Resources

Remind (A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents.)

ReadWorks  Free, research-based K-6 reading comprehension lesson plans and
non-fiction reading passages & question sets. Common Core aligned, teacher & principal endorsed.

Teacher's Domain Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use  from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media
resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized
learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.

Kidblog Safe and Simple Blogs for Your
Students. Over 3 million K-12 students have a voice at Kidblog. Kidblog is trusted by teachers around the world. Set up your class for free in 20  seconds -
no student email addresses, no ads.


Kahoot is a free game-based classroom response system. Create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys (which are called Kahoots) using any device with a web browser… including a laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Chromebook, Windows Phone or PC and more.... 

Apps
ClassDojo  Save time by recording behaviors and accomplishments right in class, with just one click: NO extra data entry required.  Automatically send a weekly e-mail to parents who sign up.

Kidblog - Yep, kidblog has an app for the iPhone and the iPad.  You can use kidblog on the web or with a device.

NearPod Make your lectures more engaging through interactive multimedia presentations. Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves.  Click on the NearPod link above to go to the website and then you can go to the app store to download the app. 

Trading Cards With trading cards, your students can create a "card" about a fictional person, real person, fictional place, real place, object, event, or even a vocabulary word.  As they fill in the card, they are given guided questions to help them along.  You can have the students complete this activity online or with an app. Students will be able to print their final products. 
Videolicious With videolicious your students can quickly create a video. Instantly combine your videos, photos, music and stories into a stunning movie masterpiece. Just talk and tap to create the perfect video. Super fast and easy movie making -- now with incredible cinematic filters!
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

ASSESSMENT
Student responses are visually represented for multiple choice, true/false and Short Answer questions. For pre-planned activities a teacher can view reports online as a google spreadsheet or as an emailed Excel file.


To use socrative on the iPad, you'll need the student clicker app and the teacher clicker app.

If you don't want to use the iPad, you can take the students to the computer lab and use the socrative webpage.

Websites Worth Visiting

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything

In Kathy's guide you will find just about anything you want related to technology. 
Phonics SmartBoard lessons by scholastic:
Click here.
Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals—from organizing their thoughts to learning about language—all while having fun.
Use Veezzle to find free stock photos quickly and easily. The search engine displays the most relevant and absolutely free stock photos from a variety of respected sources.
 Open Clip Art Library is a gallery of more than 31,000 clip art images that have been released into the public domain. All of the clip art in the Open Clip Art Library can be downloaded and reused for free.