Literacy Tools & Resources

Reading

• CommonLit (reading passages Gr. 3-12)

• Open eBooks

• DOGO News - K-8 Kid news articles & Videos (All Topics)

• Florida Center for Reading Research - Instructional Materials for Teachers K-5

• Newsela - current events grades 3-12 linked to CCSS some with quizzes

• Phonics First (Brainspring)

• Progressive Phonics -lessons and ebooks

• ReadWriteThink - All Grades & Subjects, Classroom Resources, Interactives & much more

• ReadWorks (K-12th Grade)

• Starfall

• Storybee - Audio Stories - K-12

• Storynory - Audio Stories - K-3

• VocabGrabber Gr. 7-12

• Vocabulary Word Sift

• InstaGrok

• International Children’s Digital Library

• Gutenberg Project - Grades 6-12

• MagicKeys - Elementary (some have audio and some do not)

• Membean - (SHS English Depart. has a subscription)

• BITS - ELL Listen & Read

Reading Aids/Tools

Chrome Extensions

• • BeeLine Reader

  • Mercury Reader - Clears the clutter & Removes ads

  • Open Dyslexia Font

  • Read & Write for Google (text to speech)

  • Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

Writing

• Fun Interactives English Games - Elementary & ELL

• English Media Lab (ESL)

• Grammar Blue Book

• English Grammar Review

• One Word Writing Prompts -Gives you 60 seconds to write about or using one word Grades 2-12

• Story Shack (Extension- Writing Prompt Generators)

• This Day in History

• Random Writing Prompt Generator (Eric Curts)

• StoryToolz

• 180 Journal Writing Prompts

• Writing Journal Template- Doc

• Writing Journal Template - Slides

• Purdue Writing Lab

Planning Tools

• Graphic Organizers (Google Drawings)

  • How to Make Your Own Using Google Drawings

• Graphic Organizers - KPDSB

• Graphic Organizers by Content Area

• Google Keep

• Bullet Journal (Similar to Keep)

• Lucid Charts (Docs Add-On) (More Help)

• MindMap Maker

Writing Tools

• Wakelet

• Infographics (Besides Google Drawings or Slides)

  • Canva - Example 1, 2

  • Piktochart

• Make Beliefs Comix

• Storybird (K-12) or Book Creator (50 ways to use Book Creator)

• Tiki-Toki - Interactive Timeline Maker

• Write the World (Ages 13-18)

• Blogger (Part of G Suite) or WordPress (Both of these 13 and older)