The purpose of Edpuzzle is to help students engage with their learning in a new and interactive way. Students can engage with literary adaptations, author interviews, and even video grammar lessons. With checks along the way, students are able to stay engaged, check their understanding, and keep learning as they watch. Struggles may occur as Edpuzzle may not be best suited outside of the classroom. For students with limited internet or technology access, it is best to provide students with Edpuzzle assignments in class. Online downloads are a great feature of Edpuzzle and can allow students to complete their work outside of the classroom if internet access is not an option!

Edpuzzle allows students to work at their own pace. With options to rewind, students are able to rewatch segments to ensure they fully understand the materials. With this feature, students are able to build their confidence and support them as they grow in their literary skills.

Kahoot is a great tool to increase student engagement through competitive games, as students compete to win a place on the podium, and collaboration options for team games. Immediate feedback allows students to see where they may struggle and to get an understanding of students' comprehension in real time. An obstacle may arise as students may become overly competitive or distracted by the game aspect, rather than focusing on learning. To prevent this from happening, teachers can have students work in teams to get the answer correct together, rather than individual scores.

Kahoot engages all students by turning review work into a fun, competitive, and interactive game. Kahoot can support struggling students by allowing for multiple attempts, opportunities for peer collaboration, and allowing concepts to be broken down into more manageable pieces.

Storybird fosters student creativity while allowing students to continue to practice their foundational skills. Visual prompts and personal selection allow students to feel more motivated to write and create meaningful stories. For students who may struggle with writing skills, this website may be frustrating. Teachers can support their students by allowing for collaboration, offering differentiation- such as sentence starters or frames- and integrating drafting before their final write.

Visual prompts make writing more appealing and meaningful for students. Struggling writers can benefit from the visual prompts, reducing writer's block and providing physical inspiration. By giving students ownership of their work and a chance to share their work, students will build their confidence as writers.

Allsides allows students to develop critical thinking skills by comparing different perspectives and opinions. Using Allsides helps students learn how to find credible sources and recognize bias in the materials they are using to support their work. Engaging with a variety of viewpoints, students can strengthen their media literacy and better determine which sources they use are factual and which are opinion-based. Topics involving political beliefs can be challenging or confusing for students. To support students who struggle, teachers can provide scaffolded instruction and guided readings to help students gain a clear understanding for the content and engage with it in a meaningful way.

Allsides engages students by connecting literary standards, such as identifying credible sources and developing critical thinking skills, to real-world issues. Although the classroom should not become a political debate, it is important for students to understand the world around them and be exposed to different viewpoints. Allsides allows students to strengthen their comprehension and vocabulary skills, as well as their evaluative skills that go beyond classroom learning.

Epic! allows students to get assigned reading, track the progress they make, and even offers personalized libraries based on students' interests and needs. Epic! It can help motivate students who may not be interested in reading. With a wide variety of choices, students have access to a diverse collection of genres and reading levels. Challenges can arise with open selection from students. Some students may select titles that are too much of an easy read for them, and some students may select books that are more of a challenge than they expect.

By giving students choice and independence, EPIC! encourages them to enjoy reading in a new and exciting way. With features like "read-to-me" mode, struggling readers and ELL students get the extra support needed to feel included in reading alongside their peers.