Learn Direct

Learn Direct allows students to type in their name and be a character in the book. On each page there are options for customizing the story. Students can adjust pictures and certain sentences in throughout the story. After students have customized the book it can be read online, saved as a pdf or printed out. Learn Direct also features a fun little virtual world where students can play word and reading games. Students have to solve word puzzles to navigate through the world.
Save as a PDF and upload to your wiki.

Read, Read, Read - LEADERSHIP

Adding new books to my bookshelf!

Technology being used to foster the love of READING or READING fostering online communities?

" Information Literacy and Visual Literacy"

The 39 Clues, is a series of books published by Scholastic that combines a cool adventure story with an amazing interactive website and more.
Create an account, answer some questions to determine your ‘family’ to play the game. Your family is chosen based on your answers. You have to read the books to find clues and solve the puzzle, using your reasoning and resarching skills the entire time. My son just started book one....we will see how it goes from here. Feel free to test this site and let me know how it works for you.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK SEARCH WIDGET

This widget allows you to search for a book by title, author, or keyword. Once you enter the information you are taken to the Scholastic site...now you can see the reading level. The teacher can select how it is leveled; DRA, Lexile Format, Grade Equivalent, or Guided Reading. Teachers can also find similar books at the same reading level on that same page.

SCRAPBLOG

News from Scrapblog

Printing is Here!

You can now order high-quality keepsake books, softcover books, post cards and greeting cards of your scrapblogs.

One-of-a-Kind...There are no cookie-cutter templates or time consuming configurators to fiddle with, just open a scrapblog and click 'Order Prints'. It's that easy.
Not only can you print your scrapblogs for yourself, but with the holidays fast approaching create the perfect personalized gifts for your friends and family or create your holiday cards right in Scrapblog, the possibilities are truly endless. YES...my boys will be creating Christmas cards this year...INTERESTING! Oh, I can easily see Postcards being made when studying places around the world...cool.

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BIG UNIVERSE

Check this out...BigUniverse.com, (I found this from a blog that talked about LookyBook.com). It’s very similar in that you can READ children’s books online easily but, even MORE fun, you can actually CREATE YOUR OWN!

The site layout is extremely easy to navigate, with vibrant colors, logical design, friendly fonts, and a great balance of text and images. Signup is easy and free. The books are easily accessed and totally free.

It wasn’t designed for reading online, but great to use with a Lightsmith or an interactive whiteboard. You can quickly preview the entire book using the arrow keys or this handy thumbnail mode. This site lets you CREATE YOUR OWN books with a simple-to-use applet called the Big Universe Author(tm): This is GREAT!
Drag-and-Drop.... I can see upper elementary kids making their own books here EASILY.

UDL Book Builder

Welcome to the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Book Builder! Use this site to create, read, and share engaging digital books that build reading skills for students. Your universally designed books will engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills. You will need to create a login and password.