Goodreads : Goodreads is a site that can help students track their reading. They can look up books y genre, author, etc. They can also review/read reviews of books. Students can set reading goals on Goodreads and build their own shelves.
Craighead County Public Library : this is the site to the county's public library. Students can use the public library as a free additional resource, and may find books, movies, newspapers, or utilize their technology.
Bookshare : Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.
Accelerated Reader : Motivate, monitor, and manage students’ independent reading practice with Accelerated Reader and watch as students develop a true love for reading. Perfect for in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction. ate, monitor, and manage students’ independent reading practice with Accelerated Reader and watch as students develop a true love for reading. Perfect for in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction.
teachingbooks.net : Teachingbooks.net provides students and teachers with collections of resources over many books and authors. It offers supplemental materials to deepen the readers' understanding.
Quill: Quill offers a wide range of writing and grammar activities for students across different grades. Using Quill Diagnostic, parents and teachers can easily determine students language skills and generate personalized learning plans. Quill Grammar section features over 150 sentence writing activities to help students practice basic grammar skills from comma placement to parallel structure.
NoRedInk: NoRedInk is an ELA website that mixes grammar and writing practice, layering in useful feedback.
Grammarly: Grammarly is a writing and grammar checker geared toward helping writers correct and craft their very best work. It can be used on the web, as a Windows or Mac app, or as a Chrome, Safari, Edge, or Firefox browser extension. Once writers draft, paste, or upload content, alerts appear suggesting improvements and corrections, and users can choose to make changes on the spot or delete the suggestions.
IXL : IXL provides class and individual reports with item analysis, usage, and trouble spots that allow parents and teachers to get the specific information they need to differentiate instruction for their kids. The standard Trouble Spot report is very useful for quickly identifying where students are having a hard time and which students need extra help.
Grammaropolis : Like Schoolhouse Rock for a new generation, Grammaropolis.com simulates a fun city populated by zany characters who personify each of the eight parts of speech. Students learn about each of the parts of speech through watching fun music videos, reading short cartoon-y books, and completing quizzes. As they move through the site (or Chrome app), kids select one part of speech and then follow a map of different learning stages, each explaining the part of speech through text, songs, and videos interspersed with quizzes.
NaNoWriMo : NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program is an adaptation of the National Novel Writing Month program for kid and teen writers in classrooms (or even at home). Young writers accept the challenge to complete a novel in the official NaNoWriMo month of November, or at various times throughout the year. It's structured like a contest or challenge, but everyone who finishes wins. Students choose their word count at the beginning, write their novel either within the website or their favorite writing tools, then update their word count online throughout the month. They can share their ideas and questions in the virtual classroom and participate in writing challenges. The site also provides extensive resources and admin tools to help motivate and encourage the young novelists.
NoodleTools: NoodleTools is a web-based research, citation, and note-taking platform. Once students sign in (single sign-on options include Google, Clever, and Office 365) and create a project (or participate in shared projects), they can move from tab to tab (Projects, Dashboard, Sources, Notecards, and Paper), each step of the way building on and informing the next. From source selection and annotation to elaboration and analysis, students get guidance on every part of the research process leading to their final annotated bibliography or paper. To scaffold the experiences, students can also choose their citation format (MLA, APA, or Chicago) and level (Beginner, Junior, or Advanced). This latter option usefully tailors activities and help to students' needs with research and citation. There's even a feature that judges the quality and variety of students' sources to ensure final projects meet assignment requirements.
Writable: Writable is an extensive web-based writing program. It focuses on a recursive writing process with a lot of peer and teacher feedback. Content covers all major writing genres taught in grades 3 to 12: argumentative/persuasive, narrative, and informational/expository. As they complete assignments, students learn how to respond to prompts in quick writes, short responses, multiparagraph essays, and extended writing projects with multiple revisions. Schools that use six traits, writing workshop, and other instructional methods will find that the program works with any of those methods in multiple content areas.
ThinkCERCA: ThinkCERCA is a subscription-based online literacy program focused on critical thinking and argumentative writing skills for students in grades 3-12. The CERCA acronym (Claims, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterarguments, Audience) stands for the site's structured approach to critical thinking and argumentation. While reading one of the many text selections, students answer multiple-choice questions, respond to short-answer questions, highlight sections of text, fill in graphic organizers, and make claims about what they're reading. They're then prompted to support these claims with evidence from the text, explain their reasoning, and address possible counterarguments.
Kaizena: Teachers can use Kaizena to manage the entire writing feedback process, from prewriting to publishing. Give students individual multi-modal feedback in Google Docs, hold group or individual conversations about writing projects in the Kaizena web app, track student skills progress, and link students to online lessons that scaffold their learning. Save hours of grading time with Google Classroom integration, which syncs student submissions for seamless assessment.
JSTOR: JSTOR is an online public database of journals, books, articles, magazines, reviews, etc. Students may use this as a research database.
Britannica: Britannica is a free online encyclopedia full of resources and credible research.
Google Scholar : This Google Search engine provides results in the form of scholarly peer reviews, journals, articles, etc.
OWL (Purdue University Online Writing Lab) : This impressive site offers over 200 free resources over topics like writing, research, grammar and mechanics, style guides, and job search/professional writing.
BrainPOP: Moby and Tim "host" animated videos on BrainPOP, a website that teaches students about a wide range of challenging topics such as genetics, geometry, and economics. It's easy to get lost in the mountain of videos, but the site is logically arranged, with most videos sorted by content. Themes range from standard academic fare like math and English to health, hot tech and engineering topics, and social-emotional learning units based on the Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) model.
The Grading Game: The Grading Game tasks kids with reading papers on various topics and of varying levels of difficulty in order to identify spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. The app offers three different modes; Quickplay, Career, and Practice mode.
Vocabulary.com: Vocabulary.com encourages teens to build their vocabulary skills by introducing them to high-level words in a variety of contexts. The adaptive format helps gauge teens' vocab skills and presents words designed to challenge them. They also have the opportunity to study words from subject-specific or literature-specific word lists.
Amplify Reading: Teachers can use Amplify Reading 6-8 as a station-based activity or assign it as homework. It's perfectly tuned to middle school ELA curriculum, and digs into some core skills like argumentation and textual analysis. Introduce the concepts in class and prepare students to work independently. Facilitate student collaboration in small-group or class conversations about the concepts behind arguments in literature and writing. Teachers can ask students to extend the stories by creating new characters or adventures and writing their own endings. As a challenge for advanced readers, invite students to rewrite the story for a different time and place.
Quiddler: Quiddler is a unique game that teaches English to its users. In this wordsmithing game, players begin with three-letter cards. In the first round, they draw and discard until they form a word. The next round begins with four letters and ends with ten letters. While playing this game, players learn spellings, improve vocabulary, and unintentionally also get to know new words and their meaning using a dictionary.
FunBrain: Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.