NWMS & NWHS ELA Online Resouces

Kahoot! is a classroom response system which creates an engaging learning space, through a game-based digital pedagogy. Kahoot! is an easy-to-use blended learning platform which works on any device, making the classroom interactive, encouraging both educators and learners to ask great questions.

Sway is an intelligent app that helps you easily create an interactive web-based canvas of your ideas. Pull your content from a variety of sources with minimal effort and use the built-in layout engine to craft a cohesive look and feel that looks great on any screen.

Kidblog | Safe and simple blogs for your students. No email address required (class code). Allows for threaded discussions. Teacher can monitor all blogs and posts.

Tell your stories with photos, videos and rich text on Google Earth. Must have a Google account. This is a great way to show movement within the setting of a novel.

Drag On Tape is great for editing YouTube videos.

Nonfiction article site. You are able to search a term to find articles related to your topic.

Nonfiction article website. It has interactivity in the form of quizzes, audio recordings of the articles, and vocabulary. You can create classes and assign articles/questions.

Audio, visual, and interactive components all reinforce the educational objectives identified by teachers at SAS Curriculum Pathways. SAS offers interactive learning tools in all core disciplines, mapped to state standards, for grades 6-12. SAS is also a provider of free apps that thousands of educators, traditional students and life-long learners are using. Example: I checked out the 'Strategies for Reading Nonfiction' interactive component. It allowed me to select a piece of nonfiction (I choose a biography of William Shakespeare). I then was directed through a few activities. I was told to scan the article and write my initial thoughts. Then I was told to read it carefully and respond to a few more questions. After reading the article, I was instructed to work with the information (making categories of facts, etc.). Finally, I had to draw conclusions about what I had read/learned. Students can then save, print, or email their completed work.

The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt lessons across subject areas and levels or contribute their own ideas. Students can respond to Opinion questions, take News Quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, try Test Yourself questions, enter contests, do crosswords, learn about what happened on this day in history, answer 6 Q's About the News, speculate on "What's Going On in This Picture?" or read Poetry Pairings.

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Great lessons that have accompanying videos and resources. This can be an extension of your Edmodo Snapshots. A lot of great resources!

Common Core-aligned lessons. This can be an extension of your Edmodo Snapshots (it recommends specific lessons for students after they have submitted a Snapshot. A lot of great resources!

NBC Learn is the education arm of NBC News. We are making the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities to drive college and career readiness, improve test scores and improve graduation rates.

We make simple learning tools that let you study anything, for free.

We make simple learning tools that let you study anything, for free. Gather vocabulary lists or lists of important facts (i.e. capitals, countries) Create a Quizlet flashcard set quickly and easily Give students the link so they can study it Embed Quizlet sets on class website

Access your bookmarks and online favorites with Symbaloo. A free social bookmarking service in the cloud. This could be used as a navigation starting point for a research project or as a place to host the links used in your class. A fun assignment for students would be to curate resources on their own Symbaloo when doing a research assignment or even as a novel response (if you were this character, what online resources would you utilize at this point in the novel).

Symbaloo is a bookmarking tool, which enables students and teachers to organize and share the best of the web. This is especially a great way for teachers to organize all of their resources in one place. The tool is very easy to use. To get started you simply add tiles. Next, attach the URL address to your website- title it and categorize by color. These can also be created to use with units of study… the ideas are endless

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

Teaching and Learning with The New York Times. The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content. Teachers can use or adapt lessons across subject areas and levels or contribute their own ideas. Students can respond to Opinion questions, take News Quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, try Test Yourself questions, enter contests, do crosswords, learn about what happened on this day in history, answer 6 Q's About the News, speculate on "What's Going On in This Picture?" or read Poetry Pairings.

A Curriculet is a digital layer of questions, quizzes and rich media, placed on top of any text. As students read a text, questions, quizzes and annotations (i.e. material that would normally be placed in worksheets) pop out of the text, so students are instructed and assessed as they read… at just the right moment." Teacher-created questions and quizzes are tied to Common Core standards and all editable. You can access the ready-to-teach curriculum by visiting their store. You can also build your own Curriculets from scratch using any of the texts in the Store or build using your own text. Additionally, you can extract content from a URL or upload content from a file and they'll upload it to your Library. Finally, you can view rich reports on student progress and Common Core mastery, assign readings from books that don't contain questions, share Curriculets with other teachers, and use theirs.

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