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Learn about English, including grammar, vocabulary, forums, chat, videos and more. EnglishClub has many special features to help you with the English language.

Free website containing kids news articles, kids current events, kids news on science, sports, and more! Great way to bring current events into the classroom and discuss credible sources. Contains comprehension questions, critical thinking challenges and vocabulary lists to push students to learn more about a topic.

Hall offers a detailed theoretical and semiotic analysis of the processes by which messages are encoded into media by the creators and decoded by the consumers. He provides a vocabulary for naming the different phases of message production and reception, and a theoretical framework for understanding how they operate. While this text might be considered too dense for many high school students, the ideas themselves are not, and a shared familiarity with these ideas creates a firm foundation on which to build future discussions of how media operates and how to discern even the most deeply coded messages and biases.

If you want to encourage critical thinking, try out elevate! Elevate allows you to play in different series of games, records your answers and responses, and then picks the next game for you based on your results! Some games focus on reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary!