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 * This website allows teachers to select from a bank of pre-made rubrics from all different subjects and grade levels or allows them to create their own rubrics. I think this is an awesome website for teachers who are crunched for time (I mean, who isn't?) and who appreciate the value of incorporating informal assessments into their teaching! I will certainly use this website when I get my own classroom to create my own rubrics for specific projects my students will complete. This website could allow a teacher to assess nearly every content standard but one that could easily be assessed is the kindergarten standard:
 * RLA.O.K.2.1 - develop proper manuscript techniques in print:
 * correct directionality
 * proper writing positions
 * print upper/lower case letters and numerals
 * first and/or last name
 * uniformity
 * __[|http://www.zondle.com]__
 * This website allows students or teachers to select a topic and a bank of games dealing with that topic or subject is presented. For example, one could type in "fractions" and several games would appear, all dealing with fractions. This website is a great resource for teachers and students and could be used as enrichment, intervention, or a contingency activity. What I like most about this website is that it not only applies to elementary-aged students but includes subjects relevant all the way up to the collegiate level. I foresee myself using this website currently as a graduate assistant for students with learning disabilities to help reinforce basic writing or reading skills. I also see myself using this in my future elementary classroom as a center activity where I would select the games or as a free-time activity where the students could select what topic they wanted to use. This website could allow teachers to integrate numerous content standards within the context of the various games but one that fits well is the third grade standard:
 * M.O.3.1.5- demonstrate an understanding of fractions as part of a whole/one and as part of a set/group using models and pictorial representations.
 * __[|http://www.spellingcity.com]__
 *  This websites allows students or teachers to use pre-made lists or enter a custom list of spelling words that are then generated into interactive spelling games such as Hang Mouse, Speedy Speller, and Word-O-Rama. These fun games can help reinforce the week's spelling words and gives students immediate feedback. I think this is a great website for all grades that have weekly spelling words and can be used in the classroom or at home. I will definitely use this website in my future classroom to help my students review their spelling words. I could use this website as a center activity, enrichment, intervention, or as contingency. I also plan to post this (and other relevant websites) on my classroom blog so that my students' parents can use it with their child at home as another opportunity to review. A content standard that could be connected with this website is the first grade standard:
 * RLA.O.1.2.5- identify and apply conventions of spelling in written composition
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|http://www.readinga-z.com]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Reading A-Z is an EXCELLENT website for teachers, especially those who are dealing with students who are just learning how to read. This website offers leveled books identified as the letters A-ZZ which all correspond with a Reading Recovery level or a DRA level. This website also offers countless other resources including lesson plans, worksheets, and assessment tools for teachers to use in teaching early reading. It also discusses how to incorporate the various elements, or pillars, of reading into your reading instruction and incorporates the teaching of different reading strategies into the lesson plans accompanying each leveled book. I used this website during my student teaching to select leveled books for my guided reading groups. What I loved the most about this website is that it offers at least 20 different books per level so even if a student is progressing slowly, there is still a variety of different books that are level-appropriate for that student to utilize. I will certainly use this website in my future classroom for reading resources and for my students' leveled books. I found this website to be absolutely developmentally appropriate and our students who used the program as opposed to a grade-selected series were many levels above the grade-average level at the end of the year. One content standard that could be integrated into using this website is the first grade standard:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">RLA.O.1.1.1- use basic comprehension concepts to understand literary and informational texts (e.g., story elements, main idea, sequence, cause and effect, prediction, retelling
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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">This website offers a variety of educational games in many different subjects from astronomy to basic addition. This website also offers free foundation programs which teach and review a particular topic through the use of interactive games. I will use this website in my future classroom as a center activity, enrichment, intervention, or whole group exercise. I will also post this website on my classroom blog for parents to use with their children at home. I also like that this website is appropriate for many different grade levels and thus can be utilized by students of all achievement levels. One content standard that could be related to this website is the second grade standard:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">M.O.2.1.9-demonstrate quick recall of basic addition facts with sums to 18 and corresponding subtraction facts
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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">This website is a free resource for teachers and students that uses the foundations of phonics to teach children to read. Many local school districts use this program as part of their literacy curriculum. What I like most about this software is that it can be used as early as three or four years of age and incorporates the basics of phonics into fun and interactive games. I will use this website in my future classroom as part of my reading curriculum, as a center activity, but most importantly as an intervention or remediation activity for students who are struggling with the basics of reading. One content standard that could be correlated with this website is the kindergarten standard:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">RLA.O.K.1.5-name all lower/upper case letters in random order.