Elementary+Coaching+resources

www.molishus.wikispaces.com-- comics in the classroom

www.omgpopculture.wikispaces.com pop culture wiki--tons of resources

 www.civilwarsallie.wikispaces.com amazing site with travelling bear who helps to teach about the civil war http://patriotpete.com-- companion site to Civil War Sallie. Pete the dog travels around learning about patriotism.

[|www.blabberize.com]-- site where you can make any picture "talk"

[|www.microsoftphotostory.com]-- free download excellent for making digital stories

[|www.voki.com]-- talking avatars

www.piic21stcentury.wikispaces.com-- resource page has a number of "how to" sites for using photo story as well as tools you can use to help students plan digital story projects.

[] --Wiki space with links to National Archives and Documents Teach

http://beyondcore4.wikispaces.com/ -- Wiki designed by coaches in IU4 (Tracy at Mercer and Laura at Neshannock) for several statewide presentations on projects involving elective teachers in supporting content and literacy standards across the curriculum.

[]-- great site for digital storytelling and publishing student work

[]-- list of authors who will SKYPE with your class or book club for free. = Readilicious- great resource for projects, links and tech tools = =[] Click under Activities for Picture Book Maker (creates a foldable tiny book), and many more.=

=[] Find "Storymaker" or "TumbleBooks" (will read outloud to you).=

[] Will take you on virtual tours around the world.

[] Word Generation focuses on vocabulary. Increased student vocabulary helps with reading accuracy, fluency, syntax issues, background knowledge, and comprehension. Activities are provided for the content area teachers highlight authentic uses of the target words in their subject matter. These activities link to standards and skills expected of students within the various content areas (e.g., interpreting a bar graph on the incidence of obesity as a math activity, debating the censorship question as a social studies activity, analyzing the use of nonliteral language in hip-hop lyrics as an English Language Arts activity).