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Starfall. Barnyard Babies. 10 Word Cloud Generators You Have Probably Never Tried. A few days back, we looked at five great ways to incorporate word cloud generators into your classroom.

10 Word Cloud Generators You Have Probably Never Tried

There are obviously many more uses out there for them – but that is a discussion for another post. We’ve mentioned most of these before – in a post from way back when – so I won’t go into too much detail about each individual one, but we’ve added a few notable ones to the list. (Of note, the list is in no particular order). The vast majority of them work the same: plug your text into the box, select a few options, and you’ve got yourself a word cloud. Some offer more options than others, some offer word clouds with words going in any and all directions, some offer shapes, others create much simpler word clouds. If you do a quick search for word cloud, you’ll see so many different types. Do you have a favorite word cloud generator from the list below? Astronomy For Kids.

Funbrain. Kids - Reading Planet Home. Complete Library of Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project. GrimmFairyTales.com. Children's Stories Online - Free Children's Books for All Ages.

Free eBook Library. Welcome to our free eBooks collection, developed for children aged 3–11 years old.

Free eBook Library

We are making even more eBooks available here, for the duration of UK school closures, so that your child has more to read. If you'd like to learn more about how to support your child's reading, visit our Reading pages. All our eBooks are tablet-friendly. Just register or log in above to start reading. New users: please activate your registration by clicking the link in your confirmation email. Clifford Interactive Storybooks Home. Mercer Mayer: Storytime. E-Books. Game-based blended learning & classroom response system. Socrative. Felt Board - Mother Goose on the Loose. Based on the award-winning early literacy program by Dr.

Felt Board - Mother Goose on the Loose

Betsy Diamant-Cohen, Mother Goose on the Loose, and developed by the creators of the original Felt Board app, Felt Board – Mother Goose on the Loose can be used by parents and children at home, in early childhood programs, and by librarians as a supplement to the Mother Goose on the Loose parent-toddler program. Help Little Bo Peep find her lost sheep and dance them around the screen together in time to the music. Guide Jack and Jill up and down the hill and march with Grand Old Duke of York. Sound effect buttons like rhythm sticks, rattles and a rain stick are included for young children to interact with songs and rhymes as they are played. Songs and rhymes include: Old Mother Goose, Goosey Goosey Gander, Jack and Jill, Jack Be Nimble, 2 Little Monkeys, 5 Fat Sausages, Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, Little Miss Muffet, Hickory Dickory Dock, Eency Weency Spider, Row Row Row Your Boat, and more. Testimonials. Mrs Lodge's Library. Read to me - Las Vegas.

11 Hilarious Hoax Sites to Test Website Evaluation. In this day and age, where anyone with access to the internet can create a website, it is critical that we as educators teach our students how to evaluate web content.

11 Hilarious Hoax Sites to Test Website Evaluation

There are some great resources available for educating students on this matter, such as Kathy Schrock’s Five W’s of Website Evaluation or the University of Southern Maine’s Checklist for Evaluating Websites. Along with checklists and articles, you will also find wonderfully funny hoax websites, aimed at testing readers on their ability to evaluate websites. These hoax sites are a great way to bring humor and hands-on evaluation into your classroom, and test your students’ web resource evaluation IQ! Check out these 11 example hoax sites for use in your own classrooms: Of all of these, my favorite is always the Dihydrogen Monoxide website, which aims to ban dihydrogen monoxide and talks in detail about its dangers.

KidsClick! Web Search. Introducing the YouTube Kids app. Storybird - Artful Storytelling. National Geographic Young Explorer (Student Magazine) AndersenFairyTales.com. Folk Tales and Fables. Come play again later!

Folk Tales and Fables

It's Fun to Read! Children's Storybooks Online - Stories for Kids of All Ages. Where Reading Is Fun!