppor

Teacher Literacy Resources

• Beth Newingham's Reading Workshop
• The Daily Cafe   & The 2 Sisters- from the authors of the Daily 5
• Florida Center for Reading Research - extensive site with review of programs and student center activities
  
• Literacy 911
• Mandy Gregory's Literacy Site
• Leveled Book Database
• Booklists for Reading Strategies- lists of books to help you teach reading strategies
  
• Mrs. McGowan's Reading Resources
• Into The Book - lessons, downloads, and videos for all strategies
• Mosaic of Thought Resources- find blackline masters for all reading  strategies (5 Finger Rule bookmarks, posters, reading conference forms, lessons and more!)
• Content Reading Strategies that Work - Lots of useful information and ideas here!
• Glenwood Intermediate School Teacher Resources – resources listed by reading skill, has book lists too!
• Jordan School District’s Balanced Literacy Website - Wonderful tools to use
• Getting Boys to Read - my favorite site for ideas on getting boys to read.  Follow the author, Mike McQueen, on Twitter too.
• Guysread - site by author John Scieszka. Offers teachers, parents and kids different types of titles and ways to get guys reading!
• Gamquarium - portal for learning games galore