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Literacy Sites
Reading
Worldreader offers a free digital library for all ages.
Read Theory is a free online program that allows students to read passages and answer questions.
OneLook is a search engine that aggregates word definitions from over 1,000 dictionaries. There is also a reverse dictionary search function, in which you can enter keywords to describe a concept, and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.
Founded by the creators of SparkNotes and No Fear Shakespeare, LitCharts are literature study guides.
Tuck covers the best bedtime stories available both online and in print for for newborn children through fifth graders with synopses as well as helpful information for parents regarding sleep hygiene for children.
Starfall - Kids can learn pre-reading skills that help them build toward reading short online books. Skill acquisition is appropriately gradual; kids begin simply by sounding out different combinations of letters.
ABCya! ABCya! is a fun site for lots of great games and activities. There is a nice word cloud generator very similar to Wordle that creates nice-looking word clouds. The one-up ABCya! has over Wordle is that you may directly save your word cloud as a .jpg without any registration.
Magic Tree House If your students like The Magic Tree House series (and let's be honest, who doesn't?), they'll love The Magic Tree House website. Students climb up the tree and enter the tree house to find some great puzzles, fun games and quizzes on any of the 45+ MTH books.
Story Line on Line. Notable actors' read alouds bring kids' storybooks to life. Free; Website; Grades: Pre-K - 3
BiblioNasium Site for reviewing and sharing books makes reading a social adventure grades 2 -6
The non-profit ReadWorks is committed to solving the nation's reading comprehension crisis by giving teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students. ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly
K12reader.com provides free reading instruction resources for parents and teachers.
ReadWriteThink creates a lot of great educational resources. With Printing Press, students can create a booklet, flyer, brochure or newspaper fairly easily. There is a nice guide that walks you through the process, and the focus is on writing. There is a place within each publication for a picture, but not one that you can add from your computer. This space is reserved for students to draw a picture after printing. I'm all for creativity, but it would be nice to have the option of adding a photo or graphic.
Books Should be Free Books Should be Free (formally Audio Owl) makes the world's public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and easily searchable way. You can search for a specific title, or use the genre list to visually scan through hundreds of titles. Books may be previewed directly on the site, or you may download them directly into iTunes, or as zipped mp3 files. The downloads are broken into chapters, which is useful for teachers using this as a listening station.
Improve your Google search skills with our Power Searching and Advanced Power Searching online courses.
Vocabulary and Writing
Essay Writing help for children.
Ultimate Vocabulary Resource Guide provide tools for teachers and parents looking for strategies to help students excel. There are activities specifically for ESL learners, and others made for advanced English students.
The quickest, most intelligent way to improve vocabulary.Vocabulary.com combines the world's smartest dictionary with an adaptive learning game that will have you mastering new words in no time.
Better Writing Made Easy. Grammarly makes you a better writer by finding and correcting up to 10 times more mistakes than your word processor.
Quill provides free writing, grammar, and vocabulary activities to middle and high school students.
Merriam-Webster Word Games Merriam-Webster Word Games is a nice collection of games that gets students thinking and improving their lexicon. There are crosswords, cryptograms, word searches, jumbles and a plethora of other brainy games.
Wordsmyth: Free On-Line English Dictionary | Thesaurus Free online Dictionary including thesaurus, children's and intermediate dictionary by Wordsmyth.
CONFUSING WORDS 250 words that speakers and writers of English often confuse.
Story Jumper Story Jumper is a wonderful site that allows children to create their very own books. You can create cover pages, add text, upload drawings or photos to illustrate your story, and you can use the Story Jumper clipart gallery, too. One of the best things about Story Jumper is that it is easy for teachers to create and assign student accounts.
Help Learning English
Welcome to LearnEnglishFeelGood.com - your one stop site for ESL resources. Whether you would like to practice your knowledge of English grammar, to learn new vocabulary, idioms, or phrasal verbs, or to download worksheets/handouts for class, this website will provide you with the resources that you need.
Daily ESL - General listening comprehension multiple choice, mixed up sentence, vocabulary matching and grammar exercises.
EZ Slang - similar to daily ESL as described with the type of exercises but the type of words used include a more casual us of the English language .
ESL Short stories Vocabulary, yes/no activities, crossword, close and dictation activities.
ESL Resourse Hundreds of free worksheets to help ESL students learn English. Subjects include civics, life skills, holidays, and more.
Better English have been successfully helping people to learn Business English online since 1998.We started these online lessons to help our own students. Very quickly, people throughout the world found out about our lessons by word of mouth.
BBC Learning English is a department of the BBC World Service devoted to English language teaching. The service provides free resources and activities for teachers and students, primarily through its website
Worldreader offers a free digital library for all ages.
