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Amanda @mudandinkteaching | - Poetry March Madness: Use this doc to share poems with students and have them write a defense for their favorites. This product has direct links to over 30 poems to use for any eLearning purpose.
- “The Lottery” Digital Escape Room: This is an older freebie, but a goodie! This might be fun for a temporary 1-2 day lesson to give you time to get set for the long-term plan.
| - Actively Learn: non-fiction, fiction, and video ready to assign to students with questions and annotation
- Parlay Ideas: an online discussion forum with a free trial. .Use for FREE through April 30th using code Bye-Corona.
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Meredith @bespokeelaclassroom | - Unique Ideas for Poetry Writing and Analysis: Here are some fun, interactive, and creative poetry activities to get your students hooked on poetry. This list includes 5 creative writing poetry activities as well as 5 unique poetry analysis strategies. These are great activities for introducing a poetry unit and are great ideas to integrate into poetry anthologies!
- Reading Lists and Websites for Diverse Texts: If you like this freebie, click the green star to follow Bespoke ELA and receive product alerts, more freebies, and exclusive giveaways. Given all of the tragic events that have happened in our world and continue to happen in our world, I have compiled a reading list of 75 texts for grades 6-12 about DIVERSITY, RACISM, INCLUSION, TOLERANCE, and MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS.
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Ashley @buildingbooklove | - Color-coded online discussion: Use this simple strategy to connect students and host an online discussion over any topic! My short video tells you exactly how to use it! You may decide it would be best to use Google Docs rather than the Google Sides I have in the download. Other shared documents will work as well!
- Shareable Daily Timetable: Use this template to organize standards students should be focusing on and links to resources they need during their remote learning. You can share as a live, non-editable link so that they can access but not change your plans. The video I include walks you through how to use it and share it.
| - StoryJumper: A free platform that students can use to create an e-book. This is great for projects such as having students read a text then summarize it into something a child could understand or having students create a storybook for a unit theme.
- StoryBoardThat : A free (for light use) platform in which students can create scenes digitally. This is especially helpful if you are teaching a play remotely or want students to show what they know about an important scene from a novel.
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Jenna @doccopteaching | - Delivering Digital Content Training Use this short training to learn how to create and assign digital content. You can quickly and easily assign videos, narrated presentations, and podcasts with guided listening and watching questions.
- Book Snaps: Use this free resource to pair with any assigned reading that students do outside of class. Students will assume the role of a character and create a series of digital “snaps” for them.
| - EDpuzzle: EDpuzzle has a huge library of videos with embedded guided listening, or you can create your own.
- FlipGrid: FlipGrid is a free video-based discussion board for educators.
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Caitlin @ebacademics | - Instagram Activity: This is a great activity to get students engaged and interested in the characters they are studying. Even better is that students are asked to cite information from the text and justify their choices for the symbols they choose for each character. This can be used with any unit students are working on at home - a novel, a short story, a poem, informational texts, etc. *To make this digitally accessible for your students, please feel free to email them the entire packet, including the Teacher Instructions for Use, so they know how to complete it.
| - IXL is an excellent resource for online learning that hits the Common Core State Standards for ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish. You can get your class set up with a free 30-day trial to start using it right away. You can track and monitor student progress and mastery very easily, so you can see what your kids are working on!
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Lauralee @elaclassroom | - Poetry analysis. Your students can use any poem and this graphic organizer.
- Informational text. Have students read this nonfiction about energy drinks and answer related questions.
| XODO is great for marking on PDFs. If you are sending students digital versions of PDFs, they can write on them with XODO. |
Shana @helloteacherlady | | Listenwise has thousands of podcast clips and free online resources for ELA, social studies and science teachers in grades 2-12. They are offering FREE premium memberships to schools affected by closures. |
Tracee @mrsorman | - Chapter/Story Tweets Activity: Students can use these while independently reading any text to create a summary, inference, and/or prediction in the text.
