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Teach Writing With The New York Times: A Free School-Year Curriculum in 7 Units

A flexible program for middle and high schools based on the real-world writing found in newspapers, from editorials and reviews to personal narratives and analysis essays.

CommonLit

CommonLit is a nonprofit education technology organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, especially students in Title I schools, graduate with the reading, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to be successful in college and beyond.

P-12 English Language Arts and Mathematics Modules

In order to assist educators with the implementation of the Common Core, the New York State Education Department provides curricular modules in P-12 English Language Arts and Mathematics that schools and districts can adopt or adapt for local purposes. The full year of the Listening and Learning Strand for Prekindergarten English Language Arts is available.

Languages Flashcards, Diagrams and, Study Guides

Explore popular Languages study sets on Quizlet. Study Languages like Spanish, French and German. Learn what you need to get good grades in Languages classes and become more fluent. Memorize important terms, definitions, vocabulary, conjugations and grammar rules. Prepare for Languages homework and exams with free online flashcards, diagrams, study guides and practice tests.

Teaching Literacy at Home: Expressing Opinions

Use this 5-day lesson plan to teach your child about expressing their opinions. These easy-to-implement lessons come with clear instructions and printable templates to support your teaching!

Starfall Education Foundation Resources

Starfall’s intuitive learning environment encourages children to explore letters and sounds, word recognition, reading comprehension and fluency. Developed under the guidance of professional educators, our phonics-based learn-to-read activities encourage free exploration and play within a sequentially organized framework. They also offer fun mathematics and music activities. Here’s how to make Starfall work for you.

Dispelling Misconceptions About English Language Learners: Research-Based Ways to Improve Instruction

The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act puts an even greater focus on ELLs because both their achievement and their progress toward English proficiency are included in accountability measures. That means teachers of every subject and at every grade level need to know how to help their ELLs reach full academic English proficiency as quickly as possible while learning important content along the way. Using research as well as examples from years of classroom observations, author of the ASCD book Dispelling Misconceptions About English Language Learners: Research-Based Ways to Improve Instruction, Barbara Gottschalk will give educators the knowledge they need to add to the experience they already have with English language learners.

Young Writers Society

The world’s largest writer’s site for young adults ages 13 to 25. Youth can share their literacy works in this online community and receive constructive criticism on their poem or story.

The Write Site

Middle school students can explore the world of journalism and language arts through journal writing, and various writing activities and self reflection.

Virginia Hamilton’s Site

This site has great information that goes along with photography of both authors and illustrations of books for students of any age by Virginia Hamilton herself.

Systematic Engaging Early Literacy (SEEL)

SEEL provides resources and lesson plans for educators to teach early literacy skills to young children.

Start with a Book

In order to minimize the time spent without reading during summer breaks, Start with a Book provides resources for anyone to help children remain engaged in reading all year long.