FOR TEACHERS AND PARENTS

ENGLISH AND WRITING RESOURCES

All Ages

Read Write Think Interactive resources for all grades.

Flocabulary Delightful hip-hop-based platform teaches vocab across content areas. Flocabulary has the goods: It's savvy enough to keep kids focused, and teachers will love the engaging, multi-modal platform.

Quill  Let students do the writing to make grammar lessons more meaningful with grammar and writing practice; teachers & parents may need to tailor lessons to best fit into their own curriculum.

826 Digital Popular after-school program shares its resources such as writing lessons and motivating examples of actual student writing.

 

Elementary

Lalilo   An easy-to-recommend tool thanks to its broad coverage of key skills and nice balance of student-driven and teacher-differentiated learning for K-3.

Brain Pop Jr. Reading and Writing Instructional videos to help instruct Reading and Writing

Freckle  Target skills and differentiate with dynamic practice and assessments. Rich with content-aligned assessments, printable worksheets, and progress analytics; skills mastery through practice.

 

K-8

Lexia Texas A good blended reading platform that offers students some choices, and teachers actionable data and useful offline resources.

Teaching Books Dense site collects resources on authors and books in one place. With a little time and effort, tailor your own database of literary resources can extend learning experiences with books and their authors.

 

Middle and High School

Writable Stellar program scaffolds the writing process with peer review and feedback; an intelligently structured tool for teaching writing and review that focuses on process as much as product.

NaNoWriMo  November is National Novel Writing Month…but why wait? This is a fun, empowering approach to creative writing. The challenge: draft an entire novel in just one month. For 30 wild, exciting, surprising days, you get to lock away your inner editor, let your imagination take over, and just create!