English Teachers

Useful tool - reminds me of OneNote tagging feature.

Good stuff. But I recommend something else to my students, namely this site: https://freeessaywriters.net/. More than a thousand essayists are based on this site. For a small fee, they are ready to write you an essay of the required size with the topic you gave them and in due time.

literature summaries

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litcharts r torrent of lit info nd summries,great notes

I think there is a lot to be said for this approach. I wish that more folks contributed to the database. Thanks for posting this, Emily.

A website that has a compilation of well written sentences/ excerpts from novels and short stories that could be used as mentor texts in a language arts/ English classroom.

"A linking verb connects the subject with a word that gives information about the subject, such as a condition or relationship. They do not show any action; but, they link the subject with the rest of the sentence. For example, in the sentence "They are a problem," the word "are" is the linking verb that connects "they" and "problem" to show the relationship between the two words."

"One important form of digital reading is reading ebooks. There are actually several resources online which provide both premium and free ebooks to readers. I have dome some laborious search into these resources and come up with the list below. This list features only platforms that provide free ebooks or a mixture of free and premium (freemium) eBooks. The purpose behind this compilation is to provide teachers and eventually students with trusted resources where they can search for and read free ebooks."

"Newslo is the first hybrid News/Satire platform on the web. Readers come to us for a unique brand of entertainment and information that is enhanced by features like our fact-button, which allows readers to find what is fact and what is satire. Newslo's "No Need to Satirize" brings you completely factual stories that are so ridiculous, they don't need our trademark touch. Whenever you see #NNTS, you're reading COMPLETELY real news that only seems too absurd to be true."

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has printable handbooks for many of Shakespeare's plays. "Each of our entirely original teacher handbooks includes active, engaging teaching activities, 400 years of critical thinking, synopses, and much more. Teaching activities-all aligned with the Common Core State Standards-are designed to draw upon some of the same practices and techniques that actors use in the rehearsal process to break open Shakespeare's challenging language."

"Each of our entirely original teacher handbooks includes active, engaging teaching activities, 400 years of critical thinking, synopses, and much more. Teaching activities-all aligned with the Common Core State Standards-are designed to draw upon some of the same practices and techniques that actors use in the rehearsal process to break open Shakespeare's challenging language.  "

My students told me about this site where they make study guides and flash cards for themselves. It's free, and it would be particularly good for studying information that you have to memorize.

A Guide to Grammar, Punctuation and Style

Free online tool that checks spelling and grammar and plagiarism and offers writing suggestions.

Test readability of a page by URL or direct text input. Includes Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, Coleman-Liau, and ARI.

Checks writing for readability levels, including Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, Coleman-Liau, SMOG Index, and Automated Readability Index.

Describes examples of features of EL books

How AP courses enhance stratification within schools between AP versus non-AP courses.

Create e-pub books from Wikipedia articles for mobile devices

The Library of Congress shares an exhibition of "Books that Shaped America." Librarian of Congress James H. Billington says that the list is "intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not."

This critique of excessive testing posits the need to recognize that we're not just "testing to the test," we're "teaching human beings."

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