ELA - Writing
Newselahttps://newsela.com/
FREE/$89.00 a year Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core–aligned quizzes, with new articles every day. |
StoryBirdhttp://storybird.com/
FREE Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. |
Story Jumperwww.storyjumper.com
Create story books with super easy tools. Publish your own hardcover or paperback books. Promote them to our worldwide community. |
Little Bird Taleshttps://www.littlebirdtales.com/
"Little Bird Tales is a brilliant option for digital storytelling in the primary classroom." |
Wordlehttp://www.wordle.net/ Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. |
Tagxedohttp://www.tagxedo.com/
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. |
Scribble Press - Creative Book Makerhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scribble-press-creative-book/id999929385?mt=8
$4.99 Designed for the classroom and at home, Scribble Press is a creativity platform for children to imagine, write, illustrate, and share their own stories. NEW, Powerhouse features include video export, audio recording, music, 300 new drawing tools, backgrounds, and stickers to inspire creativity and 30 fill-in-the-blank story starters ranging from the silly to the sublime. |
Super Duper StoryMakerhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/super-duper-storymaker-free/id560494137?mt=8
FREE With Super Duper StoryMaker, you can create all the picture and photo stories you want and tell them over and over — plus, you can make your own photo albums, special occasion cards, comic books, etc. |
Hello Crayonshttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hello-crayons/id440149103?mt=8
FREE Hello crayon is an easy & fun drawing APP for children. It provides realistic crayons and marker pens. |
Writing - Bibliographies
EasyBibhttp://www.easybib.com/
FREE Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA. |
Noodle Toolshttps://www.noodletools.com/
FREE Trial/Contact for Pricing NoodleTools: Student research platform with MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian bibliographies, notecards, outlining. |
Paper Checker
PaperRaterhttp://paperrater.com/
FREE for up to 5 pages / $7.95 a month Grammar, Plagiarism, and Spelling Check; Free Online Proofreading; No Downloads...Allows you to find those pesky mistakes and correct them before your professor. |
Unplag.comhttps://unplag.com/
FREE/$3.99 a month for premium We check texts against web resources in real time and we give a 100% result, it can check up to 16 billions internet pages in 4 seconds for similarities. Our new advanced algorithm is the best among web-based plagiarism detection services due to our multi-layered technology, as well as SMART scanning. |