Online Resources

Reading & Literacy Resources

Websites	Phonemic Awareness	Phonics	Fluency	Vocabulary	Comprehension	Teaching Resource
Achieve The Core Free ready-to-use classroom resources that align to college and career ready standards.						√
Actively Learn Gr4-12 reading platform for the web where students can highlight, annotate, and discuss text as they read.				√	√
American Rhetoric Teaching a famous speech? American Rhetoric houses 100 famous speeches complete with transcripts and audio.						√
Authors Everywhere A Youtube Channel created and run by children's book writers and illustrators offering read-alouds, book talks, and activities.						√
Bookopolis A kid-friendly social network and book discovery tool designed to ignite a love of reading in elementary and middle school students. It’s kind of like Goodreads made just for kids.						√
Common Lit Free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12. A collection of ready-to-print, leveled passages that allow you to tailor lessons, assign online reading, and track progress.			√	√	√
Core Knowledge A comprehensive Preschool–Grade 8 program for teaching skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, Core Knowledge Language Arts® (CKLA®) also builds students’ knowledge and vocabulary in literature, history, geography, and science.	√	√	√	√	√	√
Dogo News Current event articles covering news, science, social studies, world events, environment, sports, and more.						√
EPIC Books Digital library, learning videos, quizzes.			√	√	√
ESL Games World Listening memory games, board-style games, games-show style games, and more.				√		√
Flannel Board Fun YouTube Playlist of Flannel Board stories and songs.						√
Flocabulary A library of songs, videos and activities for K-12 online learning.			√	√	√	√
Fly Leaf Publishing Decodable books and learning activities.		√	√
Foundational Skills Boost FREE digital resources based on Amplify CKLA- provides instruction, teacher led small group activities, and reading practice.	√	√	√	√	√
Freckle Accelerate learning for every student with differentiated practice aligned to ELA and math standards.	√	√	√	√	√
Google Lit Trips Using Google Earth to create immersive 3D literary field trips where students virtually become traveling companions with characters in stories commonly taught in grades kindergarten through high school.						√
Hand2Mind 1,000 downloadable and educational printable worksheets created from teacher-developed lessons. Instructional videos too!		√	√	√	√	√
Huey the Bookbot Fun and easy AI that asks a few questions and then recommends books for kids based on their age, reading ability and interests.						√
InsideStory Flashcards Digital flashcards with words, high-quality photographs, an example sentence, and a brief description.				√		√
Intervention Central Academic interventions for reading, with sight words and more.	√	√	√	√
Into The Book Multimedia package designed to improve elementary students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum.				√	√
Just Books Read Aloud Over 1000 children's books read out loud.						√
Key Strategies for Vocabulary Development Google Drive folder with tons of resources.				√		√
Khan Academy Free educational support for grades 2+.				√	√
Khan Academy Kids Fun and free educational program for PK-2.	√	√	√		√
KidLit TV Website offering read-alouds, craft activities, and more.						√
Learn Out Loud A platform that has free audio and video titles of literature in contemporary, classics, literary history, drama, poetry, and short stories to name a few.						√
Learn Zillion Full free curriculum with ELA Guidebooks.			√	√	√	√
Mel.org Free access to online full-text books and provides a useful interlibrary loan system.						√
Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Resources Find resources based on student age and topic.						√
Ms. M's Free Library Another teacher's extensive library of books, organized by topic.	√	√	√	√	√	√
No Red Ink Library of over 500 standards-aligned grammar and writing topics.						√
Neuhaus Academy Neuhaus Academy offers simple, powerful reading tutorials on specific words chosen to expand your vocabulary and enhance your overall reading ability.		√	√	√
Newsela Leveled and standards aligned real-world content.			√	√	√
