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Lit teachers, don't despair - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog - 2 views

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shared by Holly Hoskins on 28 Oct 13 - No Cached

Holly Hoskins on 28 Oct 13

Some encouragement :)

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grmr.me - 1 views

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grammar writing

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Allison Hart on 29 Oct 13

"This resource is created by an English teacher for English teachers. "

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Newsela | Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events - 0 views

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news currentevents nonfiction literacy reading

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Allison Hart on 04 Nov 13

"Newsela is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing. "

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ProWritingAid - Writing Improvement & Editing Software - 1 views

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plagarism writing

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ProWritingAid is your free online writing editor and personal writing coach. Of course it checks your grammar but it does much more to help you improve your writing: Online grammar and spelling checker; Online plagiarism checker; Improve readability; Find overused words; Improve dull paragraph structure; Find repeated words and phrases; Check for consistency of spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization; Eliminate clichés and redundancies; Create a word cloud of your text; Eliminate vague, abstract, and complex words from your writing.
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Allison Hart on 18 Jan 15

free turnitin alternative

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New Outline tool in Diigo - 0 views

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diigo research writing

shared by Allison Hart on 07 Dec 14 - No Cached

Allison Hart on 07 Dec 14

Diigo just changed the way you can organize info - this will change what is listed here: https://sites.google.com/a/asdubai.org/tech-asd/how-tos/diiog as the old "lists" are going away.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Diigo just changed the way you can organize info - this will change what is listed here: <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/asdubai.org/tech-asd/how-tos/diiog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/asdubai.org/tech-asd/how-tos/diiog</a> as the old "lists" are going away. </div>

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Middle School Writing Apps and Websites - 0 views

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shared by Allison Hart on 23 Nov 14 - No Cached

Allison Hart on 23 Nov 14

15 Tools to Inspire Middle School Writers

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Quill.org - Interactive Writing and Grammar - 0 views

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grammar english interactive assessment

shared by Allison Hart on 16 Nov 14 - No Cached

Allison Hart on 16 Nov 14

this tool integrates with Clever, the tool that we already use to sync class rosters to Haiku... meaning implementation would be pretty painlesss "We currently support middle school students studying English. We cover all of the grammatical concepts from the Common Core State Standards for grades 1-8. We intend to expand our coverage to high school students, college students, ESL students, SAT / ACT students, and foreign language students."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">this tool integrates with Clever, the tool that we already use to sync class rosters to Haiku... meaning implementation would be pretty painlesss "We currently support middle school students studying English. We cover all of the grammatical concepts from the Common Core State Standards for grades 1-8. We intend to expand our coverage to high school students, college students, ESL students, SAT / ACT students, and foreign language students."</div>

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ThinkCERCA - 1 views

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writing technology english reading tools assessment

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ThinkCERCA is an online program designed to support individualized instruction in critical thinking for students in grades 4-12. The CERCA acronym (Claims, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterarguments, Audience) represents the site's structured approach to teaching critical thinking and argumentation. While reading one of the program's numerous text selections, students can make claims about what they're reading.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">ThinkCERCA is an online program designed to support individualized instruction in critical thinking for students in grades 4-12. The CERCA acronym (Claims, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterarguments, Audience) represents the site's structured approach to teaching critical thinking and argumentation. While reading one of the program's numerous text selections, students can make claims about what they're reading.</div>

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Infographics as Assessments for Nonfiction Reading - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Dav... - 1 views

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infographic info_literacy reading nonfiction

shared by Allison Hart on 02 Feb 14 - No Cached

Allison Hart on 02 Feb 14

This example comes from grade 5/6, but could be scaled up....

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Turnitin - New Mark-Criterion Association in Turnitin - 0 views

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standards assessment grading writing

shared by Allison Hart on 26 Jan 14 - No Cached

Allison Hart on 26 Jan 14

a great new feature in turnitin.com's grademark tools to support SBG - tie your comments within the paper to a specific part of the rubric

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Tips for having kids publish their books through Amazon Kindle - 0 views

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writing technology kindle amazon

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Publishing a real book for free, that people will buy! A great way to motivate kids and give them a world-wide audience...

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NoRedInk makes learning grammar fun and easy - 1 views

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grammar writing english

shared by Allison Hart on 17 Dec 13 - No Cached

Help your students improve their grammar and writing skills Create assignments and quizzes without doing any grading Target Common Core skills using your students’ interests Provide students with unlimited help whenever they need it Track growth using our color-coded heat maps
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Awesome Visual Featuring The Most Popular Books of All Time ~ Educational Technology an... - 0 views

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reading books infographic

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Qlovi - 2 views

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reading writing assessment commoncore adaptivetech interactive

shared by Allison Hart on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached

Qlovi offers enhanced literacy experiences supported by an interactive eReader and a variety of content. Qlovi supports educators’ application of Whole Group, Small Group Based, or Independent Reading Practices
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Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional | Mental Floss - 3 views

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writing reading english

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Pentametron Program Finds Tweets In Iambic Pentameter, Turns Them Into Poetry : NPR - 0 views

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twitter poetry shakespeare

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15 Lesson Plans For Making Students Better Online Researchers - 1 views

research technology tools resources google

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The Evil Dr. Snerpus- A Grammar Grading Game - 1 views

writing technology education tools game

started by jremingtonasd on 30 Jan 13 no follow-up yet

First Twitter Fiction Festival- Idea for writing project - 0 views

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english writing tools web2.0

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jremingtonasd on 06 Nov 12

"Tell us how you are going to explore content formats that already exist on Twitter - short story in tweets, a Twitter chat, live-tweeting - or, even better, how you'll create a new one," says the call for ideas. "How will you work with our real-time global platform, where anyone can contribute to your story at any moment? The proposal must fit into the time window of our five-day festival - but that means that a project could run for the length of the festival, or just for an hour."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Tell us how you are going to explore content formats that already exist on Twitter - short story in tweets, a Twitter chat, live-tweeting - or, even better, how you'll create a new one," says the call for ideas. "How will you work with our real-time global platform, where anyone can contribute to your story at any moment? The proposal must fit into the time window of our five-day festival - but that means that a project could run for the length of the festival, or just for an hour."</div>

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Hundred Zeros - Download Free Books - 2 views

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ebooks kindle

shared by Allison Hart on 23 Oct 12 - No Cached

Allison Hart on 23 Oct 12

free ebooks for kindle

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