Distance Learning

Historical Fiction Book Resources – These sites will help you to find historical fiction books for independent reading which will help you do the thinking work in our reading lessons!!

JLG (Junior Library Guild)

Libby and Hoopla Access through your public library-Current & Classics

Blauvelt

Orangeburg

Palisades

Piermont

Tappan

Audible Currently offering some free titles for students cab be accessed through:

iPhone App Store, Spotify, Pandora, Google Play, Amazon Prime

Lit2Go

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

Project Gutenberg

Story Nory   – Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. We are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. Some months we serve around a million downloads of our mp3 files (stored on Libsyn). All our content is free.

Digital Book

We are a place to find free public domain audio books and eBooks. You can explore over 100,000 Kindle, ePUB, and audio books using our free bookshelves. Our powerful search engine not only looks hard for free digital books from great sources such as LibrivoxGutenbergGoogle Books, and Open Library, but also includes results from Amazon to give you the best choice.

Sync (summer audiobooks specifically for teens)  Available starting April 30, 2020

Other services

Hello Room 306 –

As we begin our Distance Learning Plan, know that it may look and feel different than what we are used to but that we will stay in touch and work together to make the best of this situation.  We are so proud of your ability to be problem solvers and independent thinkers and these skills will help you navigate all that you do.  

There are a number of widgets (icons on the right side of our screen) to help you navigate to sites more easily.  Feel free to use them or whatever makes you most comfortable in finding these resources.

1.) Go to our Dreambox link – Spend some time working on lessons!

2.) Go to Raz-Kids – We’ve created an account for each of you. This is a great website where you will first listen to a book, then read the book and finally answer comprehension questions. Each of you have an account and it is customized to your F & P level. The Raz-Kids level will appear higher, but don’t worry I checked the correlation.


Visit www.kidsa-z.com

For all NEW users:
1. Teacher username is jgrennan306
2. Student usernames are first name + capitalized first letter of your last name.
3. Each of you may use the “rocket icon” which we have configured as a default for your password.
Click the document titled Raz Kids Login, if you need to see your username!

If you do not see your name it is because you already have a Raz Kids Account. Please use that account to work in Raz Kids.

3.) Go to Epic – Books for Kids – we have set up accounts here for you, too!  This is a great site that has many books and videos.  You can find great books to read here and videos to watch as well.  We may be using this site to learn new material as our Distance Learning Plan moves forward.

4.) Seesaw – is another way we will be able to help support learning from a distance.  We have created accounts for each of you here as well.  Your user names and passwords are posted in our Google classroom.

Other Sites that include Educational Games:

Interactive Sites for Education – a variety of sites with games and activities for all subjects
Math Playground – choose appropriate grade – tons of games covering lots of math topics
4th Grade Math Review – old but a review of different 4th grade math topics
Cyberchase – Quests, Games, Videos and More to Develop Strong Math and Problem-Solving Skills

Sites for some Online Reading:

Story Online – Actors and actresses reading aloud their favorite books
Kids Guinness World Records
Weird But True
The Curiosity Workshop

 

Click the link below for many additional websites and resources that you may visit and explore.  There is lots of learning to be done and new things to discover.  As always, be sure to have your parents view and approve any website that you are using.  Enjoy exploring these interesting sites!

http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/