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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

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CNN 10 is an on-demand digital news show ideal for explanation seekers on the go or in the classroom.

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World-class content

Access thousands of reading lessons and our comprehensive ELA curriculum, CommonLit 360.

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Tailor instruction to students' needs with text-to-speech, translation, and digital note-taking.

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Track students' reading performance, set goals, and plan instructional next steps.

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Discover thousands of free, supplemental lessons and quizzes in English and Spanish - all featuring great authors.

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CommonLit definitely keeps me organized. It's easy for me to grade and it's easy for me to see students' reading growth increase throughout the year.

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The CommonLit assessment questions are aligned to our ELA standards, which is extremely helpful when prepping for the state exam.

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CommonLit | Free Online Reading Passages and Literacy Resources

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CommonLit is a comprehensive literacy program with thousands of reading lessons, full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and standards-based data for teachers.

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Thirty weekly lessons for fifth grade. I created contracts for students to complete.

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The Lincoln Telegrams: A Transcription of Lincoln's Civil War messages. Done through NCSU. I collaborated on this project while in grad school at NCSU. http://lincolntelegrams.com/

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The Lincoln Telegrams: A Transcription of Lincoln's Civil War messages. Done through NCSU. I collaborated on this project while in grad school at NCSU. http://lincolntelegrams.com/

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Abraham Lincoln- Defender of the Constitution or Tyrant ( The Lesson Guide / Student Handout) - developed by Ben Neilson "What became of our forces?"

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Slavery is not simply an event in our history; it's central to our history.

American enslavement of Africans shaped our country's sociopolitical institutions and formed the cornerstone of our industrial revolution. Today the persistent disparities African Americans face - and the backlash that seems to follow every African-American advancement - trace their roots to slavery and its aftermath.

To understand the world today we must understand slavery. But SPLC research shows our schools are failing to teach the hard history of African enslavement.

We surveyed U.S. high school seniors and social studies teachers, analyzed a selection of state content standards, and reviewed 10 popular U.S. history textbooks. We found:

High school seniors struggle on even the most basic questions about American enslavement of Africans.

Teachers who are serious about teaching slavery struggle to provide deep coverage of the subject in the classroom.

Popular textbooks fail to comprehensively cover slavery and enslaved peoples.

State content standards are timid and fail to set appropriately high expectations.

We can and must do better. Read the report. Take the quiz. Engage with hard history.

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Teaching the Hard History of American Slavery

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American enslavement of Africans shaped our country's sociopolitical institutions and formed the cornerstone of our industrial revolution. Today the persistent disparities African Americans face - and the backlash that seems to follow every African-American advancement - trace their roots to slavery and its aftermath. To understand the world today we must understand slavery.

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This site is helpful with all grade levels.  Provides lesson plans that will will align with all standards from all grade levels involved in the study of social studies.

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ThingLink: Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media

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Easily create interactive and immersive visual experiences for online communication and learning. Start a free trial!

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ThingLink: Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media

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Easily create interactive and immersive visual experiences for online communication and learning. Start a free trial!

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ThingLink: Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media

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Easily create interactive and immersive visual experiences for online communication and learning. Start a free trial!

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Has free resources you can use in your classroom.

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Understanding how school discipline policies can contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline is essential for educators and families. Harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline can push young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. But educators, parents and caregivers can help to change this harmful system by advocating for and implementing practices that prioritize mental health and well-being.

We offer this new resource page that highlights LFJ articles and content to open dialogue, shift practices and foster change to benefit all young people.

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Learning for Justice | Education Resources

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Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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https://www.flocabulary.com/

There are fun songs that students enjoy.

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https://www.studiesweekly.com/

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Studies Weekly is a leading provider of standards-based K-8 core curriculum in social studies, science and wellness.

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EverFi Personal Financial Literacy Online Modules

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EverFi Personal Financial Literacy Online Modules

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This is an adult education platform delivered to organizations and institutions by EVERFI.

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NC History

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Visit North Carolina - Official Travel Website

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Welcome to North Carolina's official travel-planning destination. Explore things to do, browse maps, photos and places to stay, and discover ideas for your next vacation. Experience Firsts That Last in North Carolina.

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That was the phrase heard on the morning of April 19, 1775 along the highways leading to Lexington and Concord from Boston, Massachusetts. While we can't go back and see things as they were, we can try and capture the locations of these historical events through photography and modern technology in the form of virtual tours. We at the Virtual American Revolution project hope you enjoy and learn a bit about America's past by referencing our images of the American present.

