Online Resources
Calling a Phone Number Using Google Hangouts!
You can use the Google Hangout chat feature in your Gmail to call cell phone and landline phone numbers. This way your cell phone number is protected.
Social Network Groups
Facebook - Teaching During COVID-19
Facebook - Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning (Search within this group for your specific needs, there are amazing resources and educators to help us out.
Facebook - Open Up Resources EL Education K-5 Language Arts
Facebook - Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning - MS/HS Social Studies Group
Facebook - Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning - MS/HS Language/English
Facebook - Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning - Math
Facebook - Career and Technical Educators Temporary School Closure for Online Learning
Educational Subscriptions (FREE) & Resources
Teach From Home Google Tutorials - Google has put together a website with updated tutorials of G Suite tools that are very beneficial to teachers who are teaching in a virtual space. The website is being updated daily.
Free Online Events & Activities for Kids - Huge Common Sense Media list. Curated and updated frequently.
Amazing Educator Resources Google Sheet
LiveStream Activities Calendar
K-5 Teacher Resources for EL Education
Newsela - Full access! Getting Started Toolkit for Remote Learning with Newsela. Newsela - Quick Tips
LearnZillion - In response to the developments around Covid-19, we are making our full video collection available until schools can operate safely. Teachers and parents can access all our video lessons (Illustrative Mathematics, EL Education, and Louisiana Guidebooks curricula).
Great Minds - New lessons every day! Every day on this site, we’ll offer newly recorded lessons—free to anyone—from Eureka Math (for Grades K–12), our English language arts curriculum Wit & Wisdom® (K–8), and PhD Science™ (3–5). Customized by grade and module, these consistent and coherent video lessons, delivered by our experienced teachers, will be viewable on any device.
Books & Reading
Online Access to K-5 Required EL Texts - List will be updated as new resources are found.
Decodable Books - Free Online Decodables
Publishers Guidelines for Read Alouds - Video tutorial for publishing unlisted videos to YouTube from Screencastify
Let's Keep Reading! - Authors reading aloud
Picture Books Read Aloud Videos for Lesson Use
Epic! Books for Kids - Free home access
The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read Alouds & Activities - Weareteachers.com
Sora - Online ebooks and audiobooks - Need help? Check out the Sora Help page. Need help setting up Sora on your personal device? Watch this video.
Overdrive - (High School students and adults) Visit the RHS LMC page for instructions. Need help using Overdrive on your personal device? Watch this video.
OverDrive/Sora has been working with publishers to offer unlimited access titles to schools during the shut down. Please check this list to see titles that are available for all of your students to read at the same time. Remote Reading Bundle (there are 3 sheets of books). Additional unlimited access titles are available through their Summer Reads Program which will now run from April 15 - July 15. The Big Read is also available now with unlimited eBook and Audiobook copies of
Audible Stories - free with books for all levels, no credit card, log ins or passwords needed.
Recording Read A Loud books- Save them to your school YouTube account as unlisted and share the link with your students through Google Classroom, SeeSaw, or ClassDojo.
Livestream Activities Calendars
Children, Adult and Teacher PD - List of resources that happen daily, virtual field trips, live yoga, read alouds, etc.