Read Theory is a free online program that allows students to read passages and answer questions.
OneLook is a search engine that aggregates word definitions from over 1,000 dictionaries. There is also a reverse dictionary search function, in which you can enter keywords to describe a concept, and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.
Founded by the creators of SparkNotes and No Fear Shakespeare, LitCharts are literature study guides.
Tuck covers the best bedtime stories available both online and in print for for newborn children through fifth graders with synopses as well as helpful information for parents regarding sleep hygiene for children.
Starfall - Kids can learn pre-reading skills that help them build toward reading short online books. Skill acquisition is appropriately gradual; kids begin simply by sounding out different combinations of letters.
ABCya! ABCya! is a fun site for lots of great games and activities. There is a nice word cloud generator very similar to Wordle that creates nice-looking word clouds. The one-up ABCya! has over Wordle is that you may directly save your word cloud as a .jpg without any registration.
Magic Tree House If your students like The Magic Tree House series (and let's be honest, who doesn't?), they'll love The Magic Tree House website. Students climb up the tree and enter the tree house to find some great puzzles, fun games and quizzes on any of the 45+ MTH books.
Story Line on Line. Notable actors' read alouds bring kids' storybooks to life. Free; Website; Grades: Pre-K - 3
BiblioNasium Site for reviewing and sharing books makes reading a social adventure grades 2 -6
The non-profit ReadWorks is committed to solving the nation's reading comprehension crisis by giving teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students. ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly
K12reader.com provides free reading instruction resources for parents and teachers.
ReadWriteThink creates a lot of great educational resources. With Printing Press, students can create a booklet, flyer, brochure or newspaper fairly easily. There is a nice guide that walks you through the process, and the focus is on writing. There is a place within each publication for a picture, but not one that you can add from your computer. This space is reserved for students to draw a picture after printing. I'm all for creativity, but it would be nice to have the option of adding a photo or graphic.
Books Should be Free Books Should be Free (formally Audio Owl) makes the world's public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and easily searchable way. You can search for a specific title, or use the genre list to visually scan through hundreds of titles. Books may be previewed directly on the site, or you may download them directly into iTunes, or as zipped mp3 files. The downloads are broken into chapters, which is useful for teachers using this as a listening station.
Improve your Google search skills with our Power Searching and Advanced Power Searching online courses.
Vocabulary and Writing
Essay Writing help for children.
Ultimate Vocabulary Resource Guide provide tools for teachers and parents looking for strategies to help students excel. There are activities specifically for ESL learners, and others made for advanced English students.
The quickest, most intelligent way to improve vocabulary.Vocabulary.com combines the world's smartest dictionary with an adaptive learning game that will have you mastering new words in no time.
Better Writing Made Easy. Grammarly makes you a better writer by finding and correcting up to 10 times more mistakes than your word processor.
Quill provides free writing, grammar, and vocabulary activities to middle and high school students.
Merriam-Webster Word Games Merriam-Webster Word Games is a nice collection of games that gets students thinking and improving their lexicon. There are crosswords, cryptograms, word searches, jumbles and a plethora of other brainy games.
Wordsmyth: Free On-Line English Dictionary | Thesaurus Free online Dictionary including thesaurus, children's and intermediate dictionary by Wordsmyth.
CONFUSING WORDS 250 words that speakers and writers of English often confuse.
Story Jumper Story Jumper is a wonderful site that allows children to create their very own books. You can create cover pages, add text, upload drawings or photos to illustrate your story, and you can use the Story Jumper clipart gallery, too. One of the best things about Story Jumper is that it is easy for teachers to create and assign student accounts.
Help Learning English
Welcome to LearnEnglishFeelGood.com - your one stop site for ESL resources. Whether you would like to practice your knowledge of English grammar, to learn new vocabulary, idioms, or phrasal verbs, or to download worksheets/handouts for class, this website will provide you with the resources that you need.
Daily ESL - General listening comprehension multiple choice, mixed up sentence, vocabulary matching and grammar exercises.
EZ Slang - similar to daily ESL as described with the type of exercises but the type of words used include a more casual us of the English language .
ESL Short stories Vocabulary, yes/no activities, crossword, close and dictation activities.
ESL Resourse Hundreds of free worksheets to help ESL students learn English. Subjects include civics, life skills, holidays, and more.
Better English have been successfully helping people to learn Business English online since 1998.We started these online lessons to help our own students. Very quickly, people throughout the world found out about our lessons by word of mouth.
BBC Learning English is a department of the BBC World Service devoted to English language teaching. The service provides free resources and activities for teachers and students, primarily through its website