Reading Resources

This page is dedicated to providing resources for k-12 classroom teachers looking to enrich their students opportunities in Reading. (Please note that these are teacher resources. If you plan to have students establish accounts on these sites, please see Terms of Service for that specific site with regard to student privacy settings, age restrictions, and COPPA guidelines. If you have questions about a certain site, please contact your school’s Library Media Specialist.)

Differentiation

• Google lit Trips

• Global Read Aloud

  • Connecting through Twitter with authors

  • Joining google+ literacy communities for students

  • Connect to epals- allowing the students to have writing pals with students abroad.

• Here are 53 ways for the students to demonstrate understanding of their text.

• This resource is a collection of riddles. How can students think differently about words to solve these challenges

• Google Classroom Independent Study Templates

  • Real-world reading: chosen material/reading for pleasure

• Creation Myth - Culture Choice Project

• Independent Novel Study - Treasure Island

• Comprehension Questions

• Newsela

• Tween Tribune

Project Based Learning Idea's with reading

• • BIE Website- the Hub of project based/ inquiry project learning

  • Ted Lessons - TED talks inform students. These lessons use TED as the base and build challenge from it.

  • Exquisite Minds Website- A compilation of mostly free resources and challenges to students

  • Edx -open courses allows student independence.

  • Khan Academy- Additional challenges and lessons to challenge your learner at any level.

Lesson Ideas and Activity Tools

• ArtsEdge - The Kennedy Center's free digital resource for teaching and learning in, through and about the arts.

• Building Deeper Readers and Writers - Kelly Gallagher

• Izzit.org - This site lists the title, publication, and publication date for past articles posted to izzit.org, along with the full text of the accompanying discussion questions.

• Room for Debate - a site created by the New York Times. The Times invites knowledgeable outside contributors to discuss news events and other timely issues. They welcome feedback from readers. Reader comments are moderated Monday through Friday. This site provides multiple perspectives on a single issue.

• TheWeek.com-This is an online magazine that explores weekly events in politics, science, entertainment and education. Some articles pull from multiple sources, providing students with multiple perspectives on a single issue. Articles are often short and easily digestible for audiences new to informational text.

• Long Reads - The site provides links to longer articles taken from various magazines (i.e. The New Yorker, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Wired, Rolling Stone, etc.). This is an ideal resource for honors and A.P. instructors. It also has great articles for pushing general students’

  • Project Gutenberg - this site offers over 38,000 free ebooks in various genres. Students and teachers can choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online

  • SAMR Model

Tools for Students and Teachers

Additional Resources

• • -Presentation regarding GT literacy

• FlipGrid - Empower Student Voice with this tool, while they capture short videos to share ideas with classmates on topics you define.

• Synth - an audio tool to enhance conversations

• Explain Everything - Collaborative and Interactive White Board

• Nearpod - Interactive Lesson plan tool for sharing and collaborating in groups

• Padlet - collaborative resource for students and teachers

• GoogleKeep - Project Management tool for teachers and students

• Go Soap Box - Backchanneling tool and real time quizzes and feedback