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Back to School Night PowerPoint
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Back to School Night PowerPoint
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Reading.New York Times Learning Network
The NYT learning network provides a learning materials in the form of news stories, ideal for higher level students who want to improve their reading skills. Readability Readability is a web and mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view. Newsela Non-fiction literacy and current events. Easybib Easy Bib is a powerful and very useful tool that helps students and teachers to cite in MLA and APA formats for formal reports. This site even allows you to enter a book's ISBN number and then automatically fills in the information for you. It can print the information out, export it to a Word Document or PDF, and even email it to you. A great tool that makes the research much easier for Middle School students and their teachers. Grammar.Purdue Online Writing Lab
The Purdue Online Writing Lab is one of the best free online resources for students who want to improve their written English, either as a first or second language. Grammar Monster Grammar Monster provides interactive teaching of English grammar and punctuation for native English speakers who need to improve their correspondence. English Grammar (Org.) The English Grammar website is a free English language resource, offering a huge range of grammar explanations and downloadable pdf format lessons. Vocabulary.Vocabulary.com
Vocabulary.com can help you improve your English vocabulary, combining an adaptive learning system with the world's fastest dictionary to help you learn efficiently. Knowble Use Knowble Articles to improve your English vocabulary by reading interesting newspaper articles for your language level, at home and at your own pace. |
Web 2.0Flipbook!
Flipbook is a web tool that allows teachers and students to create a digitally animated flipbook and then share it with the world. It is easy to create and is lots of fun to work with. Besides the obvious implication, Flipbooks might be a great creative way for Middle School students (or teachers) to animate a historical event,show the visual representation of how to do a math equation, show a scientific process,or even retell a scene from a book or story. Fast, fun, and Free! Weebly Weebly is a website creation site that makes it simple for students to create their own simple-to-work website. It is easy to understand and versatile tool for students. By using drag and drop functionality Middle School students can use Weebly for Education to start a Digital Portfolio, a personal blog, as well as create a website for any school club or extracurricular activities. Weebly offers one great features, such as polls, embeddable maps and videos, and much more to make the sites dynamic, interactive, and very nice ways to display student work Creative Commons Search Creative Commons Search is a site that allows you to look for creative commons branded material which you can use in the classroom. You can look through Google images, Flikr photos, music, and even TB clips that are free for use anywhere in your classroom projects. This site also helps you give proper credit when, at times, it is too easy to copy, paste, and forget! Sumo Paint This is an amazing web-based tool (and a downloadable program as well) that lets you "PhotoShop" something, but for free. It allows you to manipulate your photos without having to have some really expensive program! You can create visual masterpieces and save them on your computer. Print What You Like! Print What You Like is an awesome website that lets users edit the content from other web pages in order to reformat or isolate the indormation you wish you print. It is easy and very powerful! There are options to remove all images and backgrounds. You can isolate a particular article off of an online newspaper and print just that one section instead of all the ads, comments, and junk that often comes along. You can also edit the font, size, and even formmatting with a picture in order to truly get what you want and nothing more. This is a great way to save paper and ink! You may need to sign up to use, but ask Mr. Ferro for details |