Literacy Tools

Arkive is an online resource creating a record of life on Earth through some of the world's best filmmakers and photographers. This resource can be used in the classroom for students to learn about endangered organisms and why we should protect them. Teachers have access to various resources including videos, pictures, presentations, teacher notes, templates, and quizzes from K-12. The website even provides resources for both the UK and US.

Tutorial of Wildscreen Arkive

Bookshare is an online library for people with print disabilities providing various resources including audiobooks, hearing and reading highlights, digital braille, and enlarged fonts. Bookshare has over half a million books from all over the world. They also have a waitlist feature if you can't find the book you are looking for.

Tutorial on Bookshare

DOGO News is an online network to engage kids in digital media. Digital media resources include current events, news and non-fictional content for Common Core ELA, Science and Social Studies. DOGO also has a website for books, movies, teachers, and student-created avatars.

Tutorial on DOGO News

Goodreads acts as a social network site where users can share and find books, with users having access to over two millions books. The site has several resources including discussion posts, an ask the author section, and groups for various subjects. Users can also share their book progress, compare their profile with other users, and complete reading challenges.

Tutorial on Goodreads

Libby is an app created by OverDrive where users have access to downloadable or streaming ebooks and audiobooks through the library. Users can sample books at any time, track their reading history, and sign into multiple libraries to access books.

Tutorial on Libby

Newsela is an instructional content platform allowing users to read the same texts within a classroom, but at different levels. Texts through Newsela are organized by content area and align with teacher curricula. Some resources include student activities, annotations, quizzes, and writing prompts.

Tutorial on Newsela

ReadWorks is an online library with non-fiction and fiction articles, ebooks, research-based curriculum, formative assessments, teacher tips, and question sets to help students with reading comprehension. Teachers can create co-teaching accounts, use the easy teacher-grading tool for written response answers, and a teacher tool to give student feedback.

Tutorial on ReadWorks

Scholastic News is a web-based source for current events for 1st through 6th grade. Issues are based on grade level and include quizzes, teacher guides, and skilled sheets. Teachers also have access to digital resources including videos, differentiation tools, and review games.

Tutorial on Scholastic News

Storybird is web-based tool where users can create their own stories, search for online books, collaborate with other users, and enhance storytelling with illustration. Teachers can use this tool to enhance classroom writing and reading activities and aligns with the Common Core.

Tutorial on Storybird

Trees Pro is an app where users can learn over 200 species of tree through quizzes, facts, figures, and images. Users can enter a certain number of features to narrow down the search for a species, as well as submit their pictures to possibly make it into the archive of images.

Tutorial on Tree Pro