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Lexile in Action Project: find informational texts related to SS Standards and their Lexile Level
Lexile in Action: Literacy Strategy
GPB Common Core Hub
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6th-8th GPB Video: Role of SS in Literacy Standards Grades 6-8
6th-8th Grade Literacy Standards in SS/Science
Galileo High School
Galileo Teen (Grades 6-8)
Brittanica Annals of American History
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Create online visual timelines
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Georgia Literacy Wiki and Forum for Social Studies Teachers
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American Rhetoric: Database of over 5000 speeches
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Indian Uprising of 1857 Background Information and Primary Sources Part 1
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Indian Uprising of 1857 Background Information and Primary Sources Part 1
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Econ Ed Link
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Georgia Common Core Wiki for HS ELA
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Galileo High School
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Georgia Milestones Assessment Guide 9th Grade Lit
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American Lit and Comp State Wiki with Sample Unit Plans
American Lit EOCT Study Guide
American Lit EOCT Content Descriptors
Georgia Milestones Assessment Guide American Lit
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9th-10th Grade World Lit Standards
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World Lit and Comp State Wiki with Sample Unit Plans
9th-12th Grade Social Studies
Lexile in Action: find informational texts related to SS standards and their Lexile Level
Gerogia 9-12 Social Studies News Magazine
GPB Common Core Hub
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9th-12th Grade Literacy Standards in SS/Science
Galileo High School
Brittanica Annals of American History
Video: The Literacy Design Collaborative
Teaching History.org
Create online visual timelines
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Annenberg Learner Teacher Resources
Videos (Teaching Channel): Reading Like a Historian
C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards
Smithsonian Institute
Eyewitness to History: 1st Hand Accounts to Historical Events
Civil War Trust
Digital History (Links to Supreme Court Cases, Timelines, Maps, Historical Songs, Propaganda, Etc.)
American Rhetoric: Database of over 5000 speeches
American Government Civics
American Government Civics GPS Standards
AP US Government and Politics College Board Resource Page
AP Government and Politics Sample Exam
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Economics GPS Standards
Economics Unit 5: International Trade of Mystery
Personal Finance Instructional Guide
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Georgia Council on Economic Education
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Georgia Association of Economic Educators
Economics University
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The Council for Economic Education
American Economic Association Search Engine
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Econlowdown from the St. Louis Fed
NEFE High School Finanical Planning
AP Macroeconomics College Board Resource Page
AP Macroeconomics Sample Exam
AP Microeconomics College Board Resource Page
AP Microeconomics Sample Exam
Economics Podcasts created by Creekside SS Teacher Nathan Butler
Indiana Council for Economic Education
1 Funky Teacher You Tube Channel: Economics
MJM Foodie You Tube Channel: Economics
Georgia Milestones Assessment Guide
Econ Ed Link
High School Literacy Standards
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AP Human Geography College Board Resources
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Psychology GPS Standards
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Sociology GPS Standards
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U.S. History GPS Standards
Civil War Instructional Guide
Early Expansion Instructional Guide
European Settlement of North America
U.S. History EOCT Study Guide
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GA DOE Lesson: Civil Rights Act of 1964
GA DOE Lesson: Share the Dream (Civil Rights)
US History Teacher Notes from GA DOE
The Library of Congress's American Memory, a collection of sources from American History
AP US History College Board Resource Page
AP US History Free Response Questions (questions from previous exams)
AP US History Sample DBQ Items
World War I Primary Source Documents and Images
US History Podcasts by Creekside HS SS Teacher Nathan Butler
Graphite's 13 Best Websites and Apps for US History and Civics
Civil War Trust
American History AP Page
Digital History (Links to Supreme Court Cases, Maps, Timelines, Propaganda, Historical Songs)
Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People's History
Georgia Milestones Assessment Guide US History
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World History Standards
Eurodocs, a collection of European history documents
AP World History College Board Resource Page
AP World History Free Response Questions (Questions from previous exams)
Primary Source Documents and Images: Ancient World
World History Podcasts created by Creekside HS SS Teacher Nathan Butler
AP Courses and Exam Information
AP Exam Information
College Board Pre AP for History and Social Sciences Teachers' Corner Web Page
Articles Worth Reading
How to use Technology if the Internet is not working
The Coffee Crisis in Schools: Do Teachers Have to Feel Alone? from Education Week
How Students Are Using the Internet to Study
Why Students Should Run Professional Development for Teachers
A Snapshot of How Technology is Impacting Education
Assessment
Georgia Milestones Assessment Guides Grades 9-11
Georgia Milestones Assessment Guides Grades 6-8
Balanced Literacy
Balanced Literacy Reference Guide: Nashville Public Schools
Interactive Read-Alouds: Comprehensive Reading Solutions
Planning the ELA Block: Comprehensive Reading Solutions
Shared Reading: Comprehensive Reading Solutions
Video: Components of Balanced Literacy
Video: Components of Balanced Literacy
Close Reading
Ms. Webb's Close Reading Linoit Page
Sample Close Reading Anchor Chart
Close Reading Model Lesson 5th Grade
Video: The Importance of Close Reading
Video: How to do a Close Read in MS/HS
How to do a Close Reading
Using Annotations for Close Reading
Thinking Notes: A Strategy to Encourage Close Reading
How to Annotate a Text
Cybraryman's List of Close Reading Resources, Links, and Videos
Close Reading Videos
9th Grade Close Reading Modeled Lesson
Fisher and Frey You Tube Channel: Close Reading Videos
Text Complexity
Text Dependent Questions
What are Text Dependent Questions?
