Help your students understand difficult passages using Rewordify. This is a great tool for all teachers, and a must-have for those with ELL students!

Create an account and make your own spelling lists, or use others'. There are SO many games for kids to play with your lists, including one that reads the words to them...great for ELLs! Includes a FREE iOS app for the kids to use at home.

Try this interactive story map for pre-writing or summarizing...FlashPlayer required.

Copy/paste text to find spelling and grammar errors.

This site has many video stories, sorted by genre, and each includes teaching ideas, writing prompts, extended activities, etc.

This is a great blog post that details how to play money to "auction off" sentences for correction.

This site has LOADS of grammar exercises and assessments, and they even tell the test taker why their answer is correct or incorrect. Designed for EL students, I believe this one might come in handy for most of our kids.

Shel and YouTube. 'Nuff said.

History and government teachers could take note, too...check out this site for info on logical fallacies. You can even download a printable poster.

Check out this blog post with seven short video activities...these allow students to predict, describe, reconstruct, retell...also really good for ELL students, and there is NO extra prep work involved.

Would your kids like to hear stories read by celebrities? Give Storytime Online a try! The books are geared more toward elementary, but many of our kids would probably like that...

Spark Notes has a YouTube channel!

Bios, stories, or create your own! This is a great activity for many subjects...

Check out these writing prompt photos. There are MANY different photos on this blog that can be used with all grade levels.

An alternative to SparkNotes, LitCharts can be used on computer, downloaded as PDFs, or even as iOS apps!

I love saying this word! Download the large version for printing...

This is my go-to site for free audiobooks!