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Word Central is a language strategy software that allows students to create their own dictionary to allow them to focus on specific words/languages. The main game within Word Central is called Alpha-Bot where students are challenged in a game setting by the game robot. Students will listen to the audio they hear and drag and drop what they're hearing into the appropriate place. This application is great because it allows students to have fun through an online game.

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This is a tool I use all the time. This website offers news articles on a variety of topics making it easy to find something that the students are interested in. The site also includes tools to change the reading level of the same article make differentiation much easier for groups with varied reading abilities. NewELA also has quizzes for each of the articles, that are tied to common core standards, making it simple to check for understanding. It also has the ability to be linked to Google Classroom and other student management applications.

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

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WordSift is a software application online where students can either work together, or with the entire classroom. WordSift's focus is on reading comprehension as it has been proven to improve student comprehension. WordSift's key features include being able to identify key vocabulary and playing with different images that are involved with the particular word.

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This is an app that allows students to create interactive, multimedia presentations. Student can create a presentation using video, audio, written text, and pictures. This isn't a support tool for reading and writing, it is a tool to increase engagement around reading and writing. The goal of this app is to get students hooked in on a topic and get them to read and write more as they create their project. Here is a link to site. There are some super cool projects on the site that students have made.

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Capstone interactive has been a great site for my older grades.  Many of the reading sites I find that have books are geared to the lower levels. I also find that there aren't a ton on nonfiction options.  Capstone has a great selection of nonfiction AND chapter books!  My first graders love this site and so do my third graders. You can use this for research too.
A negative might be that you do need an account but it is so worth it!

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This is a Google Docs add on that allows the writer to highlight a bulleted list and then turn it into a mind map.  This tool is great for writers who need to understand how to have topics, and subtopics in their writing.  As an elementary teacher, I have used graphic organizers and thinking maps online to help my students with the writing process. I appreciate that this resource takes their ideas and instantly allows them to put them into an organized visual map.  A downside is that there is no editing feature. To add an idea students would need to add to their original bulleted list and then regenerate the mind map, which is just a few clicks away.
https://www.mindmeister.com

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My 6-year-old daughter loves the reboot of "Electric Company". Every episode of the show and every game teaches phonemic combinations and uses them in many different ways. The games on the website are well-made, ad-free, and do well in teaching younger students letter sounds, compound words, and lots of other early reading skills.

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Our district is all about Google Apps for Education, but I did not realize that a tool built into Google Docs allows you to dictate your ideas into a Google document. For writers on any level, I could see this as a valuable tool to help begin the writing process.  Punctuation is not included so ideas will need editing, but spelling is included to help struggling writers.  As a reading interventionist, I worked with many students who were reluctant writers.  Voice typing allows students to jump into the writing process. With elementary students or for others without keyboarding skills, Voice Typing also allows the focus to be on the ideas rather than the keyboarding.

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This site has all kinds of videos you can watch that offer teachers mini-profession development opportunities. There are lessons modeled in classrooms that show ways to improve both your reading and writing lessons.

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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum

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This site has a ton of lesson plans to help get kids engaged in reading and writing. This is also really useful if your school is being pressured to raise test scores on state tests. It offers some really nice ideas on how to use the text and frame your questions in a way to engage students in higher thinking.

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Expanding Perspectives in K-5 Core Knowledge Language Arts Current instructional materials often lack inclusive representation and div...

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Booktalks—Quick & Simple: Over 5000 book talks may be found at this site. Titles are indexed by author, title, subject, and interest level. Select Interest Level to choose by grade level.

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Figment — Specially tailored for the teen reader/writer, Figment is a community dedicated to reading and writing stories online. Addictively fun, users can rate stories by whether they made them laugh, blush, cry, or just say “wow.” The site frequently runs contests and features work from well-known authors and editors who sometimes drop in for Figment chats with the site’s community.

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Starfall is a great resource for the lower elementary grades.  it is interactive and exciting which engages the learner. Starfall helps student begin reading with phonics.
Starfall has leveled readers and writing journals that are printable too!  I use starfall at home with my children to support their reading. My belief is once children become better readers they then also become better writers.  Starfall can support teachers and parents in this.

