Engagement

Padlet is an online, live, shared, collaborative, post-it note board where you can display text, pictures, gifs, videos

Flipgrid is a space where students create videos, or load videos all on to one digital space to share their voice and give each other feedback

Shakespeare's Globe 360 - Download this app to take a virtual tour of the rebuilt Globe Theater in London, England; Listen to actors explain different parts of the theater.

Answer Garden is a digital space where students share their responses and the ones that occur more frequently appear larger than those less frequent responses.

edpuzzle - make any video your lesson. Edit videos and insert questions, verify if students have watched all of video. Perfect for the flipped classroom.

Class Dojo is a behavior reward system with timer, music, random-name shuffler, and so much more build in

Pear Deck - Create an interactive lesson using Google Slides.

Nearpod - Create interactive lessons using ppt, google slides, pdf, or jpg.

Ziteboard is a space where students can collaborate in real time in free form writing and drawing.

Quizzes & Gamified Practice 

Quizizz is a gamified quiz program that allows you to do live or assigned quizzes with leaderboards and memes for answer responses.

Quizlet is a practice or assigned quiz program that allows students to practice content in different challenge types.

Kahoot is a gamified practice quiz that students can do individually or as a class.

Student Presentations

StoryboardThat - design a drag and drop comic book strip with an infinite amount of backgrounds and characters and text.

Emaze - create presentations with amazing templates.

A dynamic alternative to a Power Point slideshow. Zoom in and out of a larger picture to add dimension, surprise and amazement during a presentation. Easily add graphics, videos, and text.

Create a child's story book for any presentation with a library of graphics. Makes real page flipping sound effects during presentation.

Create professional and creative e-magazines with Flipsnack. A variety of easy drag-and-drop templates to choose from.

Create easy, drag-and-drop websites for free. Students can cultivate beautiful online portfolios with a weebly website.

Create a slideshow with text, graphics, links, and gifs.

Create professional-looking videos by uploading pictures and text.

Create fun animated videos by setting up slides from pre-formatted templates that are easy to personalize.

Create professional looking video presentations, posters, memes, social media graphics. Record your own voice or music to use in the background. Easily access professional free domain photos.

Non-Fiction Close Reading, Annotation & Analysis

NewsELA - Newspaper articles on every topic imaginable with adjustable lexile levels. Can access questions, quizzes, annotation tools, and auto-grading.

Izzit.org - Current Events newspaper articles with vocabulary words and discussion questions. They also have non-fiction units with lessons, worksheets, and quizzes already made.

CommonLit - Non-Fiction text with adjustable lexile levels, comprehension questions, and annotation capabilities.

Highlight Tool - Create your own color coded key for highlighting any Google Doc. Use it when analyzing text or a student's own writing. Find it in the Google Docs Add-Ons.

Kami - Google Extension that allows you to edit a PDF by adding text, writing, highlighting, crossing out, making notes, etc...

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Grammar

ELD

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Research Tools & Resources

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Assessment