Resources to Support Teachers
The Central CA Writing Project is compiling resources to support teachers. Topics may include equity, reaching out with love and understanding during troubling times, to grade or not to grade, journal writing, writing instruction with mentor text, and responding to student writing .
Cult of Pedagogy Distance Learning: A Gently Curated Collection of Resources for Teachers An overview of the nuts and bolts of distance learning, including general tips, advice on tech, and troubleshooting some common problems
Articles
An Inquiry Approach to Learning Content with Newcomer Students By Laura Alvarez and Lucinda Pease-Alvarez
Using Journal Writing with English Learners (and Other Students)
Books for Children and Young Adults that Use Reflective Writing as a Literary Technique Bibliography By Katharine Davies Samway
Web Applications Services
- ZOOM Meetings: Teachers who fill out an online form using their school email addresses and are then verified by Zoom will have any accounts associated with that school’s domain also gain unlimited temporary meeting minutes .
- Padlet: is a place for participants to post links and responses.
- Flipgrid: Remote Learning with Flipgrid March 13, 2020 As educators, learners and families are impacted by COVID-19, know that our entire team is always here for you. Inspired by the ways you foster community beyond the classroom, we have curated a collection of resources to help you and your peers.
- Parlay: “The future of class discussions. Parlay puts your students and their unique perspectives at the heart of learning, and gives you the data that you need to help them grow.”
- