The OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab provides free resources for all things ELA. In the image to the left, you can see the opening page and I have an image to the right that shows the topics covered in Grammar alone.

NoRedInk is a fun way to practice grammar and writing skills online. It inventories each student's interests and builds leveled activities for them. You can check out more information about this product here.

ReadWriteThink is a great place for ELA resources. One of my favorites is called the Student Literary Elements Mapping. (I linked for quick access). The mapping tool is just one of the interactives available on the site.

PBS Learning Media provides lesson materials searchable by subject and grade level. You may follow this link for a great lesson on Writing an Interpretive Essay to Describe a Theme based upon The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen. The lesson includes a video, handouts and a rubric.

Vocabulary.com gives you the opportunity to create classes, add students via email or join code, then create lessons for them online. Using the class feature, you will be able to customize which vocabulary you would like your students to work on.

Newsela delivers daily news articles at five reading levels from grade 3 through 12. Articles are accompanied by quizzes to provide quick and powerful feedback.

Quill.org provides free online tools to help low-income students become sharp writers. Our mission is to help the 30 million low-income K-12 students in the United States who struggle with writing.

ReadTheory is a K-12 online reading comprehension program that presents assessments to students at a "just right" level. Using algorithmic science coupled with grade and Lexile® level information, we ensure our assessments are always challenging but never discouraging. After just 20 minutes on ReadTheory, students generate enough data to populate their very own progress reports replete with insights about their unique reading abilities.

Over 5 million students have completed more than 95 million quizzes on ReadTheory to date.

CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 5-12. Our resources are:

Flexible;
Research-Based;
Created by teachers, for teachers.

We believe in the transformative power of a great text, and a great question. That’s why we are committed to keeping CommonLit completely free, forever.

ReadWorks is committed to solving America’s reading comprehension crisis and student achievement gap. Driven by cognitive science research, ReadWorks creates world-class content, teacher guidance, and integrated tools that improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement.

VocabAhead helps your students build their vocabulary through the use of examples and videos. The website includes all GRE and SAT words. You can create your own personalized list for your students to work on and add them to your website through a free widget for easy access.

Storybird is a website that helps students create their own storybooks using a database of images. Students have the ability to create picture books, poetry books, or chapter books. The books can be shared within your class or you have the option to have them printed through Storybird so that students and parents can have a copy of their work.

Khan Academy has been known for their amazing Math and Science resources. Did you know that they have an entire section of their humanities site focused on Grammar? The video to the right will introduce your students to why we need Grammar. With many videos and 100 activities, you students could use Khan Academy as a self-paced remediation for their own skills.

Annenberg Learner was a website recommended during our Marzano HRS training. It has many resources available by subject and grade level. You can follow this link for an example lesson centered around Bridge of Terabithia.

Discovery Education provides a online classroom full of materials at your fingertips. You can create classes and build assignments using an activity creator and builder tools for assessments, writing prompt creator, and digital board builder. You simply need to log in and go to My DE.

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