English - 1:1 Resources

Provides nonfiction articles and current events tailored by grade-level, literacy standard, and enables you to give the same article to different students based on their reading level. So if you know you have students who will struggle with a text because it is too long or too complex in terms of vocabulary, you can give them a more manageable version.

"Online Discussion - Very Basic Directions for Getting Started Online Discussion Instructions for Students (You will be prompted to make a copy so that you can easily modify the document.) Rubrics for Schoology discussions available in "Resources" of the "UPHS Schoology Users" Group. Join using access code 6G9WF-RC546."

Pulled this from our Facebook group. "If you're like me and you struggle with designing good spreadsheet templates, the Google Drive templates gallery is for you. Likewise, if you find designing good looking slides to be a challenge, the Google Drive templates gallery is also for you. Overall, the Google Drive templates gallery is a good place to find designs for slides, documents, and spreadsheets. In the short video embedded below I provide an overview of how to access and use the Google Sheets, Docs, and Slides templates."

Pulled this from our Facebook group. "Paste your text into Analyze My Writing and it will generate a ton of information about your writing. Analyze My Writing will give you a break-down of the readability of your writing on five indices. The analysis will include listings of the most common words and most common word pairs in your writing. A listing of how frequently you use punctuation and punctuation types is included in the analysis provided by Analyze My Writing. Finally, a word cloud is included at the end of the analysis of your writing. The word cloud and the graphs of your"

Pulled this from our Facebook group. "It's a program that acknowledges how we write - in a word processor, staring into the maw of a blank screen - and then turns the computer into a camera. What can we learn if we rewind and press play?"

"The work of a writing instructor never ends. Grmr.me can cut down on that work and improve student learning by providing instruction on common writing errors rather than simple correction. "

This is a tutorial on properly formatting an MLA document in Google Docs.

This is a tutorial on properly formatting an MLA document in Google Docs.