Open eBooks Open eBooks is a library containing thousands of popular and award-winning titles that are free for children from in-need communities. These eBooks can be read without checkouts or holds.						√
Phonics + StuffResources for learning and teaching phonics.		√	√			√
Podcasts to support literacy cross curricular Creative ideas to build knowledge across content areas.						√
Poets.org This site has an extensive collection of over 5,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form. Users can search by title or first line of the poem.		√	√	√
Poetry 4 Kids You will find lots of funny poems and poetry books for children, classic children’s poetry, games, contests, poetry lessons and activities, journals, plus rhyming dictionary, funny poetry podcasts, videos, and lots more.		√	√	√
Reading Rockets A wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons and activities.						√
Read Theory K-12 online reading comprehension program that assesses reading ability and builds reading comprehension by providing texts for students to read at a "just right" level.			√	√	√
Read Works Research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages.			√	√	√
Read Write Think Classroom resources, research-based strategies, aligned to standards.	√	√	√	√	√	√
Reading Bear Teach beginning readers vocabulary and concepts while systematically introducing all the main phonetic patterns of written English.	√	√	√	√	√
Reading Resources Ready to print resources for many learners.	√	√	√	√	√	√
RGR/Phonics Suite Comprehensive set of tools to diagnose, group, and teach students in foundation reading skills.		√				√
RGR/Heart Words						√
Readlee Free online tool that has students read aloud to the computer, and then generates a report for you on the student's reading progress.			√	√
Reading Vine Free website with a large collection of reading passages and sets, across grade levels and subjects, for students to get personalized reading skills practice.					√
Rewordify This tool will change the words to a more simplified text.		√	√	√
Smithsonian Learning Lab					√	√
Smithsonian Tween Tribune			√	√	√
Spanish Children's Stories Well-known children's stories translated into Spanish and spoken by a native Spanish speaker. Great for kids... and adults too! Read along in Spanish or English.						√
Spelling City Spelling City offers more than 35 interactive vocabulary, spelling, phonics, writing, and language arts activities.		√	√	√
Storyline Online Well-known actors reading children’s books						√
Story Place A pre-school library that has books in English and Spanish.						√
Storynory Online stories and audio books.						√
Storytime From Space Many children's books about space, earth, engineering and other science related stories are read from space!						√
Teach Your Monster To Read	√	√	√
Text Project A variety of strategies and tools, including support texts for reading instruction.	√		√	√		√
Time For Kids The website has several areas that are free and do not need a subscription to the weekly magazine.						√
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TN Foundational Skills	√	√	√	√	√
Text Project						√
Unite For Literacy			√			√
Verbal Workout Free interactive pre/post vocabulary quizzes for popular books.				√	√	√
Vocabulary.com Quizzes give four potential meanings for a vocabulary word, and students select the one they think fits.				√		√
Vooks A kid-safe, ad-free streaming library of read-aloud animated storybooks.						√
What Should I Read Next? Enter a book you like and the site will analyze a huge database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.						√
Whooo's Reading Engage elementary and middle school students in independent reading, while easily monitoring their comprehension.					√
Wonderopolis This site poses an interesting question each day and explores it in a variety of ways. The “Wonder Ground” is a section created specifically for educators and includes lesson plans, and classroom resources that correlate to education standards.						√
Wordstool Free online tool to create and share vocabulary exercises with students.				√		√
WorldBook Online for Kids Resources to learn and read about various topics and people.						√
Youngzine This site is updated weekly with news articles aimed at upper elementary through high school students.						√

