Online Resources and Tools
Interactive timeline that explores the evolution of English language and literature from the 11th century to present day.
Wordsmyth, Online Dictionary
Word Booster, Chrome Extension
Gives you a list of words you are likely to look up in the dictionary as far as the given text is concerned, guesses a good dictionary definition for the words along with example sentences. And finally, it also makes a quiz for the words using both the definitions and example sentences, plus answer key.
LIFE Tags organizes over 4 million images from the LIFE magazine archives into an interactive encyclopedia using machine learning. Published weekly between 1936 and 1972 and monthly from 1978 to 2000, LIFE magazine was the most popular photojournalism magazine in the United States.
Reading
Daily Root Puzzle from MyVocabulary.com
Newsela, Online Reading
Newslea takes news articles from around the world and rewrites them at up to five different lexile levels and in Spanish.
Zinc Learning Labs, Online Reading
Elevate learning with literacy.
Word Roots from MyVocabulary.com
This site is a little hard to navigate. Scroll down through the exercises and click on the level. Click on the type of puzzle. Scroll down on the next page that opens. Some are interactive, some are printable. The context stories have audio.
Matching Interactive Games
Writing
Great quick video to teach students how to choose the best search terms
Cite This For Me is a tool designed to help students correctly format reference lists or citation pages. To create a reference list using Cite This For Me students simply need to fill in the required information in each box, sort them alphabetically, and download the formatted reference page. Cite This For Me provides formatting not only printed materials and websites, but also for things like podcasts, online videos, and even email correspondence.
refDot is a Google Chrome extension that could be very helpful for keeping track of and formatting references for use in bibliographies. Whenever you're viewing a website, an online book, an online journal, or a news article just click the refDot icon in your browser to open a window into which you enter all of information you need for a bibliography. For example if you were viewing a blog post on Free Technology for Teachers that you wanted to reference in a bibliography, click on refDot and the pop-up box will prompt you to enter the date of access, url, title, and year.
How to Create a Works Cited Using Google Docs
Basic Steps to Creating a Research Paper
This site does not have interactive activities, but has great tips for parents and students on research and creating a project.
Copyright 101 Lesson Plans and Videos from CoolCatTeacher
Every Day Edits from Education World
Students make and play interactive stories with no programming required.