Secondary ELA Resources

Newsela - Up-to-date, high-interest articles will meet students right at their level, and help teachers bolster students' nonfiction reading skills.

Kami - Kami promotes text annotation and student interaction with texts, authentic documents, and pictures.

CommonLit - Access a hefty collection of reliable, ready-to-print, leveled passages that allow you to tailor lessons, assign online reading, and track progress.

Actively Learn - This tool helps students connect and stay engaged while teachers easily measure progress.

StudySync - A resource for helping your students become close readers, careful writers, and critical thinkers.

IXL Learning – IXL Learning has been proven to be effective in providing comprehensive, curriculum-based math and English language arts content for kindergarten to grade 12.

Scholastic Scope - ELA articles for middle grades.

AdLit - AdLit is a national multimedia project that provides educators and families with resources to lift struggling readers and writers in middle school and high school.

Khan Academy - With Khan Academy, teachers can identify gaps in their students’ understanding, tailor instruction, and meet the needs of every student.

EDPuzzle - a wonderful way to make videos or use YouTube videos that requires students to watch the video in its entirety. You also can embed questions and/or notes within the video. It will link with Canvas and automatically grade itself.

Quizizz - Find and create free gamified quizzes and interactive lessons to engage any learner.

Quizlet - Help every student confidently learn anything, no matter what they’re striving to achieve. Use study sets, study modes and in-class game, you can instantly create a more engaged classroom.

Mentimeter - Quick responses/poll/ticket out the door.

Bitmoji Classroom - Available through the Bitmoji app, these customizable, mini-me avatars have become stand-in teachers running virtual classrooms, enforcing rules and expectations, collecting assignments—and making students smile.

Common curriculum for lesson plans - Focus on just a single day or zoom all the way out to year-long calendar. Common Curriculum organizes all your plans in one flexible calendar.

Flocabulary - With Flocabulary, every lesson is an opportunity to bring the curriculum to life and reinforce core knowledge and skills.