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Welcome to my annotated technology padlet!

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Welcome to my annotated technology padlet!

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For a final project of EDUC 401, I complied resources to be used in the 5-12 Social Studies classroom. I have personally used many of these resources, but the ones I have not used I will definitely try using in my future classroom! I hope you enjoy and find these resources to be helpful and beneficial!

Please be sure to scroll all the way over and all the way down!

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Not only does Edmodo allow for planning lessons and providing student structure with due dates, it also allows for parent-teacher communication. This is a great tool for teachers to use to keep in touch with students and their parents, keeping them up to date on what is happening in the classroom and expectations that are set. Students can also use this to communicate with their teachers if they have questions.

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Like Actively and Newsela, CommonLit has the option to change lexile level, provide prompting questions, and is translate-able. CommonLit is a great resource not just for primary documents or nonfiction, but it includes short stories, poems, and much more to engage students in the social studies classroom. This could be useful for book reports or class assignments (what people write from the time is very important in understanding history!).

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Similar to Newsela, Actively is a resource full of news articles, primary sources, and includes videos! It provides resources for debate topics and lesson plans. The lexile level can also be changed and scaffolded for ELL's.

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I am an administrator I am a teacher

CONTENT

Texts (and videos!) for ELA, Science, and Social Studies with scaffolds and higher-order questions

READING

The best features to
support, engage, and build stamina

ASSESSMENT

Data you need;
Feedback your students act on

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Engage every student in every lesson with Actively Learn's award-winning ELA, science, and social studies curriculum platform.

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This resources provides primary sources, pictures, and audio-recordings of speeches made by famous members of democracy. This would be a great tool for research or class assignments for an American History classroom.

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Voices of Democracy (VOD), in cooperation with the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Penn State and the journal Young Scholars in Writing, is sponsoring an essay contest, "Exploring the Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement."

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Voices of Democracy (VOD), in cooperation with the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Penn State and the journal Young Scholars in Writing, is sponsoring an essay contest, "Exploring the Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement."

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Google is great for students, teachers, and parents! It connects across the google apps, making events and assignments shareable and easy to access. It connects to google classroom, showing assignments on the students calendar as well as the teacher's. It also has a to do list feature that helps students plan assignments and things to do for the day/week.

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Teachers can use Google Calendar to help manage their schedules and model for students how to manage their own. Among school staff, Calendar can help teachers, administrators, and other support staff set up meetings, keep track of professional development sessions, and coordinate the use of shared spaces such as computer labs or libraries. Calendars could also help teachers communicate with parents, set up conferences, and making it easier for parents to see current homework assignments, upcoming field trips, and other important events.

Google Calendar can also be used to help students collaborate while working in groups, giving them a place to set up meetings and keep track of the different parts of a project. Also, teachers can schedule office hours, to let students know about the best times to stop by for extra help.

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Google Calendar Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Teachers can use Google Calendar to help manage their schedules and model for students how to manage their own. Among school staff, Calendar can help teachers, administrators, and other support staff set up meetings, keep track of professional development sessions, and coordinate the use of shared spaces such as computer labs or libraries.

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Organizing information, class notes, or lesson plans using a three ring binder is available in this online format! Binders are shareable with multiple groups, files can be uploaded all at once, and places all the information in once place. This is a great resource for teachers and students who like the traditional method of binders, keeping all the information in one place!

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Organize and share education, small business and non-profit resources into virtual binders. Use LiveBinders for hassle-free access from anywhere.

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Researching for writing papers is most challenging part of completing the paper for some students, but Weava makes it easier! This app, available as an extension on the chrome web store, allows students to highlight information on websites and add it to a cloud research folder. It also allows students to create citations and take notes on the information they are finding directly on the website without having to open another document. The downfall is that this resource does not have a plagiarizing tool, so it would be important to teach students this from the start.

