Chapter 9 & 11 Websites

Chapter 9

Read Write Think: Read Write Think offers classroom resources, professional development tools, and parent and after-school resources. Under the Classroom Resources you can find lesson plans, interactive templates, printouts and more. For Professional Development, teachers can find event ideas, strategy guides and online events. Under Parents and After-School Resources there are many different activities that parents and teachers can use in all grades. I believe that this cite can be used for all grades. Some parts are more for younger grades because they are templates for teaching new concepts. I can use this in the classroom to help students understand different concepts in English such as poetry, letter writing, interview questions and more and will put the finish product in he correct format for them. This site offers many different lesson plans to help teach different english topic for all grades.

Center for Digital Story Telling: Center for Digital Story Telling offers different stories from around the world. You can create custom stories or use many of their stories. This can be a great tool for many different grades because students can create their own stories or a teach can use a story that fits into their lesson. This site offers many different stories from all over the world to give students and teachers a global prospective.

KidPub: KidPub is a site for students to improve their writing skills by having students share their work to an audience around the world. The only down side is that there is a one time fee. Not only can students post their essays, poems and reviews, but they can also write book and have them published on the website and be found on Amazon. I believe that this site would be good for middle school and high school grades because students will be able to not only get their work checked by other students or teacher, they will be able to see how other students are writing and how they could apply what they read to their own work. This site helps enforces good writing habits because they are posting their work for the world to see. Also, students can get and give feedback to other students so they can work on their grammar skills.

Shakespeare Online: Shakespeare Online offers plays, analysis, biography, and more. Students can read different types of plays and poems written by Shakespeare. Also, they can read about the background of Shakespeare's life and writings. This website can be used from about 7th grade to 12th grade. This website helps students gain an understanding for a writer to help them gain a deeper understanding for the author and his/her work.

Chapter 11

National Library of Virtual Manipulative: This site offers virtual manipulative for students. It has different visuals for grades pre-k through 12 and a various math topics. These different tools can help students gain a better understanding of the more abstract math that this hard to process. This online tool is great for all grades. The benefits of this tool are that students can have a visual to help them process the math. This site helps with technology integration in a math classroom because students will be able to find the virtual tool that best helps them understand the topic at hand. 

Leap Frog: Leap Frog is a educational learning system. It offers fun while reading or doing math. there are many different devices and games. These games are for pre-k through 4th grade. These games get helps kids find fun in learning giving them rewards in the games. Also, they can find the games that interest the, and reinforce what they are learning. Students can use these in the classroom as a reward once completing an assignment.