Adlit - The site has a wealth of strategies and tools for teachers who want to help students with reading and writing difficulties.
Common Lit - free literacy resources and progress tracking tools. Hundreds of fiction and nonfiction reading passages for students grades 5-12.
Google Classroom Book Club Idea
LitPick - Students can write book reviews.
Literably - It functions very well as an automated, time-saving tool for reading fluency assessment and data tracking.
Read Works - helps students with reading comprehension
Spreeder - Read 3x faster and be more productive in life
Zap Reader - Paste text into a box, and begin to read faster
MLA Style Formatting Guidelines
Newsela - select the correct lexile for the varied readers in your class while they read the same article. Take the quiz provided test comprehension.
The New York Times - Ways to respond to literature using podcasts, blogs, and NY Times Model
Read Write Think - Student Interactive Activities: organizing and summarizing, inquiry and analysis, poetry, writing and publishing prose, learning about language
Natural Reader - Natural text-to-speech tool helps kids with reading difficulties. Listen to PDF files, webpages, e-books, e-textbooks, office documents and even printed books.
Write About - Digital writing for classrooms. A community where students engage in high-interest writing for an authentic audience and teachers help students grow through the entire writing process.
Thoughtful Learning - suggests writing topics by grade level and writing formats.
Figment- a community to share writing, connect and discover stories
The Most Dangerous Random Prompt Generator - Students get a prompt and have a certain amount of time to write.
Future Me - Write a letter to your future self
No Red Ink - helps students improve their writing and grammar skills
The Story Starter - randomly generates story starters
One Word - You see one word, you have 60 seconds to write about it. Don't think, just write.
Owl at Purdue - The website provides a wealth of resources, from grammar and structure to the writing process itself, that can help improve overall writing.
Pen Pals - find a pen pal somewhere in the world.
Penzu - an online journaling tool.
Quill - a tool to improve grammar, writing and proofreading skills.
Write the World - dedicated to helping you improve your students’ writing. Make writing real, and learn from others all over the world.
Boom Writer - A great solution to engage students in collaborative writing.
Book Creator - A simple way to create beautiful eBooks