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Weava is a Chrome extension that synthesizes bookmarking, highlighting, annotating, and citation in one tool. It installs in minutes, and then it's as simple as opening a website or an online PDF, highlighting documents, and then organizing and annotating highlights in the Weava dashboard. While it supports websites and online PDFs, users can also upload local copies of PDFs. The highlighter colors can be given names (e.g. "Primary Sources"), and research can be organized into collections as well as subcollections for three layers of organization. Users can also invite collaborators to share research.

The Weava dashboard shows highlighted text snippets on the left panel, along with the names and URLs of the highlights. These highlights can be dragged and dropped into different collections, filtered (e.g., by oldest to newest highlight), and also annotated. Clicking on a text snippet opens up the full document on the right, so users can see how the highlighted section fits in context when sorting through their research. This feature worked most of the time, but for some websites the highlighted section wouldn't be highlighted in the full webpage view.

Finally, users can drag the desired content right into Weava's word processing tool, generate citations (although these will need to be tweaked), and then export their document to Word (the developers claim that more choices are in the works).

Note that there is a free or paid version. The paid version adds more organizational versatility, increased storage, image clipping, and more collaborators. This version costs $5.99 per month or $49.99 per year.

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Weava Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Weava is a Chrome extension that synthesizes bookmarking, highlighting, annotating, and citation in one tool. It installs in minutes, and then it's as simple as opening a website or an online PDF, highlighting documents, and then organizing and annotating highlights in the Weava dashboard.

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This simulation makes learning about voter participation fun and interesting, as it is in the formation of a game! It can be downloaded, but it's available online to be played on the browser. It's value is in teaching students the importance of knowing who you're voting for when elections come around!

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Election Day is coming, are you ready to vote? In Cast Your Vote, discover what it takes to become an informed voter - from knowing where you stand on important issues to uncovering what you need to know about candidates.

In Cast Your Vote you can simulate the voting experience and:

Learn about local elections

See political candidates discuss important issues in Town Hall debates

Identify issues that matter to you and rate candidate responses

For students with visual or mobile impairments: This game offers a keyboard navigation mode, as well as a screen reader to supplement the use of sound effects and voiceover. You can access these tools via the dropdown menu in the top left corner of the game screen.

For English and Multilingual Learners: Use the support tool, Spanish translation, voiceover and glossary.

Are you an educator? Check out the Extension Pack with activities and teaching tools to reinforce key game concepts.

Explore all of our free election curriculum and teaching resources at our Election Headquarters.

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Election Day is coming, are you ready to vote? In Cast Your Vote, discover what it takes to become an informed voter - from knowing where you stand on important issues to uncovering what you need to know about candidates.

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This resource can be used, but with caution. It's potential bias can be difficult for teachers to use, and they would have to make their own lesson plan to use this resource. However, it is a great resource to provide insight on the slave trade and its history and can be used to compare viewpoints from the modern day of slavery. Most likely a source to be used in grades 10-12.

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American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin.

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A huge part of social studies education is understanding different cultures. Global Oneness Project makes this easy. This resource provides lesson plan ideas, paired with films and photo essays, all organized under categories. This resources helps students increase their vocabulary in cultural awareness.

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Stories and lessons for growing minds

We are a free multimedia platform for educators and students. Through our immersive storytelling and curricula, we aim to plant seeds of empathy, interconnectedness, and a sacred relationship with our planet. Use our award-winning films, photo essays, and essays to learn about social, cultural, and environmental issues from individuals and communities worldwide. For grades 3-12, our stories and lessons encourage students to broaden their perspectives and worldviews while fostering universal human values and respect for the living world. We aim to bring universal values into the lives of educators and students.

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In what ways is climate change impacting the place where you live?

In this contest, students documented the fragility, hope, and future of our planet's ecosystem due to climate change. Inspired by four environmental writers-Linda Hogan, Robert Hass, Wendell Berry, and Dara McAnulty-students explored changes to local systems, how the environment shapes our identity, and how our actions and awareness today can impact the future.

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These five shorts films follows five Native American communities who are restoring their traditional land management practices.

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How might stories act as keys allowing us access to challenge, examine, uproot, and illumine our habits and fears?

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This feature shares the stories of four Indigenous communities in California who are working to revitalize their languages and cultures in order to pass them on to the next generation.

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"This film has historic relevancy. I can see myself using it to encourage students to think about the value of the space program and how it speaks to the American Spirit and how we are often looking forward in our progress. This film begs to be used as an exploration of what it means to be a global citizen, how students can learn from people not like themselves, and what actions students can take in their everyday lives to make the world a better place."

Michael Dunn, Director of College Counseling at Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center

Stories Exploring Climate Change

Celebrating Student Artwork: New Student Gallery

Encourage thoughtful and meaningful conversations in the classroom with our student gallery. Use the gallery as a tool to foster curiosity, observation skills, and perspective-taking.

The gallery encourages students to learn from each other's perspectives. How are students witnessing and engaging with the world in new ways since the start of Covid-19? Search by theme, previous Global Oneness Project contests, or from locations around the world. The gallery is accompanied by an image analysis activity, including a Visible Thinking Routine from Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Our materials provide opportunities for an interdisciplinary approach to learning across disciplines from social sciences and humanities to environmental sciences. Education stakeholders, including K-12 educators, university professors, librarians, tech/media specialists, parents, and students are using our materials in multiple learning environments.

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This online resource is a social studies teacher's best friend! It contains archives of primary resources, online exhibitions, and provides access to Ebooks! It includes teaching guides and additional resources, and is sharable to google classroom!

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DPLA provides free digital access to banned books

DPLA has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure that all readers have access to the books they want to read. The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where titles have been banned via the free Palace e-reader app.

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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

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The Newseum (recently closed in 2019) has a collection of newspapers and pictures available to be used in research, presentation, and teaching. These primary documents are archived online to be viewed by the public.

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The Freedom Forum's mission is to foster First Amendment freedoms for all.

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This resource is great for teachers of social studies. It provides structured lesson plans around five main topics: participate, investigate, dialogue, voice, and action. The resources include conversation starters, student/youth voices, and resources for teachers to use in the classroom!

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Participate.

The Digital Civics Toolkit is a collection of resources for educators to support youth to explore, recognize, and take seriously the civic potentials of digital life. The Toolkit draws on the research and work of the The Toolkit explores a range of civic opportunities and dilemmas via 5 modules focused on: Exploring Community Issues, Investigation, Dialogue, Voice, and Action. MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP).

We invite you to explore the modules and choose the resources that best meet the interests and needs of your students, classroom, and community. The modules were designed for high school students but can be adapted for earlier grades. Each module contains a conversation starter, several activities, and a closing reflection with very broad suggestions. Depending on the age and level of your students, you may need to integrate additional scaffolding and supports. If you would like to dig deeper into concepts, there are links to extension activities. For more information on the ideas in each module, we provide a Teacher Background Information with links to articles, blogs, videos, and further resources.

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Participate. The Digital Civics Toolkit is a collection of resources for educators to support youth to explore, recognize, and take seriously the civic potentials of digital life. The Toolkit draws on the research and work of the The Toolkit explores a range of civic opportunities and dilemmas via 5 modules focused on: Exploring Community Issues, Investigation, Dialogue, Voice, and Action.

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This online mapping tool has a presentation format style that allows students to tell a story. This tool would be great for the social studies classroom for students to use in making a project, especially in the topic of the age of exploration, showing migration patterns, etc.

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This application allows students to explore the earth, take pictures, and create journeys from the comfort of the classroom. Students can zoom into earth to see pre-made tours and projects or create their own!

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Teachers can use Google Earth as a supplement to all kinds of lessons, bringing the geography and topography of different locations to life. Students can perform searches, zoom around the Earth, study layers of weather, and study eye-level photos. It's a highly engaging and interactive way to juice up lessons, and the Google Earth Community online (accessible via one's browser) has a plethora of user groups, teaching ideas, and classroom learning resources. Some specific classroom ideas:

Use the Voyager option, which is built into the app, to access high-quality educational material tied to locations around the globe and across time. This material covers travel, nature, culture, sports, history, education, science, and more.

