Reading Language Arts
Kindergarten - Second Grade
https://www.ageoflearning.com/schools
Age of Learning provides schools closed due to the coronavirus with free home access for all affected families to leading digital education programs ABCmouse, Adventure Academy, and ReadingIQ. Programs serve students in preschool, elementary school, and middle school. Code:SCHOOL2568
https://abdodigital.com/?tk=7724458A4EE9A73EE8087AC8D237C57C
Free Spanish and English ebooks through the end of May.
Brain Pop Jr.
Engaging learning games, animated movies, educational videos on various topics; Request free access during school closure.
https://www.colorincolorado.org/reading-tip-sheets-parents
One-page Reading Tip Sheets are available in thirteen languages and offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers, babies to 3rd grade.
Education Galaxy
Offering free school accounts https://educationgalaxy.com/
Education Galaxy provides online STAAR assessment and practice for students in Grades K-6 to help build mastery towards TEKS. Available in English and Spanish.
https://www.getepic.com/learn/freeremotestudentaccess/
Digital library with 35,000 of the best books, learning videos, quizzes and more. Students will have anywhere, anytime access to the full Epic library on all devices (including web browsers, the iOS app and the Android app), and teachers can stay connected to their students by assigning books and collections and tracking reading activity and progress.
https://www.fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca_k-1.html
Printable, research-based activities for grades K and 1.
https://www.fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca_k-1.html
Printable, research-based activities for grades 2-3.
Created by Renaissance, can create a classroom, add students, and assign skills for free. Aligned to TEKS, can target specific skills.
https://simplyskilledinsecond.com/2020/03/home-learning-3-weeks-of-reading-and-writing-activities/
Provides 3 weeks of reading and activites for learning at home.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author & illustrator
https://www.youtube.com/studiojjk
Every weekday at 1pm Central for at least the next few weeks, I'll host free webcasts for you and your kiddos.
Junior Library Guild
https://jlg.ipublishcentral.com/bookshelf
JLG Gold Standard eBooks for Elementary, Middle School and High school students, JLG Digital gives you and your readers unlimited access* to read books online from any device.
https://learn.khanacademy.org/khan-academy-kids/
Teachers will need to align to TEKS
https://www.theliteracynest.com/
Blog, phonics, writing, Numerous OG activities; free during school closures
LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/
Mo invites you into his studio, doodles, and teaches you how to draw.
Interactive, leveled ebooks 400+ eBooks and open-book eQuizzes. Corresponding eQuizzes test comprehension, providing teachers with skill reports for data-driven instruction. Online running records let teachers digitally assess each student. Learning Ally is providing free subscriptions for RAZ kids and Headsprout through the end of the school year.
Scholastic Resources
https://www.starfall.com/h/index.php
Starfall Education Foundation is a publicly supported nonprofit organization, 501(c)(3). Children have fun while learning in an environment of collaboration, wonderment, and play.
https://www.startwithabook.org/
The free resources from Start with a Book build on what young children already like — dinosaurs, building, animals, sports, superheroes and music — so that parents, and others can have fun and interact meaningfully with children while helping to strengthen their reading skills.
Story Online
https://www.storylineonline.net/
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
This site provided by The Usborne Foundations covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences.Designed in collaboration with leading academics. Complements all synthetic phonics programs used in schools.
TPRI Resources
https://tpri.org/resources/blackline-masters.html
TPRI provides activities for phonemic awareness, graphophonemic knowledge, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing
Kid-safe, ad-free streaming library of read-aloud animated storybooks. Teacher guides are available for many titles.
http://info.activedinc.com/covid
Interactive video lessons-correlated to each standard for K-2 ELA and Math with PDF "walksheets". version is 100% free.
Third - Fifth Grade
https://www.ageoflearning.com/schools
Age of Learning provides schools closed due to the coronavirus with free home access for all affected families to leading digital education programs ABCmouse, Adventure Academy, and ReadingIQ. Programs serve students in preschool, elementary school, and middle school. Code:SCHOOL2568
https://abdodigital.com/?tk=7724458A4EE9A73EE8087AC8D237C57C
Free Spanish and English ebooks through the end of May.
Brain Pop
Request free access during school closure; Engaging learning games, animated movies, educational videos on various topics.
https://www.colorincolorado.org/reading-tip-sheets-parents
One-page Reading Tip Sheets are available in thirteen languages and offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers, babies to 3rd grade.
Dave Pilkey at Home
https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/books/dav-pilkey-at-home/
The bestselling author of the Dog Man and Captain Underpants series will be welcoming readers inside his mind through Dave Pilkey at Home, a collaboration between the author, the Library of Congress, and Scholastic. Get creative and have fun with some of your favorite character from Dog Man and Captain Underpants! New content posted every Friday and available throughout the week.
