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Below is an excellent video explaining the SAMR model in 120 seconds. SAMR is a framework through which you can assess and evaluate the technology you use in your class. The goal is to help you make informed decision regarding the rationale and utility of the technology you integrate in your teaching. This SAMR poster walks you through the different components of the SAMR model.

Is technology providing an added value to your teaching or is it simply replacing the old and traditional ways of doing the same thing? If it is adding value, define this value awhat can of value? The SAMR model will help you answer these and these and several other questions regarding your pedagogical EdTech practices. Bottom line, from a pedagogical perspective, technology is more effective when it leads to transformative learning experiences.

For those of you new to the SAMR concept, the video below shared by Candace M provides a great introduction to this concept. It explains in simple ways what SAMR is all about and provides concrete examples of its usage. Here is how it explains SAMR's four levels:

In a substitution level, teachers or students are only using new technology tools to replace old ones, for instance, using Google Docs to replace Microsoft Word. the task ( writing) is the same but the tools are different.

Though it is a different level, but we are still in the substitution mentality but this time with added functionalities. Again using the example of Google docs, instead of only writing a document and having to manually save it and share it with others, Google Docs provides extra services like auto saving, auto syncing, and auto sharing in the cloud.

This is the level where technology is being used more effectively not to do the same task using different tools but to redesign new parts of the task and transform students learning. An example of this is using the commenting service in Google Docs, for instance, to collaborate and share feedback on a given task task.

If you are to place this level in Blooms revised taxonomy pyramid, it would probably correspond to synthesis and evaluation as being the highest order thinking skills. "Redefinition means that students use technology to create imperceptibly new tasks. As is shown in the video below an example of redefinition is "when students connect to a classroom across the world where they would each write a narrative of the same historical event using the chat and comment section to discuss the differences, and they use the voice comments to discuss the differences they noticed and then embed this in the class website".

Watch the video to learn more about SAMR

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Get the Math combines video and web interactivity to help middle and high school students develop algebraic thinking skills for solving real-world problems. Drawing on conventions of popular reality TV shows, video segments begin with profiles of young professionals, who then pose challenges connected to their jobs to two teams of teens. Viewers are encouraged to try the challenges themselves using interactive tools provided on the Get the Math website before returning to the video to see the teams' solutions. Students can further explore the same, as well as extended, algebraic concepts through additional interactive challenges on the website.

Video segments and interactive challenges focus on the math in:

Music: Manny Dominguez and Luis Lopez, who perform as the hip-hop duo DobleFlo, write and produce music in collaboration with The Brooklyn Label, an independent record company. They draw on their math skills regularly, particularly when using music production software. The challenge prompts students to calculate the tempo (beats per minute) of an instrumental sample, so they can adjust the tempo of an electronic drum track to match it. (Algebra I concept: Proportional reasoning)

Fashion: Chloe Dao, a Texas-based fashion designer and the season two winner of Project Runway, uses math on a day-to-day basis. She asks students to use both algebra and their sense of style to modify a design in order to get the retail price below a target of $35. (Algebra I concepts: percent markup; writing and solving linear inequalities; cost analysis)

Videogames: Julia Detar,a videogame developer at the New York City-based company Arkadium, uses math when she develops online and Facebook games. Julia presents a challenge around a simplified "Asteroids"-type game that introduces basic concepts behind programming. Students use algebraic thinking to plot the path of a spaceship and avoid collision with an oncoming asteroid. (Algebra I concepts: Coordinate graphing; rate of change; linear equations; distance formula; Pythagorean Theorem)

Restaurants: Sue Torres, chef/owner of the restaurant Sueños, talks about the challenge of keeping prices on her menu affordable as prices rice. The teams analyze past avocado prices to predict prices for the next 14 months, and use this prediction to recommend a menu price for guacamole for the coming year. (Algebra I concept: Line of best fit)

Basketball: NBA player Elton Brand describes his path to a career in the NBA before posing a challenge related to free throw shooting. The teams use three key variables - release height, initial vertical velocity, and acceleration of gravity - to calculate the maximum height the ball will reach on its way into the basket. (Algebra I concept: Quadratic functions)

Special Effects: Jeremy Chernick from J&M Special Effects discusses the process of creating special effects for film and video, including one effect created for a music video by the band Freelance Whales. The teams are challenged to figure out the mathematical relationship between two important variables that affect the look of a shot - light intensity and distance from the light source. (Algebra I concepts: Inverse relationships; inverse square law)

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THE CHALLENGES: video segments presenting the career profiles and related algebra challenges; interactive tools to help students solve the challenges; video clips showing how the teams solved each challenge; and extensions of the challenges using similar interactive tools to further explore the same, and extended, math concepts.

VIDEO: a collection of all the challenge-related video segments along with an animated "Get the Math" music video and the Get the Math half-hour broadcast program.

ABOUT: Q&As with the professionals and the teams, answers to frequently asked questions, and production credits.

TEACHERS: online resources for teachers, including a training video showing how to use project materials in the classroom, a teacher's guide with lesson plans and student handouts aligned with the Common Core Content and Mathematical Practices Standards.

Plus: downloadable MP3s on the homepage of music by DobleFlo.

In August 2012, MediaKidz Research & Consulting conducted an independent study to assess the effectiveness of Get the Math. Results showed that the program succeeded in prompting more sophisticated algebraic reasoning performance than the students had shown previously. Also, the majority of students asserted they could now name ways that algebra was beneficial in the "real world." Most teachers rated Get the Math positively in terms of its educational value, appeal/engagement for students, and value/usefulness for teachers. The executive summary of the study is available here.

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Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer.

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Read Conway's original paper here, or take a closer look at Conway's Constant and the visual graph of its roots. Or delve deeper into examining the elements and proofs regarding the limits of the sequence.

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Can you find the next number in this sequence? - Alex Gendler

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1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. These are the first five elements of a number sequence. Can you figure out what comes next? Alex Gendler reveals the answer and explains how beyond just being a neat puzzle, this type of sequence has practical applications as well.

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Numbers began to emerge together with writing around 5000 BCE as humans developed agriculture and started to live together in larger groups. They needed to know the size of fields, the volume of baskets, the numbers of objects exchanged, and the taxes to be paid, and divisions of land and inheritance. To make these calculations, they used "counting numbers," or what we call "natural numbers" such as 1, 2, and 3, as well as fractions.

When people started thinking about numbers, not just using them, trouble started. Take for example the Pythagoreans, a group of students of mathematics led by the famous mathematician Pythagoras, for whom the Pythagorean theorem is named. For Pythagoras and his followers "all is number." He is known for discovering that the relations between the notes of the musical scale can be described by ratios; he thought that ratios and proportions describe the beauty of mathematics, music, and the universe. Irrational numbers were dangerous because they challenged the Pythagorean understanding of the world.

When Arabic numerals were introduced in Europe, they were received with suspicion, and not just because they were seen as easier to falsify in accounting. The number zero that accompanied the new numerical system presented serious conceptual
difficulties. Even mathematicians had trouble accepting it and the negative numbers it foreshadowed for a long time.

Finally, some numbers are banned even nowadays - some for historical or political reasons, while others are illegal because of the information they carry.

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A brief history of banned numbers - Alessandra King

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They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and authorities have often agreed. From outlawed religious tracts and revolutionary manifestos to censored and burned books, we know the potential power of words to overturn the social order. But as strange as it may seem, some numbers have also been considered dangerous enough to ban.

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Rubik's Cube pro Collin Burns tells us how he solved the cube in 5.25 seconds.

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Math Tools Aligned to Common Core Standards | Common Sense Education

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Math Tools Aligned to Common Core Standards is a list of 52 apps, games, and websites curated by Common Sense Education editors.

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Math is the language of the universe. If one were to excel in science and know the secrets of the universe, he needs to have a concrete understanding of math. As teachers, we all want our kids to succeed in math. However, it is our duty to give them the material, help them apply skills, and build their concepts. It's imperative that we focus on making sure that our students understand the material rather than just memorizing it. In this article, I am going to highlight five tips that come in handy for students to understand math and grasp basic concepts.

Create a Perfect Class Opener
School is often boring for students. The reason for that is the approach of teachers when teaching their students. If the teacher sets a precedent that the aim of coming to class is to rote learning whatever is taught to the students, the ambiance will automatically become dull. The first five minutes of a class set the tone for the entire lecture, which is why teachers need to take a creative approach and opt for an effective class opener.

Solve the Problem in More than One Way
We have to understand that every student is not equal. Our brains are designed differently. If a certain student is able to grasp the concept taught in a certain way, it doesn't mean that every student might have understood that concept. The best way to approach this problem is by showing the students different ways they can solve a problem and letting them decide the best way that works for them.

Raise the Bar for Them
Meaningful math education goes far beyond the contents of the book. Teachers need to motivate their students and make them understand that they need to set higher goals for themselves and create room for improvement. With the internet becoming a powerhouse for learning, teachers can make use of some helpful courses like MathXL for students that contain digital information in the form of videos, animations, examples, and more.

Show the Application
Making students learn a concept is one thing; showing how it is implemented in real life is another. In a perfect world, teachers would be able to demonstrate how every concept is implemented, but they should be taking this approach whenever they can. When students see how math is implemented in the real world, it will become much easier for them to grasp confusing concepts.

Finish the Class on a High Note
Just like the class opener is an important way to set the tone for the rest of the class, you need to finish your class on a high note so that students feel motivated that they have learned something. The last five minutes of the class are critical when it comes to making sure that students have understood everything, and they have a clear idea about the homework. You can do a quick assessment to find out how much the students have learned from the class and discuss future tasks so that there is no confusion.