Use the Feeling Lucky option to visit a random destination, and create a lesson plan around that location.

Use the measuring capabilities to have your students plan trips, compare distances, and calculate the height of mountains.

Use Street View to walk down the street in a foreign city, retracing the footsteps of a historical figure.

Search for the location that your class is covering in a lesson, and view photos from that area.

Upload your own map files to customize a lesson of your own.

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Google Earth Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Teachers can use Google Earth as a supplement to all kinds of lessons, bringing the geography and topography of different locations to life. Students can perform searches, zoom around the Earth, study layers of weather, and study eye-level photos.

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In the Social Studies classroom, it is important to teach students how to search for bias in articles and resources that they find when researching. Knowable makes it easy. This application puts two articles next to each other, showing the bias in each of them. This is helpful in building the students vocabulary of types of words used to show bias.

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Unbiased news you can't get anywhere else.

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This scaffolding tool assists students in writing assignments. This would be a great tool to use in the Social Studies classroom because it gives structure to writing assignments, including essays. This resource provides prompts and sample assignments for teachers to assign to students!

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What is Writable?

Writable scaffolds student learning and builds lifelong writing and reading skills for students in grades 3-12, while saving teachers time on daily instruction and feedback.

What is Writable?

Writable scaffolds student learning and builds lifelong writing and reading skills for students in grades 3-12, while saving teachers time on daily instruction and feedback.

The path to your best instruction

Reach students in the moment

Give students targeted feedback and instruction when it matters most.

Reach students
in the moment

Give students targeted feedback and instruction when it matters most.

"Writable is an incredible tool that provides incredible feedback. It is extremely inspirational to see my students grow as they use Writable!"

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Glynn County Schools

Teaching for impact

Writable's research-backed solution is proven to grow great writers. As students write, cycles of feedback and revision drive them towards improvement and growth.

Prep & Planning

Power up your creativity and prep with AI prompt, assignment, and question suggestions

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Deliver rubric-aligned AI suggested comments and scores that drive more targeted revision

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Automatically group students by proficiency to communicate with them earlier, in the moment

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Writable supports your unique classroom goals.

Unparalleled Support

Everything you need to succeed right away, including live chat and teacher-friendly resources.

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Learn how educators like you have transformed their classrooms with Writable.

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Writable scaffolds student learning and builds lifelong writing and reading skills for students in grades 3-12, while saving teachers time on daily instruction and feedback.

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This application is available as an app on google play, apple ap store, and on amazon (for kindles). This app is a great resource to give students ideas in writing, adding adjectives, and sparking their creativity.

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Lists for Writers lights kids' creative spark by providing lists of essential words and concepts. Quirky character names, personality words, settings, action verbs, rhyming words, colors, and emotions are just a few of the lists available that students can draw from here. Writers in grades 4-12 can easily mix and match the above to create rich sentences like this: "Enamored, Parker grabbed his jacket and ran out of the pastry shop, leaving a slice of mincemeat pie behind." A plot section adds a bit more depth into creating a well-rounded piece of writing with "the 7 basic plots," 36 dramatic situations, 7 conflict types, and a huge list of "issues," from "abandonment" to "yelling."

Upon opening the app, users find a main menu list offering about 50 items in six categories. Some lists, like Phobias and Plots, have additional information. There are no in-app controls or buttons. All navigation is controlled by tapping text in lists or going back with the device's back button.

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Lists for Writers Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Lists for Writers lights kids' creative spark by providing lists of essential words and concepts. Quirky character names, personality words, settings, action verbs, rhyming words, colors, and emotions are just a few of the lists available that students can draw from here.

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This tool is great for all students! It can be added directly to computers, on google drive, or as a chrome extension. It helps students with managing sentences, grammar, and proofreading. It can be used for assignments or everyday use!

