BlindSpeak™ Beyond Books Speech Measure Text Readability - Readability and Keyword Density Analysis and Tools - Unique readability tools to improve your writing! Readable.io Tools for the Reading Classroom Last week I made my third trip to Nebraska for the Nebraska State Reading Conference. It was so much fun meeting new teachers and sharing plenty of my favorites technology tools for reading. You might have seen the picture of the tiny plane that took me to Kearney, NE in the graphic of this post. One of my sessions last week include 15 of my favorite technology tools for the reading classroom. When presenting a list like this to teachers I try to give lots of classroom examples and time to try out some of the tools I picked out to share. There are lots of ways to use the tools on this list depending on your learning goals, subject area, and grade level. Click here to download the free poster 15 Technology Tools for the Reading Classroom! Join the ClassTechTips.com newsletter! Sign up for my weekly newsletter and special messages... and you'll get INSTANT access to my eBooks, freebies and more! I can't wait to share my favorite EdTech tips, tools and lesson ideas with you! Monica
Free Book: Free Online Clipart Sourcebook Announcing the Free Clip Art Sourcebook: links to thousands of categorized free images, all in one place! When I was a magazine art director about 100 years ago, we didn’t have electronic free clip art. That might seem incomprehensible to younger people, but we had to jump through all kinds of hoops just to get images onto the pages of a magazine. It involved X-Acto knives and sticky wax, which always seemed to be stuck to parts of me, instead of just to the back of the clip art. I used to design a lot of small ads every month, many of which required some kind of artwork to make them stand out. But now I’ve developed a new problem: I have a lot of free contemporary and vintage clip art and scrapbook images. The Free Clip Art Sourcebook doesn’t just link to free clip art and scrapbook images; it’s free to download too. You need the free Adobe Reader to view the Free Clip Art Sourcebook. Please note that the images are subject to the Vintage Holiday Crafts terms of use.
Three Poetry Writing Exercises Stretch your writing muscles with these poetry writing exercises. If you’re going to exercise, it’s a good idea to warm up first. That way, you’ll get your body geared up to do the heavy lifting, the hard running, and the strenuous workout. Writing’s no different. Poetry writing exercises are ideal when you’re feeling uninspired or lazy, or maybe your poetry is getting stale and you need to take it in a fresh direction. Today’s poetry writing exercises are good starters and don’t require you to know anything about poetry or have any experience writing poems. Poetry Writing Exercises These poetry writing exercises are designed to get you thinking about rhythm, language, and imagery in your writing. 1. Create a list of word pairs and phrases that are built around alliteration or assonance. Bonus exercise: Use the words from your lists to write a poem. 2. Make a list of significant life events: birth, death, graduation, marriage, having children, starting your own business. 3.
Robert Frost Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, where his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., and his mother, Isabelle Moodie, had moved from Pennsylvania shortly after marrying. After the death of his father from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, who was two years younger, to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1892, and later at Harvard University in Boston, though he never earned a formal college degree. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first published poem, "My Butterfly," appeared on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent. About Frost, President John F. A Selected Bibliography Poetry Multimedia
Career Assessment with College Majors for Career Well-Being | Career Key Academic Wordlist In this section you can do practice tests for all groups of the academic word list. The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English (the General Service List), thus making it specific to academic contexts. Group 1 Practice test Group 2 Practice test Group 3 Practice test Group 4 Practice test Group 5 Practice test Group 6 Practice test Group 7 Practice test Group 8 Practice test Group 9 Practice test Group 10 Practice test
Practice Test by Margaret Matthews Choose a paper. Academic reading Choose a Reading passage to download. Reading passage 1 (PDF, 217KB) Reading passage 2 (PDF, 178KB) Reading passage 3 (PDF, 210KB) Reading passage answers (PDF, 129KB) Listening Choose a Listening section to download. Listening section 1 (PDF, 208KB) | audio (MP3, 1758KB) answers and tapescript (PDF, 152KB) Listening section 2 (PDF, 202KB) | audio (MP3, 1757KB) answers and tapescript (PDF, 167KB) Listening section 3 (PDF, 130KB) | audio (MP3, 1789KB) answers and tapescript (PDF, 152KB) Listening section 4 (PDF, 130KB) | audio (MP3, 1793KB) answers and tapescript (PDF, 150KB) Speaking Parts 1,2, and 3 (PDF, 129KB) Academic writing Choose a Writing task to download.
5 Online Calculators to Improve Your Basic Math Skills The first “compact” calculator was released in 1957, and needed to be built into a desk. Over time the device shrank, to the point where you could easily fit it in your hand. These days most people use software calculators on their phones, instead of a separate device. This gives you a lot of choice, and different ways of using calculators. Which brings us to today’s Cool Websites and Apps, where we’ll look at five apps that do calculators differently. Of course Wolfram Alpha is a calculator and so much more, and you can also just use Google as a calculator, but knowing about more tools is always a great thing. Algebra Calculator (Web, iOS): Solves Problems, Shows Its Work There are plenty of calculators out there capable of solving algebra problems, but not all of them bother to show you how the problem was solved – which makes them useless for learning. Notepad Calculator: Jot Down Calculations, Get Answers Instantly Numi (Mac): Powerful, Attractive Calculator and Converter