Hemingway Editor is a proofreading tool that points out to students where to clarify and simplify their writing. Users import or paste their text into the tool and their writing is highlighted in different colors indicating difficult-to-read sentences, adverbs to avoid, phrases in the passive voice, and words that could be written more simply. The tool gives suggestions to replace complicated words with more simple ones. Since the tool was not designed specifically for educational use, it does not offer other suggestions for how to edit or improve what it has highlighted nor explain the specific rationale for the highlights. Teachers and parents will need to make sure students know why certain sentences or words are highlighted and how revise them to ensure students are learning these important writing skills. Other editor features include counts of the number of paragraphs, sentences, words, characters, and letters and the time it would take an average reader to read the text. It also generates a general readability score for the essay, giving it a grade level score. Students should be encouraged not to focus on this score, as taking meaningful feedback and progressing at their own pace is what is important in developing as a writer, not an auto-generated score. Overall, Hemingway Editor is a simple tool that can serve as a useful pass in the editing process. Students who are using this app should first be encouraged to re-read and edit their own writing first and then use Hemingway before moving to peer editing and teacher feedback.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Requires registration before using the first time
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Visual Discrimination
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers