Useful Websites and Links
Reading
Free Audio Books:
Thousands of free audio books that you can download in mp3, iPod and iTunes formats for your portable audio player. Audio previews, convenient categories ...
Short stories and novels for children, a multimedia reading community for children and parents. Children can read, hear and see stories before them.
The International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL) is a free online library of digitized children's books in many languages.
FACT MONSTER
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Writing
MakeBeliefsComix.com is an educational comic strip creator from author Bill Zimmerman. Create, print, email and post.
one word. so little time. ... simple. you'll see one word at the top of the following screen. you have sixty seconds to write about it. click 'go'
The Guide to Grammar and Writing contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, and tons of help! A great resource!!! You will become a stronger writer!
DANCE MAT TYPING
LITERATURE LEARNING GAMES
Paper Rater instantly evaluates the paper for plagiarism, grammar, style, word choice and vocabulary.
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Vocabulary
Wordia is a Free online dictionary with video examples from comedians, celebrities, sports-stars - and you! Your life, your words, your dictionary.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page.
VocabSushi is the premier Website for anyone looking to learn vocabulary and have fun doing it. It is ideal for students studying for standardized tests, and is also perfect for anyone looking to expand his or her vocabulary to communicate more precisely.
Word Generation - The program is strategically designed to create a coherent school-wide effort that gives students the sustained exposure to academic language they need for success in school—even while demanding relatively little (15 minutes, once a week) from any single subject area teacher.
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