Reading
ABCMouse.com:
For Pre-School through Kinder students to access an online curriculum. 6 different levels with many interactive lessons--reading, phonics, as well as shapes, counting, and numbers.
MeeGenius:
Online collection of picture books that students read independently or a read along. Books can be personalized, questions asked after reading, playback, highlighting of vocabulary, etc.
Skype and Author Network:
Connections to authors, books, and other students through virtual visits.
Story Time for Me:
Collection of digital children's books for K-2. Illustrations, animation, and narration complete with sound effects and music.
Books Should Be Free:
Download and listen to audio books for free from the public domain. Formats available: MP3, iPod, or iTunes format.
Inside story flashcards:
Vocabulary flashcards with accompanying pictures. The pictures are appropriate for the words they are describing and offer visual to associate with the word. Students can click on a speaker icon for audio of the word and can choose to show or hide the definition. Students can also choose words at four different levels: Basic (includes words like seven, comb, typewriter); Easy (includes words like attire, inclined, endorsement); Medium (includes words like prodigy, monochrome, dank) and Hard (includes words like crepuscular, bedizened, atavistic).
Writing
Save the Words:
A site that celebrates words by “saving” words that have become “forgotten” in the English language.
Grammaropolis:
A site that teaches students parts of speech through the use of character and story.
Lexipedia:
Visual dictionary and thesaurus.
Figment: Writing community for students:
Writing community for students 13 years and older.
Tag Galaxy:
Explore relationships between words and ideas as well as view pictures related to the word.
eduify:
An online writing coach with tutorials, citing sources, and store, share, edit docs.
Current.im:
A private daily journal. 140 characters.
Writing Prompts Tumblr:
Prompts are pictures coupled with a text prompt that will get your students creativity flowing.
Digital Story Telling
Moglue:
Create interactive ebooks and share them as apps for iPads, iPhones, or the iPod Touch
Draw a Stickman:
Get creative juices flowing, as students must draw a stickman, who comes to life and is faced with challenges. Students must respond to the prompts as a mini interactive story unfolds with students creating the moral at the end.
Zimmer Twins:
Student create cartoons from a story starter based on two twins with psychic powers
Stage’d:
Stage’d is a seriously fun creation tool, students are going to love directing their own 3-d comic plays.
Animoto:
Free 30-second videos that use images, songs, and text.
DomoAnimate:
Free animation website where students create animations with backdrops, characters, props, music, etc.
Go Animate 4 Schools:
Free animation website where students create animations with backdrops, characters, props, music, etc.
Kerpoof:
Create picture and story books.
Flixtime:
Online tool that lets students create 60 second video slideshows.
Photovisi:
Online photo collage creation tool.
Tiki-Toki:
Web-based, multimedia timeline creator where students can incorporate Flickr, YouTube, or Vimeo.
Flipsnack:
Turn pdfs into an online flip book. Flipbooks can be embedded into blogs, wikis, or websites.