On leave till 4 Jan 2010

I know I've been away for a while but for a good reason: I'm on leave till Jan 4! I'll be back in a couple of weeks with more resources!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Reading Rockets site

I'm very interested in teaching reading and so I'm always looking for sites with extra materials, theory and pieces of advice on how to approach the teaching of reading in the early years. I'm also a fan of phoics and so anything involving phonics also catches my attention.

This is a nice site with all of the above. Here's the link:

http://www.readingrockets.org/

English spelling games - try it out!

This is a very nice site from the Woodlands Junior School to get ideas from or to use with the whole class. Lots of spelling games and activities to use with the little ones (K1, K2) and lower primary. Give it a try. Here's the link:

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html#5

Scholastic Printables - yes, please!

This is a cool site with lots of resources (printables) - not very green if you ask me, but with lots of materials - some are nicer than others but readily available so this could translate into time saving.

Here's the link:

http://printables.scholastic.com/printables/home/?OS_ID=OS6-Google-Printables-Printables-flash_cards-Broad

Clever island - lots of extra ideas and games ages 3-8

This is a nice site with lost of games and activities in different areas of leanring and not only on vocabulary. Nice games and content.

Click on the picture to follow the link to the site.

Puzzle maker - yay!

This is a free puzzle making tool which is simple to use and can help you add a little variety to the way you approach the teaching of vocabulary.

You can also make word searches, double puzzles, fallen phrases, math squares, mazes, letter tiles, cryptograms, number blocks and hidden messages.

Here's the link to the site:

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp

E-learning for kids!!!

My friend Michaela just told me about this site and it rocks. Lost of ideas for those teaching or working with kids. Check it out!!! And here's the link:

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/courses.html