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readwritethink.org offers many amazing resources for teachers that are teaching reading and writing. There are many classroom resources such as: lesson plans, student interactives, mobile app, calendar activities, and printouts. A wonderful new addition to the site is videos. The videos show literacy in action and various presentations. Going back to the lesson plans, which I find to be the best resource this website has to offer. You are able to search by theme, learning objectives, resource types, and grade levels. When you open a lesson, you are able to enter your state and grade level and it will highlight the standards that the lesson is highlighting. It gives great details such as preparation and materials needed, instructional plan and many other resources per lesson. I have used many of these resources in the classroom and would definitely suggest it to any one looking for further instructional tools for reading and writing! The interactive web lessons are super fun for the students and is a fresh way for students to learn without looking at a stagnant piece of paper. 

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readwritethink.org offers many amazing resources for teachers that are teaching reading and writing. There are many classroom resources such as: lesson plans, student interactives, mobile app, calendar activities, and printouts. A wonderful new addition to the site is videos. The videos show literacy in action and various presentations. Going back to the lesson plans, which I find to be the best resource this website has to offer. You are able to search by theme, learning objectives, resource types, and grade levels. When you open a lesson, you are able to enter your state and grade level and it will highlight the standards that the lesson is highlighting. It gives great details such as preparation and materials needed, instructional plan and many other resources per lesson. I have used many of these resources in the classroom and would definitely suggest it to any one looking for further instructional tools for reading and writing! The interactive web lessons are super fun for the students and is a fresh way for students to learn without looking at a stagnant piece of paper. 

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Scholastic.com is an amazing resource for teachers. There are countless lesson plans, student activities, games, unit plans, and classrooms magazines to choose from. There are separate sections on this website for teachers, parents, and kids that all showcase various resources that are available. Scholastic takes the resources beyond just reading and writing, there are many other subjects that are showcased in this website. There are many items that teachers are able to purchase on this website to use in the classroom. The lessons and materials also outline which standards are being utilized in each lesson, which is wonderful! We currently use many of the scholastic magazines in the correctional facility and the students LOVE them. They are a fun and fresh way to introduce curriculum that connects subjects together all while developing the reading and writing skills that are essential. I would highly recommend this website and the resources that come along with it to any teacher, parent, or student that wanted to further their knowledge in any subject.

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ReadingRockets.com is a great website for parents and educators who are helping a child learn how to read. It offers professional development on teaching reading, resources for students who are struggling with reading, multiple booker finders/guides/lists about different literary themes, podcasts, a library of different literacy apps sorted by topic/skill, and more. While students may not use this site directly, it gives the adults in their lives a wealth of resources to help them grow as a reader. One of my favorite tools on the site is a tool called “Target the Problem.” It gives a list of different reading difficulties and links each to a description of the problem, what it looks like at home/school from the adult perspective, and offers strategies on how adults can help children with this difficulty.

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Storybird.com is a free online language arts tool where students can select images from an illustration library and use them to get inspired and create their own e-book stories. Students can see their classmates’ stories and post comments. Teachers can create student accounts and push out assignments, review students’ stories, and grade/comment. This site is used by my school’s technology specialist and the students love it. It is a great way to get students writing using quality art and engaging technology. Parents can even purchase students’ stories and get them printed as hardcopy books!

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Read theory starts each student out with a quiz of 8 questions from 8 different passages that grow in complexity as they are presented and answered correctly. Students are then given lessons based on the results of this pretest. It is nice to be able to have everybody on a program that adjust to their reading level and need for challenge. Once students login, it is easy for teachers to see reports and track their progress. It only takes a minute for teachers to set up their account and you can either enter in all students manually or have the students link themselves to your account.

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I have been using the daily articles from Izzit.org for many years with my advanced readers.There are two new lessons posted daily throughout the school year and are designed for reading levels from the 7th grade level and beyond.These two articles come from different news events and are at a lower and higher reading level.    Each daily article also includes discussion questions designed to promote critical thinking, challenge assumptions, and engage students in class discussion. The topics of the articles they choose are highly engaging and I have a giant archive of printed articles from year's past, as their archive system is not super fantastic.  The problem with their archives is the link to the original article only works for two weeks.  You are then on your own to search for the original article.  When I see something I think would work well for a reading assignment, I just print it and save it for further use.

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