Last updated: February 2023

Writing Resources

826 Digital - Find writing prompts, lessons, projects and more for every grade level.

Analyze My Writing - an online text content and readability analyzer

Book Creator - Create and publish books. Combine text, images, audio and video to create an interactive story.

BoomWriter - Creative writing and gamification come together to provide children a unique approach to writing stories as well as getting published.

Citeitin - Easy to use citation generator for your references.

Graphic Organizers - Reading/Writing graphic organizers to use.

Hemingway App - Make your writing bold and clear.

Little Bird Tales - a digital storytelling and lesson creation site intended primarily for kids in Pre K - 6th grade.

My Storybook - My Storybook allows students to engage in literacy in a creative and fun way and provides educators with the ability to tie multiple subjects together through the art of story telling.

National Writing Project - Resources for teaching writing.

Penzu - Your private, 100% customizable online journal.

Pobble - a Picture a Day story starter with additional resources.

Scholastic Story Starters - A great tool that students will enjoy using to create short, creative fiction stories.

Slick Write - a free application that makes it easy to check your writing for grammar errors, potential stylistic mistakes, and other features of interest.

Story Jumper - Become a published author! Create your story in their free online platform. You can also pay to have it printed.

Write About - a platform to connect students to a community of writers and an authentic audience to develop growth through the entire writing process.

Write & Improve - a FREE tool that helps every learner to improve their English writing.

Writer Igniter - Click the shuffle button to get a randomly generated prompt. Then start writing!

Write Reader - Get students writing and creating in minutes. Optimized for emergent and struggling writers.

Writing Sparks - Writing Sparks offers timed writing prompts to share with your students.

Writing Videos - YouTube playlist with 27 TED-Ed videos on writing skills and topics.

Math Resources

Websites	Number Sense Routines	Math Concepts K-5	Math Concepts 6-8	Math Concepts 9-12	Math Talks	Games
Achieve the Core Math Fluency The activities are designed to support students’ progress toward the grade-level numeracy and fluency.	√	√	√
Focus by Grade Level K-8 standards focus by grade level		√	√
Art of Problem Solving AoPS Online offers free educational resources for motivated students in grades 5–12. Books, classes and other online resources, students develop the skills they need to become successful, creative problem solvers.		5th	√	√
Berkeley Everett Free resources, activities and templates for teachers to use.	√	√			√
Big Ideas Math Game Closet Printable activities to use with your MS students. Spanish and English.			√			√
Build Math Minds Free resources for early numeracy learning.	√	√				√
MSU's CMP3 Resources Curriculum resources, instructional videos			√			√
Delta Math Unlimited practice with instant feedback.			√	√
Desmos Interactive math activities and graphing calculators.	√	√	√	√
Dr.Nikki Newton-math running records Math Running Records is a way to assess overall basic math fact fluency.	√	√
Embarc Math Resources (videos, lesson plans, Google Slides) for grades K-8.	√	√	√		√	√
Ferris Math Stations Wakelet Tons of resources for various station options.	√	√	√		√	√
Ferris Math Tech Tools Wakelet Virtual math manipulatives and more		√	√		√
Next Gen Financial Literacy Full curriculum for MS & HS			√	√
More Financial Literacy Resources A Google Sheet of more sites for support.		√	√	√
Freckle Differentiated practice aligned to math and ELA standards	√	√	√	9th		√
Geogebra Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more.		√	√	√
Graham Fletcher Features a blog, 3-Acts Lessons for K-HS, progression videos, and ideas for effectively implementing the CCSS for Mathematics.	√	√	√		√	√
Greg Tang Math Games, manipulatives and other resources for math.	√	√	√			√
Illustrative Mathematics - Units, resources, centers, and more.	√	√	√		√	√
Illustrative Mathematics: Math Talk Slides K-5		√			√
Illustrative Mathematics: Math Talk Slides 6-8			√		√
Inside Mathematics Problems of the month, tasks, lessons, videos		√	√	√	√
K-5 Math Fluency Centers Skill-based centers	√	√			√	√
Kaplinsky, Robert Lessons and resources K-12		√	√	√		√
Kentucky Mathematics Quality products intended to engage learners, allowing them to make sense of mathematics and develop problem solving skills.	√	√	√	√	√	√
Khan Academy	√	√	√	√		√
Khan Academy Kids Check out the Quick Start Guide for help getting set up.	√	√
Lesson Ideas/Templates Sort by content area and grade level. Hundreds of great resources.	√	√	√	√		√
Math Learning Center Apps Free apps for iOS.	√	√
Math Collective Files for a variety of different math supports.	√	√			√	√
Math Playground Model math word problems and view step by step solutions		√	6th			√
Math Playground Games Math concepts and problem solving		√
Math Reps for Jamboard Math concepts and problem solving.		√	√	√
Math Reps on Nearpod Sheet of pre-created Nearpod activiites.		√
Math Skills Database - Quantile Search the database for specific CCSSs. The database contains targeted, free resources appropriately matched to students by Quantile measure and math content.	√	√	√			√
Math Talk for Slides Ready to use Google Slides.					√
Math Tasks by grade level Visualizations of math concepts; patterns that are foundational to Elementary Math		√	√	√
Math Tasks/Resources Tons of math resources in this Google Doc.	√	√	√	√	√	√
Math Visuals Visualizations of math concepts; patterns that are foundational to Elementary Math	√	√	√		√
Math Whiteboard Collaborative whiteboard designed specifically for teaching and learning math.		√	√	√
Math Assessment Project Tasks, lessons, assessments, and professional development modules aligned to the CCSS.			√	√
Mathigon Free tools, courses and manipulatives.	√	√	√	√	√	√
Matific Math games and worksheets		√
MMMath Mania FREE no prep/low prep math games and activities to help alleviate math anxiety AND help your students love math.	√	√				√
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Tools, lessons, games, professional development, conferences and workshops, and much more.	√	√	√	√
Number Talk Resources		√	√		√
Open Middle A website about math problems-Open middle problems generally require a higher Depth of Knowledge		√	√	√
NRich Maths Free curriculum-linked resources to develop mathematical reasoning and problem solving skills.		√	√	√
Phet Simulations Interactive simulations for science and math.		√	√	√
Same or Different A routine that provides students opportunities to construct arguments when comparing objects, such as numbers or shapes	√	√
School Yourself Interactive lessons that provide smart recommendations for learning.			√	√
Tools 4 Teachers Supplemental lessons.	√	√	√		√	√
Teacher Cafe Strengthen mental math and number sense skills	√	√	√		√	√
Virtual Nerd Over 1,500 video lessons for grades 6-12.			√	√
Visnos Interactive Math Free interactive math activities covering topics including addition and subtraction facts, angles, measurement using a protractor, telling the time, multiplication and division, and more.		√	√
Which One Doesn't Belong A website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles.		√	√		√
Would You Rather Math Students look at two pictures with a mathematical question -reason and justify their answers.	√	√	√		√
Youcubed Tasks and ideas to help explain concepts to students that grow their math mindset.	√	√	√	√	√	√
Zearn Students explore math through pictures, visual models, and real-life examples— and it’s free.	√	√	√

