When beginning remote learning experiences, setting up routines and expectations will be incredibly important, similar to the beginning of the school year. Some ways of doing this could be:

• Checking in with students and supporting their social and emotional health. They will want to talk with you, share their feelings, talk about what they are doing, and to hear your voice. Continuing to build and maintain these relationships is crucial to any learning experience, remote or otherwise.

• Environment considerations:

  • • Students taking video and sharing their reading spot

    • Students sharing a picture of their work space

• Teachers utilizing Google Meet to to lead small group instruction

• Setting up Google Meet for one on one reading and writing coaching

• Using a platform (like Seesaw or Flipgrid) to post reading, writing, math, thinking, or any artifacts or work

• Consider how feedback can be gained from students about how things are going and what changes may need to be made

• Consider how you might ask families for feedback as well

On this page you will find resources, arranged by content, that may be helpful to support your teaching. Keep in mind that introducing a lot of new tools to students all at once will not be helpful. Stick with one resource for a content area, and then maybe consider another resource if you need more, as time goes on.

With reading instruction, we need to think about how to create access to books for students. Below is a list of free resources. Start with one and work through it. If this ends up being a long term plan (and it very well might be), then you can come back and dig into another resource.

Amanda Hartman, from The Reading and Writing Project, recommends that teachers in grades PreK-4 provide our students with opportunities. You can have your students use one of these tools and/or you could send your students a video of you reading a story to them. A video of you reading a book could be a good model for parents on how to make read alouds engaging.

If your students have some favorite authors you could share that information with parents. If you are in the middle of a chapter book, you could continue reading that book to your students or point out one of the resources below that have the same book.

We want to keep the LOVE of reading alive.

NOTE: If you are doing a readaloud and sharing within our system - it is OK and not a violation of copyright. Do NOT do it on FBlive or Public Youtube links (unlisted is fine) unless the author has given public permission.

We want students to continue writing everyday. During this time of transition let's allow our student's an opportunity for different types of writing: what has the student always wanted to write about, lists, letters to family members, journaling, poetry and other types of writing . As we transition into remote learning, we want to start off with joy and engagement; what do students WANT to write about? Once students are in a routine and engaged, then we can start to think about curriculum and what types of writing are needed.

The Teacher's Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP) suggested that student's in grades 3-8 could be writing pandemic journals and sharing those with others within our community and globally. The goal is to keep students writing as we transition to remote learning. Students could create their own blog on a Google Site!

Students should continue to work on sight words and word study.

The math sites listed below give your students an opportunity to practice their math skills. Just as with the other sites, just pick one to look at and then you can refer back to others as we continue to expand our remote learning.

The science sites listed below give your students an opportunity to continue learning about science curriculum. Just as with the other sites, just pick one to look at and then you can refer back to others as we continue to expand our remote learning.

The social studies sites listed below give your students an opportunity to continue learning about the social studies curriculum. Just as with the other sites, just pick one to look at and then you can refer back to others as we continue to expand our remote learning.