Your students on their road to independence!

How to make your own toolkit!

 

 

 

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Links

My Absolute Favorite!! MARVEL-This is a link for educators and students in Maine only.

This is an online Virtual Library of many databases, newspapers, magazine and journals.

 

Spelling Online Games

Catch the Spelling.

Writing Tools.

Speak and Spell- it is hard to understand some words but fun.

Grammar , parts of speech.

elibs- the old MadLibs goes 21st Century

 

Graphic Organizers

Write design online

Here you will find many different kinds of graphic organizers to print out and use.

Eduplace Graphic organizers to print

Here you have lots of choices to print out some organizers.

SCORE, California Graphic Organizers

Here is a list of more, you can click the links to print.

Freemind- is on the ibooks, plus it is free. Here are some great videos on how to use this.

Gliffy, allows you to work online and save/embed your diagram.

 

OWL, online writing lab,a great teacher/parent resource.

Read Write Think.- This one is the most comprehensive and has online interactive resources!

Thinktank-I like the thinktank where you and a student can set up a research topic with help in the organizational part.

Persuadestar-I tried the persuadestar and developed a piece of writing using the prompts. My code is 53HKFQB, capitals are necessary. My student is 1student_683R, check out the work I did.

 

21st Century Literacies a great site with tons of resources sponsored by ATT.

ABC's of the Writing Process- a treasure trove of great material.

Great stuff from the Teacher Vision

Graphic organizers for math, reading , content area!

A great resource of ebooks for K-12- ebooks are electronic books where the student can view the book while listening through the computer.

Make your own flashcards!

Free online flash card maker and many other games.

http://www.studystack.com/

Good luck. You will need to register using your email address, a log in user name and password.

 

Your computer:

1. For the Mac- using Safari as your browser bookmark these pages:

• http://ghotit.com/home.shtml by using this page you can type a sentence or copy a passage and get it spellchecked, and text to speech read back to you.

1. For the PC- using Internet Explorer as your browser bookmark these pages:

• http://ghotit.com/home.shtml-by using this page you can type a sentence or copy a passage and get it spellchecked, and text to speech read back to you.

 

For all Computers, multi-platform.

You will need to register for this service, but it will become the backbone whenever you or your students are using the Internet to research.

• http://cst.cast.org/cst/auth-login- login and create an online way to keep track of your research Strategy Tutor is a web-based tool designed to support students and teachers doing reading and research on the internet. Strategy Tutor helps students read, research, collect and understand information better and more efficiently. For teachers, Strategy Tutor provides a way to easily create web-based lessons embedded with research-based, highly effective learning strategy and vocabulary supports.

Younger students

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

 

ReadtheWEB

http://www.readthewords.com/