Resources from the World Wide Web
Reasoning through Language Arts
Appalachian State University. Provides professional development, resources, lessons, and tools for teaching adult education.
Aspen Institute. Materials for teaching close reading skills that are tied to standards. This site also provides leadership materials.
Free Resources for Educational Excellence. Teaching and learning resources from a variety of federal agencies. This portal provides access to free resources.
Institute for the Professional Development of Adult Educators (IPDAE). A resource center that offers information, training and professional development resources for adult educators.Resources to assist GED, ABE and ESOL students.
Marshall Adult Education.Leveled reading selections that are appropriate for and valued by adult learners. These materials, combined with the research-proven strategies of repeated reading and guided oral reading, aid in building learners' fluency and comprehension skills. This project helps adults become better readers and more informed consumers, parents, employees, citizens and community members. The focus of thesereading selections will beon topics such us: Civics, Employment, Housing, Health,School, Money, and Government.
National Council for Teachers of English. This site provides lessons and strategies for teaching nonfiction text.
Newsela. A site with nonfiction articles available in 4-5 different Lexile Levels with many of them providing a quiz that is aligned to a specific anchor standard. It is necessary to sign up for the free account to see the different level of articles.
PBS Teacher Source and TeacherLine Lesson plans and lots of activities are included in the teacher section of PBS.
ProCon.org. A website that provides both sides of the argument. Useful for teaching argumentative writing.
Purdue University’s OWL. One of the most extensive collections of advice about writing found on the web.
RAFTS Northern Nevada Writing Project. The project includes print materials that may be purchased, as well as access to RAFTS prompts that can be generated electronically.
ReadWorks. Provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly.Many include text-dependent questions and writing prompts.
ReadWrite Think. From the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English, this site has classroom resources and professional development activities in the area of integrated reading, writing, and thinking skills.
Teach 4 Results. A list of resources for teaching the writing process.
Teaching That Makes Sense. A K-12 site with lots of free resources and graphic organizers from Steve Peha.
The Writing Studio – Colorado State University. A step-by-step guide for argumentative writing.
Tools for Teachers: Engaging in Academic Writing. Resources from the Aspen Institute on implementing more rigorous reading and writing skills.
Wonderopolis. Teachers can use the daily Wonder to jumpstart their students’ critical thinking, or dip into our ever-growing collection of Wonders for content that relates to specific themes and student interests.
Writer’s Web. Materials from the University of Richmond’s Writing Center.
A Few Websites for Common Errors in Writing
The Everyday Writer 20 Common Errors in Writing
Twelve Common Errors
15 Grammar Goofs That Make You Look Silly
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