NoRedInk is attempting to make grammar learning relevant to students. The site has a separate login interface for students and teachers. Students can practice good grammar by reading sentences, evaluating them for grammatical errors, and correcting mistakes. NoRedInk makes the sentences relevant to student hobbies and interests by initially asking users to choose interests from a list and input Facebook friend data. The site hopes to engage students through personally relevant content and a cast made of the user's online friends. Teachers are able to create classes, quizzes, and assignments and engage students in these activities via an invite code. Teachers can also chart student progress and assess understanding of each grammar concept. Synopsis by: Demetri Lales

The place where you can easily convert a Google™ Spreadsheet into a set of online flashcards.

Rewordify.com helps people read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn words in new ways. Teachers use it to save time and increase learning from any English text. Just paste in a difficult English sentence, paragraph, or more (or enter a web page URL) and click the button. You'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding now. No dictionary needed! Plus, the easier version is specially highlighted to help build vocabulary.

Subtext is an iPad app that enables discussion between teachers and students within the actual pages of an ebook. Teachers can highlight specific passages in the book to start new discussions, meaningfully tied to particular words or phrases. Subtext also encourages teachers to post reading- relevant content from the web and create assignments and quizzes. Students can share ideas and collaborate to understand what they are reading and develop their own ideas about the reading. Teachers can create their own "closed groups" to invite their students to read and interact with a digital book in complete privacy. Synopsis by: Demetri Lales

Free! Curriculet is an online reading comprehension platform that allows teachers to easily create ebooks and seamlessly embed multimedia, checks for understanding, and quizzes into text. This can be used to ensure that students are internalizing what they’re reading, prod thinkers in particular directions, make connections to the real world, and much more.

Nonprofit ReadWorks ca talogues hundreds of lesson plans and CCSS- aligned reading passages- -for free! It's constantly updating, too: two weeks ago, ReadWorks added 76 science passages with associated question sets for K-6 classes.

Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse (is everything a "solution" for you?) or maybe just to find some keywords from a document. Wordcounter is useful for writers, editors, students, and anyone who thinks that they might be speaking redundantly or repetitively -- and it's free! Eventually, I'm going to expand it so that you can upload documents, but not yet.

Free! NuSkool provides hundreds of culturally- relevant lesson templates organized by grade level, subject, and pop culture genres (i.e. music, television, film, video games). Each lesson template includes a media artifact (mostly YouTube videos), description of the lesson, procedural tips, and possible assessment questions. Educators still seeking general lesson plan guidance may find the templates a bit sparse, but those looking for new ways to "hook" students should find the pop culture linkages very helpful.

Free! One of the most frequent requests these days is for "leveled texts," or content written to the level appropriate for a specific reader. East coast-based startup Newsela is doing exactly that: creating texts that have five different levels of reading complexity. All the text is build around the news. Newspaper writers take a story from a McClatchy paper and rewrite it four times, corresponding to a total of five Lexile levels of difficulty.

Free! Slick Write provides instant feedback on style, structure, and flow for any collection of text(s) up to 200,000 characters. The interface could use a makeover, but the feedback is helpful. To get started, copy and paste your text into the textbox under the 'Edit' tab (2nd from right) and click the 'Proofread' tab. Next click through the remaining tabs to view analyses for flow, structure, and grammar usage. Re-write if you fancy! The statistics are super fun to explore!

Free! Teach Your Monster to Read is a collection of four adaptive mini-games aimed at increasing how quickly and accurately students recognize letters ("grapheme" recognition). Young learners begin on Island 1, progressing through each mini-game to properly associate a series of letters and sounds ('s', 'a', 't', and 'p' in this case) until they've achieved mastery. It's a simple and straightforward process akin to leveling up through the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario Bros.

Free! ExitTicket is a classroom and feedback system designed to work on any smartphone or tablet that enables students and teachers to get real-time feedback any time during class. Teachers can select questions from a database or choose their own as the basis for quizzes, polls, and other "rich media questions". ExitTicket really shines as a pulse-test of whether most students understood the core of a lesson--before they walk out the door. The tool now offers a Lite version to teachers free of charge. The accompanying student module is available via web or through the iTunes App Store.

Free! As of 2013, LearnZillion has employed a team of 11 full-time employees and built up a collection of more than 2,000 video lessons created by teachers and organized by Common Core standard. It operates its learning platform – including short video lessons, assessments, and progress reporting – on a freemium model: teachers get free access.

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