English
High School
CommonLit is a free site that offers students, teachers, and administrators the resources they need to be successful in their education, careers, lessons, and schools. Each of the provided resources are flexible, research-based, effective (provided by third part review), aligned with the Common Core State Standards, and created by teachers, for teachers. In leu of what is going on in the world today, we are seeing education take place almost completely digitally due to the implementation of distance learning. This website is a great resource to implement now as it provides educators the tools, they need to provide their students with the materials they need to still succeed in the classroom, even during this difficult time.
No Red Ink is a website with the goal of making writing fun for students. It uses information as the student does work on the website to guide instruction to their needs. Teachers can see color coded heat maps to see exactly where each student is struggling and guide instructions towards areas the whole class is struggling in.
Rare Book Room is a website that has a collection of books from authors such as Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Galileo, and more. Viewers of the site can specify their search by looking for a certain category, author, or they can search by library.
This article from Playbill includes information on 15 different plays and musicals. It gives a short description of the play or musical and a few of the actors are named. It tells viewers what platforms they can go to so they can find the play to watch it at home.
AP- https://app.fiveable.me/?fbclid=IwAR2yXSczaNrSp3eUs3R77Z_1dSfJUNf3WcoHvtZPwzmR512rQLBGjRsEgbM
Fiveable is a website offering students AP course resources to help them study. There are over twenty AP subjects offered where you can study from flashcards, example questions, trivia, study guides, discussion livestreams, and much more with other students. Cram sessions are available (for a small fee) for students to brush up on their skills and review probable content right before the test. Teachers can create dashboards where they can assign their students content and track their progress- ensuring everyone is prepped and ready for their AP exam!
Elementary and Middle:
https://reading.ecb.org/teacher/index.html
Into the Book is a great resource for elementary students and teachers. The website allows for a student to log on and practice various reading strategies such as: summarizing, visualizing, questioning, inferring, evaluating, making connections, synthesizing, and prior knowledge. The website guides the student through interactive videos that help them practice the skills listed above. It also gives a bilingual option for students who speak Spanish. The videos are self-explanatory and shouldn't need much supervision from a teacher or parent. This website also gives teaching tools such as reading resources for each of the reading strategies that are mentioned above and key academic standards. According to the website, “Into The Book is an awesome resource because the lessons are relevant to student learning objectives, easy and fast to use…”. The website also gives resources for professional development.
Spark Epic provides free worldwide remote student access through the end of the school year (June 30th, 2020) by teacher invitation. Spark Epic realizes the need for students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers library resources on all devices. It allows teachers to stay connected to their students by assigning books and collections and tracking reading activity and progress.
https://jarrettlerner.com/activities/
Jarrett Lerner is the righter of this blog and is an illustrator for children’s books. He includes several free art resources for teachers to download and use in their classroom. Teachers can use his already made comic strips for classroom use or download his comic strip activities for students to draw and create their own comic books. He also has a few hand-lettering tutorials available for free download.
https://abdobooks.com/our-websites/online-resources
ABDO is currently free through June of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and provides free distance learning resources. Students can read in a 4D format that brings reading to life. It also provides dramatized reading podcasts and free teacher lesson guides. This website has resources for prek-8.
www.abdobooks.com/our-websites/online-resources
ABDO books is a leading education publisher of books and digital resources ranging from beginning readers to high school students. E-Books, Read to Me E-Books, 4-D Books, and Interactive materials are a few examples of the incredible resources this website holds, offering engaging content for your students. Additionally, there are ‘teaching tips and guides’ to offer support on how to go about teaching a piece of literacy to your students effectively.
ScootPad is a free website with many resources for teachers. This resource adapts in real time to meet the mastery of assessment, instruction, and practice in the classroom. Personalized assessments for students are included on ScootPad. They also offer resources for tech-enhanced curriculum.
