Websites+and+Digital+Resources

= Digital Resources =

It is my wish that you find the websites listed to be excellent resources for your students, children, or simply yourself.
====As the year progresses, I will be adding new, exciting websites that I find while researching reading and planning classroom lessons and activities. Additionally, I welcome any online sites or sources you find. Please contact me, sending these resources at nzook@schools.mtco.com Do not hesitate to contact me with great digital resource finds or websites. I welcome the growth of collective resources.====

Reading Rockets Reading Resources Free reading resources for parents and educators of kids in preschool to Grade 3.

Learn Something New Everyday! ====With 212 categories to choose from, Memrise will always have something new and fun to learn. Art, geography, literature, science, and by the time I mention all the exciting topics, you could have already learned something new! Learn a language, study, and even teach with Memrise. ====

Free Quality Online Books ====We Give Books.org is not only a fantastic site for you and your child, it is also a fantastic site benefiting charities in need of student books. The Pearson Foundation has established this remarkable website to help non for profit organizations. For each book you read online, Pearson will donate a book to a leading literacy group on you and your child's behalf.====

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[|Grammar Quizzes] ====An open educational resource for understanding, learning and practicing English grammar usage. These materials present simple grammar concepts and practices for K–12 .Grammar points are listed both by grammar term and by word on this index page.====

Story Bird Stories
====Whether you are looking to read original storybooks while hearing the author narrate their story, or if you are in the mood to create and narrate a story book of your own, you and your child or student will delight in exploring this website.====

Barnes & Noble On Line Story Time!
====An excellent resource where students are not only able to listen to one of many popular storybooks, they also have the opportunity to hear the author reading his/her storybook. Often times, too, you will hear a story being read by a celebrity. These are engaging, entertaining, and just down right enjoyable for you and your child.====

Barnes & Noble K-12 Reading Section
====One of the best ways to get anyone reading, is by offering the opportunity of book choice. Reading is always that much more exciting when we are reading about a subject that captivates us, and by witnessing a story come to life through the use of vivid pictures or rich language. The Barnes & Noble reading section allows students the freedom to quickly search for books that inspire them to read.====

Jan Brett's Free Collection of Activities, Games, and Videos
====The author/illustrator of The Hat, The Mitten, and Daisy Comes Home, just to name a few, shares oodles of fun! These engaging activities can be enjoyed indpendentally and though family activities. You will find that these activities create a rich literacy experience, permeating beyond the storybook.====

Literacy Worksheets
====Are you looking for worksheets to help supplement virtually any K-8 subject areas? Then you have found the website you have been searching for. From grammar, to rounding in math, to learning about the states, and did I mention reading comprehension?====

Fun Brain Games and Activities
====Free educational games, online books, and comics. These interactive, educational games help make math and literacy a pleasureable learning experience. Additionally, you will find activities for pre-K to grade 8.====

‍Bembo's Zoo
====A stylish animal alphabet site with illustrations created from the letters in each animal's name. electronic interactive picture book by creator graphic designer Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich and is an animated version of his high-concept and appealing picture book.====

Carl's Corner
====A plethora of literacy resources to enhance your child's reading, writing, and spelling while making it enjoyable. With 35 years of teaching experience, retired but still teaching in the role as a University Professor, Cherry Carl continues to touch the literacy lives of children. This is a sight with valuable, timely resources from which I often pull. Enjoy!====

Roy The Zebra
====Meet Roy the Zebra. This site revolves around a singing zebra and the adventures he encounters with his friends: Lucy the elephant, Wellington the turtle, and many more. The site is brimming with interactive reading games, guiding reading stories, litereacy worksheets, and songs.====

Scholastic News Online
====Your online resource for scholastic news. Read, learn, motivate, and inspire through classroom magazines that places today's news and current events on an approachable, enjoyable reading level for your student.====

Summarizing Tool
====This tool allows you to copy and paste any digital text in order to receive a ten sentence, clear and concise summary. This is an excellent tool to pull higher level text, modifying for appropriate reading levels.====

ReadWorks
====Lessons abound, you are sure to find what you are looking for when it comes to comprehension. You will find units ranging from cause and effect, character, compare and contrast, predicting, genre, and the list goes on. Select the Readworks link to discover all of the websites recommendations for solutions to reading comprehension.====

‍Balabolka
==== A Text-to-speech program which can be downloaded for free. Converts written text to audio files. Can be used for students with learning disabilities, physical impairments, or English as a Second Language. ====

Lots of interactive websites for reading with links to additional interactive websites for other disciplines.
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‍Free Technology for Teachers
====Developed by high school social studies and Google certified teacher, Richard Byre, this Edublog award winner for Best Individual Edublog 2009 and Best Resource Sharing Blog 2009 is dedicated to sharing information about free resources for use in the classroom.====

‍Reading Rocket Webcasts
==== Each webcast features a 45- or 60-minute video program that you view from the Reading Rockets website. The webcasts also include recommended readings and suggested discussion questions. Some webcasts include the presenters' PowerPoint slides. ====

[|Readability Index Calculator]
====This is a great tool for teachers creating reading material, helping to determine if the reading level in which they are writing is ability level appropriate. This is also a great tool to use in determining the reading level of online text. Simply copy and paste the text in order to calculate the reading level.====