general ELA resources
Supplement your school's existing ELA program - Engage students in a variety of oral and written responses: Collaborative Discussion readings, Thinks short-response questions, Prompts, Extended Writing Projects, and Extended Oral Projects for ELLs.
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Teachingbooks
Online access to children’s and young adult books and associated resources. Find read-alouds, virtual story times, reader’s advisories, interviews, lessons, and more
TeachHUB it is our mission to improve the quality of education by providing K-12 educators with the latest teaching strategies, lesson plans, classroom resources, real teacher blogs, and professional development, created by teachers for teachers.
writing and Grammar
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, empowering approach to creative writing. The challenge: draft an entire novel in just one month. For 30 wild, exciting, surprising days, you get to lock away your inner editor, let your imagination take over, and just create!
826 Digital champions student writing. By providing engaging, adaptable, standards-based resources—designed to captivate young writers and empower their educators—826 Digital aims to reach students everywhere, whether they are aspiring authors or reluctant writers. You do have to sign up and it is a pay as you wish deal so you can skip over that part.
Quill has a variety of writing tools to help make students better writers, from sentence construction to proofreading and diagnostic tests.
Youth Voices is an open publishing and social networking platform for youth. The site is organized by teachers with support from the National Writing Project.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material covering an array of topics to help teachers and students
Literature
Teaching books
*FREE* There are over 2,000 high-quality free reading passages for grades 3-12, complemented by aligned interim assessments, growth-oriented data, and expert-led teacher development. *FREE*
High school ELA tends to sway more toward classic literature, much of which is available for free due to copyright expiration. This organization collects digital versions of these works in one place, making it easy for students to access them from anywhere.
Research
ZoteroBib is a free service that helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software.
The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.