Education Galaxy
Education Galaxy provides online STAAR assessment and practice for students in Grades K-6 to help build mastery towards TEKS. Available in English and Spanish. Offering free school accounts during school closures.
https://www.getepic.com/learn/freeremotestudentaccess/
Digital library with 35,000 of the best books, learning videos, quizzes and more. Students will have anywhere, anytime access to the full Epic library on all devices (including web browsers, the iOS app and the Android app), and teachers can stay connected to their students by assigning books and collections and tracking reading activity and progress.
https://www.fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca_k-1.html
Printable, research-based activities for grades 2-3.
https://www.fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca_4-5.html
Printable, research-based activities for grades 4-5.
Created by Renaissance, can create a classroom, add students, and assign skills for free. Aligned to TEKS, can target specific skills.
Junior Library Guild
https://jlg.ipublishcentral.com/bookshelf
JLG Gold Standard eBooks for Elementary, Middle School and High school students, JLG Digital gives you and your readers unlimited access* to read books online from any device.
https://www.theliteracynest.com/
Blog, phonics, writing, Numerous OG activities; fee during school closures.
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/
Mo invites you into his studio, doodles, and teaches you how to draw.
Membean is a trusted, online, individualized vocabulary program that can be used remotely with minimal teacher supervision. Used in 30,000+ ELA classrooms (grades 5-12) across the country, Membean can be accessed remotely on all devices. They are currently offering it free for an unlimited number of students and teachers at schools until September 2020. If you are interested, please send an email to quickstart@membean.com.
Interactive, leveled ebooks 400+ eBooks and open-book eQuizzes. Corresponding eQuizzes test comprehension, providing teachers with skill reports for data-driven instruction. Online running records let teachers digitally assess each student. Learning Ally is providing free subscriptions for RAZ kids and Headsprout through the end of the school year.
Scholastic Resources
Free for short-term during school closures.
https://www.startwithabook.org/
The free resources from Start with a Book build on what young children already like — dinosaurs, building, animals, sports, superheroes and music — so that parents, and others can have fun and interact meaningfully with children while helping to strengthen their reading skills.
https://www.storylineonline.net/
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
Kid-safe, ad-free streaming library of read-aloud animated storybooks. Teacher guides are available for many titles.
Sixth - Eighth Grade
https://www.ageoflearning.com/schools
Age of Learning provides schools closed due to the coronavirus with free home access for all affected families to leading digital education programs ABCmouse, Adventure Academy, and ReadingIQ. Programs serve students in preschool, elementary school, and middle school. Code:SCHOOL2568
https://abdodigital.com/?tk=7724458A4EE9A73EE8087AC8D237C57C
Free Spanish and English ebooks through the end of May.
Created by Renaissance, can create a classroom, add students, and assign skills for free. Aligned to TEKS, can target specific skills.
Junior Library Guild
https://jlg.ipublishcentral.com/bookshelf
JLG Gold Standard eBooks for Elementary, Middle School and High school students, JLG Digital gives you and your readers unlimited access* to read books online from any device.
http://blog.listenwise.com/2020/03/listenwise-support-for-schools-affected-by-the-coronavirus/
Audio stories with customizable assignments and lexile levels; 2000+ collection of ELA, social studies, science, and current event lessons with accompanying listening comprehension and discussion questions.
Membean is a trusted, online, individualized vocabulary program that can be used remotely with minimal teacher supervision. Used in 30,000+ ELA classrooms (grades 5-12) across the country, Membean can be accessed remotely on all devices. They are currently offering it free for an unlimited number of students and teachers at schools until September 2020. If you are interested, please send an email to quickstart@membean.com.
High School
https://abdodigital.com/?tk=7724458A4EE9A73EE8087AC8D237C57C
Free Spanish and English ebooks through the end of May.
http://blog.listenwise.com/2020/03/listenwise-support-for-schools-affected-by-the-coronavirus/
Audio stories with customizable assignments and lexile levels; 2000+ collection of ELA, social studies, science, and current event lessons with accompanying listening comprehension and discussion questions.
Lit2Go
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.
Membean is a trusted, online, individualized vocabulary program that can be used remotely with minimal teacher supervision. Used in 30,000+ ELA classrooms (grades 5-12) across the country, Membean can be accessed remotely on all devices. They are currently offering it free for an unlimited number of students and teachers at schools until September 2020. If you are interested, please send an email to quickstart@membean.com.
All Grade Levels
https://lead4ward.com/resources/
Find grade level, content-specific academic vocabulary.
Author Resources
With kids at home and parents looking for educational activities, many of our favorite authors are offering online read alouds and activities on social media. We’ve rounded up over 50 of the best virtual author activities.
Book Creator
https://bookcreator.com/2020/03/support-for-schools-affected-by-coronavirus/
Students can create digital books. Collaboration tool is free of 90 days--can be used in all content areas. Also has a Resources hub on at this link to provide ideas for using book Creator in every content area with student examples.Information literacy
(free sign up for Premium account thr May 2020)
This is an online reading program that includes a digital lesson library. Within the library are reading passages with text dependent questions. Spanish reading passages and questions are available in the library.
