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TES iboard has a large collection of interactive activities.  These are short interactives that ask the student to respond to a task or a challenge.   Here are some examples: Numeracy Example Guess the Gift   (click to play) Students need to weigh each gift on the scale to try and guess which gift is in each box. Literacy Example Cinderella - Storyboarder    (click to play) Students click and drag the events of the story onto a storyboard.  They can then play the events like a slideshow.  There are other options to type your own summary and to print.   Phonics Example Launch a Rocket    (click to play) A version of hangman. Launch the rocket before the fuel runs out. Science Example Label my body and skeleton    (click to play) Construct the skeleton and label it. There are 8 categories of interactives available: Some interactives are geared towards younger element...

Click here for an interactive site that would work great on your Smart Board.  This site is very visual and animated.  I like that there is a ruler to visualize numbers as well as the base ten blocks.  It will help with teaching place value as well. from Learningbox.com

Ipicthat is the world’s first free online dyslexic talking picture dictionary, aimed at people who suffer from dyslexia, specific learning difficulties and poor readers. I like that each word in the dictionary has an audio pronunciation that breaks down the sounds.  The tabs on the left offer the dictionary, scenarios (examples are kitchen, street, classroom etc), rules (examples are silent e, long and short vowels, spelling tips etc), and letter sounds (a wheel of the abcs with an image for each letter). See below: Check out this online version of a picture dictionary.