Category: Language Arts

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Perfecting Grammar With Grammarly

A grammar check and online proofreading tool beyond the basics in Word, Grammarly’s free writing app makes sure everything you type is easy to read, effective, and mistake-free by simply checking for grammar, punctuation, and style.  It also presents a contextual spell checker and plagiarism detector.

Add the Grammarly extension to Chrome and watch how your online writing is checked in real time.  Learn about your mistakes so you can avoid them in future writings and become a better writer.

To add Grammarly to your Chrome browser, go to:  https://www.grammarly.com/  and click the ‘Add to Chrome’ button.  That’s it!  Next time you begin writing, you’ll see it in action (provided you make mistakes).  🙂

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CommonLit for Language & Literacy 5-12

CommonLit is a nonprofit organization created by teachers, for teachers and is dedicated to ensuring that all students graduate high school with the reading and writing skills necessary to be successful.  The free program delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 5-12. Resources are:

  • Fiction and Non-Fiction Passages;
  • Flexible;
  • Research-Based;
  • Aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Sign up today for a free account and choose a lesson, share it students, and track their progress. This resource is committed to being free forever so there’s no need to wonder if it’s a limited version or if it’s only available for a short time.

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Develop Writing Skills With Photo Card

Are you interested in having students develop writing skills in post card format using a free post card app?

Photo Cards can be shared, embedded to a website or addressed and mailed through the US postal service (for a small fee). Stamps are also customizeable making the entire post card experience a design all your own.

The example below was created on an iPad using the Photo Card app and then shared directly to my WordPress site as a post in either publish or draft status. It was as simple as that and needless to say it worked like a charm.

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Zunal Webquest Projects

Zunal is a free online resource for creating webquests with a template but better yet it is a repository of thousands of webquests created by teachers and shared with the general public ready for use. Webquests are designed as projects for small groups of students to work together in completing the assigned task. Click the image below for a chart categorizing webquests by subject matter and grade level. The examples listed are for grades 9-12.

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Search webquests by subject matter and grade level.