Literactive: "Teaching Children to Read"

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Literactive is an interactive website that is great for helping students learn to read and practice literacy skills. The activities can be used by single students or as a group or class on a Promethean or Smart Board. The websites provides resources and activities for teaching Reading and ESL. It is truly a great resource to be used in the classroom! It's even better because kids will love it!

Kerpoof!

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I think a very important part of teaching is taking advantage of all the new technology available to teachers. This includes many interactive, educational websites. One of these is Kerpoof. I am currently observing in a Kindergarten classroom in an inner city school. All the classrooms have Promethean Boards. We use ours a lot for instruction and to reinforce students' learning through practice activities. Kerpoof is one of the websites we use for spelling. However, there are many other activities that can be used on Kerpoof. There are also activities to practice other skills like writing and drawing. Teachers can also access lesson plans, activities, and other ideas for the classroom. It is a mostly free website. There are some parts of the website that require a membership fee. It is a great tool to use in the classroom, especially if a Promethean Board or Smart Board is available.

Guess My Number Games

Here are two games that you can play with your students to help them with their adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing of numbers. They are tricky because no matter what number they pick, you will always guess right, so you will always win!

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1st game:

1. Choose a number

2. Multiply it by 2

3. Add 10 to the number from step 2

4. Divide the number from step 3 by 2

5. Subtract original number from the
number in step 4

6. Answer will ALWAYS be 5

2nd game:

1. Pick any 2 digit number

2. Add the two digits together

3. Subtract the number in step 2 from the
original number

4. Add two digits of the number in step 3 together

5. Answer will ALWAYS be 9