online interactive sites software hardware
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Strategies for decoding |
1.KidsClick! A whole bunch of alphabet sites are listed here. | 2.Words in a Word Make your own Making Words project!!
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| 4.Read Write & Type
by The Learning Company. Phonics, spelling, typing, and English are all pulled together. |
5.Create a template to fill in missing initial or ending sounds, or to add an ending to a list of words (-ing, -ed, -s, -es) |
6.Use a graphics program to sort pictures or words in some way (beginning sound, vowel sounds, one syllables, etc)
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| 7.Students can write their names in KidPix, then find several stamps of things they like or that begin with the same sound as their name or that matches the sound of each letter in their name. | 8.In any word processing program, change all vowels to red, or change all long vowels to red, all short vowels to blue, all silent vowels to yellow, etc. | |||
| 9.Set up a database of word families. Students can add to it as they discover more words in each family. | 10.Puzzlemaker.com
Make your own wordsearches, crossword puzzles, mazes |
11.Korky's
Cool Rhyme Machine Type in your name & you'll get a poem emphasizing the initial letter |
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Language conventions |
Choose a word to finish the sentence |
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Type in parts of speech to finish a story |
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15.In any word processing program, add punctuation to teacher’s text, or bold all nouns, italicize verbs, underline adjectives, etc |
16.Create a table to record contractions or compound words. | |||
| 17.Create a slideshow to illustrate compound words, rhyming words, word families, action words, parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, or to create alliterations (Molly makes many muffins Monday for munching.) | ||||
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Strategies for constructing meaning
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Mother Goose and others |
Put in the correct words |
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Play against the computer |
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| 21.Students can create a classroom dictionary based on current unit study. Set up a table – the first column for the word, second for definition, and third for an illustration. | 22.Practice writing your spelling words in a word processing program. Once they are written, students can explore different fonts, sizes, colors, bold, italicize, click and drag, etc. |
23.Audiotape kids reading at the beginning of the year, middle, and end of the year. Share with parents at conferences and send home at the end of the year. |
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| 24.Write a complete sentence to accompany
an illustration. |
25.Schoolnotes.com Create online homework pages and flashcards |
26.Create a slideshow using only text. Record yourself reading each slide. Students can then illustrate. | ||
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28.Introduce a word a day with Dorling Kindersley's My First Incredible Amazing Dictionary. Each morning open the dictionary and choose a random word. Students will see and hear the word. Have them define the word, and then show them the program’s definition. | 29.Create your own flashcards: KidPix, Hyperstudio, and Powerpoint all allow you to create a slideshow with a word on each slide. You can even set the timing for how fast/slow you want the words to appear, or set for manual progress. | ||
| 30.Take digital
pix of kids on the playground, in the lunchroom, in the classroom,
in art, music, etc. Students can dictate phrases
of things they see in the picture. When you have
7 or 8 phrases, have students re-order them to create a poem. Don’t forget to use the main idea of the picture
as the title! |
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Use the English language effectively
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Make your own or play the computer |
Something is wrong with one of these words |
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| 34.Video tape kids using good reading strategies. Share this with the rest of the class. Or kids can work together to create a reading strategies tape: What we do to figure out a word. | 35.Write a rebus story with blank spaces for students to fill in words or stamps or clipart. Or kids can dictate a story, and add stamps in place of words. | 36.Create a slideshow to develop a
vocabulary of feelings. Each slide depicts a
feeling and an example of when they experienced it. “I
got mad when … But then I…” |
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37.Use a 35mm camera to take pictures of your kids. This gives kids manipulatives to match pictures to words that illustrate: action words (kids running, jumping, sitting, etc). names of students with their pictures numbers
of students together (1 student, 2, 3,….) position words (on the monkey bars, at the top of the slide, etc.) shapes
(4 kids laying on the floor in the shape of a square or circle) color words (each child holds a 12"X18" sheet of different colored construction paper). |
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Select & respond to a variety of texts |
Choose an adventure |
39.Book
Adventure Read a book & answer questions |
40.Weekly Reader
Writing, games, reading |
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| 41.Small groups can work together to create an overhead story. Illustrate the beginning, middle & end of the story on transparencies. Use to illustrate their Book Talk. | 42.Insert digital pictures of each student into a drawing program. Students can edit their picture to make themselves into a story character. Add written (or dictated) 4 or 5 characteristics of their character. | 43.Kids can create costumes & a backdrop for a retelling. Take digital pix of kids as characters illustrating the retelling. Create a slideshow with text . Or print out & assemble as books. | ||
| 44.Once a month, have kids write book reviews about several favorite books. Vote on the class favorites & send the top 3 stories & reviews to the class website. | 45.Create a story map using pictures or words to sequence the story in pre-drawn rectangles connected by arrows. | 46.Write a sentence or 2 from a story on several transparencies. Students illustrate. Have them work together to put the story into correct order. | ||
| 47.Create a Venn diagram template. Either click & drag phrases or write their own to compare 2 stories or characters . | ||||
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Explore works of different authors & speakers |
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| 51.Create an Author bookmark (1 of 3 columns in landscape view). Place the author's name at the top, then list stories/books by that author. Print out to use, or modify by changing the color, font, or bold each story as it is read. | 52. One student can start a story by entering text on an Alphasmart, then pass it to a 2nd student who continues, etc. | |||
