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Here are some helpful web-based activities for your students to use. Many of these websites also work great on a Smartboard or a Touch Window. Feel free to also check out my delicious page (http://delicious.com/rkuberry/) for more online resources.

Check back frequently as there is always more to come!!

= Typing: =
 * Outstanding handout (compiled by HIAT and Montgomery County Public Schools) that reviews different typing websites: [[file:keyboarding_comparison_chart.doc]]
 * Teacher's Blog comparing different typing website: []
 * [] : site developed by the BBC to teach typing. The program has four levels and three stages within each level. Fun characters and sounds.
 * [] : This site has many different fun games targeting letters, letter combination, and words.
 * [] : Great all levels online typing course. Course combines standard keyboard instruction with fun online games.
 * [] : This website has tons of free online games for typing. For most games, you can choose the letters that you want to target. Great graphics and sound effects.
 * [] : Another online typing game website with tons of options. For most games, you can either select the letters to be targeted or the skill level (easy, medium, hard).
 * [] : This site combines a text tutorial with a typing practice. You can select individual lessons that align with the keys that you want to practice.
 * [] : The site allows you to select the set of letters that you want to target. Site collects data on WPM and errors.
 * [] : This site allows you to choose beginning, intermediate or advanced lessons. Within each category, you can also choose specific lessons. The site collects data on WPM and errors.
 * [] : This site allows you to choose the level of practice and also the type of text. You can input your own text to practice. This site also measures speed and the time spent on the program.
 * [] : This website gives you quick, useful typing practice. You can choose to type one letter at a time, multiple letters, or words. You can also select how long you would like to practice.
 * [] : This site has a typing tutor and fun typing games.
 * [] : Fun games for young students.

= Early Learning Activities (that work well with a Touch Window): = > students already know and like. >> music, coloring pictures, creating crazy creatures, etc…
 * [] - Priory Wood's Resources Page offers excellent exciting and motivating cause and effect activities related to current children's pop culture (like Toy Story)
 * [] - Great resource for free cause and effect activities
 * [] - excellent new educational games
 * [] - website by Crick (the makers of Clicker 5) including many math activities such as sequencing and patterning
 * [] - Clifford games including stories and CVC words
 * [|http://www.pbskids.org] - Great resource for games that align with the stories and characters
 * The Clifford site has a letter activity that reads sentences and allows students to match identical letters ([])
 * The Big Big World site has a great activity for making music and excellent talking storybooks ([])
 * [|http://www.starfall.com] - Great “learning to read” website with nice seasonal activities
 * The “ABC” section offers great cause and effect activities for each letter. These activities also target more advanced skills such as “click and drag”.
 * The “Learn to Read” section has great short stories that you can select based on word families that your student is targeting. The student can click on an individual word to hear it sounded-out.
 * [] - Excellent website for cause and effect activities.
 * “Coloring book” activity where the student can pick a color and then color in the pictures ([])
 * “Pop the Bubble” activity can work on accuracy and speed with the Touch Window ([])
 * “Games” section offers games for students of all ages
 * “Creative Play” section offers tons of creative activities like making

= ELA: =
 * [] - letter based activities including activities that supplement the "Writing without Tears" curriculum
 * [] - letter sorting activity
 * [|http://www.starfall.com] - early literacy activities including books and letter activities
 * [] - free online storybooks and educational games
 * [] - variety of "graded" ELA skills
 * [] - online educational games by the creators of Earobics
 * [] - Input spelling lists and then "Test Me", "Teach Me", or "Play a Game"
 * [] - Idiom dictionary!


 * Digital text and books:
 * see the "Finding Digital Text" page

= Math: =
 * [] - Digital dictionary that's easy to search and provides visuals for all math terms
 * [|http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/protractor.html]- Digital protractor activities including making and measuring angles
 * [] - Visual supports to help solve word problems
 * [] - US Mint site that provides many money based activities for children
 * [] - arcade style math games
 * [] - Math activities and lessons aligned to the NCTM’s Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
 * [] - National Library for Virtual (Math) Manipulative
 * [] and [] and [] : Great sites with tons of different math activities and games. There are some ads, so watch closely.

= Art and Music: =
 * [] - as a musical sketch pad when you draw and then it plays your art as music!
 * [] - fun random visuals
 * [] - create Picasso paintings
 * [] - outstanding moving visual art activity where students can create their own art
 * [] - easy to use, cause and effect, drawing tool to create Jackson Pollock paintings
 * [] - create your own art then hang it in a gallery!
 * [] - create an errorless mandala and focus on patterning
 * [] - visit the Museum of Modern Art in NYC without leaving home!

= Multiple Curriculum Areas: =
 * [] - Free and by subscription only movies and activities for all areas of the curriculum
 * [] - outstanding resource that lists TONS of online resources and groups them by curriculum area and/or grade