Google Documents - Writing Tool

 

Google Documents is a tool where you can write simultaneously with your friends while chatting at the same time. It allows users to save their documents to the cloud where they can acces from any platform, even from game consoles. It also has support for every single platform. Users have a lot of options such converting their files into a pdf or uploading different format types. 

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Writing Tool - Jamboard

 

    Jamboard is a google based writing tool that presents a white board supportive application that can be used for free using a gmail account. Jamboard is a rather versatile application as it has the options to write in numerous fonts, colours, forms and also to draw pictures using any color or shape that can be imagined. Plus, using Jamboard you can search stuff without using any other tabs, give homeworks, save written or drawn pictures or add images and videos to your texts. And thanks to its well-rounded themes it can be used in all grades or levels of education.

https://edu.google.com/jamboard/

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Writing Tool: Penzu

 

Penzu is a private online personal journaling platform that can assist teachers in incorporating more writing into their curriculum. The website can be used for practically every type of writing project, including reflection, literature analysis, essays, warm-ups, and lab reports (graphs can even be added in picture format). Penzu allows for peer editing, a useful skill that requires practice. Teachers can share any student entry with the entire class or with particular students. Sharing with the entire class can encourage class debate on certain themes while sharing with specific students can be used to assign partner work and peer editing. Students can effectively edit and comment on their work with adequate teacher instruction and receive immediate feedback. The free version provides users with one journal, a limited number of fonts and colors, and the option to insert images. Students must have their own Penzu accounts in order to participate in a class; they can participate in multiple class journals while simultaneously having a private journal. When tasks are given, submitted, and graded, email notifications can be sent.

Penzu provides awesome teacher tools for managing writing assignments while making it easy for kids to create and submit their work. For more information, please visit www.penzu.com.

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Reading Tool: Starfall

 

Starfall is an early learning website including interactives, games, music, and reading and math materials. The reading program on the site is divided into four sections: Learn to Read, which teaches some of the more common sounds through interactive games, books, and videos; It's Fun to Read, which teaches students to read in context; and I'm Reading, which allows students to read short stories, comics, and plays. Students can work through these four sections and move on to additional units as their reading skills improve and mature.

Most of the content is oriented toward pre-K and kindergarten students, although a small collection of activities cover more complex concepts, like grammar, and are suitable for upper grades. There is also a Parent-Teacher Center with printable worksheets, pre-K and kindergarten curriculum, thorough listings of Common Core State Standards alignments, downloadable songs, and other resources for teachers, in addition to these interactives and activities.

Link: www.starfall.com

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Reading Tool - Reading Bear

 

    Reading Bear is a preferably elementry level tool that is commonly used by target language teachers to teach reading and consecutive pronounciation of words to beginner level learners. Reading Bear offers more than 1200 activities of vocabulary and phonetical exercises that are fully aimed at reading comprehension and improvement. Also, nearly all the activities are presented with sounds and narrated animations to suppelement the overall interactiveness. 

https://www.readingbear.org/

Biblionasium (Reading Tool)

 

Teachers may track and generate reading lists and reading progress using Biblionasium. In in addition to creating their own bookcases, students can also share titles with others. Using this tool, users can create reading challenges and tasks that will inspire kids to pick up a book. Tool Link:

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ISL COLLECTIVE

ISLCollective is very helpful in terms of English lessons because of the materials and content it offers to teachers. It also offers the ability to choose materials according to the level and age of the students. This website, which also offers you opportunities to edit materials, is highly preferred especially by students. Unlike most course materials in PDF form, on the ISLCollective site, you have the opportunity to download everything in Word format and edit it according to your wishes.

