Differentiation Jump Start

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Readworks 

 http://www.readworks.org

/books/passages.

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Edshelf Review 

LearnZillion: 

 https://learnzillion.com/resources/73944-close-reading-lesson-library

(Requires free registration) 

LearnZillion is an online database of short video lessons that address learning topics aligned to individual Common Core standards. The lessons cover math, close reading, and some writing standards. Experienced teachers create the 3- to 5-minute videos and lesson plans, complete with leveled practice problems, anchor texts, and writing prompts.

For kids, the videos feature commentary, extra hints, tricks, and a “try it yourself” segment to help them practice on their own, using pencil and paper to follow the video’s guidance. Multiple-choice quizzes help assess students' learning. When both kids and teachers create accounts, teachers can assign lessons to individual students or to the whole class, see who's completed a lesson, and view students' scores.

From commonsense.org 

Video: What is Learn Zillion?

Edsurge  Review 

Rewordify: 

 http://rewordify.com/

Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that claims to improve reading, learning, and teaching. This site can:

• Intelligently simplify difficult English, for faster comprehension
• Effectively teach words, for building a better vocabulary
• Help teachers save time and produce engaging lessons
• Help improve learning outcomes

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Interactive Demo

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Front Row Math 

https://www.frontrowed.com/school-edition/

(Also see Front Row ELA)

Front Row is a math practice website (and Chrome app) for grades K-8 that is aimed at addressing Common Core skills. Front Row will work on devices that use the Google Chrome web browser as well as some iOS and Android tablets and phones (see here for more details). Upon signing up, teachers are directed to the dashboard, where they'll create rosters and add students. Once there, teachers will also notice the dashboard's myriad other capabilities: a report card feature, an analysis tool, grouping options for differentiated instruction, printable worksheets, a weekly student-practice feed, grade-level graphs of student progress, and a list of K–8 Common Core math standards. What's more, upon clicking standards in this list, a set of sample student questions and teacher resources appear. These resources might also include YouTube videos or lessons from other outside sources. Front Row is offered to teachers for free.

From Commonsense.org

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Video: How to Use Front Row Math

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FAQ 

Fluency Tutor by Google

https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/fluencytutor.aspx

Available on Google Chrome

Fluency Tutor for Google lets students record themselves reading and share with the teacher - away from the pressures of reading aloud in the classroom environment. Fluency Tutor for Google integrates with Google Drive and Google Classroom. Works alongside other online instructional programs

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MobyMax

http://www.mobymax.com/

Moby Reading pairs literature and informational texts with similar topics to encourage deep reading and facilitate learning. Informational texts draw in students with interesting topics, and each grade has three reading levels with 10 lessons at each level.

Video Channel

Curriculum Overview 

TweenTribune

http://tweentribune.com/

From Smithsonian

Features topics about animals, fashion, entertainment, school, science, technology, national and world news written by kids and professional journalists.

Lexile-leveled for K-12

Also in Spanish

Video Playlist 

About

Review from Common Sense Education

BrainRush  

 http://www.brainrush.com/

BrainRush consists of short, modular learning games (or “BrainRushes”) to teach foundational knowledge about a variety of subjects. The product can be used for any K-12 student and is free for teachers (though premium features are available for a monthly license.)

Video Channel

Edsurge product Review 

Matific: 

 https://www.matific.com/us/en-us

Video channel

Edshelf review  

PowerMyLearning.com: 

 http://powermylearning.org/learn/learning-games-activities

Video Channel

Edshelf Review  

PBS Learning Media: 

http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

Video Channel

EdShelf Review  

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

A library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-12 emphasis).

Read&Write for Google 

Read & Write for Google Chrome allows the user to hear words, passages, or whole documents read 

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Make a sketch or drawing

~Google Drawings 

Create a timeline of events

~Dipity

~ReadWriteThink Timeline Maker

Make a screencast 

~QuickTime

~Screencast-o-matic

~Jing

Create a word cloud

~Wordle 

~WordFoto

~Tagzedo

Write an analysis, response, research paper

~Google Docs 

Make a cartoon or animated presentation

~Toontastic

~Powtoons

~Moovly

Develop a game

~Tynker 

~WordSearch

Create a 3D visual

~Tinkercad 

~123D app

~Model materials

Write a letter 

~Google Docs

Create a mind map or graphic organizer

~Popplet

~Mindmup

Write and answer 10 questions 

~Google Docs

Make a trading card

~BigHugeLabs 

Write or perform a song or rap 

~Vocaroo

~GarageBand

Create a picture book 

~BookCreator

~iBooks

Make an audio recording

~Vocaroo 

~Kaizena

~Chirbit

Film yourself

~Green Screen DoInk

Cartoon yourself or another person or character

~Voki

~Bitmoji

Write a poem 

~Google Docs

~Google Drawing

Make a presentation

~Haiku Deck

~Google Slides

~Prezi

~Emaze

Create a magazine cover or movie poster

~BigHugeLabs

Take photographs and create a gallery 

~Flavors.me

~Canva

~Aviary

Make a collage  

~BigHugeLabs

Design and produce a commercial

~Animoto

Create an ad, banner or slogan 

~Smore

Design a review game 

~Sporcle

~Kahoot

~Plickers

Role play an event 

~Green Screen DoInk

Design a brochure or flyer 

~Smore

~Canva

Compare and contrast

~Venn diagram

Create a recipe or step-by-step instructions 

~ShowMe

Create an infographic

~Piktochart 

~Canva

~easel.ly

Create a map

~NatGeo Mapmaker 

Create a video or multimedia presentation 

~Shadowpuppet

~Tellagami

~Lego Movie Maker

~Animoto

~Voicethread

Find a song that represents your topic or character

~iTunes

~Pandora

~Spotify

Tell a story

~30Hands

Animate an image

~Blabberize

~Chatterpix Kids

~Yak-It Kids

Write a story

~LittleBirdTales

Create a bulletin board

~Padlet

~Glogster

Create an annotated image

~ThingLink

Create a portfolio of work

~Seesaw: a Learning Journal

Develop and teach a lesson

~Google Classroom

~PearDeck

~Nearpod

Curate or collect resources

~LiveBinders

~Story.li

~Symbaloo

Create a graph

~Google sheets

~Desmos

Create and survey others

~Google Forms

~PollEverywhere

~Socrative

Create a journal entry or entries

~Google Docs

Write a blog post

~Weebly

~Wordpress

~KidBlog

Share information on social media, following all safety and AUP guidelines

~Twitter

~Pinterest

~Instagram

Annotate a video

~Edpuzzle

~Zaption