I propose here ideas teachers need to know and pay attention to when teaching mathematical proofs and how to prove.
A. What is a (mathematical) proof?
I define proof as a relational network of claims (propositions and conclusions), substantiation (established knowledge that makes the claim legitimate) and appropriate connectives so sequenced to justify why the conclusion is a logical consequence of the premises. Continue reading "Tips for Teaching Proofs and Proving"

Show and tell activity (aka lecture method) may work for some but never in a mathematics class. Getting students to explain and ask questions are nice but only when the explanation and the questions are mathematical. Reasoning and justifying are good habits of mind but they are only productive if they are based on mathematical principles. Explaining, asking questions, and substantiating one's conjecture or generalization make a productive class discussion but they are only productive for learning mathematics if the mathematics is kept in focus. Orchestrating a productive class discussion is by far the most challenging work of mathematics teaching. Stein, Engle, Smith, and Hughes* (https://doi.org/10.1080/10986060802229675) proposed five practices for moving beyond show and tell in teaching mathematics. I have always practiced them in my own teaching whether with students or with teachers and I find them effective especially when the lesson involve cognitively demanding tasks and with multiple solutions. Continue reading "How to orchestrate a mathematically productive class discussion"

It is a bunch of procedures. That's how people perceive algorithms are. And they are right. Algorithm has been defined as 1) "step-by-step procedures that are carried out routinely"; 2) "a precisely-defined sequence of rules telling how to produce specified output information from given input information in a finite number of steps". It is no wonder then that teaching algorithms is perceived by many as teaching for rote learning and produces not conceptual knowledge but procedural knowledge. Continue reading "Ideas and strategies for teaching math algorithms"

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Math is the language of the universe. If one were to excel in science and know the secrets of the universe, he needs to have a concrete understanding of math. As teachers, we all want our kids to succeed in math. However, it is our duty to give them the material, help them apply skills, and build their concepts.

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Keeping students engaged and excited about math class can be a tall order. However, with the many advances in technology, it is much easier to make math lessons fun. In addition, technology can also make the math teacher's job a lot easier by providing pre-made activities, options for differentiating and even helping with pre- and post- assessments (including grading!).

The following is a list of different resources to help both new and veteran teachers make math class a whole lot more fun for students. Best of all, most of these resources are free! You should find materials that can be printed, ideas for activities to use in your classroom and even blogs with tips from teachers around the country to help you build your perfect learning environment.

Materials

Here is a look at the many different items that you can use in your classroom to make math class more engaging for students and easier for you. These items range in cost, but there's something here for everyone (no matter your budget).

"Make personal student white boards just by laminating cardstock."

White Boards. For those of you on a budget, you can make personal student white boards just by laminating cardstock. A dry-erase marker and a piece of tissue is a great way to get students more involved in the classroom while also allowing teachers to assess student learning throughout the class period. There is no easier way of determining if your students are getting the main concepts from the lesson than being able to see their work on their own white boards. If you have a little more money in the budget, you can get a sturdier white board at your local home improvement store. Ask for "white panel board." Most home improvement centers will even cut larger sheets into smaller pieces for you. You will leave with a class set of white boards for less than $50.

Interactive White Boards. Some of you might know these interactive white boards as "promethean boards" or "smart boards." These are the next step up from the old-school overhead projectors. Best of all, you will no longer need transparencies! You can connect the white board to a computer and share documents, websites and even play games. With a large touch screen, students will be excited to come up to the white board to help complete notes, do examples or take part in one of the many interactive games and demonstrations that can be used.

Tablets. A tablet can act as a personalized interactive white board. Instead of one large white board on the wall for the whole class to use, each student can have a touch screen right in the palm of his or her hands. The best feature of tablets is that they allow for customized learning. Ever wondered how you could possibly differentiate your lessons for all the different types of learners in your class? Tablets are the way to go. Students can work at a pace that suits them, and still be learning.

Clickers. Clickers allow every student to feel like he or she is on a game show. Clickers, when used wisely, can keep students engaged during a lesson, help promote discussion and also give the teacher instant feedback on student comprehension.

Graphing Calculators. The graphing calculator has come a long way. Some calculators can now be connected to the teacher's calculator, the interactive white board, the computer or other technology. The graphing calculator can give students an amazing tool for seeing math come to life. Many models can also work as clickers.

Printable Stuff. A teacher's time is a precious commodity, and saving time on the little things is critical when teaching. The Cornerstone offers many free items that can be printed directly from the website, including customizable flash cards, awards and even specialized forms for just about any school occasion. You will not have to recreate the wheel; instead, just print what you need.

Practice Drills. Sometimes students need practice to become fluent in their math skills. Practice drills, or "mad minutes," can be a quick and easy way to provide students with the practice they need. You can design your own practice drills, or if you'd like to save time, simply print some of these pre-made items.

You can find tons of drills already made at Math-Drills.com.

Donna Young also has pre-made practice sheets on her website as well.

Manipulatives

Manipulatives make learning mathematical concepts fun and engaging for students. However, buying supplies for the classroom can get expensive, and you can't always expect to be reimbursed. Therefore, you may want to create some of the manipulatives yourself. Instead of spending time trying to get everything formatted correctly, you can visit one of the many free websites offering pre-made math goodies and have them ready to print for your use!

Black Line Masters offers a wide-range of printable tools and resources geared towards students in pre-K through ninth grade. Check it out, and see what you can use in your classroom. Bookmark it for later so you can go back and print more as your needs change.

SEN Teacher has a page of printable items mostly geared towards the elementary level, including clocks, polygons and even coins. These items look even better when printed in color. Be sure to print on card stock and laminate the items so that they last longer.

IAmHomeschooling.com also offers plenty of ready-made manipulatives and other tools. From pre-K to high school, there are items for students at every level. You can print algebra tiles, Cuisenaire style rods or fraction circles. These are also colorful and can be used over and over if printed on thick card stock and laminated

Craig Loewen of Lethbridge University has a small batch of excellent resources for students in higher level classes, including tangrams and geoboards. These tools have tons of possible uses to enhance your math lessons!

Lessons and Videos

Maybe you already have amazing technology in your classroom. All you need now is some great content to use with that technology to enhance classroom learning. There are many great resources to be found on the web, and many of them are free. Here is a breakdown of some of the sites offering the best lesson plans, videos or even entire courses.

Khan Academy is completely free and offers an excellent library of videos presenting complex math topics in a way that is easy to comprehend. There are also practice questions that can be used in conjunction with the videos.

Saylor University is branching out with brand new, fully-loaded courses for grades K-12. Many courses included assessments, lessons, videos and discussion questions. New courses aligned to the Common Core standards will also be added. For those students looking for a challenge, there is a whole line of open college courses, too.

Want to make your own online textbook for free? Need a lesson plan? Then CK-12 Foundation has what you need! From single lessons to entire courses, CK-12 has it all. Many of the lessons are connected to the Common Core standards as well.

Discovery Education offers a wide-range of new and interesting pre-made lesson plans for you to use. Be sure to check back as new materials are updated. To quick access to materials for the level you are teaching, simply click on K-5, 6-8, or 9-12.

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics believes math lessons should be more than just "drill and kill!" They've put together an excellent compilation of lesson plans and activities. These are free and geared towards many different levels. Be sure to click on your grade level to maximize your search results.

PBS Learning Media offers an eclectic library of activities and is a great place to find videos or ideas to spice up your lessons. There is a section specifically for K-8, and a section for each of the high school topics. This resource is free, but you may be asked to set up an account.

Cynthia Lanius from Rice University has created this site featuring a broad collection of math lessons that are sure to be "fun, fun, fun!" The lessons are scattered about the page, but you can click on any of the links to get to the actual details. Many involve real-life scenarios and ideas to really get students thinking. These lessons are suitable for upper elementary and middle school students.

K-5 Teaching Resources is an especially great website, and could really be placed under every category in this article. Not only are there lessons, practice tasks, math vocabulary practice ideas and math projects, but you'll also find games and printable items and just about anything else you could need for teaching grades K through 5. By clicking on the links to the different grade levels within the site, you will even be given lists of books that you can use to incorporate literature and language arts into your math lessons.

Learn Zillion is a great place to visit if you're looking to boost classroom discussions with videos and lessons that explain math topics in an easy-to-understand and engaging way. The site offers fun and educational content appropriate for all levels of students. You can use the videos to start a lesson and introduce new ideas, or you can use them to help students draw conclusions and bring it all together.

Who says math can't be fun? With Mathalicious, spicing up middle school and high school math lessons just got a whole lot easier. These amazing collections of lessons will not only get your students thinking and problem solving, but they will have fun while doing it! The lessons are typically geared towards using math in real-life applications, which really helps students see the importance of learning and understating math.

Have you ever heard of the Three Act Math Task? Dan Meyer's has put together some ingenious ideas for changing the way we teach middle and high school math. What's even better, these great ideas are available in a Google spreadsheet, which means anyone can apply them in the classroom. Some of the lessons include videos and data that can be a great starting point for enhancing your lesson, even if you don't follow the three acts.

Shodor is a great resource for students to see math in action. This interactive website has already designed a plethora of fantastic math activities to help students see math at work. The geometry and probability sections are especially helpful!

Online Games

Kids love games! Learning becomes easy with a game that is not only fun, but also meaningful. The next section outlines several resources for the best online math games available.

Mr. Nussbaum is geared towards students in grades pre-K-5. The games are free, entertaining and engaging. Many of the games can be played on iPads and iPhones as well.

Math is Fun is a free website offering mini explanations of math topics from all levels, including elementary to high school. It also features tons of games and puzzles to explore.

Sheppard Software is a great resource for teachers looking for new ways to differentiate. The games offered on this site have many levels, so no matter what stage your student is at, he or she can still practice and have fun! The games are geared towards elementary and middle school students.

Soft Schools has it all, from counting to AP statistics. There are tons of games, worksheets and even online quizzes to help students stay engaged in math.

Cool Math offers a broad collection of free games for a range of age levels. There's also a special section for 3- to 5-year-old students, and you will even find a special section for pre-calculus. Be sure to check out the lessons and activities, too.

Math Playground features games for students that are used to playing video games on consoles, such as Xbox, PlayStation or Nintendo DS. The graphics are great for math games, and most are made for elementary and early middle school students. You will also find a link to great iPad apps that give your brain a workout, and many math manipulatives that would be great for use with an interactive white board.

Math Blaster contains a selection of free games with an option to purchase a membership for access to lessons, additional games and other features. There is also a special section for teachers. Games specifically focus on skills for grades pre-K-6.

Math Activities

Some students just need to be able to learn while doing. Gone are the days of the math "drill and kill" lessons, where students silently solved hundreds of problems. Many students benefit from moving around and discussing with other students. The following list includes interesting activities already made or created to help get teachers thinking beyond the worksheet or textbook.

"Gone are the days of the math "drill and kill" lessons..."

