Literacy Tools

Literacy Tools*

READING RESOURCE SITES

• Breaking News English - breaking news at a selection of reading levels (EL)

• CommonLit - free collection of fiction and nonfiction texts at different reading levels

• Explain That Stuff! - basic articles on science and technology

• Newsela - news articles at different reading levels, sign in to select by Lexile level

• Teen Ink - By teens. For teens.

• The Washington Post: Five Myths - articles challenging everything you know

• Tween Tribune - leveled reading resource plus articles in Spanish, includes quizzes and assessments

ONLINE TOOLS

• RHS Library Catalog - search by Lexile range - instructions

• DuoLingo - free online tool for learning a language, includes mobile apps

• Fluency Tutor - read aloud tool, available in Google Apps

• MyVocabulary.com - practice vocabulary with puzzles

• Rewordify.com - free online tool that simplifies difficult English terms in a selection of text

• Your Dictionary - provides easy to understand definitions, includes additional tools like sentence examples use and quotes

* Thank you to Larry Ferlazzo's English Website for a number of these resources