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Balanced Literacy
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Balanced Literacy Reference Guide: Nashville Public Schools
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Busy Teachers Cafe: Balanced Literacy Framework Resources
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Components of Balanced Literacy
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Video on the components of Balanced Literacy
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Planning the ELA Block: Comprehensive Reading Solutions
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Jen Sweigart's Balanced Literacy Blog-Great Resources
Guided Reading
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Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Book Website
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What is Guided Reading?
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Scholastic Book Wizard: Leveling Books
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Reading Comprehension Strategy Posters
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Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Reading Levels and Marking Period Assessments
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Guided Reading FAQ (Video)
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Guided Reading Lesson Plans for Scholastic Leveled Library Books
Guided Reading Set Materials Ordering Info
Videos of Guided Reading
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Jenna's Guided Reading: 5th Grade
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Teacher's College Videos of Best Practices
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Video: Balanced Literacy Components: Guided Reading Included
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Dr. Jan Richardson's Guided Lesson Video
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Ms. Kirwin Kindergarten Guided Reading Video
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Video: Guided Reading in a 3rd grade classroom
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Primary Class Guided Reading Video
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Kindergarten Guided Reading Video
Independent Reading
Modeled Reading
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Sample Model Lesson: Rick's 5th grade class
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Video: Using Close Reading Strategies during Modeled Reading (Lucy Calkins)
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Video: 1st Grade Sample Lesson on Modeled Reading
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Video: 1st Grade ELL Sample Lesson
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Modeled Reading: Comprehensive Reading Solutions
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Interactive Read Aloud Book List from Teachers' College and Reading and Writing Project
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Video: Interactive Read Aloud: Close Reading and Accountable Talk (NY Teachers College)
Flippped Classrooms
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What is the Flipped Classroom?
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A Realist's Guide to Flipping the Classroom
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The Fuss Over Flipped Classroom
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Jackie Gerstein Flipped Classroom ASCD Presentation
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16 Flipped Classrooms in Action Right Now
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Cliftondale High School: A Flipped High School
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Inside the Flipped Classroom
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The Fliped Classroom: Elementary Example
Informational Text
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Kids Post: Washington Post Articles for Kids
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Kids Discover
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Time for Kids
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Scope Magazine Archive
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National Geographic Kids
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DOGO News
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Student News Net
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The Why Files
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Tween Tribune
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Student News Net
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ACS Science for Kids
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NY Times in School
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Scholastic Leveled Nonfiction Articles
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Read Works
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Scholastic Action Differentiated Articles (Leveled Lexile Passages)
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Newsela: News Articles written at different lexile levels
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Eyewitness to History: First Hand Accounts of Historical Events
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Jen Sweigart's Summer Summit Presentation: Integrating Science and SS into Literacy
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Read Works Paired Texts
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American Rhetoric: Database of over 5000 speeches
Videos of Informational Text Instruction
Inspirational Educational Videos
Math
Reading/ELA
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Hamilton County Literacy
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NY Teachers' College Reading and Writing Project
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Hojo's Teaching Adventures
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Reading Standard Activities
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Differentiated Reading Strategies: Fluency, Phonics, Word Recognition
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Book Review Website for Sensitive Language and Material
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Georgia Wiki
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Professional Learning Resources including videos on Teaching Reading
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Literature Circle Discussion over Edmodo
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Comprehension Strategies Student Site
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Comprehension Strategies from Ohio Resource Center
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Read Works Paired Texts
Close Reading
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Ms. Webb's Close Reading Linoit Page
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Close Reading Anchor Chart
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Questions for close reading
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"Our Three Words" Classroom Video
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Grade 3 Sample Lesson Plan: Because of Winn Dixie
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Choice Literacy-Text Dependent Questions
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Cybraryman's List of Close Reading Resources, Links, Videos, and More
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Fisher and Frey Article: Close Reading in Elementary Schools
Videos of close reading instruction
Common Core Standards
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North Carolina Unpacked Standards
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Read Tennessee
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Video: Implementing Common Core
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ELA Common Core Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Tasks
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ELA Common Core Standards Appendix C: Student Writing Samples
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CCGPS Learning Videos
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Common Core ELA Standards Vertical Alignment
CCGPS Teacher Guidance Documents
ELA CCGPS Wikis with 2013 Unit Plans
E Books
Literacy Workstations
Text Protocols
Vocabulary
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Notebooking Fairy-Vocabulary Graphic Organizers
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Vocabulary Strategies
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Video: Understanding Vocabulary
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Video: Teaching Technical Vocabulary
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List of Tier 2 Vocabulary Words
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Vocabulary Instruction Presentation including Marzano's 6 Steps of Vocab Instruction
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Teaching Vocabulary in Any Content Area
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Marzano's 6 Steps to Teaching Vocabulary
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Smarter Balanced Tier 2 Vocabulary Words by Grade Level
Comprehension Strategies
Reading Passage Resources
Science
Social Studies
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Pebble Go
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Kids Discover
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Infographics
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Indiana Council of Economic Education
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Georgia Council for Economic Education
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Graphite's 13 Best Websites and Games for US History and Civics
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Smithsonian Institute
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Eyewitness to History: 1st Hand Accounts to Historical Events
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Civil War Trust
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Jennifer Sweigart's Summer Summit Presentation Integrating Social Studies into Literacy
AP Exam Information
Document Based Questions
Nonfiction Materials
Primary Source Documents
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A Treasury of Primary Source Documents
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Teaching with Documents
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Sample Primary Source Documents
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Primary Source Documents
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Map Analysis Worksheet
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Primary Source Document Analysis Worksheet
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Photograph Analysis Worksheet
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Movie Analysis Worksheet
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Sound Recording Analysis Worksheet
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Library of Congress Primary Source Sets
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Times Machine: NY Times Newspaper Articles from 1850s-1920s
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Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Source Documents
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The Library of Congress's American Memory, collection of sources from American history
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Yale Law School's Avalon Project, a collection of documents in law, history, and diplomacy
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Cornell University Library's Making of America: Antebellum Period Through Reconstruction
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The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
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Shorpy: online archives of photos from 1850s to 1950s
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U.S. Census Bureau
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Christopher Newport University Primary Sources Library
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10 Ways to Enrich Your Classrooms with Primary Source Documents
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Article: Getting Kids Engaged with Primary Source Documents
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Article: Getting Kids Engaged with Primary Source Documents
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American Rhetoric: Database of over 5000 speeches
Georgia Photographs and Images
Writer's Workshop
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Lucy Calkins's Sample Writing Units
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Writing Module: Comprehensive Reading Solutions
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NY Teachers' College Reading and Writing Project Videos: Writing Minilessons
Writer's Workshop Videos
Narrative Writing
Reading Minilessons on Common Core Standards
Reading Anchor Standard 3: Characters
Reading Anchor Standard 6: Perspective and Point of View
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Video: Whole Class Instruction on Perspective and Point of View (NY Teachers College)
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Video: Student Partners Discuss Different Perspectives of Characters in a Text (NY Teachers College)
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Video: Analyzing Point of View in Persuasive Texts (NY Teachers College)
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Point of View Lessons and Activity Sheets
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Video: Gr 3-5 POV about Gorillas (NY Teachers College)
Reading Anchor Standard 9: Analyzing 2 texts with similar theme
Reading Anchor Standards 4 and 5: Craft and Structure