Language A - Grade 10
Tiles on the webmix below include technology sites and content resources that may be useful in developing curriculum for this course. If there is a site that would be useful to colleagues that is not on the webmix, or a link that doesn't work or isn't functional and should be removed, please email that request.
Beneath this webmix is a list of each of the tiles and the sites to which they're linked. Sites pertinent to the course are listed first - the gray and white tiled sites (that are common to all webmixes in all content areas) are listed after
Teal Sites - StandardsCCLS ELA - The EngageNY homepage for ELA standards
Grade 8 ELA Map - The Grade 10 ELA Engage NY page with links to modules and resources Shmoop Common Core Resources - This site analyzes individual standards, and provides sample questions that assess each standard Orange Sites - Tech SitesReadWriteThink - An excellent site with lesson plans, ideas and lots of interactive templates to help students with writing
Quill - A grammar site that creates interactive "worksheets" to quickly and easily teach, assess and provide feedback on skills Quizlet - This site has lots of different game-based methods for studying and practicing vocabulary and content-based skills Essay Map - This is one of the interactives from ReadWriteThink that helps students plan essays Gone Google Story Builder - Build stories, set them to a soundtrack Tagxedo - This programs creates word clouds out of groups of text. They can be used to analyze themes in writing Hemingway - This writing analysis program allows students to input their own writing, and it identifies their weaknesses and helps them fix them Rewordify - Students can input complex text and it simplifies it for them ReciteThis - Students can make short "posters." Use for quotes, themes, character quotes, etc. Also good for classroom decor Learnzillion - This site contains common core practice videos and accompanying tasks Purple Sites60second Recap - Brief videos that recap/summarize literature
Crash Course on Literature - Popular YA author John Green's series on literature and literary works Gray SitesTop Row:
CPP Mail - Access the district email system CPP Website - The CPP school district site CPP Curriculum - This is the link to the Curriculum Office site Staff Handbook - This is the Staff Handbook Weebly CPP Instructional Technology - Help in teaching with technology Second Row: The Matrix - Click this tile to access the Curriculum Matrix Unit Planner - Click here to access the Unit Planner IB OCC - This tile leads to the IB Online Curriculum Centre Teachscape - Use this link to access the teacher evaluation tool PDP Timekeeper - Check on your professional development hours |
Red Sites - Lesson PlansClassTools - An site with interactive templates and tools to use with classes
LearningLab: Poetry Foundation - The Poetry Foundation's page with articles, teaching ideas and a poetry glossary WebEnglishTeacher - A site with thousands of ELA lesson plans sorted by text and type (grammar, poetry, etc.) Green Sites - Personal Project SitesNote: Sites that appear in other sections but that could also be used in Personal Projects have a -PP in their titles
StoryCorps - A site dedicated to oral histories, this links directly to the site's interview questions page LiveBinder - Site for organizing materials, websites and resources Blendspace - Another organization site that curates webpages, documents, images, video and more Service Learning Resources - Articles and ideas for service learning projects KidBlog - A blogging site that may be very useful for student journals (Students who prefer paper journals can also take a picture of those journal pages and upload them to any of these sites. iPads and even smartphone cameras can work as document cameras). Yellow Sites - Reference SitesVisual Dictionary and Thesaurus - Students can see words, their definitions, and related words in graphic organizer formb
My Vocabulary - Resources and activities for teaching vocabular White SitesTop Row:
CPP Edmodo - Access the CPP Sub-domain of Edmodo CPP Library - Access the school library webpage (databases!) CastleLearning - Electronic assessment - all CPP students and teachers have accounts Glogster - Presentation tool with student/teacher accounts Sign-Up Genius - Simplify meetings, conferences and more Second Row: Planbook - Plan electronically with Planbook.com EasyBib - Create works cited pages, outlines and research - make accounts at school for premium subscriptions TurnItIn - Check for plagarism, grade essays online VoiceThread - Presentation tool, student accounts Remind101 - Communicate with parents/students via text without exchanging phone numbers |