Adaptive Learning

While reading Free Tech 4 Teachers, I came across a new blog that I intend to start following.  It is called Adaptive Learning and is written by Beth Crumpler.

The specific post that caught my attention was about sight word recognition and ELL students.  She found that many of her ELL students were struggling to practice their sight words at home because parents often didn't know how to pronounce them either.  She created audio files to go with all of the early sight words.  There is also a practice page that goes with each list of words.  The practice page goes right along with her audio.  To top it all off, it's FREE!  Please check it out, I think it could be a great resource for early elementary, especially for ELL kids.

The post is called: Sight Word Acquisition Book & Accompanying mp3 Files.

Math Chimp

Math Chimp is a website that has math games on it.  There are a lot of different math games out there on the web, and finding which ones connect to which standards is a fairly daunting task.  Math Chimp is split by grade level and math content.  From there you can find different games that connect directly to those topics.  Just one more site that makes a teacher's job just a little easier!