Teacher Resources
Besides giving students access to more than 6,000 digital resources with close reading tools and supports, myON offers teachers the ability to create reading groups and projects. If you are not sure how to use the project or group assignment features, but you would like to, ask your teacher librarian for help.
Curriculum and Instruction
Charleston County School District's Curriculum and Instruction website provides teachers with lesson ideas, websites, curriculum guides, resources, and more!
Anti-Racist Resources for Working Toward Racial Equity
A collection of resources for teachers and students about racism and anti-racism.
This website contains lessons, activities, book trailers, book lists, and more! Note: You will have to go through the Clever sign in page to access this resource.
Teaching students about digital citizenship? Check out this Wakelet with lesson plans, online games, videos, websites, and more!
Resources to teach citation of sources:
How to cite a site-Lesson plan unit from Common Sense Media for Grades 3-5
Citing Sources Lesson Plan from BrainPOP for Grades 3-5 and 6-8
LibGuide on Using Information and Citing Sources
The Citation Game-Choose a citation style and practice identifying correctly cited sources
Check out these awesome websites:
Wonderopolis- This awesome website explores classic wonderings of our students. It has articles, videos, pictures, vocabulary (wonder words), standards associated with each wonder, a test your knowledge section, and activities to go with each wonder. You can find a completely free trifold on Teacherspayteachers that compliments this website and covers many standards that our upper elementary students need to know.
ReadWriteThink- This website has thousands of awesome lesson plans by grade level, standard, or topic. Each lesson gives you a preview, standards, resources and preparation, instructional plan, related resources, and comments section. You can also e-mail, share, or print each lesson for free!
Rubistar- This site offers free rubrics! You can look among several that are already made by other teachers searching by topic or you can create your own. If you choose to create your own, there are several pre-made options. If you do not like the options, you can create your own. These rubrics are easy to print and use.