Choice Literacy
Creating Evidence Based Questions
Common Core Literacy Resources
English Language Arts-Appendix A
English Language Arts-Appendix B: Sample Tasks and Text Exemplars
English Language Arts-Appendix C: Student Writing Samples
Comprehensive Literacy
Pennsylvania Comprehensive Literacy Framework
Paired Reading Strategies: Comprehensive Reading Solutions
Reading Guides
Guided Reading
Literature Circle Collaboration with Edmodo
Independent Reading
Modeled Reading
Interactive Read Aloud Book Titles and Suggestions: Teachers' College Reading and Writing Project
Video: Interactive Read Aloud: Analyzing Text Critically from Teachers College
Video: Interactive Read Aloud: Analyzing Text Critically from Teachers College
Shared Reading
Shared Reading Video: Teaching Channel
Data
CCRPI Data
Data Protocols
National School Reform Faculty Protocols
Atlas-Learning From Student Work
ATLAS-Looking at Data
Collaborative Assessment Conference
Data Driven Dialogue
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Flipped Classroom
Infographic: What is a Flipped Classroom?
A Realist's Guide to Flipping the Classroom
The Fuss Over Flipped Classrooms Infographic
Jackie Gerstein Flipped Classroom ASCD Conference
The Flipped Classroom: Elementary Example
Inside the Flipped Classroom
Cliftondale High School: A Flipped High School
16 Flipped Classrooms in Action
Video: Flipped Classrooms Simply Speaking
The Teacher's Guide to a Flipped Classroom
Informational Texts
Daily Infographic
Kids Discover
PebbleGo
Georgia Wiki Resources to find Informational Texts
New York Times Learning Network: Articles to Read with Students and Sample Lessons
Article about why you should use infographics when communicating with others
Kids Post: Washington Post Articles for Kids
Why Files
Tween Tribune
Times Machine: NY Times Articles from 1850s-1920s
DOGO News
National Geographic Kids
ACS Science for Kids
NY Times in School
Scholastic Action Differentiated Lexile Passages
NewsELA: Informational text articles written at different lexile levels
Video/Podcast on Informational Text
Read Works Paired Texts
American Rhetoric: Database of over 5000 speeches
Materials to Order
Primary Source Resources
Everyday Literacy
Leveled Texts for Differentiated Content Areas
Nonfiction Text Features
Video: Nonfiction Text Features
List of Nonfiction Text Features and Posters
Nonfiction Text Features Lessons and Activities
Text Mapping
Top Ten Nonfiction Resources
Learn Zillion Lessons
Lesson 1: Previewing a Nonfiction Text
Lesson 3: Identifying Text Features
Lesson 2: Using text features to find evidence
Lesson: Using title and subtitle to identify a text's topic
Nonfiction Text Structures
List of Nonfiction Text Structures
Visual Poster of Nonfiction Text Structures
Nonfiction Text Structure Lessons and Activities
Graphic Organizer of the 5 Nonfiction Text Structures
Inspirational Videos
The Magic of Books
TED Talks
Did You Know Video?
How to start a movement
What is 21st Century Education?