Hands on Math Activities was put together by Wendy Sawatzky. Activities are divided up into categories, and each category includes a basic summary of the activities included and an explanation of any extra materials you might need to carry them out.

Education.com has an interesting selection of activities that will keep students motivated about learning. There's a ton of fun and educational activities that will help keep students engaged in the learning process, including projects like using math skills to make toothpaste or making collages of cityscapes using geometric shapes.

Activity Village has an assortment of games using dice! Students will enjoy this site because they will feel like they are playing a game, but they're also learning math, too! Dice are usually available at dollar or discount stores and can be an inexpensive way to spice up the classroom.

Crewton Ramone's House of Math shares some interesting ways of changing up card games in order to help promote math skills. There are so many ways to change up the games so that differentiation becomes a little easier while still allowing everyone a chance to play.

Teach Mama has three absolutely wonderful ideas for games that are easy to make, easy to play and a fun way to learn or practice math skills. These activities are most appropriate for elementary level students.

Homeschooling Hearts and Minds shares a simple way to help students practice place value and other math concepts through the use of an abacus. When students ask why they can't use a calculator in your class, you can tell them to use their abacus!

Education.com has yet another gem. They have put together a nice group of activities specifically for middle school students. The activities are fun and are a perfect way to spice up lessons.

Hands on Math is a blog with a lot of great ideas to make math more engaging and fun. You may have to sift through some of the other posts, but in between are excellent ideas for teaching math and getting students thinking. There is even talk of using playdough to help students learn. Who doesn't love playdough?

Cut the Knot features almost 1500 different activities to make learning math more exciting. Activities are organized into categories to help you quickly find what you are looking to teach. Many of the activities would be suitable to the high school crowd.

Science Buddies has a list of projects suitable for science fairs, but they also include ideas for math. The projects are organized into three difficulty levels. You can use these ideas to create class projects.

Many games can be switched around to fit the topic you are teaching. The difficult part is coming up with enough inventive ways to keep children excited to play. Multiplication.com has a comprehensive list of math games that are easy to play. There's also a guide for each game that explains how to use the games and how easy or difficult they may be for students.

David Gardner has put together 17 pages worth of games designed for primary school students. Again, some of these games can be adapted for use in lessons other than the ones mentioned on the site. In addition, many of the games require little-to-no cost or preparation.

Common Core

Making sense of the rigorous Common Core standards can be tough. However, there are tons of resources out there to help you create the best lessons in accordance with the new standards. The following compilation of resources includes activities, lessons, unit plans and even practice assessment questions to help you best prepare your students for success.

Learning Math at Home

Getting support from families really helps build a relationship between home and school; it also helps students learn and retain information. It is important to keep families informed about the happenings in your classroom. Moreover, parents are often interested in knowing what their children are learning in school. The followings websites include tips and tools that you can share with parents to help them get involved in their child's math education.

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has a special section geared towards families. They offer tips for helping with math homework and problems for families to solve together.

The US Department of Education has put together many activities to help build mathematics into everyday life. Helping students and families see the importance of math and how it can be used everywhere is an important step in getting everyone on board for learning! These activities also make math seem fun and interesting when done together as a family.

Here are some ideas on how families can help with math homework from Great Schools. This is another link that you might want to post to your teacher website or email to parents at the beginning of the year. There are also tips to help parents know where to start when trying to work through a difficult homework assignment.

For the elementary levels, Everyday Mathematics has some helpful guidance for parents to help their child(ren) build number sense and become better prepared for higher level math.

EngageNY has put together resources to help families as the Common Core standards are implemented. This is an excellent resource to share with parents of the school where you teach is using the modules created for Common Core.

Ideas for Over the Summer

Creating something meaningful for students to do to keep their math skills in tip-top shape can be time consuming. Instead, here are some premade activities that you can share with your students so that they return in the fall ready to learn.

For grades 1 through 5, there are summer themed math worksheets at Kid Zone . You can share the links with families or print them out and make a packet for students to work on over the summer break.

Family Education has some excellent ideas for activities that students can do over the summer that involve math.

Here are a few others:

Math Contests and Competitions

Sometimes students need an extra challenge. A math contest or competition could be a perfect push to get students motivated. In addition, you could help your students win money towards college, or you could win money for supplies and other classroom necessities.

Moody's Mega Math Challenge offers $20,000 to the winning team each year. Three to five students in 11th or 12th grade work with one teacher to solve a "mega problem." The problems may not seem like math problems at first, but the math is an important part of the solution.

Mathcounts has a Math Video Challenge. Students make a video showing a math problem and its real life applications. Students get a chance to mix their math skills with the technology. In the end, teachers have an archive of videos that answer the age old question, "When are we going to use this?"

The Mathematical Association of America offers the AMC 10/12 test for high school students. It is a multiple choice test with questions ranging from really easy to truly challenging! There is also an AMC 8 for students at the middle school level. If a student happens to do well on the AMC 10/12 he or she could be invited to take part in the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad. Yes, it is basically the Olympics for Mathematics!

If organizing a group of students to travel for a competition seems impractical or too difficult, you can also take part in the National Internet Math Olympiad. The contests are monthly and seasonal, so be sure to check the website often. There is also a Junior Online Math Olympiad) for lower level students to check out.

The Mathematical Association holds the Primary Math Challenge, a competition specifically designed for elementary students. The competition takes place in November, and students that do really well will be asked to take part in a bonus round in February.

The University of Alabama offers a Math by Mail contest. There is no traveling required, and there are cash prizes to be won! The entire contest is done through the mail.

Here is yet another contest for elementary students. Over at Noetic Learning, students can take part in a contest where they will have 45 minutes to answer 20 questions. The top students will earn a medal, and the top 50% will have their names placed on the Noetic Learning website.

The Art of Problem Solving has a great list of competitions categorized by state so that you can find even more way to challenge your students. There are other national competitions listed above as well.

Blogs

Teachers need a place to discuss and grow. Some of the greatest minds out there are blogging away while thinking about teaching and trying to find ways of reaching students and building math understanding. The following list includes some great blogs that you may want check out to gain perspective and build an online support system when you need help.

For the Love of Teaching Math is not only cute, but it's also home to some really great ideas. Sometimes you just need to see how other teachers are doing it, and this blog provides a chance to see a bit of what goes on in another math teacher's brain.

Reflections of a High School Math Teacher offers a great discussion of mathematics in real-world application. Each post is a true mathematical look at real life, and the applications tend to differ from what you find elsewhere.

Dividing by Zero is great for middle school math teachers looking for a blog that is focused on math and the classroom. This savvy blogger shares the triumphs and struggles of teaching middle school math and describes the different activities she has tried while teaching.

Mr. Andrew Stadel writes at Divisible by 3. This blog features a mix of all different types of posts. Many teachers, old and new, will find the discussions worth reading. Mr. Stadel offers a look at different activities he is working on for the 3 Act lessons, and he even discusses assessments. professional development and trainings.

I Speak Math has put together a master list of the many great middle school math blogs currently out there.

Walking in Mathland is a great place to go to find out what other teachers think about an activity they have tried before you try it yourself.

Over at dy/dan, Dan Meyer writes about math education, what is wrong with it and how it can be made better. He writes about the three act lessons that he has put together, professional development opportunities he has taken part in and even other proposed learning models. He thinks deeply about each topic and has a fun way with words that make his articles enjoyable to read.

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This cooperative learning strategy has been around for decades, but how well do you really know it?
Say "Jigsaw" in some teaching circles and no one will bat an eyelash. It's one of those techniques that has been with us so long, it is no longer seen as new. When considering methods to share in my collection of instructional strategies, I ignored it for a long time because I assumed most people already knew how to use it. Still, I figured it was worth including at some point.

When I finally sat down to review the steps of Jigsaw, I came across a few surprises.

Although Jigsaw is typically presented as just one in a number of cooperative learning strategies, its origin story has little to do with academics. The strategy was developed by social psychologist Elliot Aronson in 1971 in response to the racial turmoil caused by recent school desegregation in Austin, Texas. "Long-standing suspicion, fear, and distrust between groups produced an atmosphere of turmoil and hostility," Aronson recalls on his website, The Jigsaw Classroom. "Fist-fights erupted in corridors and schoolyards across the city. The school superintendent called me in to see if we could do anything to help students get along with one another."

Rather than take a crisis management approach to the situation, which they believed would only put a band-aid on the problem, Aronson and his colleagues wanted a solution that was more organic, something built into the structure of students' everyday learning. What they came up with was Jigsaw, an instructional approach that required students to learn from each other, rather than from the teacher. Because students in a Jigsaw classroom could not succeed without one another, they had to learn to get along. "Learning from each other gradually diminishes the need to try to out-perform each other because one student's learning enhances the performance of the other students instead of inhibiting it, as is usually the case in most competitive, teacher-oriented classrooms."

For a more thorough understanding of the strategy and its history, read the Jigsaw Classroom's Jigsaw Basics white paper.

Although cooperative learning in general has been proven to have a strong positive impact on learning (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001), researchers have found that Jigsaw in particular improves students' social-emotional learning. In studies comparing Jigsaw with traditional direct instruction, students taught with the Jigsaw method demonstrated increased feelings of autonomy, competence, and intrinsic motivation (Hänze & Berger, 2007). Another study comparing Jigsaw with cooperative learning that didn't include interdependence (a hallmark of Jigsaw) found that the Jigsaw students demonstrated improved attitudes toward their peers and reduced indicators of racial prejudice (Walker & Crogan, 1998).

Many teachers are looking for ways to help students become more independent learners who also function well in groups. If done correctly, Jigsaw can fulfill all of those needs without ever losing academic rigor.

As a teacher, I never received any formal training in this strategy, and when I tried it, I found it didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped. After studying the steps again, I realized I was organizing my groups the wrong way. Plus, I never bothered to give the quiz at the end.

Anyway, here's a video overview of the steps. If you're new to the strategy, this will show you how to do it. If, like me, you've tried it without success, this may help you fine-tune:

Want these steps written down? Click here to download a free copy (will open in a new window).

I had no clue about this! Since the original Jigsaw strategy was developed, other educators have improved on it with their own variations (Coffey, n.d):

Jigsaw II has all students read all of the material, but then specialize in one area for their expert groups. Then, when quiz time comes, students' individual scores are averaged within each group to arrive at a group score, which is then compared with other groups. This encourages groups to work harder to ensure that all members learn.

