English+&+Reading+Department

This page will be used by the English department to collaborate and share relevant site for use in the classroom.

Teen Ink A teen literary magazine and website. Written for teens, by teens.

Google Lit Trips This site uses Google Earth to plot important places from classic stories and novels. If a book that you are reading with your class is not already here, you can create your own Lit Trip!

Storybird A free online creative story telling site. Use hundreds of beautiful pictures to illustrate your creative story.

Wordle,WordItOut, & Tagxedo Create beautiful word clouds or art. Use for creative writing or to analyze writing. The more times a word is used, the larger the word will appear.

Museum Box A free program which allows you to build a box to define a person, event, etc.

ZooBurst A free online digitial story telling tool. Great for cretive writing exercises

Jeopardy Labs A free online Jeopardy template. Create review games or have your students use the program to create review games for almost any topic.

I Write Like What famous author do "I Write Like"?

March2Success Give this link to your students to help them improve their test scores.

Edmodo Secure social learning.

Shelfari What are you reading? What have you read? What would you like to read? Tell your friends on Shelfari.

ReadWriteThink Excellent resource.


 * When we think about today's youth, we must remember that they have always known and used technology. The sites listed below are compared to a literary "Facebook". The site is designed for sharing thoughts, ideas, and even creative literary work.**
 * The New York Times Article introducing the new webpage, Figment**
 * Figment-Write yourself in**
 * See the examples below for tools and ideas to help students learn vocabulary.**

Animoto Create free videos from still pictures. Have students create a 30 second video to illustrate a vocabulary. Then have them add the video to a shared folder or wiki.

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Paper Slides Prezi This demonstration will show the steps to take in order to make "paper slides". The examples are science terms, but any term can be defined using this method.

Xtranormal Text-to-movie A free online movie creator. Have students create a short video to define a vocabulary word.

Study Stack Create flashcards using vocabulary words. Use the flashcards to study, play games, ect. Have your students create their own and upload them to a shared folder or wiki.


 * See below for model lessons and ideas for your classroom. We can modify any of the lessons listed here to fit your needs.**
 * Literature Circles**
 * 21st Century Socratic Seminar**
 * Agent of Change** Use these tips and lessons to motivate students to read and collaborate with peers.

Shakespeare-Poe Mash up If you are going to be teaching Hamlet, take a look at this mash up of "Hamlet" set to the tone of "The Raven".


 * The following are links to Greek Mythology sites:**
 * MythWeb**
 * Greek Mythology**
 * Mythology Wiki**

BibMe This is one of the nicest sites because you can choose to save your bibliography as a Word document. EasyBib Son of Citation Machine
 * Listed below you will find links to free Bibliography makers. Word also has a "works cited" and "biblography" tool, however, the rules change frequently and the format it uses may not be correct.**

Plagaiarism Checker.com Doc Cop Plagium SeeSources.com
 * Listed below are several free online palgiarism checkers:**
 * Palgiarism Checker**


 * The resources listed below are tools to publish student work**
 * Youblisher** Create a magazine type publication from uploaded PDFs.


 * Social Networking Book Site:**
 * Book Tagger**
 * SHelfari**
 * GoodReads**
 * Writing prompts, lessons, ideas:**
 * WritingFix**