Literacy Links
ELA Links
| ELA Website | Description |
| America Achieves | Lesson videos, editable lesson plans, and links to great CCSS websites! |
| Beacon Learning Center | Lesson plan library: filled with easy to implement lesson plans for every grade level and subject! |
| Book Source Classroom Organizer | FREE digital classroom library/book organizer, book trader, etc |
| Flocabulary | Online library of hip-hop songs, videos and activities for supplementing instruction in grades K-12. |
| Hello Literacy | Literacy blog…GREAT stuff here! |
| Just Take 20 | Just Take 20 (JT20) is a Florida initiative to improve student achievement in reading and literacy by recognizing that literacy begins at home! |
| Laura Candler's Literacy Strategies | Variety of teaching methods for reading instruction and FREE PRINTABLES |
| Library of Congress | Access to primary documents |
| Literacy Circles Resource Center | LITERATURE CIRCLES!! K-5 Great resources! |
| Literacy Design Collaborative | Template-based approach to literacy demands of literacy instruction…awesome ELA, Science & SS tasks and modules! |
| Literacy Tools for Teachers | CCSS Writing prompt builder and text complexity meter |
| Lit2Go | Free online collection of stories and poems in MP3 format |
| National Science Teachers Association | Free science resources (grades 3-4) |
| Newsela | Innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing.” News articles that connect content to reading level. |
| Only2clicks | Web-based bookmarking tool. |
| Plickers | Interactive formative assessments |
| ReadWorks | Free lesson plans |
| readwritethink | Standards based lesson plans, interactive tools, apps, and printables. |
| Rewordify | Levels any text and converts text into easier to read version. |
| Scholastic Book Expert | FREE searchable database provides information about text, including lexile level, grade level, and other measurable indicators! |
| Student Treasures | FREE student publishing company |
| Thomson Gale |
Magazines on Thomson Gale database that include full .pdf issues Contact your literacy coach or Sharie Smith for password information. |
| Tween Tribune | Great resource for informational text- student/kid-friendly articles for any topic you are teaching! |
| Vale Middle School Articles of the Week | Articles are available online and can be printed. |
| Visual Thesaurus | VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in using, generating lists – Tier 3 down to Tier 1. |
| Wonderopolis | Jump start students’ critical & creative thinking skills & get an idea of their interest level (for motivating informational text selection.) |
| Wordsmyth | Comprehensive dictionary: gives definitions in kid-friendly terms, vocabulary activities, and more! |
| Wordsmyth Kids | Illustrated kid dictionary: K-3 readers! |