reading
Articles
"Teaching Your Child to Read Well" "18 Ways to Help Your Kids Fall in Love with Reading" Book Lists 2017 Young Adults' Choices Middle School Book Lists High School Book Lists Free eBooks and Audio Books Bartleby "Internet publisher of (school) literature, reference, and verse providing students...with unlimited access to books (the classics)." Project Guteberg LibriVox |
Reading Skills Practice ReadWorks.org NewsELA.com Commonlit.org Identifying a main or central idea of a passage: Practice passage and questions #1 Practice passage and questions #2 Practice passage and questions #3 Main Idea Game Making Inferences: Practice passage and questions Reading Comprehension: Practice passage and questions Using Context Clues to Determine Word Meanings: Worksheet |
writing
Articles
"7 Pinterest ideas for high school writing" Help your child start a blog: Brain Pop tutorial on blogs Writing Prompts/Ideas for Aspiring Authors 119 Journal Prompts Creative Writing Prompts Write Me A Story Publishing Sites for Teens Candlelight Stories Figment Frodo's Notebook Kid Pub Teen Ink |
Additional Resources
Grammar Bytes Fun, interactive grammar exercises (some of which I have used to help students prepare for the ACT) Purdue OWL Online Writing Lab This website offers information to help with just about any type of writing project. Resources for general writing, subject-specific writing, research, and citation are included. Scholastic's Writing with Writers "Students get the opportunity to work with authors, editors, and illustrators in exclusive workshops designed to guide them in developing their skills." Students also get an opportunity to publish their own writing. The Write Source Check out The Write Source website for writing topics, student writing samples, research links, information about citing sources in MLA or APA formats, a list of publishers for student work and more. |
vocabulary
Vocabulary.com
By gathering information about students background vocabulary knowledge, this website predicts which vocabulary words individual students do not know in order to help all students learn useful words and improve their vocabulary.
The Longman Vocabulary Website
This website provides exercises to help students strengthen and increase their vocabulary knowledge in different areas including: word parts, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, easily confused words, academic vocabulary, and using context clues. In addition, students can review and learn 100 words that all high school graduates should know.
Practice Vocabulary Tests
This website includes Wordly Wise 3000 and SAT vocabulary practice exercieses.
Vocabulary Games
By gathering information about students background vocabulary knowledge, this website predicts which vocabulary words individual students do not know in order to help all students learn useful words and improve their vocabulary.
The Longman Vocabulary Website
This website provides exercises to help students strengthen and increase their vocabulary knowledge in different areas including: word parts, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, easily confused words, academic vocabulary, and using context clues. In addition, students can review and learn 100 words that all high school graduates should know.
Practice Vocabulary Tests
This website includes Wordly Wise 3000 and SAT vocabulary practice exercieses.
Vocabulary Games
Math
CoolMath
This website features strategy, skill, number, logic, memory, board, and jigsaw puzzle games to help students master skills in pre-algebra, algebra, pre-calc and more. DigitWhiz DigitWhiz is another games-based program that guides students to master key foundational skills in the following five areas: multiplication, division, integer operations, like terms, and solving equations. Interactive Algebra Math Goodies Math help and practice More math pracrtice Standards-based math practice for students of all ages and skill ranges. |
additional education resources
Great Schools
This website offers a wide variety of educational resources including: quality articles on hot topics, worksheets and learning activities for all subjects and grades, homework help, advice for parents, and much more.
Michigan eLibrary
This is a great site for high quality internet research. "The Michigan eLibrary provides all Michigan residents with free access to online full-text articles, full-text books, digital images, and other valuable research information at any time."
The New York Times Learning Network
"Students can respond to our Opinion questions, take our News Quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, try our Test Yourself questions,enter contests, do crosswords, learn about what happened on this day in history, answer 6 Q's About the News, speculate on “What's Going On in This Picture?” or read our Poetry Pairings."
This website offers a wide variety of educational resources including: quality articles on hot topics, worksheets and learning activities for all subjects and grades, homework help, advice for parents, and much more.
Michigan eLibrary
This is a great site for high quality internet research. "The Michigan eLibrary provides all Michigan residents with free access to online full-text articles, full-text books, digital images, and other valuable research information at any time."
The New York Times Learning Network
"Students can respond to our Opinion questions, take our News Quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, try our Test Yourself questions,enter contests, do crosswords, learn about what happened on this day in history, answer 6 Q's About the News, speculate on “What's Going On in This Picture?” or read our Poetry Pairings."