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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
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