We begin with the events that happened in Massachusetts, grouped into two parts: " Unrest and Anger" and " Colonial Rebellion". Eventually, we hope to add many more events that contribute to the entire history of the American Revolution.

Virtual Tour Locations by time

The Boston Massacre, Boston (3/5/1770)
Fanieul Hall, Boston
Old South Meeting House, Boston
The Boston Tea Party (12/16/1773)
The Rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes (4/18/1775)
The Battles of Lexington and Concord (4/19/1775)
Buckman Tavern, Lexington
Battle Green, Lexington
Battle Green Monument, Lexington
Captain Parker Statue, Lexington
Hartwell Tavern, Lincoln
North Bridge, Concord
Minuteman Statue, Concord
Eames Rangers, Concord
Longfellow House, Concord
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) (6/17/1775)
Henry Knox's Canons
G. Washington occupies Dorchester Heights /British evacuate Boston (3/17/1776)

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Virtual American Revolution: Photographic tour in 360 degrees

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That was the phrase heard on the morning of April 19, 1775 along the highways leading to Lexington and Concord from Boston, Massachusetts. While we can't go back and see things as they were, we can try and capture the locations of these historical events through photography and modern technology in the form of virtual tours.

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SAS CURRICULUM PATHWAYS

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Find out how strong your vocabulary is and learn new words at Vocabulary.com.

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Vocabulary.com helps you learn new words, play games that improve your vocabulary, and explore language.

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Historical Content

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For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your web browser.

World-class content

Access thousands of reading lessons and our comprehensive ELA curriculum, CommonLit 360.

Accessible for all learners

Tailor instruction to students' needs with text-to-speech, translation, and digital note-taking.

Actionable data

Track students' reading performance, set goals, and plan instructional next steps.

CommonLit
Digital Library

Discover thousands of free, supplemental lessons and quizzes in English and Spanish - all featuring great authors.

CommonLit
Assessment Series

Measure growth in reading comprehension with three benchmark assessments when you unlock our premium packages.

CommonLit 360 &
Professional Development

Support a successful rollout of our research-backed ELA curriculum with personalized webinars and on-demand trainings.

"

CommonLit has made a tremendously positive impact on my teaching practice. I'm very proud to teach CommonLit!

Jennifer Lane ELA Teacher

"

CommonLit definitely keeps me organized. It's easy for me to grade and it's easy for me to see students' reading growth increase throughout the year.

"

The CommonLit assessment questions are aligned to our ELA standards, which is extremely helpful when prepping for the state exam.

Teachers trust CommonLit to foster students' reading comprehension

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CommonLit | Free Online Reading Passages and Literacy Resources

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CommonLit is a comprehensive literacy program with thousands of reading lessons, full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and standards-based data for teachers.

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Caggia Social Studies

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My goal is to provide assistance to students and families that will benefit the students in their goal of successfully learning the subject matter to, in the least, pass the course, but more importantly, better understand the related topics and make each person a better citizen of the United States and the World.

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This is a great resource to find almost anything about civics. It aligns with the civics curriculum very well.

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History Lessons | Stanford History Education Group

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This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues and learn to make historical claims backed by documentary evidence.

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A class social media app with thousands of interactive crosscurricular activities.

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Great for 1 to 1 laptops
DBQs

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CONTENT

Texts (and videos!) for ELA, Science, and Social Studies with scaffolds and higher-order questions

READING

The best features to
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ASSESSMENT

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Feedback your students act on

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Engage every student in every lesson with Actively Learn's award-winning ELA, science, and social studies curriculum platform.

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short videos about various social studies topics

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1. In small groups (2-4), students will pretend to be time travelers and create a public service announcement to education people of the Middle Ages on how to prevent the spread of disease.

1. Collaborate to write a script.

2. Gather props and memorize their lines.

3. Record PSA with available technology.

4. If necessary, students will use video editing software or apps (iMovie, WeVideo, etc.) to edit to a final product.

2. Groups play their public service announcement video for the class audience.

As students watch the public service announcement videos, they will pretend they are citizens of a small town in the Middle Ages. They have heard rumors of the Black Death epidemic, but it has not yet reached their town.  Students will write a one-page letter to a relative in another town, explaining what they learned, and why it is important.

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Current events for the intersection between science and history or history by itself

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In the United States, a government shutdown happens when there is a gap in federal funding and the government furloughs federal workers without pay. Although there are exceptions for certain "essential" employees (including the president and members of Congress, all of whom continue to receive pay) a shutdown means that a large portion of the [...]

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Historical Narratives

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.