Secondary Language Arts Resources
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1. Common Lit - Free collection of hundreds of short stories, poems, historical documents and more for students in grades 3-12. The resources are flexible, research-based, aligned to the Common Core State Standards, and created by teachers, for teachers. Lessons include reading passages and associated question sets. Teachers who set up a free account at Common Lit can create classes and assign lessons through the platform. Students join your class via a class code. When using the platform, students can hear the text read aloud. Guided Reading Mode helps struggling readers with a supportive, extra layer of questions. Teachers can provide digital feedback to students responses. Score reports can be accessed to help you identify where your students need extra support or remediation.
2. AdLit - On this site teachers can find book lists, video interviews with authors, and a comprehensive list of strategies for teaching reading and writing. The section on Common Core Classroom includes professional development video modules and resources for ELA and content area teachers. The strategies page gives detailed descriptions of how to implement each strategy.
3. GradeProof - Designed to help students improve their writing, GradeProof lets students import documents from Google Docs or Dropbox, upload Word files, or write documents within the GradeProof editor. GradeProof identifies spelling, grammar, and phrasing errors within a student's writing. GradeProof highlights and color codes the errors that it identifies for students. Students can then click on each highlighted error to see a suggested change. Students can click on each suggested change to implement the change. GradeProof operates on a freemium model. With a free account students can use GradeProof to identify spelling, grammar, and phrasing mistakes. A paid account will evaluate those things, as well as suggest changes to improve the phrasing of statements.
4. Make Beliefs Comix - A free, online place where students can create comic strips. Students can pick from a wide range of story elements - characters, expressions, actions, settings and dialogue boxes - to create unique visual narratives. They can use these tools to illustrate any concept or curricular content, such as a scientific process, historical event, personal narrative or literary text. The site also includes printable materials and lesson plans. Students can save, print or email their comics without an account, but the comic must be completed as it is no longer editable. Students who have email can sign up for a free account and can then save and retrieve comic strips to work on them in more than one sitting.
5. Web English Teacher - This site contains lots of resources to support the secondary language arts curriculum. There are areas for Shakespeare, study guides, poetry, mythology and more.
- Click here to view Best Practices Materials you can use with Common Lit activities.
- Click here to view a presentation you can use to introduce your students to Common Lit.
2. AdLit - On this site teachers can find book lists, video interviews with authors, and a comprehensive list of strategies for teaching reading and writing. The section on Common Core Classroom includes professional development video modules and resources for ELA and content area teachers. The strategies page gives detailed descriptions of how to implement each strategy.
3. GradeProof - Designed to help students improve their writing, GradeProof lets students import documents from Google Docs or Dropbox, upload Word files, or write documents within the GradeProof editor. GradeProof identifies spelling, grammar, and phrasing errors within a student's writing. GradeProof highlights and color codes the errors that it identifies for students. Students can then click on each highlighted error to see a suggested change. Students can click on each suggested change to implement the change. GradeProof operates on a freemium model. With a free account students can use GradeProof to identify spelling, grammar, and phrasing mistakes. A paid account will evaluate those things, as well as suggest changes to improve the phrasing of statements.
4. Make Beliefs Comix - A free, online place where students can create comic strips. Students can pick from a wide range of story elements - characters, expressions, actions, settings and dialogue boxes - to create unique visual narratives. They can use these tools to illustrate any concept or curricular content, such as a scientific process, historical event, personal narrative or literary text. The site also includes printable materials and lesson plans. Students can save, print or email their comics without an account, but the comic must be completed as it is no longer editable. Students who have email can sign up for a free account and can then save and retrieve comic strips to work on them in more than one sitting.
5. Web English Teacher - This site contains lots of resources to support the secondary language arts curriculum. There are areas for Shakespeare, study guides, poetry, mythology and more.