Recommended Links

 

 

Study Island:  You can practice math or reading skills.  Don’t forget your username and password. 

 

 

Links

Don Johnston

We use Write Outloud, CoWriter  in our classroom. This is a talking word processing program and CoWriter is a word prediction program. http://www.donjohnston.com

 

This company sells the AlphaSmart 3000 and the Neo that we use in our classroom
http://www.alphasmart.com

 

Letter Generator- this online guided lesson teaches students the parts of both a business and personal letter, then allows them to type and print their own using guided prompts.

http://wordweb.info      WordWeb is a quick and powerful international English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. It can be used to look up words from almost any program, showing definitions, synonyms and related words. It includes pronunciations and usage examples, and has helpful spelling and sounds-like links

Graphic Organizers

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ Houghton Mifflin has a variety of graphic organizers in PDF format.

Spelling

http://www.spellingcity.com   Spelling City provides auditory cues to help students learn to spell words; it has "teach me" "test me" and "play a game" modes. Appropriate for all ages. Use one of the lists provided or create your own list.

Math

http://www.k111.k12.il.us/king/math.htm#-----  King’s list of Online Math Activities

http://www.webmath.com/index.html -Webmath provides step-by-step descriptions of how to solve all kinds of math problems.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives  Interactive math tutorials and challenges including algebra, geometry, measurement, and probability, as well as lesson plans in Spanish and English.

Mathslice.com http://www.mathslice.com
Play online math games like Math Wheel (math terms), Jeopardy (addition), and Finding Nemo (direction) or generate custom math worksheets on topics such as telling time, fractions, money, and many more!

http://www.mathplayground.com/  Math Playground
http://www.MathPlayground.com  Math Playground is an educational site for elementary and middle school students where you can practice your math skills, play a logic game, and have some fun!

http://www.mathcats.com/http://www.mathcats.com
Emphasizes the logic and beauty of math, rather than drills and practice. Provides open-ended and playful explorations of important math concepts through on-line games, off-line crafts and interactive projects. Requires a free MicroWorlds download.

http://www.learningplanet.com/act/mayhem/index.asp  Very cute with music. Game that quizzes you on facts 1-12 in multiplication. It also has addition, subtraction, and division.

http://bigbrainz.com- Timez Attack video game on the computer. You can download the base version for free. Tests the times table 1-12

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SumSense/summulti.html   Students select how many problems they want. They place the correct problem with an answer in the blank.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools  Learning resources for home and school. Has all levels up through high school in all subject areas. Great site!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html

Outline maps, detailed or basic from National Geographic. This site also has activities on animals, vocabulary, health, science, math, and history.

http://www.microsoft.com/reader/default.mspx
 – Microsoft Reader Library Links to both free and pay-per-book sources of books formatted for easy reading using the free Microsoft Reader software. 
 

www.readplease.com  -  Text to speech program that will read any text you have on your computer. Text can also be converted into a MP3 or WAV audio file.

http://readingbar.com- ReadingBar for Internet Explorer

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ Houghton Mifflin has a variety of graphic organizers in PDF format.

Money activities

http://www.hbschool.com/activity/counting_money/

http://arcytech.org/java/money/index.html

Typing programs review and online

http://typingsoft.com/all_typing_tutors.htm

This is a great site for a free typing program. Students can learn typing as young as first grade. It would help your child to become familiar with the keyboard.

http://www.sense-lang.org/typing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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