I have just discovered the website big huge labs. The site allows you to create a variety of different genres for posters. I love this resource as it is…
Category: Reading
Online Postcard Maker – Character Analysis/Reading Comprehension/Writing
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Last week I blogged about a series of tools which could be used for character analysis and reading comprehension (My examples were based on the big bad wolf). Today’s post is…
Create your own trading cards: List of Apps and websites
Posted in Character Development, Classroom, General, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Reading, Teacher Resources, and Writing
As an extension to great tools I have been blogging about all week. I have found another one. Trading Cards. These are great for reading…
Fake Twitter Posts: Useful for book and historical characters analysis
Posted in About Me, Character Development, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Reading, Science, and Teacher Resources
http://www.classtools.net/twister/ – Another fantastic Tool from Classtools. Love this site! This is a fake Twitter feed. I had fun creating one from the Wolfmister as a…
Create FakeBook for book characters, historical figures etc
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http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page – Another fantastic Tool from classtools. This is so much fun. You can create a Fake facebook page for characters. Below is a quick one…
Websites and Apps for Comic Creation
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Creating a comic is a great engaging learning activity. It can be used in all subject areas from P-12. Reading ( retell, make a new ending, create…
How Stuff Works and Discovery Kids
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/ How stuff works is exactly that. It is a website which uses a variety of media (text, audio, video) to explain how everything works.…
http://www.poetry4kids.com/poems Kenn Nesbitt’s Poetry for Kids is another source of poetry for your classroom.It contains a great range of poems, games, how to write your…
Great Poetry Website: Giggle Poetry
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http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/poetryclass.html Giggle poetry is a great site for interesting and funny poems to share with your class. The poems have been put into categories (there are lots…
Record of Reading App: LOVE THIS !!!!!!
Posted in General Teacher Apps, iPads and Apps, Literacy Apps, Reading, and Reading apps
I absolutely love this app! It has been designed for the ipad. https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/record-of-reading/id543574721?mt=8 The record of reading was created by Marie Clay and allows for…
Online Interactive Brainstorming / Mind Mapping Tools
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There are a lot of online, interactive brainstorming tools and graphic organisers which can be used in the classroom. I have featured only two of…
National Geographic for Kids http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ I have used the photfill in’s with my class when we were discussing dialogue and speech bubbles, the children thought…
Toondoo – create online comics and books
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http://www.toondoo.com/Login.toon?param=reg Toondoo is free and allows the children to make their own digital cartoons and books. They look fantastic! The website also allows you to…
I love You Tube. Below are some videos I found that you could use in your classroom. I like the fact that you can read…