Ideas from a Reading Specialist–Current blogs consist of free online sites and programs for a reading classroom.
Quizizz allows teachers to present, review, and assess students at all grade levels in a self-paced online environment. It contains a library of teacher created public quizzes or teachers can create their own. Students enjoy and stay engaged while using Quizizz. To create a quiz, teachers select create a quiz, enter a name, language, an […]
This highly engaging tool allows you to improve instruction and student learning while assessing students with real-time results. The free version allows you one account with 50 students. (A pro version is available for up to 10 classrooms and 150 kids). To begin, click the launch and then quiz icons. You can navigate to the Socrative […]
The Google Cultural Institute was started in 2011 and was formally the Google Arts Project. The purpose is to make institution and exhibit content available digitally. The mission is to “make important cultural material available and accessible to everyone and to digitally preserve it to educate and inspire future generations.” It features high-resolution photography of […]
WOW! This amazing site is free with tons of bells and whistles, informative articles, student supports, and teacher resources! ReadWorks is a not-for-profit company with a vision that “Every child in the United States can read well with deep comprehension because all educators teach reading effectively with the superb reading content and curriculum they need.” […]