Jigsaw III builds in a group review before the final quiz.

Jigsaw IV adds a few extra components to Jigsaw III: The teacher starts by introducing the material, quizzes are given to the expert groups, and a re-teaching period is built in to address material that wasn't taught well in cooperative groups.

I should mention that clear information on these three variations was very challenging to find; with that in mind, I believe there's a need for a well-written set of instructions to help teachers give each variation a try.

So how do you like them apples? Kind of makes you want to get Jiggy with it, no? (Sorry, I couldn't help it. It was sitting right there.) If you have experience with Jigsaw and have insights or tips to add, please comment below. If you have questions about implementation, let's hear those, too.

Jiggy. ♥

References:

Coffey, H. (n.d.). Jigsaw (Educator's guides: North Carolina digital history). Retrieved from http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-eg/4584#noteref5

Hänze, M., & Berger, R. (2007). Cooperative learning, motivational effects, and student characteristics: An experimental study comparing cooperative learning and direct instruction in 12th grade physics classes. Learning and Instruction, 17(1), 29-41. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475206001174

Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D., & Pollock, J. E. (2001). Classroom instruction that works: Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Silver, H. F., Strong, R. W., & Perini, M. J. (2007). The strategic teacher: Selecting the right research-based strategy for every lesson. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Walker, I. (1998). Academic performance, prejudice, and the jigsaw classroom: New pieces to the puzzle. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 8(6), 381-393. Retrieved from http://uwf.edu/svodanov/AS/Jigsaw.pdf

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(Spoiler alert! The last line is important and about 45 seconds before the end the woman appears in a bra...preview before using with non-adult classes)

It's a lovely piece, and very timely for us at this time of year. The video, and the reading are in English. It could absolutely be done without sound and by translating the reading below.

The video, in English, is actually a very cool conversation between a man and a woman. The reading is directed to the viewer and is directly correlated, using most of the same vocabulary and structures. It is a bit different than the narration-type readings posted in the past. See what you think!

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Imagine......one extra day. Think about it. What would you do?

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Would you just sleep in late? Would you spend time at the gym? Would you visit someone you don't get to see?

Would you work and get things done? Would you curl up with a book? Would you spend some time in the tub?

Would you tell more people that you like them? Would you use the time to straighten out your life a bit?

Would it take you a day to decide how to use it? Would you share it with some friends?

What would you call it? A name that captures the potential? Would you just call it the EXTRA day?

Imagine that there is one extra day in the week. Think about the possibilities. One extra day, without responsibilities? Would you travel? It couldn't be far. You would only have one day.

Would you just sleep in late and enjoy it? (Or would that be a waste?) Would you spend a little extra time at the gym? ( Do you even like the gym? ) Would you visit someone you care about, but don't often get to see?

Would you work a few hours and get everything done? Would you curl up with a book that you love? Would you spend some time in the tub?

What would you pay more attention to? Would you take the time to tell more people that you like them? Would you use the time to get organized and straighten out your life a bit?

Or would it take you the entire day to decide how to use it? Would you drink a little wine, maybe share it with some friends?

If you had this day...would you want it to have a special name? A name that captures all of the potential? Would you call it the EXTRA day? Or maybe the SPECIAL day?

Imagine that there is one extra day in the week. Think about the possibilities. One extra day, without responsibilities. Would you be able to travel? It couldn't be far. You would only have one day.

Would you just sleep in late and enjoy it? (Or would that be a waste?) Would you spend time at the gym? (Do you even like the gym enough to do that?) Would you visit someone you care about, but don't often get to see? Would only one day be enough?

Would you work a few extra hours and for once, get everything done? Would you curl up with a book that you love, or perhaps one that you haven't yet read? Would you spend some time in the tub?

What would you pay more attention to? Would you take the time to tell more people that you like them? (Or would that just be weird? ) Would you use the time to get organized, fix things and straighten out your life a bit? Or would you want to do something better on this extra day?

Or would it take you the entire extra day to decide how you would use it? Would you find time to taste delicious wine, maybe share it, the wine and the day, with some special friends?

If you had this day, if it existed...what would you call it? Would you want it to have a special name? A name that captures all of the potential? All of the possibilities? Would you call it the EXTRA day? Or maybe the UNIQUE day? What about the SPECIAL day?

Then again...why not just call it....EVERYDAY?
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Chopin, Kate - Selected Stories - Multiple Formats

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Dante Alighieri - The Inferno, Cantos I-VIII (Read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

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Dick, Philip K - Radio Plays - Stream

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Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol (Read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

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Dr Who Audio Dramas - Spotify

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Erdich, Louise - "The Stone" (read by the author) - Free Stream

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Flaubert, Gustave - Three Short Works

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Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - "Troll Bridge" (read live, starts at 4:00 mark) - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury" (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

Gaiman, Neil - "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" - Free MP3

Gaitskill, Mary - "The Other Place" (read by Jennifer Egan) - Free MP3

Geng, Veronica - "Love Trouble Is My Business" (read by Jonathan Franzen) - Free MP3

Gogol, Nikolai - "The Nose" - Free MP3

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Gordimer, Nadine - "A Style of Her Own" and "The Bridegroom" (read by the author, 1961) - Free Stream/Download

Gordimer, Nadine - "City Lovers" (read by Tessa Hadley) - Free MP3

Gordimer, Nadine - "Loot" (read by author) - YouTube

Gordimer, Nadine - "The Pet" (read by Joseph O'Neill) - Free Stream

Grahame, Kenneth - The Reluctant Dragon (read by Boris Karloff) - YouTube

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Rappaccini's Daughter - Free Stream

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter - Spotify

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - "Wakefield" (Read by Paul Auster) - YouTube

Hayden, Julie - "Day-Old Baby Rats" (read by Lorrie Moore) Free MP3

Heinlein, Robert - Methuselah's Children (abridged) - Free Stream/MP3

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms (1948 radio drama) - YouTube

Hemingway, Ernest - Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway - Free Stream

Hemingway, Ernest - Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes) - Free MP3

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - "Simple on Indian Blood"(read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "A Toast to Harlem" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Last Whipping" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Feet Live Their Own Life" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hugo, Victor - Les Misérables - Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles - Multiple formats

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged version read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World (Dramatized version read by Huxley) - Free Stream

Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle - Free MP3

James, Henry - "Greville Fane" (read by Cynthia Ozick) - Free Stream/Download

Johnson, Denis - "Emergency" (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3

Joyce, James - "Eveline" (read by Sebastian Barry) - Free MP3

Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" - Free MP3 Zip File

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Cynthia Nixon & Colum McCann) - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Bart Wolffe) - Spotify

July, Miranda - "Ron Spivey" (read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "A Little Fable" (Read by David Foster Wallace) - Free Stream

Kafka, Franz - "A Hunger Artist" (read by Hanif Kureishi) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "Before the Law" - Free MP3

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Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis - Free iTunes - Free MP3 - Free Stream - Spotify

Karloff, Boris - Tales of the Frightened - YouTube

Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc - 18 Hours of Beat Readings - Spotify

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Figures in the Distance" (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) - Free MP3

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Girl" and "Wingless" (read by Edwidge Danticat) - Free Stream

King, Stephen - "Afterlife" - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - Kim - Free iTunes

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Lahiri, Jhumpa - "Casting Shadows‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

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Leroux, Gaston - The Phantom of the Opera (abridged) - Spotify

Lethem, Jonathan - "The Afterlife‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia - Free MP3s

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Horse and His Boy

The Magician's Nephew

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Lewis, Sinclair - It Can't Happen Here (reading of an adapted play) - YouTube

London, Jack - The Heathen - Free MP3

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Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Celebrities (Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton & More) - Free Stream/Download

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Other Celebrities - SoundCloud

Miller, Arthur - Readings from The Crucible and Death of a Salesman - Spotify

Miller Jr, Walter M. - A Canticle for Leibowitz (Dramatized Version) - Free Stream

Miller, William - Rent Party Jazz (read by Viola Davis) - YouTube

Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh (read Disney Book Group) - Free iTunes

Milton, John - Paradise Regained - Free MP3 Zip File

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Murakami, Haruki - "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" - Free Stream

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Nabokov, Vladimir - My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free MP3

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Nabokov, Vladimir - Signs and Symbols - Free iTunes

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Nin, Anais - "Under a Glass Bell" (Read by the author) - YouTube

NPR - Star Wars Trilogy Radio Drama - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "A Good Man is Hard to Find." (Read by author in 1959) - Stream/Download

O'Connor, Flannery - "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (Read by Estelle Parsons) - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "Revelation" (Read by Studs Terkel) - Stream

O'Connor, Frank - "The Man of the World" (read by Julian Barnes) MP3

Oates, Joyce Carol - "Mastiff" (read by Louise Erdrich) - Free Stream

Oates, Joyce Carol -"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Radio Drama from 1949 starting David Niven) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Complete reading by Pacifica Radio) - Soundcloud

Orwell, George - Animal Farm - Spotify version

Oz, Amos - "The King of Norway" (read by Jonathan Safran Foer) - Free Stream

Ozick, Cynthia - "The Shawl" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - Free Stream

Paley, Grace - "Love" (read by George Saunders) - Free Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Three Women (a radio play) - Free Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Essential Edgar Allan Poe - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - "The Masque of the Red Death" and Annabel Lee (read by William S. Burroughs) - Free YouTube Audio

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Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and the Pendulum - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Stan Lee) - YouTube

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Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by John Astin) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (as read by Anne Waldman) - SoundCloud

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Vincent Price) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Christopher Lee) - Free YouTube Audio

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Porter, Eleanor - Pollyanna - Free MP3 Zip File

Price, Vincent - The Price of Fear (Classic radio show featuring Vincent Price) - Free YouTube

Pritchett, V.S. - The Rescue (Read by Jonathan Lethem) - Free Stream

Prokofiev, Sergei - Peter and the Wolf (Narrated by David Bowie) - Spotify

Proust, Marcel - À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Œuvre Intégrale) (in French) - Free Stream

Ratcliffe, Stephen - Continuum - Free MP3 Stream

Rand, Ayn - Anthem - Spotify

Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front - Free Stream

Rushdie, Salman - "The Little King‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

