Digital+Recourse+Library+LART3005

Reading Resources:
//1. PebbleGo | Capstone Digital//. Capston Digital, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. . -Students can use this search engine to research any topic that they may be learning about it. I like it because it is very child friendly and provides information that students can understand. //2. Storyline Online//. SAG Foundation, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. . -This site it a great reading recourse where students can not only listen to books being read, but also see them being read by the reader. I like that it takes classic books that students are using in their classroom and allows them to hear them read again to understand better fluency. This would a great recourse to use during Daily 5. //3. TumbleBooks - EBooks for EKids!// N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. . -This site, like Storyline Online, is a great recourse to let students listen to books being read. This site does require a membership, but you be a good activity to have in Daily 5. It provides different books, so the students have a variety to choose from. 4. //National Geographic//. National Geographic Society, n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2013. . -This site is a recourse that can be used for a number of different content areas. For reading, the students can read from kid friendly articles that cover a wide variety of topics. This would be a good recourse to use to develop reading skills across content areas. 5. //Reading Brain//. Pearson Education, Inc., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2013. . -This is a fun website that students will love going to. Students can do many activities here from reading full books like __Diary of a Wimpy Kid__ to playing word games like Mad Libs. 6. //PBS KIDS//. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Dec. 2013. . -This is a good recourse to use in Kindergarten and maybe First grade. Here students can play games that work on reading skills that revolve around the books that they read and love, such as the __Arthur__ series. 7. //Wonderopolis | Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease//. National Center for Families Learning, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. . -Every day this website provide a new "wonder of the world" that are cross curricular. I think this would be a great activity for kids to every day maybe as a brain break, where students can check the wonder of the day. Reading the article works on their reading skills and it allows you to explore the wonder even further that would be great to use a project.

Spelling Resources:
//8. Spelling & Vocabulary Website: SpellingCity//. VocabularySpellingCity, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2013. . -This Website is a great recourse for students to use to practice their spelling. Students can type in their class's spelling words for the week and it will give them a number of different free activities that they can do for practice. //9. LearnThatWord//. LearnThat Foundation, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. . -This website would be great to use especially with older students. It works on helping students learn how to spell words correctly instead of just storing them into their short term memory. This would be a cool online activity to use during Daily 5 or any Word Work time.

Writing Resources:
10. //Free Interactive English Games - Fun Learning Activities for Students//. Fun English Games, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. . -This website has tons of different games to help students with their writing. I think that this is a very different approach to writing, and because writing is generally what students like the least, it would be a great way to get students excited to write! This could easily be used in Work on Writing time during Daily 5.