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Strategies to construct meaning |
Short, long vowels, poems, animations |
Make a set with this demo |
Phonological awareness |
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| 56.KidPix Deluxe will read whatever is written before it is permanently pasted into the drawing. |
Create your own online quizzes |
Construct your own online quizzes |
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Genre |
Text & animation, but no sound |
Read & listen about 3 occupations |
Choose a character, listen to the story & write a response. |
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| 62.Create a book report template. When students have finished a story, they call up the template & enter their information - name, title, author, genre, & their feelings about the story. | 63.Students can put together a slideshow that lists characters, genre, main events, and 3 details, OR title, author beginning, middle & end of story, OR retell story with characters & word balloons. | 64.In KidPix, write the words to a well known song (a line or two on each slide). Have a small group illustrate each slide. When finished, record the whole class singing the words on each slide. | ||
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65.Create a template of several boxes with "guide words". Students can move words to the appropriate "page". |
66.At the end of each month, ask the class to help put together a “diary” page recording speakers, field trips, birthdays, activities, units, etc. By the end of the year, you’ll have a great timeline! |
Send an e-card to your class - great calendar here. Or send a birthday e-card to students. |
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Finding themes |
One does not belong |
Of kids, by kids, for kids |
A few stories for & by kids (some with audio) |
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| 71.Check out the PBS site for some wonderful reading/writing programs such as Wishbone and Arthur. Check the taping rights to PBS programs. | 72.Create a slideshow of jokes and
riddles. Write the riddle on one page and the
answer on the next. |
73.Use KidPix,
Hyperstudio, or
Powerpoint to create an ABC book. Each
student can illustrate a letter of the alphabet based on a theme of your
choice (school, oceans, animals, foods, etc) |
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Collected by a teacher |
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Apply text ideas to their lives |
Read a book, email the characters |
Personalize a story |
Respond to a weekly question |
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| 78.If your
vcr/tv is networked to other classrooms, have kids create advertising
posters for their play and broadcast days/times. Broadcast
your video version of your play/poetry reading/reader’s theater/etc. at specific
times during the day for other classes to view when it’s convenient for them.
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79.Practice listening/speaking skills
by having a student phone a local bank for the
current weather temp and forecast and then reporting to the class. |
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| 80.To reinforce social skill concepts,
pick a social skill (eg controlling anger), and students illustrate steps
to take when you get angry. |
81.Send an email birthday card on each student's birthday. Send it to the classroom email address, so that each student receives their card, even if they are not online at home. Read aloud as part of your birthday celebration and add to your classroom web page! | |||
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Classroom keypal exchange program |
Internet projects |
84.Create a slideshow to illustrate
how to do something, step by step. |
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Define & investigate important issues & problems |
Topic websites collected by librarians |
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Safely research the web |
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| 88.Create a slideshow to publish student stories or a report | 89.Illustrate a concept such as “What is Science” | 90.Show kids how to create a page about themselves for a Class Slideshow entitled “All About Us”. | ||
| 91.Publish student stories in The Amazing Writing Machine (Broderbund), KidWorks Deluxe, or enter text in a word processing
program. Print out and have students create their
own illustrations. |
92. Refdesk.com
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, online newspapers, maps, you name it! |
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Enjoy & evaluate texts |
Book reviews by kids |
Stories by theme to read to kids |
Do Spiders Live on the World Wide Web? |
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| 96.Use a microphone with your cassette recorder or a karaoke machine for sharing writing, news, show & tell, reader’s theater, etc. | 97.Audiotape kids’ Reader’s Theater productions. Make copies to send home for parents to enjoy. | 98.There are lots of good software programs that will “read” books to kids, such as Living Books. Some are fiction, others non fiction. Balance your purchases. | ||
| 99.Tape
kids reading their published stories. Have them
create some sort of signal to turn the page. Or have other adults read stories (eg. the principal, bus drivers,
safety patrols, custodian, etc). Place tapes & books in the listening
center. |
100.Use a video
camera to record the final production of your class play. Make a copy, and select two students to take home
to share with families. Send along a Response
Book. The next day they can share their families’
reactions to the videotape, and pass the video and book along to two other
students. Make sure you have a backup copy in
case the video gets lost! |
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101.Create a hotlist that students may access at center time or when they have finished a computer assignment |
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But wait! There's more...
Bonus sites!!
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Teachers.Net Chatboard |
Teachers.Net Mailring
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ProTeacher Collection of primary language arts sites - lots of useful ideas and more grade level chatboards
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Patti's Electronic Classroom Lesson plans, discussion area, experts in K-3 Reading strategies |
Handwriting Worksheets D'Nealian, Traditional, Manuscript & Cursive |
Author Birthday Calendars for your desktop Complete with directions for downloading |
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School-Home Links Resource for getting the family involved!!! |
Between the Lions PBS program for beginning readers |
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