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Vocabulary Tool - Visuwords

 

    Visuwords is a vocabulary tool that highly encourages brainstorming using a vocabulary association system which utilizes visually attractive and easy to grasp graphs. The tool iteslf comes with an enourmously sophisticated dictionary and thesaurus source through which the graphs are supported with competently elaborated vocabulary chunks. All the words shown on the screen can be interacted with to reveal their definitions and their relations to the tree they are bound with. On the left side of the screen there is an information tab that helps users comprehend why a specific word is related to another. Visuwords is definitely a competently desinged vocabulary tool that can be used in nearly any context to learn or teach new words interactively.

https://visuwords.com/

 

Grammar Tool - Quill

 

    Quill is an online tool that provides writing and grammar activities designed for classroom and personal purposes. These activities vary in level, theme and context. From rewriting sentences to grammar chunk placement drills, there are numerous amounts of writing and grammar tasks to complete. Plus, they can be fully overseen by instructors simultaneously as Quill also provides a classroom/homework management system through which process monitoring gets drastically easier for teachers. Lastly, the inbuilt feedback systems of Quill make wonders as they are not only pertinently detailed but also constructively critical regarding the subject of interest.        

https://www.quill.org/

Grammar Tool

LearnEnglish Teens is a website for students studying English as a second or foreign language. LearnEnglish Teens allows you to watch videos, read texts, listen to audio, and do online tasks to help you improve your reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. On this site, you can test your level and then select sites that are at the appropriate level for you, as well as topics of interest to you. The grammar section is separated into two groups: A1-A2 and B1-B2. These pages contain entertaining grammar videos and tests. With these entertaining videos, you may practice and improve your English grammar. There are online activities and worksheets to assist you.

A1-A2: learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/a1-a2-grammar

B1-B2: learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/b1-b2-grammar

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Digital Dialects

Digital Dialects offers free, no-registration ESL/English learning games that are made for students of all ages. Vocabulary lists and practice games with audio are provided for each ESL revision topic to help students learn the proper pronunciation. An English-accented speaker contributed the majority of the audio for these games. The majority of these games are English language beginner vocabulary drills. A few games emphasize English grammar (sentence structure). Some visually stimulating and interactive vocabulary exercises, like the animal vocabulary game or the food and drink quiz, are fun for children and school students.

Link: Digital Dialects

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Wordle

Wordle is a simple crossword puzzle that consists of just one 5-letter word. It has intriguing premise and an elegant design. It involves understanding a typical noun, adjective, or verb that shifts every day. In order to pass the level, potential solutions or answer must be submitted. Submitted answer will be automatically evaluated. Only six attempts are allowed for each challenger before they are kicked out or till the following round starts.

Tool Link: Wordle in UK English - Play Unlimited (wordlegame.org)

Vocabulary Tool

It doesn't matter if it's English or a different foreign language, the common problem that everyone who learns a new language has is memorizing words. In order to meet this need, each individual develops different methods. Pasting post-it notes on the walls or creating word cards are some of them... This process can sometimes get very boring. At this point QUIZLET comes to our rescue. Use it individually, or apply it to your students. With the Quizlet application, you can learn topics from different branches such as a new language, new words, or science in a fun way. You can prepare your exams with the learn mode in the Quizlet application, test your memory with the writing mode, or listen to the correct pronunciation of foreign words.

If you want to try, here is the link:

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Grammar Tool

Quillbot is a free annotation tool used by tons of people. It is one of the best annotation tools on the market and has many amazing features. Quillbot enhances clarity and meaning in your text by correctly plugging it into the writing tools you already use. You can find the right synonyms, make spelling corrections, as well as make a better sentence construction.

The writing project saves about 75% of your time and is trusted by more than 10 million people worldwide. It is very useful for various projects and for writing emails, essays and even social media posts.

QuillBot also has great SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tools that help your articles reach a wider audience, thereby providing a better opportunity for your business. In addition to correcting your grammar in quillbot, you can also change the text font and the alignment of the paragraph. In this way, when you export the work as a Word file, everything becomes well organized and ready to share. As a student, I really appreciate this feature. I just need to enter the URL of the text I want to quote and QuillBot will generate the text in the citation style of my choice: APA format, MLA format or Chicago Style.

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Gaming Tool For Education

FunBrain

Since its launch in 1997, Funbrain has led the market for free educational games for children. Funbrain has a huge selection of games, books, comics, and films that help kids improve their literacy, mathematics, reading, and problem-solving abilities. Parents and teachers can rely on the website to offer an enjoyable and secure experience both at home and at school. Kids in grades, starting from Pre-k through 8 can use Funbrain with ease and trust.