Wednesday, March 16, 2011

www.speakaboos.com

This site had stories that were told in song and voice reading. There is games and a lot of free stuff. However, you can only get a free 14 day trial. I did not like this as there are alot of sites that are free and this one didn't really hold my interest for long. There was also nothing to do while waiting for the story to load.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

www.lessonplans4teachers.com/reading.php

The site is for teachers which helps with making up lesson plans per subjects. Teachers love the fact that they can produce awards and certificates for free. There are also lesson plan templates.

www.teachnology.com/teachers/lessonplans/languagearts/reading/

A helpful site to a teacher although there is a $30 fee each year to download the worrksheet library. The printables are for math, reading comprehension, writing, english and vocabulary. This would take a lot of work off a teacher for classroom materials.

www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBriar.com

This site  rocks and would allow kids to explore with games, web books and movie reviews. The teachers can do quiz labs, use special banners that are provided and allow for grade levels to play. This would be very useful in the classroom.

Monday, March 14, 2011

www.pbskids.com

What a great useful site, colorful, musical, interactive, choices of video's or games with sounds. Teacher can develop professfully and plan how to teach the kids and keep them learning. There are mobile downloads. When I went to the game area, even though I didn't sign in as a child might not it wasn't disappointing, it just let me play the game!

www.readingrockets.org

Teachers, parents and librarians would find this site helpful. There are video's, books and authors and reading guides. The teacher can get news of real writing contests for the students.

www.starfall.com

This site is engaging and would be fun  for kids to learn, examples would be phonics, how to use technology. There are online interactive games. The teachers have the ability with this site to change the language preferences such as to teach the ABCs in Spanish or French.