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**Newseum: "Today's Front Pages"**

Choose from 695 newspaper front pages from 75 countries to find out hat is going on in the world around us. These are updated daily.  www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages 

**Read-Write-Think** Hosted by NCTE, this site "provides educators and students to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction." www.readwritethink.org 

YouTube provides great resources and content for teachers and students. This site is provided by SmartTeaching.org, and lists educational videos for every subject area plus classroom management strategies, technology tips, inspirational videos for education, and more. (See "Converting YouTube Videos" on my intranet site for directions to procure videos for classroom use.) http://www.classroom20.com/profiles/blo/649749:BlogPost:177332
 * Classroom 2.0: 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers **

**VisuWords: On-Line Graphical Dictionary **

Type in any word on this website to find a graphical illustration of its definition, derivation, part of speech, synonyms, and usage. This is a great interactive tool to use with our PolyVision whiteboards! []

 Type in any word to find its synonyms, antonyms, etc. [|www.lexipedia.com]  **Google Earth Virtual Literature Field Trips ** The following sites provide ready-made virtual trips that correlate with several works that are commonly read in school. *You must have Google Earth downloaded in order for the field trip file to work. Students love seeing the actual places they are reading about, which leads to increased engagement with the text. www.GoogleLitTrips.com <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">http://web.prairieschool.net/~tpearson/TPearson/Google_Earth_Lit._Trips/Google_Earth_Lit._Trips.html
 * <span style="color: #931b1b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 144%;">Lexipedia: Where Words Have Meaning **

**<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Web English Teacher **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Your one-stop source for lessons, ideas, and websites for ALL areas of English education. <span style="color: #a12626; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> @http://www.webenglishteacher.com

<span style="color: #a12626; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Quia

This site provides a multitude of interactive, self-directed activities for grammar and some literature. This would also be a good source for questions that could be incorporated in your tests/quizzes. [] <span style="color: #931b1b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;"> Group Creator

Flash Group Maker: For a quick and easy way to create random groups of 2, 3, 4, or 5 in your classroom, click onto the link below. Once student lists are initially established, groups can easily be re-shuffled for new mixe s <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 133.1%;"> in seconds. This is a real time saver! <span style="color: #931b1b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 133.1%;"> [] <span style="color: #931b1b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 121%;"> That Quiz <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">An interactive site that contains SAT vocabulary practice. This is great for use with the interactive whiteboard and for class activators/PSSA/SAT practice. []

<span style="color: #931b1b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 127%;">Educational Videos for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies, and Englis <span style="color: #931b1b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 131%;">h <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 132%;">NeoK12 is a site that provides educational videos, lessons, and games for K-12 students. (Videos are network-friendly!) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> []

<span style="color: #931b1b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 121%;">**VocabAhead** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 121%;">This site provides short videos to demonstrate the use of over 1,000 difficult vocabulary words. Click onto the "over 1000 difficult words" link to get an alphabetical listing of all words/videos available. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> []

<span style="color: #931b1b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 121%;">nuIdeas: Language Arts Classrooms <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 121%;">**This site houses numerous links for language arts teachers** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> []