Read closely. Think critically. Be worldly. Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing.
ReadWorks gives teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students. ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly. The ReadWorks curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension.
This website includes FREE online novels, short stories, poetry, and speeches. Sort by Author, Genre, Collection, or Readability. Text and audio versions are available.
This website tool can be used to help students evaluate the purpose, credibility, and relevance of any website or online text. Students enter the url and are walked through a series of questions.
This website includes strategies, tools, and texts to bring beginning readers and struggling readers to high levels of literacy. Although many of the strategies and tools are geared toward elementary teachers, there are some great resources for teaching vocabulary through morphological awareness.
Develop a deeper understanding of the Common Core State Standards by learning from student work on performance tasks. WestEd provides real student work from Smarter Balanced performance tasks, scores and annotations by practicing educators, and tools and videos to support professional learning.ELA
This website will not give you any resources, but I highly recommend attending the Cooperative Learning workshops. Please contact Noelle if you have any questions.