TED in 3 minutes Talk: Try Something New for 30 Days
Leveled Reading Passages
Lit 2 Go
Read Works
K12 Reader
Scholastic Differentiated Articles
Story Works
Literacy Across the Curriculum
Video: Literacy Design Collaborative
Brockton High School Video: Literacy Strategies Across All Content Areas
Brockton High School Presentation: Literacy Across Content Areas
Brockton HIgh School Resources
BHS Literacy Strategies
BHS Slide Show Presentation
Literacy Chart: Reading
Literacy Chart: Reasoning Skills
Literacy Chart: Speaking
Literacy Chart: Writing
Literacy Design Collaborative
LDC Module: The Case for Revolution
LDC Module: Environmental Impact of Pollution in Mexico City
PARCC Sample Assessments
10th Grade ELA Sample Task
7th Grade ELA Sample Task
6th Grade ELA Sample Task
3rd Grade ELA Sample Task
New York Sample Performance Tasks
Write Score Sample Literary Task Middle School
Write Score Sample Research Simulation Task High School
Poetry
Teaching Poetry: Comprehensive Reading Solutions
Primary Source Documents
A Treasury of Primary Source Documents
Teaching with Documents: Lesson Plans
Sample Primary Source Documents
Primary Source Documents from the National Archives
Library of Congress Primary Source Sets
The Gilder Lehrman Collection of Primary Sources
Docs Teach: Documents and Related Activities
Reading Like a Historian: Document-Based Lessons (need to sign up for a free account)
Times Machine: NY Times Articles from 1850s-1920s
Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Source Documents
The Library of Congress's American Memory
Eurodocs, a collection of European history documents
Yale Law School's Avalon Project, a collection of documents in law, history, and diplomacy
Cornell University's Library Making of America: Antebellum Period Through Reconstruction
The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) website
U.S. Census Bureau
Shorpy-online archive of photos from 1850s-1950
Christopher Newport University Primary Sources Library
10 Ways to Enrich Your Classroom With Primary Source Documents
Article: Getting Kids Engaged in Primary Source Documents
Document Based Questions
The DBQ Project
Teaching with the Library of Congress
Analyzing Primary Sources
AP U.S. History DBQ
Sample DBQs with documents from Greece, NY School District
Primary Source Document Analysis Recording Forms
Map Analysis Worksheet
Written Document Analysis Worksheet
Photo Analysis Worksheet
Movie Recording Analysis Worksheet
Sound Recording Analysis Worksheet
Graphic Organizer: Analyzing Primary Sources
DESCRIBE Graphic Organizer template
DESCRIBE Graphic Organizer information and teaching strategies
Primary Source Materials to Order
Primary Source Sets-Teacher Created Materials
Leveled Texts for Differentiated Content Area Literacy-Teacher Created Materials
Professional Development Books
40 Strategies for Middle and Secondary Classrooms
Texts and Lessons for Content Area Reading
Teaching Text Structures: A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success
Informational Text Lessons 6-8
Reading ELA Standards Based Lessons
Character Analysis
3D Character Analysis: Gardner, Kaplan, & Kohlberg
Character Archetype Lesson
Reading Level Charts: DRA, BAS, Lexile
Scholastic Book Wizard
Lexile Analyzer (must sign up for free account)
Rubrics
Sample Rubrics Grades 4-5
Sample Rubrics Grades 6-11
Sample Rubrics Grade 3
Technology
DIY Learning: How Teens are Teaching Themselves
What is 21st Century Education?
How to Create Your Own Infographics
ISTE Conference Presentation: Google Apps
TED Talk Jane McGongial: Benefits of Gaming
Gaming Can Make the World a Better Place: Jane McGonigal TED Talk
Video: Singapore's 21st Century Teaching Strategies
Text Protocols
Block Party
Four As
Videos: Best Practices
MLK Birmingham Jail Letter: Socratic Seminar
Vocabulary
Teaching Technical Vocabulary
Vocabulary Instruction
Video: Understanding Vocabulary
Vocabulary Strategies
Vocabulary Graphic Organizers: Notebooking Fairy
Teaching Academic Vocabulary
Marzano's 6 Step Process to Teaching Academic Vocabulary
Tier 2 Vocabulary
Examples of Tier 2 Words
Vocabulary Presentation including Marzano's 6 Step Process For Teaching Vocabulary
Smarter Balanced List of Tier 2 Words by Grade Level
Tier 3 Vocabulary: Academic Vocabulary
Tennessee Academic Vocabulary Guide
Writing
PARCC Writing Rubrics
Smarter Balanced Writing Rubrics
California Common Core Writing Rubrics
Writing on Demand Sample Writing Prompts and Student Essays
Talking Points for Kids: Topics and related texts for Arugment Writing
Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents (Dr. Brozo resource)
NY Teachers College Writing Minilesson Videos
Argumentative Writing
Writing in Content Areas: Introducing Argument Module