Minecraft & Reading

Just a quick post this morning, I wanted to share this really interesting article about how a Mother used the game Minecraft to help her child with Asperger's learn to read.  Very informative, and a great way to use games to teach!

How Minecraft taught my 9-year old with Asperger's to read and write

Patrick

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GameGoo

Annemarie, from SMARTBoards & More, shared another great site. GameGoo is a fun site for teaching literacy skills. It's fun, easy to use, and would work great on a SMARTBoard!

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Yuichi's Games

One member of the Boardmaker Group is a content developer for Mayer-Johnson. Yuichi Tamano has been extremely useful to the group as he has a very unique understanding of how Boardmaker works. Yuichi developed a set of games, available through Mayer-Johnson called Yuichi's Games. Some of the games on the CD are word search, tic-tac-toe & maze craze. The CD is for BM Plus or BM Speaking Dynamically Pro only.

Yuichi also write a blog that includes many ways to use Boardmaker. His blog is a great resource for people who want to utilize BM Plus to it's full potential. Please check out Yuichi's blog here:

Yuichi's Games

Patrick

Math Website

Here's a simple math website to practice basic skills. It's got lots of fun games to practice 1:1 correspondence, rote counting, patterning, sorting, etc... Lots of good graphics and fun to boot.

Take a look at the site here:

Count us in Games

Patrick