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Social Studies Resources

Websites

Description

American Panorama

A historical atlas of the US for the 21st century that includes interactive maps.

Case Maker

Geared for 6th through 8th grade classrooms, Case Maker features twenty pre-made civics challenges that teachers can share with their students, or customize and annotate specifically for your needs.

Consensus

Free online search tool that uses AI to analyze your research question and return key findings from hundreds of millions of peer-reviewed scientific papers.

Design Your Town

Google Slides template where students create a town on a grid. Excellent project for map skills and math coordinates.

Dollar Street

Dollar Street is a website with over 30,000 photos and 10,000 videos from more than 200 homes in about 50 countries to help everyone understand how people really live, beyond the stereotypes and clichés.

Felt

Free online tool for creating and sharing maps with loads of useful features including pins, routes, markers, clipping, data layers, polygons, text, notes, links, images, videos, sharing, and more. Lots of great ways for students to use this to create maps and show their understanding of content.

Google Expeditions

Although Expeditions is no longer a VR experience, hundreds of these virtual tours are now available as interactive virtual field trips in Google Arts and Culture, with content for any subject area.

History Maps

Free website that illustrates the history of the world with animated maps, pictures, videos, and detailed explanations.

MapChart

Free online tool to make a map of the World, Europe, United States, and more, color code countries or states on the map, fill in the legend and download as an image file.

Mapping History

Interactive animated maps covering American History, European History, Latin American History, and African History.

Map Puzzle

Online interactive map game where you drag and drop countries or states onto a world map to fit them into their correct locations like puzzle pieces.