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Safran Foer, Jonathan - "Love is Blind and Deaf" - Video Animation

Saramago, José - "The Centaur" (Read by Nadine Gordimer) - Free MP3

Sartre, Jean-Paul (Performed by Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Elliott Spencer" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Ghoul" (read by the author) - Free Stream

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Sedaris, David - "Six to Eight Black Men" from the album 'Live at Carnegie Hall' - YouTube Audio

Sedaris, David - "Solution to Saturday's Puzzle"from When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Free MP3

Sendak, Maurice - Where the Wild Things Are (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

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Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Boris Karloff) - Spotify

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Keith Morrison) - YouTube

Schwartz, Delmore - "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (Read by Lou Reed) - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare's Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More - Free on Spotify

Shakespeare, William - 10 Plays Performed by Orson Welles on the Radio - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - Hamlet (Starring John Gielgud) - Spotify + Archive.org

Shakespeare, William - Macbeth (with Alec Guinness) - Free Spotify

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (narrated by Aaron Mahnke of the Lore podcast) - Free iTunes

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein - Free iTunes - Free MP3

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (Abridged version read by Christophe Lee) - Spotify

Shepard, Sam - "Indianapolis (Highway 74)" read by Dave Eggers - Free Stream

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Animated film narrated by the author) - YouTube

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Read by Arianna Huffington) - YouTube

Singer, Isaac Bashevis - Disguised (read by Nathan Englander) - Free MP3

Smith, Zadie - "Escape from New York" (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Audio Stream

Stein, Gertrude - If I Told Him: a Completed Portrait of Picasso - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - Matisse - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Fifteenth Of November . . . T. S. Eliot - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans - Free MP3

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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (Read by Hans Conried) - Spotify

Stoker, Bram - Dracula (Read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Stone, Tanya Lee - The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams (Read by Kiernan Shipka) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - A Child's Christmas in Wales (read by Thomas) - Youtube

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina - Free Stream

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina -

Tolstoy, Leo - Five Short Stories - Spotify

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Stream/MP3

Tolstoy, Leo - What Men Live By and Other Tales - Free iTunes

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Multiple formats

Wells, Tower - "Leopard" (Read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3 Stream

Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers - Free MP3 Zip File

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Multiple versions here

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Spotify version

Unknown - Epic of Gilgamesh - Free iTunes

Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Free MP3 Zip File

Updike, John - "Playing with Dynamite" (read by Roger Angell) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "A & P." (read by Allegra Goodman) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "The City" (read by John Updike) - Free Stream

Updike, John - "The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd" - YouTube

Updike, John - "Twin Beds in Rome" - Free Stream

Verne, Jules - Mysterious Island - Free iTunes

Verne, Jules - The Master of the World - Free MP3

Voltaire - Candide - Free MP3

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Vonnegut, Kurt - "The Drone" - Free Stream

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Soldier's Story (as a radio opera) - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "Good People" - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "The View from Mrs. Thompson's" (read by DFW) - Free MP3

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisit, Abridged (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream

Welles, Orson - "The Shadow" radio drama (Performed by Welles) - Free MP3

Wells, HG - Magic Shop - Free Stream

Wells, HG - Time Machine (narrated by Kelsey Grammer) - Free iTunes

Wells, HG - Time Machine (dramatized version) - Spotify

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Famous 1938 radio adaptation by Orson Welles) - Stream

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Read by Maxwell Caulfield) - Spotify

Welty, Eudora - "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - MP3

Welty, Eudora - "Why I Live at the P.O." - YouTube

Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence - Free iTunes

Wharton, Edith - The Fulness of Life - Free MP3

Wilde, Oscar - The Happy Prince - Free MP3

Version read by Stephen Fry - YouTube

Version read by Orson Welles and Bing Crosby - YouTube

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Wolff, Tobias - "Bullet in the Brain" (read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (MP3)

Wolff, Tobias - "The Night in Question" (read by Akhil Sharma) (MP3)

Woolf, Virginia - The Voyage Out - Free Stream

Woolf, Virginia - The Short Stories - Spotify

Wyss, Johann David - The Swiss Family Robinson - Free MP3 Zip File

Poetry

Angelou, Maya - On the Pulse of Morning (read by the author) - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Phenomenal Woman - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Still I Rise & On the Pulse of the Morning (read by author) - YouTube

Anonymous - Beowulf - Free iTunes - Free MP3s - Reading by Seamus Heaney

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Le pont Mirabeau (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Marie (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

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Aragon, Louis - Elsa (read by author) - Free Stream

Arnold, Matthew - The Poetry of Matthew Arnold - Free Stream on Spotify

Arnold, Matthew - Dover Beach - Free Stream/Download

Ashbery, John - Everyman - Free MP3

Ashbery, John - "Meditations of a Parrot," "The Painter" and "The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers" (read by the author)- Free Stream/MP3

Ashbery, John - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939; As I Walked Out One Evening; "Song of the Master and Boatswain," (read by Dylan Thomas) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939 - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - As I Walked Out One Evening (read by Auden) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Autumn Song - Free MP3

Auden, W.H. - Bucolics and Horae Cononicae (read by Auden) - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W. H. - In Memory of WB Yeats - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Metalogue to The Magic Flute (read by Auden - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W.H. - The Sea and The Mirror (read by the author) - Free Stream/Download

Baudelaire, Charles - Les fleurs du mal (in French) - Free Stream

Beckett, Samuel - Tailpiece and 23rd Addenda (read by the author) - YouTube

Beefheart, Captain - Fallin Ditch, Skeleton Makes Good & More (read by the author) - YouTube

Blake, William - A Little Boy Lost - Free MP3

Blake, William - Jerusalem - Free MP3 Zip File

Blake, William - Laughing Song - Free MP3

Blake, William - London - Free MP3

Blake, William - Preface to Milton - Free MP3

Blake, William - Piping Down Valleys Wild - Free MP3

Blake, William - Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as read by Allen Ginsberg - Free Stream/MP3

Blake, William - The Chimney Sweeper - Free MP3

Blake, William - The School Boy - Free MP3

Blake, William - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Art of Poetry/Arte Poétic - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Borges Reads 30 of His Poems in Spanish - Spotify

Borges, Jorge Luis - Plainness - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - If Only We Had Taller Been (read by the author) - YouTube

Bronte, Emily - Anticipation - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Encouragement - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Poems - Free MP3

Bukowski, Charles - 4 Hours of Bukowski Readings - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - At Terror Street and Agony Way - Free Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Beer - Animated Video

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Girl on the Escalator - Vimeo

Bukowski, Charles - Hostage - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Master Collection - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Laughing Heart (read by Tom Waits) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Crunch and Roll The Dice (read by Bono) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Secret to My Endurance (read by Bukowski) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird and Torched Out (read by Harry Dean Stanton) - YouTube Video

Burton, Tim - The Nightmare Before Christmas (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube Video

Byron - Childe Harold: Canto III - Free MP3

Byron - Darkness - Free MP3

Byron - Newton - Free MP3

Byron - She Walks in Beauty - Free MP3

Cage, John - Overpopulation and Art - Free Stream

Carroll, Jim - Praying Mantis - Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - Jabberwocky (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Carroll, Lewis - Youtube Animated Video

Carroll, Lewis - The Poetry of Lewis Carroll - Spotify

Carver, Raymond - Late Fragment - Free Stream

Cavafy, C.P. - Ithaca (read by Sean Connery) - YouTube

Ciardi, John - As If: Poems New and Selected by John Ciardi (read by the author) - Spotify

Cocteau, Jean - Requiem (read by the author) - Free Stream

Cohen, Leonard - "For E.J.P" and "You Have the Lovers" (read by Cohen) - Free Stream/Download

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan (read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Coleridge, Samuel - Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - The Dungeon - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Poems (Read by Ralph Richardson) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - The Best Cigarette (Poetry collection read by the author) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - Soap - Spotify

Crane, Hart - "The Broken Tower" and "The Hurricane" (read by Tennessee Williams) - Vimeo

Crowley, Aleister - Poems by Aleister Crowley (read by Aleister Crowley) - Spotify

Cummings, EE - Somewhere I Have Never Travelled - (read by author) - YouTube

Cummings, EE - Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town - (read by author) - YouTube

Dante - Inferno (read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

De Troyes, Chretien - Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart- Stream

Dickinson, Emily - An 8 Hour Reading of Emily Dickinson Poetry- YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 2 - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Poems & Letters - Spotify

Dickinson, Emily - Because I Could Not Stop for Death - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Hope Is the Thing With Feathers - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - 'I Started Early-Took My Dog' - YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - There's a certain Slant of light" (read by Susan Howe) - YouTube

Donne, John - Death, Be Not Proud - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Good-morrow - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Sunne Rising - Free MP3

Ehrmann, Max - Desiderata (Read by Leonard Nimoy) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by Alec Guinness) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Journey of the Magi(Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Read by T.S. Eliot) - Spotify playlist

Eliot, T.S. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land - Free MP3

Listen to reading by TS Eliot - YouTube

Hear reading by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins - Stream

Eliot, T.S. - T.S. Eliot Reading Poems and Choruses - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - A Coney Island of the Mind - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Baseball Canto - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Evil - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - 'The First and the Last of Everything' (read by author) - Free Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - "Underwear" (read by author) - YouTube

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Wilfred Funk (read by author) - Free MP3/Stream

Frost, Robert - A Line Storm Song - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - My Butterfly - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - October - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - The Gift Outright (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - "The Road Not Taken," "The Pasture," "Mowing," "Birches," "After Apple-Picking," and "The Tuft of Flowers" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Frost, Robert - Robert Frost Reads His Poetry - Free Spotify

Gaiman, Neil - The Mushroom Hunters (read by Amanda Palmer) - Soundcloud

Ginsberg, Allen - A Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - America (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - First Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl, A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, and Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3/Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by Ginsberg, 1959) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (first recorded reading of Howl by Ginsberg, 1956) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by James Franco) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Jahweh and Allah Battle - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Kaddish and other works (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg , Allen - Mind Breaths (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Sunflower Sutra (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - The Last Word on First Blues - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - The Lion for Real (read by Ginsberg) - Free on Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - "The Shrouded Stranger Of The Night," "Sweet Levinsky," and "Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City." - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - "What would you do if you lost it?" (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Witchita Vortex Sutra - Spotify

