ELA Resources

Best Children's Books. This link updates and lists children's books to save parents and teachers a lot time. Why spend hours searching various websites and links to locate quality and the latest children's books published? Instead, you can visit The Best Children's Books one-stop web site, to find
wonderful and various book lists for children books, categorized by interests and topics.

Read with Me is an application students and teachers can use on iPads to practice, develop, and improve student reading fluency. Reading fluency resources on this application provide teachers fluency assessments to help students become better (not fast readers) by utilizing phonetic decoding skills to read smoothly and focus efforts on text comprehension strategies! Read with Me assessments score, record, and track student Lexile Reading Levels for your students!

Units created by Brook Brown from Teachers Pay Teachers at this link have several awesome resources, creating/making activities, hands-on tasks, graphic organizers, ELA and Reading units for elementary educators. Brooke Brown's ideas and resources for teaching reading, writing, and vocabulary are excellent and engaging instructional tools to improve students' skills. Her resources and include: lessons, stations, hands-on activities, and graphic organizers that help educators instruct elementary students. These reading and writing instructional tools can be used during writer's workshop, as tiered activities, balanced literacy reading and group collaboration, or during small group stations. The uses are diverse and flexible to help save teachers time with already created and organized to help students improve their reading, writing, vocabulary, and comprehension strategy skills!

MindMeister is an engaging Google add-on application. MindMeister can enhance student performance by enabling students to express their thoughts and ideas in an organized and easy learning mode, mapping! The buttons and choices included in this application make this a wonderful tool for multiple subject areas and age group. Visit here for more details and information!

Front Row is an excellent web 2.0 learning application and site, all educators could use to integrate multi-subject areas while engaging students in quality reading passages, with thousands of topics interesting to students of all ages. Front row enables students to improve their reading and comprehension skills through vocabulary and higher-order thinking questions that follow after the student finishes reading their passage of choice. Students also enjoy being able to track their reading and comprehension accuracy. The more progress students make, the more points they earn to take their animal shopping at stores! This learning application has free features, and some that features that track specific aspects of student data, assignment completion, scoring, and assessments. Front Row also includes quality math learning practice and interactive tools to improve student understanding of key math skills!