ELA Websites

Ticket to Read (www.tickettoread.com)
Ticket to Read, a fun and motivating online reading program, helps students become active readers. The program is designed for grades K–6, and students work independently on leveled fluency and reading skills.
Ticket to Read facilitates independent practice from school, home, or any computer that has an internet connection. The online program teaches and builds reading skills at the individual level with adaptive instruction in:
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
Ticket to Read, a fun and motivating online reading program, helps students become active readers. The program is designed for grades K–6, and students work independently on leveled fluency and reading skills.
Ticket to Read facilitates independent practice from school, home, or any computer that has an internet connection. The online program teaches and builds reading skills at the individual level with adaptive instruction in:
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension

Newsela (www.newsela.com)
Newsela builds reading comprehension through new articles, real-time assessments, and actionable insights.
Newsela builds reading comprehension through new articles, real-time assessments, and actionable insights.
Google Classroom (https:.//classroom.google.com) Classroom is a free web-based platform that integrates your G Suite for Education account with all your G Suite services, including Google Docs, Gmail, and Google Calendar. Classroom saves time and paper, and makes it easy to create classes, distribute assignments, communicate, and stay organized.
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Figurative Language: Orpheus Lyrical Game
Orpheus Lyrical is a figurative language review game that testes similes, hyperboles, personification, and metaphors.
Orpheus Lyrical is a figurative language review game that testes similes, hyperboles, personification, and metaphors.

Fun Brain
Fun Brain is an educational, interactive website for kids of all ages.
Fun Brain is an educational, interactive website for kids of all ages.

Poetry Cat
Students play a cat trying to collect balls of yarn while avoiding dogs and birds. Gameplay is enriched with objects like springs, spikes, gum, ice, and teleporters. When students get hit by an enemy, they have to read a line of poetry and determine which poetic device is being used. If they get it right, they continue playing. If they get it wrong, they die. The gameplay is simple, fun, and addictive. This game will encourage students to learn the following poetic devices: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, understatement, onomatopoeia, alliteration, allusion, rhyme, and repetition. With 50 levels and 500 questions, students will master poetic devices while playing this game. This game is tablet friendly.
Students play a cat trying to collect balls of yarn while avoiding dogs and birds. Gameplay is enriched with objects like springs, spikes, gum, ice, and teleporters. When students get hit by an enemy, they have to read a line of poetry and determine which poetic device is being used. If they get it right, they continue playing. If they get it wrong, they die. The gameplay is simple, fun, and addictive. This game will encourage students to learn the following poetic devices: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, understatement, onomatopoeia, alliteration, allusion, rhyme, and repetition. With 50 levels and 500 questions, students will master poetic devices while playing this game. This game is tablet friendly.

Viewpoint Pilot
This is an awesome arcade-style spaceship game that helps students master point of view. Students blast their way across the Universe, collecting cool power-ups and answering hundreds of questions about narrative perspective. When students get hit by any one of over 20 bad guys, they must answer a question about point of view. In the early levels, they must identify the difference between first, second, and third-person narration. In the later levels, students must distinguish between objective, limited, and omniscient modes of narration. This game is mobile friendly.
This is an awesome arcade-style spaceship game that helps students master point of view. Students blast their way across the Universe, collecting cool power-ups and answering hundreds of questions about narrative perspective. When students get hit by any one of over 20 bad guys, they must answer a question about point of view. In the early levels, they must identify the difference between first, second, and third-person narration. In the later levels, students must distinguish between objective, limited, and omniscient modes of narration. This game is mobile friendly.

Super Grammar Ninja (Parts of Speech, Sentence Structure)
Players fight their way through five worlds while reviewing parts of speech and sentence structure concepts. Each world has a different focus and students will have the opportunity to learn and review the material at virtual schools along the way. Players collect powerups and learn secret abilities during the course of play and unlocking all of the ninja powers is half of the fun. This video game is a great way to prepare for the language arts portion of the Explore, Plan, and ACT tests.
Players fight their way through five worlds while reviewing parts of speech and sentence structure concepts. Each world has a different focus and students will have the opportunity to learn and review the material at virtual schools along the way. Players collect powerups and learn secret abilities during the course of play and unlocking all of the ninja powers is half of the fun. This video game is a great way to prepare for the language arts portion of the Explore, Plan, and ACT tests.