All Grades
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Readwritethink is a website that provides resources for K-12. This site has many resources for the classroom, such as lessons, inter-actives, mobile apps, printables, and calendar activities. Poetry, publishing, language learning, story maps, plot diagrams, and more are included in student resources. Professional development resources are provided for educators as well. There is also an area to find after school resources for parents such as activities, games, and how-to's to do with their student.
https://www.nextlesson.org/resources/price-free
NextLesson is a FREE resource! This website provides lessons, and activities that students will find fun and engaging. NextLesson offers skill builders, projects, real world performance tasks, and STEM-enhanced lessons and activities. There are areas such as academic, seasonal, and interest to choose from different lessons that will suit each student.
https://www.ixl.com/membership/teachers/trial/closure?fbclid=IwAR1C11e0imr0EQDI-xATukt5xg7hagi8vxRRMUVdkqh2yTgTfpS1W6Mbglg - Free for 90 Days
IXL is a classroom or at home tool that promotes personalized learning to target student’s areas of need. The curriculum this website covers is K-12th, proving the support and security the website can provide to students in need. IXL has content available in math, ELA, science, social studies, and Spanish. While IXL has content work the students can complete, it also runs real-time diagnostics to determine just what the student needs to work on next to accurately learn the material. IXL is always working to fill knowledge gaps and help students grow to their best potential.
Breakout EDU is an educational support that allows students to work on materials at home in fun and engaging ways. It is a website offering immersive learning games that bring the challenges of a real-life escape room to the classroom. They offer more than 1,500 standard-aligned games where teachers can assign and track their students’ progress. This website incorporates appropriate student learning with the 21stcentury technology the students know and enjoy.
Curriki is a free resource, accessible to all. This website provides digital learning content for different content areas. Curriculum, lessons, and on-demand content is provided by Curriki. In the Resource Library educators can find learning resources for students and educational materials for the classroom.
https://hippocampus.org/?fbclid=IwAR2Y0Ne9ftPiJ4GYaxbs9gFYYKWfLX3yfeBy2aNs3wN7WC0PKUI5a3YjzNI
Hippo Campus is a website offering over 7,000 free videos covering 13 subject areas. Hippo Campus prides themselves in being a free, core academic website that is offering teachers the resources of rich content to show and support their students learning. Hippo Campus largely covers standards introduced in middle and high school. This resource can be used in the classroom to support learning, or as homework where corresponding lab work can be assigned.
https://www.izzit.org/index.php
Izzit is a free resource for educators. This website offers resources that enhance critical thinking skills. Educational videos, teacher guides, activities, and quizzes are just a few of the many resources provided on Izzit. This resource also provides current events lessons with vocabulary words and discussion questions.
https://quizlet.com/?fbclid=IwAR2P0qWwOkrIGfK6Cjm-DDDNL9GvzgcKXlacvpOUmMqnDHefg2YYWbBMNkU
ReadWorks is a website offering support in reading comprehension and filling the student achievement gap. ReadWorks offers world-class content, teacher guidance and support, and integrated tools that actively improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement. ReadWorks offers content from grades K-12thand is actively and continuously working to make their site better and more accessible to improve literacy development nationwide.
ClassHook provides educational videos for classroom use. These videos come from clips out of movies or TV shows to use to get students' attention. This website offers pre-made playlists that automatically grab attention. There are videos on topics in science, math, history, ELA, business, health, SEL, ethics, and more!
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/english-language-arts-and-literacy/
The ELA page located on the PBS: Learning Media website offers standard-aligned ELA resources for K-12 students. Resources are offered through literature, informational text, reading foundational skills, writing, speaking and listening, and much more. This website offers a broad and extensive amount of support, demonstrating how it is useful for each and every student. Teachers can use this website for support through videos, text, examples, and much more. Students are able to access this website at home to continue their learning as well.
https://www.quill.org/tools/grammar
Quill provides students with writing activities to help them practice basic grammar skills. The assignments are setup to be completed in 10 minutes. This website also offers Proofreader. Proofreader helps students work on their editing skills for when they write.
https://www.activelylearn.com/?fbclid=IwAR1HUyYbDtt6W7un-zl2bOc8VO2VwA-XnhUQkwdDqGmpss5b5jQL_VksOPA