Lightsail Digital Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking Platform! |
The LightSail Library contains texts for students from grades K-12 written across a wide range of Lexile measures. These texts are embedded with assessments and cover a variety of subject matter. Now all students can discover who they are as readers through a broad and appealing library filled with great texts.
Progress monitoring is embedded into daily practice in a natural way. Students answer multiple-choice, written-response, and Cloze assessments throughout each text. As student ability grows, LightSail tracks achievement and updates the selections in each reader’s library – that way, students are always reading just right texts. LightSail’s educators have also built several key motivators into the app! Students can track their progress against individual reading goals, check their Lexile scores and the number of texts they’ve completed and show off their achievement badges – all via their personal data dashboard. Readers can also chat with peers and teachers during the reading experience using LightSail’s in-app social network. LightSail comes pre-loaded with over 6,000 assessed texts for free. As your school's content needs grow, and you are ready to expand your digital library, LightSail provides access to over 4,500+ premium books at a wide variety of interests and reading levels. |
In order to support our ELT community, at Macmillan Education we are making their digital components and resources available for free for both Teachers and Learners for as long as the schools remain closed.
Macmillan has also selected extra resources that enhance teaching and learning from home and are making them freely available for Teachers and Students:
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Scholastic Learn at Home provides 20 days’ worth of active learning journeys designed to reinforce and sustain educational opportunities for those students who are unable to attend school.
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Book FlixAnimated classic storybooks introduce early learners to the delights of reading. Free 30 day Demo!
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Literacy ProLiteracy Pro empowers teachers with a blended learning solution that curates a personalized bookshelf for every child from grades K-6 and ensures purposeful and effective independent reading everyday. Free 30 day Demo!
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FIRSTScholastic F.I.R.S.T., an adventure on Ooka Island, secures the foundational reading skills needed for students in Grades PreK–2, creating automatic, fluent readers with strong comprehension. Free 30 day Demo!
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GrolierNonfiction content comes alive with dynamic videos, authentic texts, interactive maps, and more! Free 30 day Demo!
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Looking for some new materials to use in the classroom? Choose from a wide range of topics and access free classroom activities, worksheets and lesson plans to keep your students fully engaged.
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The Global Scale of English (GSE) is the first truly global English language standard, allowing teachers to more accurately and easily measure learner progress.
Based on research involving over 6000 teachers from more than 50 countries, it extends the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) by pinpointing on a scale from 10 to 90 what needs to be mastered for the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing within a CEFR level, using a more granular approach. Specific GSE resources then help teachers select the right learning objectives, grammar and vocabulary required for their learners to move onto the next level. It's a more effective way of selecting the right lesson, course materials or assessments at the right time. |
GSE ToolkitLet the Global Scale of English (GSE) save you time and improve the quality and relevance of your English classes.
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Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
Storyline Online is available 24 hours a day for children, parents, caregivers and educators worldwide. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners. |