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."
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
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.
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.