America Reads
http://www.ed.gov/americareads/
A grassroots national campaign
challenging every American to
help all our children learn to
read; site provides information
and resources for helping
children to learn to read.
Children's
Literature Web Guide (CLWG) by
D.K. Brown
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
Attempt to gather together and
categorize the growing number of
Internet resources related to
books for Children and Young
Adults.
Academy of
American Poets
http://www.poets.org/
Founded in 1934 to support
American poets at all stages of
their careers and to foster the
appreciation of contemporary
poetry, this is the largest
organization in the country
dedicated to the art of poetry.
Documents and bookmarks are available
on the site of Dominique Plourde,
Conseillère
pédagogique d'anglais, langue seconde,Commission scolaire
de Saint-Hyacinthe,
Agenda Web Org The
free English exercises from free websites.
Hundreds of free exercises to learn
English online: grammar, verbs,
vocabulary, listening, songs and videos.
Worksheets ..
Using
technology may seem difficult to implement when
we consider very young learners but who can deny
the fruitful results in integrating technology
and using some Web 2.0 tools in our English
lessons. Here comes my top 10 Web 2.0 tools for
tech savvy teachers of very young learners.
Vokiis
certainly the first tool that you can use with
your young learners. It's site where you can
create your animated and speaking avatar, with
your own voice or using your text-to speech
application. you can fully customize your
character and your voki character moves his head
and eyes with the movement of the mouse. Kids
love this!! You can use voki to introduce a new
topic, retell stories, use it as a class mascot,
let your students sing and let them practise
English. They do love to hear their voices. Here
is
a great post by
Shelly Terrellon
using vokis in classes and
a great videofrom
Russell Stannardhow to create
a voki avatar.
Voicethreadis the best
digital storytelling tool to use with your
students no matter what age they are. You create
a digital presentation and let the kids comment
on each picture by recording their voices,
writing a text or filming themselves. It's a
great way to retell the stories, create an
engaging speaking activity for the kids and
collaborate with other classes from all over the
world. Have a look at some of the examples
here.
Probably, all
of us know about
EduGlosgter.
It's an online
and an interactive poster where you can embed
text, video, audio, animated graphics, pictures
and music. Watch
Russell Stannard's videoon Glogster.
He has explained everything for us. Glogster can
be a great way to display information,
children's work. Kids love themselves watching
or hearing on a creative, animated and a
colourful outlet.
BubbleJoy
lets you create a video greeting card using your
own video. You can choose from different fun
card designs that will fit in to your topic.
MoshiMonsteris a cute game
to play with very young learners. They adapt
their own monster, give it a name and design its
color scheme. Monster makes new friends, chats
with others, play games and develop their own
personality through its growth. If your kids
like Moshi Monsters, they will love to give a
try to
Shidonni
where they can create their own animals and
watch them come alive. They will love to show
their animals and talk about their pets in
English lessons.
is another favourite of mine to use with young
learners. This site is similar to Voki whereas
the character that you can choose I limited to
animals and you can only use the text-to-speech
application.
It's still a great tool to surprise the
kids by making a cat talk and ask them
questions.
Kerpoofis
another site that is suitable to use with young
and very young learners. It's a creative way to
tell stories, create animated movies and
greeting cards.
StoryBird allows children to create their
own stories from scratch using their own text
and pictures. It's also collaborating so
children can start a story at home and you can
finish it when they come back to school.
Fotobabble is a way to
make photos talk. You just upload your pictures,
record your voice and publish it. It's another
way to motivate children to speak. They do love
and have fun while they are listening to their
own voices.
Party
Game Central is the largest party game
idea web site on the internet. Need
some creative party games? We've got
hundreds of great party game ideas for
kids and adults.
First school
is a web site for preschoolers. There is
a thematic section titled 'nursery
rhymes'. It also offers printable
activities for different themes that
could help you.
http://www.first-school.ws
Advanced listening practice regionalized
for accents- Check out the Canadian
resources! over 1,000 listening
activities with downloadable MP3 audio
files, transcripts and interactive
quizzes.
Each story
module on the site below includes the
full text of each story and interactive
activities to test comprehension. The
learner can choose to read the text,
listen to the text, or view the
broadcast through streaming video.
See
pictures move and hear them read, also see them
spelt . Teach your kids English using these
interactive ESL videos There are ESL lessons on
Clothes, Toys, Zoo animals, Birthday & numbers,
farm animals,transportation, weather,vegetables,
colors,and more
Kids.LearnOutLoud.com is your
audio and
video learning resource for Kids & Teens.
Browse thousands of Educational Audio Books,
MP3 Downloads, and Podcasts for Kids!
Watch PBS KIDS GO! shows
online. PBS KIDS GO! is the best online place
for kids to watch hundreds of full episodes and
clips from all your favorite shows. Watch
Arthur and
FETCH! With Ruff Ruffman full episodes.
Explore
dog videos in our channels and learn with
educational
music videos from The
Electric Company.
ITUNES
provides not only music but tons of
free video podcasts to download and use in class
or share with your students on their personal
video players.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
SUGGESTION: set up a blog such as
http://www.blogger.com from Google where you
can embed or link to videos and even add your
suggestions for related activities, vocabulary
and functional language. To embed either copy
and paste the embed text from the YouTube site
for the video you want to share or using an
add-on, you can right click on a video and send
it to your blog in 1, 2, 3!
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