ELA Practice #2

The Schomburg Center of African American History offers a newly digitized guide to honor African American Women’s Writers of the 19th Century. 

In this video, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad discusses the importance of employing text sets. 

The books on these lists are to help inspire conversations with children going through challenging situations like the death of a loved one, an unexpected move, natural disasters, and more. They are available for grades K-2nd, 3rd-5th and 6th-8th. Resources for adults are also included.

This kit is designed to help shed light on lesser-known books about diverse characters and/or written by diverse authors; the kit gives teachers, librarians and booksellers the tools they need to “booktalk” these books to their students, patrons, and customers.

We Need Diverse BooksBooks™️ is a resource hub that offers diverse reading lists, educational blogs related to diversifying classroom libraries, and a plethora of educational resources.

The Digital SAT® Suite and Classroom Practice: English Language Arts/ Literacy aims to inform secondary English language arts teachers as well as teachers in other subject areas of evidence-based instructional practices supporting college and career readiness for all students. 

Wayne RESA compiled this set of digital resources for teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In partnership with #DisruptTexts, this resource provides learning guides for eight texts in alignment with the program's four core principles. 

This program provides free and low-cost books and resources to underserved populations.

This NCTE Position Statement outlines and expands its views on censorship including recommendations and resources.

CommonLit's text sets cover a range of subject matter including historical, cultural, and political topics. They include relevant reading passages from a variety of genres and are great for social studies and STEM teachers, or for building background knowledge or diving deeply into a literary movement in reading classes.

The Free Expression Educators Handbook contains practical tools and advice for managing book challenges and censorship controversies in schools and school libraries. The handbook, created by NCAC in collaboration with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), is intended for teachers, librarians, and school administrators.

Newsela provides access to current event articles at five reading levels as well as teacher-created text sets on a variety of topics.

This resource includes a collection of articles that can be ramped up or down by lexile level and sorted by categories.

This site includes a variety of educational resources for teachers including a collection of daily Associated Press articles with adjustable lexile levels.

This site houses best books by and about Native Americans by year as well as other helpful classroom resources.

This resource from Achieve the Core supports educators in understanding why text sets are an important component of instruction and how to go about creating them.

This resource from Achieve the Core provides tools to support educators in determining text complexity from both a quantitative and qualitative lens.

This resource contains information on over 260,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and it features lists of award-winning books, book discussion guides, Read-a-Like recommendations, and complete series information. It also includes reader ratings and reviews.

This Teaching Tolerance resource provides a fillable pdf designed to help teachers select diverse texts for their classrooms/schools.

This ASCD article outlines how and why students grasp more information, think more critically, and learn to synthesize when they read many texts on one topic.

This article explains the quad text set framework and how it can assist content teachers in building students’ background knowledge, increase their reading volume, and incorporate complex texts into instruction.

This resource includes open source sample text sets created by and for educators that are available for both middle and high school levels.