Empowering youth literacy, reading fluency and global awareness through current events, books and movies.
Ebsco Ebooks
http://gss.ebscohost.com/texshare/texquest.html
Ebsco has ebooks K-12. Teachers may access with their texquest login.
Freckle
Created by Renaissance, can create a classroom, add students, and assign skills for free. Aligned to TEKS, can target specific skills.
Gale Resources
https://www.galepages.com/texquest2/elem link direct to elementary
https://www.galepages.com/texquest2/middle link direct to middle school
https://www.galepages.com/texquest2/resources link direct to high school
Junior Library Guild
https://jlg.ipublishcentral.com/bookshelf
JLG Gold Standard eBooks for Elementary, Middle School and High school students, JLG Digital gives you and your readers unlimited access* to read books online from any device.
http://www.kellygallagher.org/instructional-materials
Kelly Gallagher shares with you a variety of handouts and instructional aids that he developed to support his strategies for teaching reading, writing, speaking and listening. Click on the file name to download the pdf of each document. And check back periodically, as Kelly plans to add more.
Teachers will need to align to TEKS. Get daily schedules for students ages 4-18
Free audio books for students with reading disabilities/struggles.
NaNoWriMo Young Writer’s Program
Parents and families! The Young Writers Program site is a great resource for staying creative and engaged from home. Access free lesson plans and workbooks, create a young writer account to write a Camp NaNoWriMo project in a youth-friendly space, or (if you're an adult) create an educator account and a classroom to write with your kids.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/
A collection of online resources for teachers with activities associated with National Geographic, online PD courses, an Educator Network, and many other resources. Pre-K-12 grade across all contents.
Free for the rest of the school year; Vast collection of articles that can be printed according to Lexile levels; Multiple choice questions may be included with articles.
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
PBS and your local television station have curated free, standards-aligned videos, interactives, and lesson plans.
Reading comprehension online instruction for educators and families.
Classroom, parent, and after school resources and lessons that promote literacy and thinking. The site offers lessons, interactives, activities and projects, games, and tools.
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
Free for families, teachers, and administrators. There are books, videos, articles, and activities for children to learn that are tied to a topic. There are 5 days that target a theme.
Stimola Live is a website of live stream events for kids, tweens, and teens by professional authors and illustrators represented by Stimola Literary Studio.
Various children’s books read by astronauts in outer space.
https://e.edmentum.com/edmentumsupport2020/
Study Island for Home enhances learning and helps your kids catch up or stay ahead. Parents, get trusted K-12 programs tailored specifically to your state standards.One year FREE for families: Code: EdmentumSupport2020
This is the link to main Navigator page; There are resources on this page with instructions to access from home.
Time for Kids
https://time.com/tfk-free/?scrlybrkr=88a7b579
Trail of Breadcrumbs - Gretchen Bernabei
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOzw2sEt9BxThgXJyWwtJYA (videos)
https://trailofbreadcrumbs.net/links/ (think sheets 3-12)
Strategically designed lessons to help “fix” writing compiled by Corbett Harrison. Included are prompts, mentor text lessons, and 6 Trait materials.Library Resources
Author Resources from 'Flash' Author Zooms
Marsha Diane Arnold
http://www.marshadianearnold.com/#
Ms. Arnold's site is full of resources for her books, including Galapagos Girl which she shared with us.
Lori Degman
http://www.loridegman.com/loridegman.com/Home.html
Ms. Degman's site is full of resources, especially for student writers.
Ruth Spiro
https://drive.google.com/a/esc15.net/file/d/1Ac0dB9BdBbjNDga-bBpXMq8Fy_NwUZrP/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/a/esc15.net/file/d/15j-7jufJDr7cIhK-P_vqFk7rdW0FceLH/view?usp=sharing
Resources to support Made by Maxine.
Library Resources
Publishers Weekly magazine for admin, teachers, library--articles, past bestsellers lists and the reviews database, which includes a search feature and the reviews listed by genre
· Access your digital copy each week on Saturday here: www.digitalpw.com
· Access the reviews database here: www.publishersweekly.com/reviews
· Access the archive here: publishersweekly.com/digitalgateway
· For technical help: service@publishersweekly.com
Simon & Schuster Education & Library
https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/online-read-aloud-guidelines?cp_type=enkl&utm_source=email&utm_medium=sands_email&utm_campaign=20200320_KidsLibrarian_TeachingResources&rmid=20200320_KidsLibrarian_TeachingResources&rrid=223852602
Simon & Schuster Education & Library is pleased to share our resources with you. We will permit you to livestream and post readings of Simon & Schuster books online for your students, subject to these terms and conditions.
https://houstonlibrary.org/find-it/my-link
Apply for a Houston Public Library card to access their ebook and audio book collection. Cards are free for Texas residents.
Historical video content to share with your students. Simon and Schuster Publishing presents History in Five YouTube Channel! Each video is less than five minutes long and includes five important facts that will make students experts on politics, presidents, and more.