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=**Web Evaluations**=


 * Title: MES Games**
 * URL:** http://www.marks-english-school.com/games.html

This site supports teaching and learning because it provieds games that are helping kids learn important grammer lessons but at the same time they are fun. It is important to keep the students attention and give them something that is interesting to them. Learning games are a great way to do that. Some limitations of this site are that there are not many different levels of learning. It is directed towards kids who have just started reading and putting sentences together in the correct orders. This website would be good for me because I am interested in teaching k-2nd grade and learning to read is very important in the early ages and it is important to allow your kids many different opportunities to learn rather than just worksheets and hearing it from you as a teacher. JT
 * Comments:**

This does seem like a really good site. Its filled with lots of different activities to do with your students and its organized very well, so any one can really get around the website easily. It does seem to be just alot of games tho, which games are good but maybe there could be some more reading materials. RT

http://www.starfall.com/
 * Title: Star Fall**
 * URL:**

This website is great, it is geared towards younger children who are just starting to read and once they have the concept and need to practice this website had different ways to keep them interested and gives them a lot of different ideas and materials to help keep them going. It is also colorful, has pictures, and is really easy to navigate which is great for little kids. Some limitations of this site would be that it doesn’t go into the basics of grammer such as verbs, nouns etc. I think it should take it one step further and get the kids started with that information as well. I would definitely use this in my classroom, I would have my students get on and and require them to spend so much time do certain things on the website, it is a great learning opportunity using technology. JT
 * Comments:**

-This site is a really great site for younger children! I agree that kids would love it right from the start simply because it is very colorful and contains pictures. The site is also organized very well, making it easy to navigate. It has many reading activities, including, learning the letters of the alphabet, making your own sentences, and reading stories, or having them read aloud to you. One of the downfalls is that it hasn't been updated since about 2007. I would use this site at the end of the week to get the students a little computer time. This site would most likely be used for children in kindergarten-1st grade, so this be would be a great break from the classroom for them. --AR


 * Link to Rubrics:**[[file:Tierney_web_eval.doc]]