The new ebook platform Zing offers thousands of free trade-book titles that students will want to read, including award-winning book and series titles from well-known authors, Spanish leveled books, and short texts, poems, and articles. On Zing you can browse for books by topic, language, or reading level and access the books anywhere-on desktops, laptops, tablets, and interactive whiteboard. Customizable teaching points within the books support students in developing the skills and strategies they need in order to comprehend the texts. In the Zing reader, students will find a built-in dictionary and tools for taking notes while they read. Zing also enables student progress monitoring and reporting to provide actionable data for teachers and schools.
"Simply create great music! With the freeware MAGIX Music Maker Basic Edition you can compose professional sounding songs and entire soundtracks in just minutes. Simply specify the music style, play on virtual instruments (drum computer and modern synthesizer), record your own voice and combine the selected music blocks into a perfectly harmonized song with the easy-to-use Arranger."
"A modern dictionary for a modern world. Visuwords™ represents Language visually." Enter a word to discover various aspects of/about the word: part of speech, is a word for, is a kind of, is an instance of, is a member of, is a part of, is a substance of, is similar to, pertains to, opposes, also see, and more!
Generate scoring rubric for digital stories in less than a minute.
"First choose one of the following communication types and then customize your scoring guide by checking ONLY the traits and elements you want to use at this time. Click on each keyword for descriptors. For more detailed information on these scoring guides and further resources, see Overview of Digital Media Scoring Guides."
Math Snacks offers educational animations and games helping students in gr. 3-7 conceptualize mathematical concepts. It's free & common core aligned. Each animation and/or game has ample student and teacher resources associated with it.
