Technology Tools for Reading and Writing Class Instruction

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In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.

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Daily news and current events for kids- from our magazines to your classroom

Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling.

Designed to meet the new, rigorous Standards. Build close reading and analysis skills with this dynamic digital program from Scholastic for Grades K-5.

Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum

The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers. Teachers and students can choose from several templates to publish class newspapers, informational brochures, and flyers announcing class events. Text added to the templates can be modified using a simple WYSIWYG editor, which allows students to choose text features, such as font size and color.

Bitstrips is your online funny pages. Turn yourself and your friends into cartoon characters, and create and share your own awesome comic strips!

Practice 1: Paraphrasing Topic Sentences Practice 2: Paraphrasing Passages Practice 3: Summarizing

ReadUps uses a web-based reading system for tablets and laptops. Create a ReadUp event and invite friends to read with you for a limited amount of time, sharing comments on paragraphs. It's free. Distributed. Ephemeral. Give people the URL to your ReadUp and you're good to go!

Use this reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect your scrapbook pages.

Flocabulary is a library of songs, videos and activities for K-12 online learning. Hundreds of thousands of teachers use Flocabulary's educational raps and teaching lesson plans to supplement their instruction and engage students. Our team of artists and educators is not only committed to raising test scores, but also to fostering a love of learning in every child.

Citation Machine helps students and professionals properly credit the information that they use. Cite your book in MLA format for free.

Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum