Multilingual Lessons for Pre-K through Second Grade Students

The Early Childhood Education Network's Literacy Center provides young students with online learning activities in four languages. The ...

Booktrack - Create and Listen to Soundtracks for Books

Booktrack is an interesting service that I recently tried after reading about it on Larry Ferlazzo's blog. Booktrack allows you to add...

Reading Bear Offers Fun Online Reading Lessons for Kids

Reading Bear is a free service that offers narrated lessons on recognizing and pronouncing letters and words. There are also some lessons o...

Lesson Resources for Presidents' Day

This coming Monday is Presidents' Day in the United States. Here are some Presidents' Day related resources for students in elementa...

A Couple of Good Places for Students to Find Book Recommendations

One of the challenges of getting some students to read independently is finding books that engage them. The next time a student says to you,...

SummarizeThis Quickly Summarizes Long Passages of Text

SummarizeThis is a free tool that summarizes the main point(s) of long articles that you find on the web. To use SummarizeThis you just cop...

ReadWorks Navigation Update

Earlier this week I shared some information about new content added to ReadWorks . In that post I included a video that tour of the website...

Dictionary Bubble - Double Click Words to See Definitions and Synonyms

Dictionary Bubble is a free Chrome extension that provides definitions and synonyms for any word that you double-click in an online article...

Teach Your Monster to Read 2 - A Fun Way for Students to Learn to Read

Teach Your Monster To Read 2 is the sequel to the popular Teach Your Monster To Read website. The Teach Your Monster to Read games are de...

A Nice Selection of Travel Books for Kids

Last month I introduced The Global Bookshelf as a good place to find books to inspire students to see the world. This week Gillian, the wom...

Rewordify Helps Students Read Complex Passages

Rewordify is a free site that was developed by a special education teacher and former computer programmer for the purpose of helping studen...

Inspire Students to Read and Travel With The Global Bookshelf

The Global Bookshelf is a book search and recommendation engine that was started by my friend Gillian Duffy . The purpose of The Global Boo...

The Top 10+ Sites for a Successful 1:1 Laptop Program: Experiences from the Trenches

 Greetings from Rock Valley, Iowa, the land of cows and corn! As we wind up our school year this week, I have begun reflecting on just how m...

Picture Match - A Read Write Think Game for K-2

Picture Match is a nice little interactive game from Read Write Think for K-2 students. Picture Match asks students to match objects to th...

A Simple Activity to Help Students Analyze Characters in Books

Scholastic's Character Scrapbook is a nice little online activity that could help your students analyze the characters in the books tha...

ReadWorks Offers 1,000+ Reading Passages Aligned to Common Core Standards

ReadWorks is a free service that has cataloged hundreds of lesson plans and more than one thousand non-fiction reading passages aligned to ...

Aesop's Fables on the Web, iPad, and Android

One of the neat resources that I just plucked from Open Culture's new collection of K-12 resources is the Aesop's Fables interactiv...

Teach Your Monster to Read Helps Kids Learn to Read

Teach Your Monster to Read is a fun game designed to help students improve the speed and accuracy with which they recognize letters and sou...

ScootPad - Students Practice Skills from Any Device and Teachers Get Instant Feedback Too

ScootPad is a free service offering mathematics and reading practice activities to elementary school students and their teachers. ScootPad ...

Google Books for Android Gets Handy Updates

Google Books for Android has become my go-to reading app on my Nexus 7 and on my Galaxy Tablets over the last year. The wealth of free publi...