Giorno, John - The Death of William Burroughs - Free Stream

Hardy, Thomas - Poems (read by Richard Burton) - Spotify

Hemingway, Ernest - Second Poem to Mary (read by Hemingway) - Free YouTube

Henley, Ernest - Invictus - Free YouTube

Hitchcock, Robyn - "If Death is Not the End" (Read by Alan Rickman) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Dream Keeper and Other Poems of Langston Hughes (read by Hughes) - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Glory of Negro History - Spotify

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (ready by Hughes) - YouTube

Hughes, Langston - The Voice of Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Ted - Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes & Peter Porter Read Their Poetry - Spotify

Keats, John - To Autumn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode on a Grecian Urn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as recited loosely by F. Scott Fitzgerald) - YouTube

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Keats, John - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - Free MP3

Keats, John - When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be - Free MP3

Kerouac, Jack - 4 Albums with Kerouac Reciting Poetry & Verse - Spotify

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Dennis Hopper) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Michael Caine) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - My Boy Jack (read by Ralph Fiennes) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - The Gods of the Copybook Headings - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - The Way Through the Woods - Free MP3

Levertov, Denise - City Psalm, Open Secret, Love Song, The Ache of Marriage, To the Muse, The Certainty (read by the author) - SoundCloud

Lorca, Federico Garcia (Read by Patti Smith) - YouTube

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - Selected Works - Free MP3

McCrae, John - "In Flanders Fields" (read by Leonard Cohen) - YouTube

Melville, Herman - Ball's Bluff - Free Stream

Merwin, W.S. - After a Storm (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Merwin, W.S. - Berryman (read by Janna Levin - Free Stream

Milton, John - On His Blindness - Free MP3

Multiple Authors - 19 Century French Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Multiple Authors - 20th Century French Poetry, Narrated by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Multiple Authors - French African Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Nabokov, Vladimir - The University Town (read by Ralph Fiennes) - Free Stream

Nash, Ogden - Christmas with Ogden Nash - Spotify

Nash, Ogden - Ogden Nash Read Ogden Nash - Spotify

Neruda, Pablo - First Poetry Reading in the US (1966) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - First Poetry Reading in English (1971) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Birth (Read by Neruda) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Keeping Quiet (Read by Sylvia Boorstein) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Pablo Neruda Lee a Pablo Neruda - Spotify

O'Hara, Frank - Animals (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Stream

Oliver, Mary - "The Summer Day," "Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night," "Many Miles" and "Night and the River" (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Sylvia Plath reading her poetry (23 poems read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Ariel (read by author) - YouTube Stream

Plath, Sylvia - A Birthday Present (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Daddy (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Fever 103 (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Lady Lazarus (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Morning Song (read by Meryl Streep) - SoundCould

Plath, Sylvia - Spinster - Soundcloud

Plath, Sylvia - The Applicant (read by the author) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - Annabel Lee - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven - Free MP3

Pope, Alexander - Nature and Art - Free Stream

Pope, Alexander - The Quiet Life - Free Stream

Pound, Ezra - Canto XVII ("So that the vine burst from my fingers') - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto XXX - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto XLV - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto LVI - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Homage to Sextus Propertius, Section VI (read by author) - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Sestina: Altaforte (read by author) - YouTube

Pound, Ezra - The Seafarer (read by author) - Free MP3

Rexroth, Kenneth - "One Hundred Poems from the Chinese" and "In Defense of the Earth" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Rich, Adrienne - Mourning Poem, Spring Thunder, White Night and other poems (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Rich, Adrienne - "Planetarium" (read by astrophysicist Janna Levin) - Soundcloud

Rich, Adrienne - "Power" (read by astrophysicist Roseanne Cash) - Soundcloud

Rich, Adrienne - What Kind of Times Are These? (read by the author) - Soundcloud

Rimbaud, Arthur - Illuminations - Free MP3 Zip File

Rumi - Poems read by Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks - YouTube/Soundcloud

Sandburg, Carl - A Lincoln Album: Readings by Carl Sandburg - Spotify

Sandburg, Carl - Chicago - Free Stream

Sandburg, Carl - The People Yes - Spotify

Sassoon, Siegfried - Aftermath (Read by Jeremy Irons) - YouTube

Sexton, Anne - Waiting to Die (read by author) - YouTube

Sexton, Anne - "Her Kind," "The Ambition Bird," "Ringing the Bells," "Music Swims Back to Me," and "The Truth the Dead Know" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - "With Mercy for the Greedy," "The Starry Night," "Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound," and "Self in 1958," (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - Divorce, Thy Name is Woman," "Gods Making a Living," "Jesus Cooks," "Jesus Walking," and "The Fury of Overshoes" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - "Rowing," "Riding the Elevator Into the Sky," "The Play," "The Rowing Endeth," "Us," and "The Touch" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - What's That - Spotify

Schiller, Friedrich - Poetry of Friedrich von Schiller: Read in German by Kinski - Spotify

Shakespeare, William - Shakespeare's Sonnets - Free MP3s

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Adonais - Free MP3

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Ozymandias of Egypt - Free MP3

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Ozymandias (read by Bryan Cranston) - Free YouTube

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Various Poems (read by Vincent Price) - Free Spotify

Smith, Patti - Reading at Columbia University of Poetry That Would Become Horses (1975) - YouTube

Smith, Patti - Reading of 12 Poems From "Seventh Heaven" (1972) - YouTube

Stein, Gertrude - A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (read by Gertrude Stein) - Free MP3

Stevens, Wallace - "Credences of Summer" and "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (read by the author) - Free Stream/Download

Stevens, Wallace - "The Idea of Order at Key West," "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain," and "Vacancy in the Park" (read by the author) - .au format - .gsm format -.ra format

Stevens, Wallace - To an Old Philosopher in Rome (read by the author) - Free MP3

Szymborska, Wisława - Life While-You-Wait (Read by Amanda Palmer) - Soundcloud

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Break, Break, Break - Free MP3

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Charge of the Light Brigade - Free MP3/Stream - Quicktime - RealPlayer

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Lotos-Eaters - Free MP3

Thomas, Dylan - Dylan Thomas Reads 8 Hours of His Poetry - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Three Poems Read by W.H. Auden - Free

Thomas, Dylan - An Evening with Dylan Thomas - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems by Dylan Thomas - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait' and 14 Other Poems (read by Richard Burton) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Thomas, Dylan - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the Sir Anthony Hopkins) - Free YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - The Wild West (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Updike, John - Rainbow (read by author) - Free Stream

Valéry, Paul - "Fragment Du Narcisse" (read by author) - Free Stream

Virgil - Aeneid - Free MP3 Zip Download

Whitman, Walt - O Captain! My Captain! - Free MP3

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself and Other Poems - Free Stream/MP3

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) - Free Stream/Download

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) - Free Stream

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by Orson Welles) - Free Stream

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by Eric Forsythe/U. of Iowa) - Free Stream

Wilbur, Richard - A Storm in April, The Ride, Shad-Time, Advice From the Muse and Other Poems (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Wilde, Oscar - The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Free MP3/Stream

Williams, Tennessee - Selected Poems - Free Stream/Download

Williams, Willam Carlos - Selected Poems (read by poet 1954 ) - Free MP3

Williams, William Carlos - 39 Poems Read for The Library of Congress Recording Laboratory. May 5, 1945 - Free MP3

Williams, William Carlos - The Red Wheelbarrow, Tract, The Defective Record, To a Poor Old Woman, A Coronal, To Elsie, The Wind Increases, Classic Scene (read by poet 1954) - Free

Wordsworth, William - Daffodils (Read by Jeremy Irons) - YouTube

Wordsworth, William - The Last of the Flock - Free MP3

Wordsworth, William - Solitary Reaper - Free MP3

Wordsworth, William - Tintern Abbey - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - William Butler Reads His Own Work - Spotify

Yeats, William Butler - The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Fiddler of Dooney, The Song of the Old Mother, Coole and Ballylee (read by the author) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - Byzantium - Real Media

Yeats, William Butler - Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by Anthony Hopkins) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - Sailing to Byzantium - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Cold Heaven - Free Stream/MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Fiddler of Dooney (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Song of the Old Mother (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear (read by Richard Dawkins) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - When You Are Old - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - When You Are Old (Read by Colin Farrell) - YouTube

Non-Fiction

Amis, Martin - "Phantom of the Opera"

Aristotle - Poetics (MP3 download)

Aristotle - Politics (MP3 download full zip file)

Bauhaus Reviewed: 1919 to 1933 (Oral History of the Bauhaus School) - Spotify

Augustine, Saint - City of God (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 1 (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 2(full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 3 (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 4 (full zip file)

Berger, John - Fellow Prisoners (read by Berger)

Berkeley, George - A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics (Free MP3)

Burke, Edmund - A Philosophical Enquiry (Full zip file)

Burke, Edmund - Reflections on the Revolution in France (Full zip file)

Burroughs, William S. - Breakthrough in Grey Room (Spotify)

Burroughs, William S. - Burroughs at 100 (A radio documentary narrated by Iggy Pop)

Camus, Albert - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1957 (YouTube)

Camus, Albert - The Human Crisis (Read by Actor Viggo Mortensen) - YouTube

Camus, Albert - Letter to His Elementary School Teacher (Read by Actor Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Campbell, Joseph - 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures - Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - Symbolic Logic (Free MP3)

Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic (Free MP3)

Channing, Edward - A Short History of the United States (full zip file)

Chomsky, Noam - 24 Hours of Lectures and Talks on Democracy (Spotify)

Confucius - The Sayings of Confucius (MP3 full zip file download)

Darwin, Charles - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (MP3 download full zip file)

Descartes, Rene - Discourse on Method (MP3 download).

