Readworks

 

ReadWorks. give you access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles. Explore reading passages, question sets, vocabulary, article-a-day, paired text, vocabulary, book study materials, ebooks and more.  To see the website click here.

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News Articles For Students

Smithsonian's TweenTribune is a free website with news articles for students. Each article includes comprehension- and vocabulary-based quizzes and adjustable Lexile levels. All past articles are available and can be filtered by grade level or keyword. There are also tech-related stories and articles in Spanish.  To see the website click here. 

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Common Lit

CommonLit has over 2000 leveled reading passages for grades 3-12. You can download the passages as PDF or assign them directly to students. Browse by content type, grade level, lexile range, genre, theme and more.  To see the website click here.

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Free Comic Strip Makers For Students

 

There a million different ways to have students at all levels use a digital comic strip in your class, no matter what you are teaching.  No, I can't use it in my physed class.  Yes do you teach health?  Science, what did one cell say to another during Mitosis?  Let your kids figure out the ending.  Math, okay that might be tough but I am sure someone smarter than me could figure it out. These would be great in ESL or ELL.  Maybe as a final summative evaluation.  The sky is the limit.  Here are a couple free comic strip makers.  To read the article click here.

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Non-Fiction Reading of Current Events

 

If you would like your students to read about current events but have them read the same content differentiated by reading level by Lexile then click here.  It is free for your students to register.

 

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Sentence Navigators

 

If you are teaching E.L.L. or E.S.L. students then this article might help you out.    To see the article click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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8 Ways to Grow Students’ Vocabulary

Angela Peery has a podcast and article about improving your students ' vocabulary.  To read article or listen to the podcast click here   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon  and maybe the ads below will help with some ideas.  

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Youglish for ESL Pronunciation

 

I know that some students  learning English will use google and type "How to say" and then type the word.  It works but it does not give context.  If you are teaching ESL or ELL you might show this site to your students.  It actually shows real people on youtube using the word.  Also if you are Canadian you can use the drop down menu and select Canada or whatever accent you want.   To see the site click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.

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“RINGO LINGO” is a nice new online dictation site for English Language Learners

 

Larry Ferlazzo has a video about a new dictation site that might be useful for you ELL or ESL learners.  To see Larry's article click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.

How Can I Improve My Fluency In English?

 

Here are 12 tips that might be useful for your ESL students or you if you  teach ESL.  To see the article click here, hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.  If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.

The Newest Americans

This Webby Award Nominee was pointed out by Larry Ferlazzo. I know it is not Canadian but it has stories about new immigrants to the US and I am sure will still work with ESL students in Canada.  To see the site click here.

 

Santa Reads Your Script

 

 Would you like to have Santa read your script to a friend so  that you can send them the video?  You just select one of 4 backgrounds for Santa, type your message and give them your email address.  Then by AI you will get Santa to read your message.  It takes a bit of time for them to check your message for profanity etc.   This might be great to do in your class, especially an ELL class.  To see the website click here.

Canada and Immigrant Students

The PBS Newhour aired the following documentary about teaching immigrants in the Canadian school system titled "What the US could learn from Canada about integrating immigrant students"

From the PBS site "In Canadian public schools, the children of new immigrants do as well as native-born children within three years of arriving. There kids don't just get language and academic support; their home cultures are celebrated as they are integrated into classes. And strong social services and healthy education funding help too."

Rewordify

According to Teachers First, "Rewordify helps you understand what you read. Paste any text or website into the box to rewordify the text into simpler language. Easier to understand words replace difficult text shown with highlighting. Click on the highlighting to view the original, more difficult word(s). View excellent student and teacher demonstrations showing how to use the website. You have the option to choose how Rewordify displays the results using the options in the settings. Several options allow for easy personalization of results".  To see the rewordify website click here.

If you have different level readers in the same class, this might be a quick way to differentiate what they are reading.  Just copy and paste the text in the yellow box.  If you are teaching ESL/ELL students this site might come in handy.

Word Hippo

This site would be good for ESL students or other students who might need help with synonyms and/or antonyms.  This site also will translate words to and from English.  To see the site click here.