NWMS & NWHS ELA Online Resouces

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!

Find and study online flashcards and class notes at home or on your phone. Visit StudyBlue today to learn more about how you can share and create flashcards for free!

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Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web.

Strategies from K-12 schools, districts, and programs that are dramatically improving the learning process.

You can create a "wall" that has a topic or heading. Then, students (without logging in) can respond to your question or collaborate on the page. Students can type a response, add an image, or even upload video. This works great for a debate prompt or a topic that can have many sides. It could also be a page on which students collaborate to find information for a research project/assignment.

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.

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

ifaketext is a place where you can generate fake iphone text message screenshots and send and share them. This could be used for character analysis (have one character "text" another character at certain points in a story/novel. It could also be used as a fun way to initiate a lesson or present bell work.

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PowToon is an online presentation software tool that allows you to create free, cool, and awesome animated video explainers as an alternative to using powerpoint.It has an edu version that allows teachers/students to create videos for free.

Search over 250,000 free photos, illustrations, and vector graphics or share your own pictures as public domain on Pixabay. No need to sign in. Be sure to scroll past the "sponsored" images to get images without watermarks.

Free, research-based K-6 reading comprehension lesson plans and non-fiction reading passages & question sets. Common Core aligned (use correlation guide to align with IN standards). Higher lexile passages with novel companion sets (6th grade LA)

Watch YouTube videos without comments, ads, related videos, or any other distractions. Copy and paste a YouTube link into the box and it immediately provides a safe version of the video (with a link that will last even when you navigate out of ViewPure). No sign-up necessary. Have students search for "Purified" videos on YouTube using the search bar.

The SAMR model (substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition) explores the impact of integrating technology on both teaching and learning. It attempts to outline a progression that educators follow in their journey towards redefining teaching and learning with technology.

This interactive document provides an interface that allows students to type something (a story). After a few seconds, the document becomes interactive and begins adding sentences and changing words. The "author" changing the text is indicated. This is fun to use when writing a story or to use when students finish an assignment early. Students love to see how their writing changes and forget that they are WRITING!