Descartes, Rene - Meditations on First Philosophy (full zip file)

Dickens, Charles - A Child's History of England (full zip file)

Doctorow, Cory - Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future (Streamed)

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - A Speech to the People of Rochester, New York on the Hypocrisy of Slavery (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Dubois, W.E.B. - The Soul of Black Folks (iTunes)

Duchamp, Marcel - The Creative Act (YouTube)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - History (MP3 download)

Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Relativity (MP3 download full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Albert Einstein in His Own Voice (Spotify)

Faulkner, William - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954 (Soundcloud)

Foster Wallace, David - "Consider the Lobster" (Stream)

Foster Wallace, David - This is Water, 2005 Kenyon Commencement Speech (YouTube)

Foster Wallace, David - The View from Mrs Thompson's (read by the author)

Fuller, Buckminster - Buckminster Fuller Speaks His Mind - Spotify

Fuller, Buckminster - Everything I Know (Lecture Series) - Free Stream

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - "The Solitude of Latin America" (Nobel Prize Speech) (YouTube/Web Site)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 2. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 3. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 4. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Goethe - Theory of Colors (MP3s)

Grant, Ulysses S. - The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Various formats)

Harding, Samuel - The Story of the Middle Ages (Free Stream)

Henry, Patrick - Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (MP3 download)

Henry, Patrick - Speech Addressing the Virginia House of Burgesses; Richmond, Virginia; March 23, 1775 (MP3 download)

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Interviews - Spotify

Hogben, Julie Margaret - "When the Doorman is Your Main Man" (Read by Cecily Strong) - Stream Online

Holmes, Oliver Wendell - The Fountain of Youth (mp3 download)

Huxley, Aldous - Speaking Personally - (Spotify)

Huxley, Aldous - The Visionary Experience - (MP3 stream)

James, William - The Moral Equivalent of War (mp3 download)

Jefferson, Thomas - The Declaration of Independence (mp3 download)

Jobs, Steve - Stanford Graduations Speech, 2005 (YouTube)

Kandinsky, Wassily - Concerning the Spiritual in Art (mp3 download)

Kaufmann, Walter - Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)

Lessig, Lawrence - Free Culture

Lincoln, Abraham - Gettysburg Address (mp3 download)
Also see version read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)

Macauley, Thomas - History of England (Librivox)

Machiavelli, The Prince (mp3 download)

Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto (full zip download)

McCleod, Ken - Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention (Spotify)

McLuhan, Marshall - The Medium is The Massage (Spotify)

Mill, John Stuart - Utilitarianism (mp3 download full zip file)

Morrison, Toni - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993 (YouTube)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Ecce Homo (full zip file)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil (mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (full mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Twilight of the Idols (full zip)

Nin, Anais - The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol 1: A 60 minute reading by the author (YouTube)

Paine, Thomas - Common Sense (mp3 download)

Plato - The Apology of Socrates (stream/download)

Roosevelt, Theodore - Spanish-American War: The Rough Riders in Tampa (mp3 download)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (full zip file)

Russell, Bertrand - ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein (read by Derek Jacobi)

Russell, Bertrand - Why I Am Not a Christian (read by Terrence Hardiman)

Sedaris, David - Santaland Diaries (read by David Sedaris)

The Senate Intelligence Committee - The Senate Intelligence Committee Summary Report on Torture (Read by Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Matthew Rhys and Maura Tierney)

Steinbeck, John - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962 (YouTube)

Strathern, Paul - Nietzsche in 90 Minutes (YouTube Stream)

Sun-tzu - The Art of War (mp3 download)

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden (mp3 download)

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (mp3 download)

Various - The Federalist Papers Rss Feed

Various - The US Constitution Stream

Voltaire - Candide (mp3 download)

Vonnegut, Kurt - Anti-Censorship Letter Sent to School, read by Benedict Cumberbatch (YouTube)

Wiesel, Elie - Night (a marathon community reading with Dr. Ruth, Itzhak Perlman & more)

Wilde, Oscar - De Profundis (read by Patti Smith)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Having the "same" text written for different levels of English comprehension can be a life-saver for a multi-level class of English Language Learners or for a teacher with a mainstream class that includes some students that are facing other challenges. They can be an important tool for differentiation.

But where do you get these different versions other than creating them yourself?

Here are a few sources, and I hope that readers will suggest more:

Newsela provides several "levels" of the same newspaper articles, along with accompanying online quizzes, that students can read and take. For a small fee, Teachers can create a virtual classroom, assign articles and monitor student progress. However, students can read the articles for free without having to pay anything.

News In Levels offers similar resources, but without the ability to track student progress online. The site is free.

For The Teachers has similar leveled articles available for download. It, too, is free.
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Text Compactor lets you paste text into it and then automatically shares different versions with fewer words. It seemed to work pretty well when I tried it.

Rewordify is like a super-sophisticated Text Compactor on steroids. You can read my previous post about it: "Rewordify" Is One Of The Most Unique Sites Out There For English Language Learners & Others.

Reader Laurie suggests Embedded Reading, which has these kinds of similar "leveled" texts in English, as well as in other languages.

I learned about CommonLit from the amazing educator Suzie Boss at her recent Edutopia post. It's a neat site that doesn't actually provide the "same" text written for different "levels." What it does do, however, is provide leveled readings - with prompts - on the same theme. It's pretty neat. (They've just added many new features - see "CommonLit" Now Lets Teachers Create Free Virtual Classrooms)

Books That Grow has a library of texts that have each been edited to be made accessible to different reading levels. And it has some other unique features - teachers can create virtual classrooms to assign and/or monitor what students what are reading and students can click on words that are new to them to see definitions and hear how they are pronounced. They are also planning on adding comprehension questions. The texts can be read on any device.

Thanks to reader Vincy Murgillo for letting me know about the Smithsonian's Tween Tribune. It provides daily news stories, with the same one edited several times for different reading levels. The stories also have self-scoring quizzes and provide decent "critical thinking" questions that students can respond to in the comments. On top of that, teachers can create virtual classrooms to monitor it all, as well as moderating student comments. And it's all available for free!

You have to pay for it, but Birdbrain Science and History have similar resources (they've changed their name to RocketLit).

Newsela, which is on this list, has now begun to provide Spanish translations of some articles, including providing them at different reading levels. Here is their blog post announcing the feature, and here's a link to their Spanish-language text sets.
The British Council Has Excellent Leveled Reading Resources "TIME/Edge" Could Be Useful For Students Over The Summer
Kids Discover has several levels for social studies instruction - for a price that does not seem to be unreasonable.
"Simplish" Automatically Simplifies And/Or Summarizes Text "ReadWorks" Now Provides "Same" Texts At Different Level
Scholastic has a small number of audio-supported same text at different levels (they also have a few more here). In addition, their Storyworks program has many more, though it costs about $8 per student to use.

Thanks to Christina Cabal's blog (which is on the The Top Blogs and Resource Sites For Teachers Of English Language Learners list), I've learned about a new site called Learn With News. It provides articles about current events, which each one having three versions at different lexile levels. They also provide questions for each article. However, they are not interactive online, so you would need to either print them out or project them. The site also says they will soon be adding audio support for the text.
"Freckle" Provides Hundreds Of Articles In "5 or more different reading levels" "News-O-Matic" Is Definitely A Site I Would Consider Using With Students Right Now "TIME FOR KIDS" NOW OFFERS MATERIALS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, SAME ARTICLE IN DIFFERENT LEXILE LEVELS
Graded listening is a radio program from the British Council that is provided in three "lexile" levels.

Transforming the Resources You Have into Accessible Formats for All Students is an excellent post by Carmen Nguyen.

Brittanica Kids has all of its articles written in three different levels: Kids, Students, Scholars. There is a cost involved, but a lot of their resources are available for free. For example, I found this article on The Compromise of 1850 that I'll be using in my ELL U.S. History class. They also have a small collection of free "read aloud" books for new readers. I'm not sure what the restrictions are about what's free and what's for subscribers only.
The OER Project Offers The Same Social Studies Texts In Different Lexile Levels - For Free!
I think a lot of teachers will find this post from TESOL useful: Create Your Own Leveled Readers.

The Juice offers daily news articles at four different levels. You have to pay for it, though it's not astronomical.

This is a good list-I'd add that Scholastic Action (needs purchasing) is a hit with Middle & High #ELs newcomer to advanced. It includes different lexile versions. With engaging graphics, digital supplements, & access to past issues and it's easy to build high interest units.

- Holly Sawyer (@HollySawyerESL) October 31, 2021

VERY GOOD VIDEO ON "TEXT ENGINEERING" TO MAKE IT MORE ACCESSIBLE TO ELLS & EVERYBODY ELSE
What makes writing more readable? is a really interesting interactive from The Pudding. It illustrates - graphically - how to write in a more accessible way.

News2You provides weekly news articles in four different levels. It costs about $240 annually.
ChatGPT Will Make Different Lexile Level Versions Of The Same Text
Welma simplifies sentences and paragraphs through the use of AI.

HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE TEXTS WITH CHATGPT is from TechNotes.
" Eigo.ai " Is A New Free Site Using Artificial Intelligence To Support ELLs NEWSELA MAKING BIG CHANGES TO THEIR FREE PLAN
Diffit looks likes a nice tool for teachers to use for creating differentiated materials and more.
HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THE GREAT SITE "DAYS IN LEVELS"?
I'm adding this list to The Best Resources On Differentiating Instruction.

Also, see THE BEST STRATEGIES FOR "ENGINEERING" TEXT SO THAT IT'S MORE ACCESSIBLE TO ELLS.

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Hearken! Anon thou shalt read tomes with more rapidity!

Rewordify.com simplifies difficult English. Enter hard sentences (or whole chapters) into the yellow box at the top of the page. (You can also enter a web site URL.) Click Rewordify text and you'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding. The reworded words are highlighted- click them to hear and learn the original harder word. You can change how the highlighting works to match the way you learn!

Do you dislike dictionaries because they're confusing and unhelpful? You'll love Rewordify.com's clear, easy-to-understand definitions-they change to match the original word or phrase's part of speech, verb tense, and singular/plural form, so they make sense. Our amazing Rewordifying Engine is what makes it all possible, and no other web site has it.

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A Learning Session isn't an online quiz: it's an effective, step by step process where you hear words and phrases, type them, and read them. The software re-teaches you exactly what you need when you need it, and moves ahead when you're ready. When you've learned a word, the site stops "rewording" it, so the site grows with you as you learn! Learn more about Learning Sessions.

Learn the way you want-from what you want to read. You can change the way the site works to fit your learning style as you read and learn from almost any text passage or web page. See the different highlighting styles in the box? You can pick any of them, and lots more options. Click the Settings link (at the bottom of the page now, or at the top of any page) to see all the choices you have. (The demo text in the box here never changes.)

