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Informational texts that are adapted to each grade level. If students log in and respond to the texts you can log in as a teacher and see all of their responses. And....ITS FREE!

OTHER SIMILAR SOURCES:
- NewsELA
- Tween Tribune (Smithsonian)
- Google News (Upper grades)

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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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The expectation is that a student move beyond retelling what was read (knowledge). Instead, the goal is to comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate. All course assignments are evaluated from this perspective.

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The DOK levels provide ideas for activities depending of level of understanding you are aiming for with your students.

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Giving students the chance to create with the content prior to coming to class. The instruction is put in the hands of the students rather than just the children listening to the teacher.

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This website offers great tools to help keep your students/group on task and staying on top of the plan for the day!

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Welcome to our amazing Classroom Timer Section! We've decided to put our new fun timers, and timers for classrooms into a nice sub-section. These are great timers for children, or maybe meetings, or anything really.

They just add some extra fun to the usual countdown timers :-)

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A range of fun timers! Great for the classroom, or meetings. Bookmark some new educational materials today! All Free, all for download.

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Have students journal what they know about a topic. Draw a line under. Under the line write what they learned after the lesson. Shows the individual what they learned.

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Free resources to help develop and touch upon ideas of tolerance among differences in the classroom.

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This Media Literacy Week, it's more important than ever to ensure your students are informed digital citizens. As Election Day approaches, your students are encountering plenty of online information about issues that affect them and their communities. Our digital literacy resources can help you teach them to evaluate and check sources for bias, interrupt hate speech, and critically analyze and discuss online information about the election.

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Teaching Tolerance | Diversity, Equity And Justice

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Teaching Tolerance 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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Link resources to QR codes around the room and have them venture around and discuss the resources and connect them.

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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Play this video for students to provide a model to them about how peer feedback can help improve work and give specific details/descriptive feedback and suggestions.

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Have students start by writing one line to reflect their thoughts on something presented. Then pass the paper around and have each person at the table add to it/build on it. Then re-arrange and edit them to create a final product in the form of the poem.

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When it comes to debates or differing views on a topic in history, split the class into groups and let them research their stance in the eyes of the figure they are representing. Have one representative start off and create a dialogue. As a facilitator, pose questions for each figure to think about, have them regroup to form a solid argument and share their response or ask another group a question.

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Display a photo/painting that represents different interpretations of major historical events. Have students share what they notice, talk amongst themselves, and connect to the ideas being presented in the class.

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Having students create a personal timeline and share it with someone they haven't met yet allows them to build a friendship in the class. A great ice breaker to build a fun, comfortable environment.

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This is a great tool to help students manage important dates, historical figures, and other significant events. There is even a 3-D component that makes it more interactive. Students can attach other links and videos to provide a deeper explanation for the significant entry.

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Tiki-Toki Timeline Maker: Beautiful web-based timeline software

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Create beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the web. The perfect timeline maker for company history timelines and school projects.

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Have students choose a page in their writing journals to show and read to the class. Ask for specific feedback. Use post-its (green = good job, yellow=caution) then let them choose which suggestions to focus on (set goals) and then revise their work accordingly.

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Classroom Jeopardy Review Game | Buzzer Mode | Factile

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The #1 Jeopardy-style classroom review game now with Buzzer Mode. It’s Free, Easy and Loads of fun! Create engaging Jeopardy-style quiz games in minutes or choose from millions of existing Jeopardy game templates.