Ideas from a Reading Specialist–Current blogs consist of free online sites and programs for a reading classroom.
I used free rice.com when we had just a few minutes at the end of the hour and I needed a quick, engaging, educational activity to fill-in yet provide a meaningful experience. Freerice is a non-profit website which is owned and operated by the United Nations World Food Programme. Each time a question is answered […]
Awesome Program–It is hard to believe this is a freebie! To activate the website, you will need to sign up by going to the site (https://readtheory.org) or click here. Take a look at the About Us page and you will find the articles are written by professional writer, educators, and award winning teachers. Step One: […]
goformative.com is a free site for teachers to get live results from formative questions from a class. Formative has pre-made questions or teachers create questions and give students the “quick code” to direct them to the specific questions for their class. The exciting part that makes this program different is the LIVE RESULTS! 1. After going […]
Welcome to Reading Specialty! As a classroom reading teacher in a district with a significant financial and time commitment to technology, I have constantly been on the lookout for ways to combine the learning targets of my class with technology. I started this blog to showcase technology resources which are free (although some may have […]