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Grammarly is now free! But only on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge browsers.

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Grammarly makes sure everything you type is easy to read, effective, and mistake-free.

Instantly find and correct over 400 types of grammatical mistakes.

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Grammarly scans your text for proper use of more than 400 advanced grammar rules, spanning everything from subject-verb agreement to article use to modifier placement.

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Correctly spelled words used in the wrong context mean embarrassing mistakes for you. Grammarly spots erroneous use of lose/loose, affect/effect, lie/lay, there/their/they're, and many other commonly confused words.

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Words can make an impact, or they can fall flat. Enhance your sentences with Grammarly's context-optimized word choice suggestions to instantly improve the readability of your document.

Over 4 million people already use Grammarly to proofread their writing online.

Whether your writing is read by thousands of people online, or simply by close family and friends, checking your grammar is important. Business professionals, bloggers, students, and even professional writers use Grammarly to proofread their writing, so why shouldn't you?

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Grammarly's free writing app will make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful.

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CNN brings students new that is engaging and interesting every day of the school week. The news is current and covers a variety of topics including politics, history, medical, research, etc.

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CNN 10 is an on-demand digital news show ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom.

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This resource is a great way for students to take notes. It saves notes to the cloud, is free, and comes with templates for notetaking ease.

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Best Note Taking App - Organize Your Notes with Evernote

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Our note taking app helps you capture and prioritize ideas, projects and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks. Start your free trial today!

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Finding your next read can be difficult. This resource makes it easier. Students can use this resource to read book reviews and can give reviews themselves. In reading a book review, students can make a choice on what book they want to read next!

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Read books from this LitPick books list, many include student book reviews by our preteen, teen, YA student book reviewers in our free online reading program.

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Similar to Newsela, this resource provides nonfiction stories and articles to read. It has all grade levels, changeable lexile level, and even a Spanish feature.

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As of Monday, October 24, content that was on TweenTribune.com will now be available here on our new educational resources page and on our learning pages. While much of the content that you enjoyed will still exist, educators will unfortunately no longer be able to assign content to students. Tween…

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This resources is available for download on google play and the apple app store, as well as through the chrome web store, Read&Write is a service that allows the user to high lights text and to have the text on the webpage or google doc be read aloud.

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Read&Write is a literacy support tool available as software, an app, and even a browser extension. It's suite of 10 features was developed to encourage readers and writers -- especially those with special language or literacy needs (ELLs, students with dyslexia, etc.) -- to access texts and improve their skills. With Read&Write installed, students can listen to any passage (documents and webpages) with a line-by-line text-to-speech option or with a screenshot reader; or if they want to listen later, they can make an MP3 of the passage using the Audiomaker feature. To support understanding and comprehension, users can decode words in a passage using either a dictionary or picture dictionary. It also has a translator option to support understanding of foreign language words, as well as vocabulary builders. As students read a passage, they can use four different highlighters to note important information. The highlights can then be collected and gathered onto another document for safekeeping and reading by the text software. Students can practice reading aloud by highlighting a passage and then tapping the Practice Reading Aloud button. This prompts them to record themselves reading the text and use other features to improve fluency.

If writing is students' focus but they struggle with motor skills or have other issues, Read&Write offers a Talk&Type feature. With this feature, students can dictate their writing. In addition to composing paragraphs or essays, students can create a voice note for later review. A prediction feature helps students along while they're writing, offering suggested words.

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Read&Write Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Read&Write is a literacy support tool available as software, an app, and even a browser extension. It's suite of 10 features was developed to encourage readers and writers -- especially those with special language or literacy needs (ELLs, students with dyslexia, etc.) -- to access texts and improve their skills.

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Newsela is a great resources for the social studies classroom because it is full of articles, news stories, and political art. The reading level of the article can be adjusted for the grade level or student.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Newsela | Content and assessment platform

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Content Aligned To National & State Standard, Flexible To Support Relevant Curriculum. Find the Perfect Piece Of Content For Lessons. Go beyond the book.