English

CommonLit has free reading passages with guiding, discussion, assessment questions.  Texts also have related media and teacher guides.  You can browse by book, genre, literary device, or grade level.  They also have themed text sets. 

The Library of Congress's Poetry and Literature Program features recordings of poets and writers reading and discussing their work.  There are also films of author discussions and performances. 

Lit2Go is a free online collection of audio recordings of classic poems and literature.  Some of the recordings have related reading strategies.  Many passages can also be dowloaded as a PDF and printed.  

Our district subscribes to this platform, so use your school Google account to sign in.  There are articles from a wide variety of content areas.  Articles can be customized to a student's reading level.  Each article comes with a quiz and writing prompt you can customize.  Student progress can be tracked. 

This resource gives students a way to approach reading and responding to nonfiction without requiring them to write an essay. It is relatively formulaic but builds skills through scaffolding concepts and encouraging students to develop the confidence necessary to start reading critically and making arguments about the nonfiction they read. 

PBS  Learning Media has free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games.  You can filter by subject and grade level. 

Read.gov is a website from the Library of Congress. where you can find  information on the Library of Congress Literacy and Fiction Awards,  Book That Shaped America, author webcasts, and even a selection of classic books. 

In addition to an extension for accessibility, Read, Write, Think has classroom resources including lesson and unit plans, classroom activities, professional development, print-outs, and student interactives.  

"Academic Writing Exercises" by Timothy Krause, Portland Community College is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, 2018.

This project was funded in part by a grant from Open Oregon Educational Resources.

This is a collection of interactive Google Forms to complement a series of instructional videos by Shaun Macleod and Mark Roberts of SmrtEnglish. Each exercise includes a short video along with original, self-grading comprehension questions and analysis of contextual grammar examples designed for upper-level writing students of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). When you click on a link below, you will be prompted to save a copy of the form to your own Google Drive. This allows you to edit the form as you wish and ensures that the data you collect from your students go to your computer. (TIP: To make it easier to navigate back to this page, right-click on the link and choose “open in a new tab” or “open in a new window”). If you have questions or feedback, please feel free to contact me at timothy.krause@pcc.edu.

Grammar Bytes provides handouts, slides, YouTube videos, and interactive exercises on a variety of grammar rules! 

Kahn academy has a section for grammar, usage, and mechanics. 

Noredink offers GUM and writing lessons and skills practice for students.  We do not currently have a subscription so some lessons are locked, but there is still considerable free content. 

"The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction."