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- A great site to use for "kid blogging" in your
classroom. http://kidblog.org
- Great Free site for checking a paper's grammar,
plagiarism, and more.
- grammarly.com
Is a great site for checking grammar, plagiarism, and more. Not free,
but well worth the cost for several to use.
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Power
Proofreading-- a great game-like site for Grades 2-12 for practicing proof
reading skills.
Younger Readers.
Witty Comics
is a great site for kids to create their own cartoon strip. Free, fun, and
great for creativity. Also check out
http://www.toondoo.com/ ,
http://comiqs.com/ , http://pixton.com
(Cost: Free—you must register) Bitstrips
(Cost: Free—you must register) and
Web Comic
Strip Creator - Chogger.
http://blabberize.com/ a cool site to create your own talking picture.
PaperRater
is a great free resource to check grammer, spelling, plagiarism detection
and more.
Awesome Stories
web site maintains a site consisting of a variety of informational stories.
A great
Children's Literature site lists authors and
illustrators on the web.
Author and Illustrators
- Find out more about your favorite author or illustrator.
Nice
site with links to Reading resources.
Younger Readers.
Kidsread - If you love to read,
check out this website.
EDSITEment -- The Best of the Humanities on the
Web. Make sure to look at the interactive lessons!
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
KidAuthors.com
provides a nice site for students to safely publish their work.
http://www.kidauthors.com/
Put in your words and this
site makes a 3-line handwriting practice worksheet for you!
(For Lower Elementary use.)
Nice
site for Elementary for creating tracing paper for writing letters,
etc...
Grammar slammer
is a great English resource.
As a communications teacher sometimes it is tricky to
find tangible sites that tie directly to curriculum. If you ever have
another Drama teacher direct them to this site! Unbelievable for accents and
dialect of English.
http://web.ku.edu/idea/
Spellingcity.com
is an excellent site for spelling bee preparation. Also includes a great
"Teach Me" function that spells out the word using visual and auditory input
to improve retention.
Common errors in the English Useage.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Diigo, allows you to
annotate, archive, bookmarks, and organize web sites. Has a toolbar
for assisting with this too.
Mixbook's education
program allows for creating online books for free. (Recommended by other
educators. Similar sites like Shutterfly will do the same thing too.)
Plagium - paste in text and check for
plagiarism
Readability- This
fantastic tool allows you to capture ONLY the text from a website, getting
rid of the clutter! (Works on pages with articles, does
not work well on some home pages.) Also
PDFmyURL.com is a nice tool for turning a web site into a pdf file.
Put both of these on your favorite bar for some great tools.
Voice Thread: http://www.voicethread.com
~ online media album, sometimes called a “group audio blog.” Can contain a
variety of media, such as images, documents, videos or a presentation.
Viewers can comment in different ways - voice, text, MP3 file, or webcam
video. VoiceThread videos can be exported to a movie for offline use on a
DVD or video-enabled MP3 player. Handout on Voice Thread
Voice Thread at PLV.doc
Spelling City: http://www.spellingcity.com
Penzu: http://penzu.com/ - Simple online
journaling! To set up account you will need an e-mail address. Journals can
be shared with others or set to private.
Newspaper Clipping
Generator -
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp (To Cool!!
Have fun.)
My StoryMaker -
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/ (Great for
Elementary kids.)
Edublog (Great for
blogging in education.)
Great site for making easy online story books.
http://storybird.com/
Book adventure encourages
reading (K-8) by allowing student to make a personalized reading list (out
of more than 4000 titles) and then provides a quiz about each book the
student has chosen.
http://librophile.com/ has a lot of free audio books available.
Myths and Legends. This site is for
pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling.
Writing activities and text organizers to help students with writing.
http://www.writingfun.com/
Barnes and Noble's
TikaTok site allows kids to
create some online books.
Do you know any of these uncommon words? Cool site!
http://www.savethewords.org/ What a fun way to teach more vocabulary.
Little Bird Tales is
a nice site intended for younger students to use to create digital stories.
Little Bird Tales walks users through each step of creating a multimedia
story. Users can upload images, draw images, or record from their webcams.
Stories can be written with text or narrated by students using microphones
connected to their computers. Watch the video below to learn more about Little
Bird Tales. This
site is very cute, and pretty user friendly. Here's an example story http://littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/119/
"...kids have always loved reading to each other and are transfixed when
other children read them stories. They are also obsessed with the
internet and will make their way to youtube any time they get their
hands on a computer.We thought a website that had a continuous flow of
new stories, read aloud by kids, would make a healthier destination than
so much of the stuff out there." You can use this site for
enjoyment-kids listening to other kids read (they have really cute
accents too). Or, you can have kids create their own smories to share
with parents and families, on your website, or with students next year.
Story Book Jumper:
http://www.storyjumper.com/ Create a book on-line that can be viewed,
printed or ordered by parents.
WRITING LINKS
Some Favorite Writing Sites (Added May 2010)
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