Humanities, Arts, World Languages Specific Resources

Jason Reynolds' Grab the Mic Series and Write. Right. Rite. video series

Jason Reynolds (acclaimed and award-winning author and poet) is now entering his third year as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (lucky us)! If you haven't already checked out what he's doing with his ambassadorship, now's the time.  His focus has been on helping young people to tell their own stories and find connection and understanding through the sharing of those stories.  He's got educator guides and some fun and engaging writing prompts to inspire you and your students.

Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage: Masters of Tradition

This interactive story map allows students to explore the great diversity of cultures, communities, and artistic traditions that enrich the United States. Through abundant photographs, audio, video, short text, and first-person quotes, the story map addresses a variety of key themes, including immigration, migration, identity, heritage, and community. (from ALA best sites)

World 101

From the Council on Foreign Relations: World 101 offers information from independent non-partisan sources about international relations. Explore by region or global era issues - essays, videos, discussion questions, glossaries, and up-to-date reading lists provide comprehensive teaching resources for each module.

Pulitzer Center

The Pulitzer Center offers a wide array of international news stories and reporting - freely accessible on their site.  They also provide lesson plans and opportunities for Skype visits and workshops with their reporters.

The New York Times: The Learning Network

The Times has put together a collection of visual thinking strategies exercises, writing prompts, lessons, and more working around articles found in the paper.  There's  a lot of great stuff to explore here.  

Spark Creativity

Former high school teacher, Betsy Potash offers a wide range of creative ideas for engaging students through literature and art.  Check out the curriculum resources on her website, listen to her creative ideas in her podcast, read the blog or connect with other teachers through her Facebook group.

DocsTeach

This online tool from the National Archives gives teachers a way to create and build lessons around specific resources in the National Archives.

Teaching Books

This site provides access to book lists, lesson ideas, discussion guides, recordings of author talks and excerpts of audiobooks, videos, book trailers, and much more.  Lots of great tools to help you build thoughtful, resource-rich, customized book lists for your classes, and get your students excited about reading.

Unite For Literacy

Students can read simple texts/picture books in English or Spanish or read along in English while listening in a wide range of languages.

Storyweaver

A great resource for reading simple e-books (at four different levels of complexity) in a wide range of languages. Filtered search options help you find just what you're looking for.

Digital Dialects

It isn't the prettiest website, but it offers some fun, simple games and activities to help students practice language and vocabulary in a large number of languages.

Once Upon a Time (https://www.iletaitunehistoire.com/)

Students can read fables, legends, nursery rhymes, and more through this French website.