Reading comprehension site with lessons.
Nonfiction daily news articles at different reading levels. Site provides Common Core aligned quizzes for the articles. Students and teachers must register.
Type or paste text into box and site will reword it making it easier to understand.
Find a book by level or style from Scholastic.
Vocabulary building site
Learn vocabulary though videos
Practice spelling words through games and tests. Save and store lists.
For every vocabulary word you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the World Hunger Program.
A reading comprehension resource based on eight research-based strategies
Create silly stores by inserting nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Free children's stories brought to life.
Add Cruxbot to your toolbar and then open any webpage you want summarized. Click the Cruxbot button and the page will be summartized within seconds...
An article...
Find a lot of writing prompt and writing genre ideas.
Creates a visual thesaurus for students to see the relationship between word meanings.
Online children's books from Penguin Books. Full color pages!
Create collaborative outlines. Sign-up required.
The authorative online textual dictionary, which bring words to life through video! Beware the section on how the word is used in Twitter because the language of others may not be appropriate for school. Otherwise a really cool site.
Offers free children's books and reads them aloud while highlighting the words.
This site reads children's books and highlights the words as it goes. Very neat.
This site provides FREE audio books organized by reading level, author, title or subject matter. Download as mp3s or listen on the computer.
A search engine with a readability guide. Simply search a topic and twurdy will give a reading level for each result.
This is The Polar Express read by the author but there are others on the site.
Lesson plan links for a wide variety of multicultural topics.
Interactive versions of successful writing in common middle school and high school formats.
See “Tips-O-Matic” for simple tips on Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays. Site also smartly includes this guide for teachers about ”Incorporating WritingDEN into your class curriculum”.
This site has it all for English teachers!
A student interactive resource from ReadWriteThink.
A student interactive outlining tool from ReadWriteThink.
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets. Teachers and students can choose from several templates to publish class newspapers, informational brochures, and flyers announcing class events. The tool allows for multiple pages as appropriate. Text added to the templates can be modified using a simple toolbar, which allows students to choose text features, such as font size and color.
This helpful tool can be run on line to check spelling and grammar, or downloaded and used in conjunction with other applications. While it is not an instructional tool per se, it can certainly help students learn and correct spelling and some other language issues.
A wiki devoted to categorizing books for students.
Works with people to document their own lives for public radio: teenagers, seniors, prison inmates and others whose voices are rarely heard.
Books are categorized by genre and lexile level and booktalks include a summary and video.
Offers trailers of books from many different genres.
Great site about what young adults are reading.
Great writing creation tool. Works well with an interactive whiteboard.
Type in the title and author of something you just read and let the book seer make a new recommendation for you!
The writing companion for young writers.
Free way to create correct citations for a bibliography
Use these ideas and videos to help your students better understand prepositions
Practice with grammar exercises.
A national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers
I've referred to this ning a lot in the past year. There's great information about what other English teachers are doing around the United States and many of them attach worksheets for your use.
Simply type in a word and it create a visual map of the word. Easy to use with great results. I know, I typed in the word 'portentous'!
Engage your reluctant readers
Find the lexile levels for most novels.
Sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild, this website includes videos of books being read by Betty White, James Earl Jones and many more. Really cool:)
This website offers videos and audio clips of stories as well as chapters or entire books for students to read about a large variety of subjects. Historical works include links to pictures of primary sources.
Create a book from the site and make a cover using a stock photo or uploading your own. Also, read over 8000 books for free.
Free digital books!
Free audio books of classic fairy tales and stories.
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