www.flaticon.com
This website has almost any icon that you can imagine. Most of the icons come in a black and white version as well as two different color versions. The free version of this website allows you to use the icons for personal use or commercial use with attribution. The paid version will allow you to use icons without attribution. It will also allow you to customize the icons by changing the colors. I use this website while creating things for my classroom ALL the time.
If you have been learning about the Science of Reading/LETRS training, then this website will be your best friend. The toolbox website has slides for every single phonics lesson starting with the basic alphabet letter sounds to all the way to words with prefixes and suffixes. Along with the slides are decodable passages for each lesson, home practice activities, and roll and read practice pages. My school also purchased the manuals that come from UFLI which gives you a the wording to use for the lessons, but the resources on this website are all completely free and I used them for months without the manual.
This website is not new by any means, but it is a website that all teachers should sign up for. I had played around with this website before, but this year I started using it for a lot more. I used it to create mini anchor charts for my students' notebooks, pages for students to capture notes, icons, slide backgrounds, and even had my students use the video editor tool to create a documentary for one of their writing projects. My goal this year is to use it more with the students and explore even more of the features that it has to offer.
Our digital learning coach shared this tool with me this school year and while I haven't used all of the tools yet, it was definitely a gamechanger for creating resources for my students. When you install this extension it places an icon at the bottom right of your screen. My favorite use was going to a website that I wanted my students to explore and using the button to change the level of the text. It would take the website information and put it into a Google Doc while changing the text complexity to the grade level of your choice. Once you have the article in a Google Doc, you can then have the extension create a quiz to go along with the article. The free version of this tool will also allow you to create lesson plans, rubrics, translations, newsletters, etc. There is a paid version that will give you even more resources, but the free version has been pretty awesome so far.
I discovered this learning website about halfway through the school year, so I decided to start having my students explore it and test it out for the next year. One thing that I love it has both math and reading activities. Students take a placement type test at the beginning that gives them a starting point. I don't know how accurate this is because some of my students were doing kindergarten/first grade math and they were clearly way above that level. I think it did adjust as they completed lessons, but that is something I will investigate further when I use it this coming school year. You can turn on/off different features so that the focus can be on the lessons rather than all of the extra stuff. The main thing I did with it was assign students lessons based on the standards that we were learning during whole group. As students complete assignments, if they need help there are videos that will explain how to do whatever the standard the question is on. One thing I will say is that the students were extremely engaged.