Metroverse

Interactive site from Harvard to visualize economic data and learn about cities.

Open Geography

Collection of free, open curriculum and resources for anybody who is interested in our geographic world, including etextbooks, online resources, and more.

PBS Learning Media

Free collection of curated, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lessons plans, and more across all subject areas and grade levels.

TeachFlix

Collection of vetted educational videos for use with your students, with categories including math, music and art, science, history, English language arts, physical education, read alouds, computer science, SEL, world language, virtual field trips, digital citizenship, and more.

Wordstool

Free online tool to create and share vocabulary exercises with students.

World History Encyclopedia

Online collection of thousands of world history resources including articles, videos, maps, primary source materials, quizzes, and more.

Science Resources

Brilliant

Brilliant is free for educators and their students (up to 8 classrooms) including 70+ interactive courses for math, science, and 1000's of Daily Challenges.

Design Squad Global

Design Squad Global is a site for middle school students to explore engineering and design, with videos, interactive games, design activities, and more.

Foldable Science Templates

Pre-made templates for many different science topics.

Kide Science

Story-based STEAM lesson plans for ages 3 through 8. Free version allows one free lesson plan each week.

OLogy

Free kids science website from the American Museum of Natural History. Resources include online games, reading passages, hands-on activities, and educational videos.

TeachFlix

Collection of vetted educational videos for use with your students.

Google Chrome Extensions

Extension	Description
AdBlock	Easy-to-use adblockers that blocks video and web advertising.
Bitmoji	With this extension, you can directly insert Bitmojis into Gmail, click and drag to resize them, and copy and paste them almost anywhere.
Buffer	Buffer is the best way to share great content to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn from anywhere on the web, with just one click. Schedule your posts ahead of time.
Canvas Quiz Printer	This extension will allow you to print a Canvas quiz. Just navigate to the quiz in Canvas and press the extension to download it.
Chrome Remote Desktop	Allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook.
Clipboard History Pro	Save the history of copied text, manage history, and enable instant paste.
Colorzilla	Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator
Equatio	Easily create mathematical equations, formulas and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn.
Giphy	Search and discover the best GIPHY GIFs and Stickers right in your browser
Google Keep	Extension that allows you to save and organize webpages, images, text, to-do lists to review later.
Grammarly	Contextual spelling and grammar checker for Gmail and Google Suite.
Link Clump	Lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time.
One Tab	Turn all your open tabs into a neat list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.
Print Friendly	Create PDFs from web articles, but choose what you want to include! Print, email or create PDF.
Record for Slides	Record videos and automatically load them into the slide you are on. Use the video icon in the upper right to add video into your slide.
Remote for Slides	Control Google Slides on any device.
Save to Google Drive	This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu.
Sir Links-A-Lot	A must-have for those who share out Google Docs. Templates ~ Force a copy ~ Preview ~ PDF with just a click check this out!
Tab Wrangler	Automatically closes inactive tabs and makes it easy to get them back. Too many tabs? Do you have a tab addiction? Tab Wrangler closes tabs that haven't been used recently.

Whiteboard Apps

Explain Everything

Educreations

Whiteboard.fi

Google Jamboard

Whiteboard.chat

Limnu

Formative Assessment

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Holiday Resources

March
St. Patrick's Day	Google Slides Interactive Room Link St. Patrick's Day Read-Alouds March Choice Board St. Patrick's Day Choice Board St. Patrick's Day Activities St. Patrick's Day Problem Solving
Pi Day 3.14	Google Drive folder of resources
Women's History Month	Wakelet of Resources Women’s History Month Exploration Room Women's History Google Folder of Resources
Mario Day (March 10th)	Google Folder of Resources
March Madness	March Madness Google Drive Folder of Templates

April
Easter	Easter Escape Room Easter Egg Escapade - Deck Toys Hoppy Easter Book Library Where's The Rabbit - Fitness Activity Easter Eggscercise Egg Hunting Coordinate Game April Choice Board
Earth Day	Google Folder of Activities

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