Great website!

Yesterday I was looking around for a good technology game to build on some skills (particularly long vowels and ending sounds) with my tutor. He's eager to use the computer and I thought this would be a good way to work on skills in a different way than we usually do. I was checking out www.sqooltechs.com/sqoolsites.html. I was looking in the readquarium section at the games associated with long vowels and end sounds and found a few games that were okay. However the game I really liked was from a bbc website so I did a little digging. I came across a gold mind! If you go to www.bbc.co.uk/schools/students you'll be directed to the bbc students page. There are some excellent tools on this homepage, but if you look on the left side there are two headings: primary and seconday. From there you can choose your subject. I chose literacy in the primary grades. Now you have several excellent tools at your fingertips! I personally enjoyed 'words and pictures' with the captain picture because it dealt specifically with learning phonics and offers games dealing with CVC words, consonant clusters, long vowels, and high frequency words. I also found success with selecting 'games' from the left menu. There you can enter a more specific age range and again pick your subject. Although this site offers similar games as readquarium I found them to be of higher quality and more specifically met my needs. I hope you all find the success I did- and I hope my story pushes you to look further... one web 2.0 tool can certainly lead to infinitely more!

Note: BBC is a British broadcasting channel and therefore spoken words are with a British accent.