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Something-To-Write-About.pdfis a website created by Bill Zimmerman whose mission is "to help people of all ages discover their writers’ voices and express the important things in their lives". This website is full of resources for English Learners and English Speakers including free e-books. Click on the image to the left to download a 72 page PDF of writing prompts for ELs or click HERE to explore additional e-books.
If you like Newsela and CommonLit, you will appreciate Actively Learn-- a digital reading platform that contains ELA, Science, and Social Studies reading materials (grades 3-12). Actively Learn works well with Google Classroom and has many unique features: it allows you to import internet articles, Google Docs, or PDFs and turn them into interactive reading assignments; it offers student reading aids such as translation, note taking and more. Click HERE to create your free account and explore Actively Learn.
Flippity is a free website and also a Google Sheets add-on that allows you to create flashcards, quizzes, and more. You do not need to create an account. Once you sign in into your Google account, create a copy of a template, then modify it. When you create flashcards, you can add pictures and videos in addition to definitions. In order to add a video, you will need to select a video you want your students to view, right click on the video and choose “copy embed code”, then paste the code into the spreadsheet. In order to add a picture, you will need to go to the website that contains the image you want to use and right click on the image then select “open image in a new tab”, copy and paste the URL (important: it has to have .png at the end). Finally, publish your template to the web, get your Flippity.net link, then bookmark it and share.
Pixabay is an amazing website that contains over 1.5 million royalty free photos, illustrations, and videos. Click HERE to view the site.
Doc Academy is the school program of Doc Society--a nonprofit supported by a number of US and European Foundations including Ford Foundation. Doc Academy provides free, easy-to-use resources for secondary school teachers such as short clips from critically-acclaimed documentary films, lesson plans, and activities on various topics. Some of the topics include: refugees, social justice, climate change, etc. Click HERE to view this site.
This website contains free lessons for educators. In order to access the lessons you will need to create an account and then search by education level (from early childhood to high school) and subject area (English Language Learners, Math, Science. Gifted and Talented). You can sort lessons by "best rated", "newest", etc. Click HERE to visit the site.
Corwin offers free webinars tor teachers twice a month, on Mondays. Well-known and respected authors and educators share useful strategies and resources from 6:30 - 7:30 PM Eastern Time. If you missed a webinar, you can always go to the archived files and listen to it later.
Douglas Fisher and John Almarode discussed Teacher Clarity: Making Learning Visible for Students on Tuesday, November 13, 2018.
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The Evidence for ESSA website examines various reading and math programs through the lens of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Its goal is to help educators and education leaders evaluate K-12 reading and math programs and determine which program is in compliance and meets the needs of their students. Click HERE to visit the site,
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