- Reading Graphic Organizers: Students can use this with any text; they are Google-Drive ready or can be printed and distributed. They are also editable, so you can customize them.
| If your students have access to the internet and devices, listening to your voice--whether it’s reading, adding commentary, asking questions, telling a joke--can be very beneficial. If you have a Mac, you can use QuickTime (File > New Audio Recording) to record yourself. If you have a PC, you can use Google Play’s Voice Recorder app. Then just share the audio files with your students. Even if it’s just a daily greeting or joke of the day, your students will appreciate hearing your voice. If your students don’t have devices or internet, try to pick 5-10 different students to call each day just to check in and see how they are doing. |
Danielle @nouvelle_ela | - Creative Reading Task Cards. Students can use these cards to further their reading on any independent novel. These tasks are highly flexible (write a new scene featuring two of the book’s characters).
- Making Inferences Activity - Students make inferences about ‘disguised’ situations. Then, they write their own inference paragraphs.
| NewsELA is an amazing way to integrate informational texts on a wide range of topics. The platform is FREE for the rest of the 2019-2020 school year. |
Melissa @readingandwritinghaven | - Tips for Parents to Help Students with Reading at Home Send this tip sheet home to help parents find meaningful ways to encourage independent reading for enjoyment at home.
- Differentiated Vocabulary Broadening vocabulary is definitely something students can work on from home and then share with others. Have them complete this activity for a new word they encounter while reading and then create a snap or a short video response to teach that word to classmates. Alternatively, they could use the word in writing.
- Lesson Planning Tips for E-Learning Days Keep learning at the center of e-learning days. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and not sure where to begin, this post will narrow the focus.
| Scholastic is making reading and writing resources free during the current school closings. They are providing short lessons that make it easy to share high-interest topics and resources with students.
Seesaw is offering their amazing, social-media style platform for free right now. Use it to have students post pictures, videos, and responses. Students can use the whiteboard feature to show and talk through their thinking, and teachers can easily respond. Plus, students can communicate with one another by commenting on threads. |
Liz @teachbetweenthelines | Independent Reading Log This reading log is both digital and printable for E-Learning or remote learning. Students can read an independent choice book, a literature circle text, or a class novel. They will be asked to set reading goals, complete double entry journals (with guidance) and reflect on their reading. As a culminating activity, students will write a letter to you fully reflecting on their reading.
Literature Circles This digital and printable unit is reduced in price to free until the end of the school year. Let students select a book club book prior to leaving, and they can work through the digital or printable notebook. They can meet via Google Hangout or Zoom for their literature circle meeting!
The Great Character Motivation Debate This is also digital and printable. This activity will focus on character motivation. Students can prepare for the debate at home and conduct the debate upon their return - or you can host a ZOOM session to conduct the debate!
Collection of More Freebies I have a lot of freebies ready and available for you! This link will get you there. | Screen Cast-O-Matic in combination with Blogger.
I created a blog post with a video tutorial of how I use these two resources above to conduct my remote/E-Learning.
Google Hangout I love this tool for individual conferencing or as a literature circle/book club meeting. I may have my students read their literature circle books and complete the literature circle packet at home. Then we can meet on Google Hangout for our meetings! |
Shey @theclassroomsparrow | Freebies: Here is a link to all of the FREE resources I have in my classroom. Just print (or email) as needed. |
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Staci @theengagingstation | Reflection Activities: I learned about the importance of reflection in my grad class on brain-based teaching. Use this resource to have students reflect on the work you have already done. This will keep the information active in their memory and have them find a connection to it.
Google Drive of Free Resources: Check out my Google Drive for a variety of free units and independent resources. Click the “Print-Ready Materials” for no-prep items that you can just print and use. You can also use these items digitally. | ClassTools.net: Use this site to create a variety of games that are fun but educational. Create games like Pac-Man to have students review content.
Padlet: Padlet is great for online collaboration. Students can add comments, like each other’s post, and communicate with you and others. |