Find the Best resources for both reading games, traditional Language Arts and interactive Childrens Books Online that integrate technology into the classroom.
Best resources for both traditional Language Arts and modern communications sites and applications on the web.
You will find that they are in a separate class all by themselves and can enrich and even transform your curriculum. "The technology in the public schools of America is about as backwards as you can find," Gerstner said at a press conference here to announce the second phase of IBM's Reinventing Education grant program. He said bringing technology into the nation's public schools was essential." There is no economic future for any U.S. entity if we don't have capable schools producing capable employees," Gerstner said."Technology is an enabler of all you want to do.... You don't buy technology, you use it to make a change."
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READING CHILDRENS BOOKS ONLINE
FACT: The average cost of a school library book in 2006 is now over $20, and schools should be purchasing two books per student per year to keep their library collections current. Even with state funding, most schools are not purchasing two books per student per year.
LITTLE ONES BUILD SKILLS
Online Nursery Rhyme Cards
To encourage both the school-home connection, as well as the positive influences of families reading together, this site offers more than seventy illustrated nursery rhymes to print as cards and send home with students. They can also be used in the classroom, collected, reviewed, and sent home as a little book.
Children's oral history - playground rhymes found in newspapers - 39 page PDF
Get a Reading Chart for your Classroom
FIRST GRADE PRACTICE SKILLS ONLINE
- Sight Word Sets Online for the first grader to practice.
- Early Emergent Readers Leveled Reading Games
- Talking ABC's
- Belt Word Challenge for site words.
- Flash Program that teaches the alphabet
- Download the alphabet - Alphabet flashcards
- RepeatAfterUs.com struggling with pronunciation in an English as a Second Language class provides free texts and audio clips to help students around the world with their language skills.
AUDIO BOOKS HEAR BOOKS YOU
READ ALONG.
AUDIO BOOKS
2 ORIGINAL E - BOOKS
Read and Hear FOLKTALES
A Brother Anansi and Brother Tecoma Stories spoken in Standard English and Negerhollands English. See Story Telling and Folktales
- BookPals Storyline features online stories for children. You can see videos of bedtime stories read by mothers, with subtitles and some pictures of the books. Those stories can be used by students level A2 and above to improve their listening comprehension. Note that for some books you can also access the script as reader's theater : the story turned into a play!
chose "my rotten red headed older brother" (a story with lots of comparative and superlatives), and here is the reader's theater: and then "Pigasso and met Mootisse" based on the characteristics of Picasso and Matisse. A teacher's guide is provided with lots of activities to do around the story, and links to sites to discover the lives and works of the real painters so as to understand the references. - Picture Books - short stories for younger kids to read on-line.
- Storybooks to Read - easy books for young readers to read on-line.
- Integrate reading into music-- or to recommend to classroom teachers. http://www.starfall.com/
- Kiddie Records - Revive Children's stories recorded in the 40's and 50's. Kiddie Records Weekly is a two year project celebrating the golden age of children’s records. This brief but prolific period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties, producing a wealth of alltime classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers.
- StoryNory - iPod Ready Stories for Kids
This fun and free site contains audio stories that you can either listen to online or on your iPod or MP3 player. Some titles include The Flying Trunk, Tim learns where Easter Eggs come from, The Princess and the Pea, Favourite Stories, Kissa the Cat, The Owl and the Pussycat, How Prince Bertie became Bertie the Frog, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Elephant’s Child, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Sleeping Beauty, The Cat’s Elopement, The Snow Queen, and many more. A fun site for younger children. - Radio WillowWeb is a podcast for kids and by kids from the students at Willowdale Elemetary School in Omaha,Nebraska. Each new show is called a Willowcast. Each Willowcast can be heard on WillowWeb as an mp3 digital audio file.
- Beatrix Potter Online Stories - Offers a variety of B. Potter stories in slide show format with Real© Audio.
- Aesop's Fables Online Many of these fables are printable and read aloud by a 10 year old student in California.
- Readers' Theatre Scripts for grades 2-4.
- Book-pop - read online while music plays in the background.
- On-line Books and Stories.
- The International Children's Digital Library Children's Books Online
Teacher Recommended Literature Resources
- The Road to Literacy
100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers - POETRY
An on-line project and resource to encourage the development of literacy and technology skills - VIEW EXAMPLES OF CREOLE LITERATURE
- GUAVABERRY BOOKS Information on integrating Literacy, Dialect Speakers and technology into the classroom using free online curriculum.
- International Childrens Digital Library [pdf]
The mission of the International Childrens Digital Library is to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of childrens literature from the world community. Hundreds of books are online, and visitors can click on Read Books to check out the fruits of their labors. Dozens of languages, range of thematic listings, such as real animal characters, picture books, and kid characters. Visitors can a sign up for a free account while they are here. - Don’t know much about - read and find out about America’s history
- Deliver Instruction AND Using Video Technology to Teach Teachers FIND: Language Arts Video Series and Language Arts Lesson on Fluency
- Literacy Center
Online repository of free literacy lessons and supporting parent/teacher material, practice pre and early reading skills in a structured environment where each new cognitive experience builds upon a previous one.
Teacher Recommended Activities and Games
REMEMBER AUTOGRAPH BOOKS?
Why not revive this forgotten tradition in your classroom. This is an autograph book, from Valparaiso, NE dated 1900. It appears to have been the property of Miss Etta Seedlund. This book is old and dark, with all entries done in pencil, therefore, I have scanned all pages, and then transcribed the inscription, as best I can, below the scanned image.
- Ms. Joy's Reading and Activity Corner
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listmsjoyjo.html#cat3 - Zoobooks - education information with games & activities.
http://www.zoobooks.com - Classic FairyTales - Read aloud stories and activities.
- Dr. Seuss - games, books and activities.
- MightyBook - read aloud books.
- Story Place - stories and activities.
- Kidsread - games and trivia
- Vocabulary.com - games and puzzles that promote word power including thematic word puzzles.
- EDITORIAL CARTOONS BY KIDS - resource site and contest encouraging students to express their social and political views through the editorial cartoon genre; includes lots of tips and support to help participants maximize their experience win or lose.
LITERATURE
GUIDES
K - 12 CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards. In the guides, the magenta text indicates the language (or context-appropriate equivalent to the language) of the content standards.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
300,000 MARC records, and over 20,000 reviews.
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html
DIGITAL LIBRARIAN - Online catalogue of titles by subject area; online book reviews, periodicals, articles and data bases at your fingertips - completely searchable.
CONCORDANCES OF GREAT BOOKS An Index to the Great Books in English Translation With Links to Online Editions if Available
LEGENDS - History, literature, and lore presented with the promise of guided access to primary source material and up-to-date scholarship, personal essays and extended reviews, and historical surveys and thoughtful commentary.
TOOLS
LINGUISTIC FUN PAGE - http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/
Looking for a new twist to many of the English topics we tirelessly attempt to impart to our students?
BEHIND THE NAME - http://www.behindthename.com/
An introduction to etymology and first names, as well as languages, elements in first names, and the most popular names - interesting possibilities for word study.
ACRONYM FINDER - http://www.mtnds.com/af/
Searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military; 61,000 acronyms & their meanings.
Banned Books Books Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities
EXPERTS OFFER FREE "BIRD FLU" INFORMATION FOR ETHNIC LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES.