Other Tools/Tricks/Sites

Clusive | Read more about Clusive here

"Clusive is a free, flexible, adaptive, and customizable digital learning environment. Students can use Clusive to read assigned or free-choice books and articles, build their own personal library, and take advantage of Clusive’s growing public library. Clusive’s goal is to help learners build self-awareness through discovering, choosing, and using preferences that help build learning skills."

Discovery Education

    • Subscription-based; check with your campus librarian for your school's login procedures

    • Hot Topics page has a section on Differentiated Instruction and on Language Learners with tips on how Discovery can help different kinds of learners

    • Spotlight on Strategies offers tips for teachers on different classroom teaching strategies


Picto4me

    • Create communication boards and picture dictionaries/word banks.

    • Similar to Boardmaker.

    • Creates a doc in your Google drive.

    • Might be helpful for EL students, too.


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Translate word lists (formula in Google Sheets from Jake Miller)

Voice Typing in Google Docs

    • Incredibly accurate voice typing within Google docs. Nothing to install. Within a Google Doc, Click Tools > Voice Typing and allow the microphone.

    • View the video at right to hear from a 4th grader why he likes using Voice Typing.