Chart your progress and have fun. You can keep track of your learning with lots of detailed charts that show how you're doing. Plus, as you use the site, you earn points and get Learning Stars -a fun reward for reading and learning!

Now you can easily get your students involved in their learning: let them select the text that interests them. Let them print and complete the activities with which they're most comfortable. Imagine each student learning vocabulary customized to his or her interests, while you have time to teach instead of typing. Could differentiation by interest or readiness be any easier? You can start doing it today, for free.

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Type (or copy-paste) in any block of text in the yellow box at the top of this page, click Rewordify text, and click the Print/Learning activities button. Here's how. You (or your students!) can select from a rich variety of quizzes and learning activities, with or without answer keys.

Do you need to teach (or not teach) particular vocabulary words and phrases? Rewordify.com gives you the exact control you need for specialized vocabulary instruction. You can make customized word lists so the site rewords and teaches any word or phrase exactly the way you want.

Learn the way you want-from what you want to read. You can change the way the site works to fit your learning style as you read and learn from almost any text passage or web page. See the different highlighting styles in the box? You can pick any of them, and lots more options. Click the Settings link (at the bottom of the page now, or at the top of any page) to see all the choices you have. (The demo text in the box here never changes.)

Chart your progress and have fun. You can keep track of your learning with lots of detailed charts that show how you're doing. Plus, as you use the site, you earn points and get Learning Stars -a fun reward for reading and learning!

Now you can easily get your students involved in their learning: let them select the text that interests them. Let them print and complete the activities with which they're most comfortable. Imagine each student learning vocabulary customized to his or her interests, while you have time to teach instead of typing. Could differentiation by interest or readiness be any easier? You can start doing it today, for free.

Save all your documents online so anyone can read them and learn from them at any time.

Just log in, rewordify something, and click the Share button.

Select how public or private you want the document, enter the title, author, etc., and you're done!

You get a link that you can put in your online lesson plans, teacher web pages, or blog. No more rewordifying the same thing over and over again!

You can view, manage and edit all your documents from any computer. Just log in (or create a free, safe account) and start building your learning library. Here's how to do it.

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(In a hurry? Log in. Click Educator Central at the top.)

In a few minutes, you can create student accounts on Rewordify.com, and easily monitor your students' reading and learning progress. Get actionable learning and error analytics as your students read and learn from any document you post, or from any document or web page they want to read.

Imagine each student learning different words based on his or her interest or ability level. It's easy to do: Rewordify.com designs and teaches individualized vocabulary lessons with our highly effective Learning Sessions, so you have the time to teach students the important stuff: how to learn, how to break through obstacles, how to believe the words "I can do it."

As your students read and learn, get detailed charts and reports that tell you what you need to know-by student, by class, or for all your classes.

Effectively match interventions with students, based on detailed error breakdowns that let you see what you need to see in a few clicks.

Student accounts are anonymous, and they keep your students safe and focused on learning.

Start using it now: Log in and click on Educator Central at the top. Read more about Educator Central.

Rewordify.com is free online software. You're using it now. There's nothing to buy or install. It works on any computer, tablet, or smartphone. Just point your browser to Rewordify.com and start reading and learning. Yes, it's tablet-friendly-no mouse needed. Yes, your whole school district can create teacher and student accounts, without entering any personal information. When? Now.

It's fast. Wasting your (and your students' time) is bad. That's why Rewordify.com was designed from the ground up to be lightning-fast and use very little data. The site doesn't have a hundred images of puppies and kittens and a hundred links to a hundred lists. What it does have is speed and ease of use, which are very nice when you have to teach a room full of teenagers. Or adults.

It's an app. Want the app? You're using it. Wasn't that easy? The site is a web app, which is great for you, because you get almost-daily site updates automatically -so you can read and learn, not download and install app updates.

We keep kids safe online. Rewordify.com requires no personal information. Student accounts are completely anonymous and cannot post or share anything. Read more about how we protect children's privacy.

Rewordify.com can display simplified versions of web pages. Our state-of-the-art web filtering technology blocks millions of inappropriate sites and questionable language, to protect kids online and keep them reading only what they should be reading. Read more about how we protect children from inappropriate material.

Difficult English is intelligently simplified with our exclusive Rewordifying Engine

Saves time when reading hard text, improves comprehension and self-confidence, and increases total reading time

Copy-paste entire text passages into the yellow box and press Rewordify text. You'll see a simplified version. Read more.

Definitions are easy to understand, context-aware, and match verb tense and part of speech

Reduces frustration and improves comprehension by maximizing time spent reading versus dictionary research

Copy-paste any text passage into the yellow box and "rewordify" it. Click the highlighted words. Read more.

Learning Sessions actively teach individualized vocabulary lessons with research-proven multimodal techniques

Improves vocabulary and word retention

After you "rewordify" text, you'll see a purple bar at the top. Click the buttons to pick hard words and learn them in an effective Learning Session. Read more.

Site carefully monitors student reading time, learning progress, and learning errors, and gives educators full-color, real-time charts and reports

Gives actionable learning data that helps improve student learning outcomes

Create an account. Click on Educator Central. Create free student accounts. Post assignments online. Get learning data. Make smart classroom decisions based on valid data. Read more.

Site identifies and extracts over 58,000 difficult words and phrases from any text and creates a rich variety of learning activities with answer keys

Saves time when teaching and gives students individualized learning activities

Copy-paste any text passage into the yellow box and "rewordify" it. Click Print/Learning Activities. Pick the quizzes, activities, vocab lists, cloze activities you want, with keys. Print them. Read more.

Software allows users to change the difficulty level and presentation style of the output text

Improves engagement by allowing easy differentiation by learning style and readiness

Copy-paste any text passage and "rewordify" it. Click Settings. Change the text presentation style, "rewordifying level" (difficulty level), even the highlighting style. Read more.

Site works as an app on any device, using a minimum of data

Allows for easy district rollout on nearly any existing device while conserving Internet bandwith

Point any device's browser to Rewordify.com and it works like an app. Here's how to make an app icon on your home screen or desktop.

Site calculates accurate text complexity measures, including our exclusive READ score

Improves engagement and learning through the selection of appropriate reading materials

Rewordify any text passage. Click the Stats button. Read more.

Site's browser app (bookmarklet) extracts most web pages to Rewordify.com for learning in one click

Improves engagement and total reading time through independent selection of high-interest materials

Install our free browser app. Browse the web. At any page, click the "Rewordify text" button. Read the extracted text on Rewordify.com.

You can post any document and share it publicly, privately, or with a password

Increases reading time and organization of learning materials

Log in. Paste in a document and "rewordify" it. Click the Share button, share it, and get a link. Post the link to your teacher page. Or, add it as a Rewordify.com assignment. Here's how to post documents. Here's how to create assignments.

Site calculates points and displays Learning Stars based on total minutes read and words learned

Increases reading time and engagement by making the site more fun

Log in and start reading and clicking on the purple bar to do Learning Sessions. Points and Learning Stars will display. Click My Learning/My Documents to see charts of your progress. Read more.

Over 300 pieces of classic literature are available

Improves comprehension of the classics-from Shakespeare to Douglass to Austen

Click Classic literature at the top. Or, type a word like Frankenstein into the search box at the top.

Here's what to do next:

First, do the demo. You'll be an expert in five minutes: Click here for the demo.

Learn the site, step by step. Our First-Time User Guide clearly shows you how to get started.

Teachers: Learn about Educator Central and all it can do to help improve student learning outcomes. Also, you can print lots of free, full-color literature to help you get started in the classroom.

Have some fun. Are you up for a vocabulary challenge? Play Rewordo. Be aware: it's not easy.

Browse some classics. Want to be more sure of Shakespeare, or brush up on Bronte? Scroll to the top, and click the Classic Literature link. It's a fast way to get started using the site. Or, use the Search bar at the top. Try entering the word raven to understand the deal with Poe, that black bird, and the "Nevermore" thing.

Check out the goodies. You can install our One-Click Learning browser applet that lets you rewordify most web pages in one click. Our cool (and free, of course) School Clock tells you the current time and date, what class period you're currently in, countdowns to the next period, and more. You can customize it for any school's schedule, and make as many different School Clocks as you have different day schedules. Use it now.

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Site summary: Rewordify.com helps with reading comprehension and vocabulary development by simplifying English to a lower reading level. It lets you reword a sentence or reword a paragraph. It will simplify English by reducing text complexity. It's a dictionary alternative that will improve comprehension and teach vocabulary. It's an important part of reading instruction and vocabulary instruction for ESL students, people with reading disabilities, people with a learning disability, or anyone who wants to improve reading skill.

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Within each basic emotion there are levels of that emotion which range from less intense on the outside to more intense in the center. For example, levels of angry are shown as:

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REMIND! Send texts to students or parents 

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REMIND! Send texts to students or parents 

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Adoption and usage

Simple, effective, and surprisingly easy to use

With nearly 30 million users in 80% of US schools, the numbers speak for themselves: students, families, and educators love using Remind.

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Remind | Communication Platform for Education

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Remind is a communication platform that reaches students and families where they are and supports learning wherever it happens. Millions of educators, students, and parents use Remind to connect with the people and resources that help them teach and learn.

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Voki--students create an avatar who can speak for them 

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Voki--students create an avatar who can speak for them 

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Voki | Speaking Characters For Education

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Classcraft--engaging class management for older students

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Classcraft--engaging class management for older students

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HMH Classcraft pairs ELA and math content with research-based lesson plans resulting in reduced educator planning time and increased student engagement.

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Teaching Growth Mindset via short videos from Class Dojo--lessons 

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Teaching Growth Mindset via short videos from Class Dojo--lessons 

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Introduce your students to the idea of a Growth Mindset. The simple idea that your brain is like a muscle is proven to have profound impact on learning!

Watch the video with students - they'll love the story and identify with Mojo's struggle. The video ends with a question, leading right into a class discussion.

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(Video not working? Try this.) Introduce your students to the idea of a Growth Mindset. The simple idea that your brain is like a muscle is proven to have profound impact on learning! Watch the video with students - they'll love the story and identify with Mojo's struggle.

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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Research Brief Measuring Student Engagement 

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Research Brief Measuring Student Engagement 

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Getting From Here to There--UDL and GPS 

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Getting From Here to There--UDL and GPS 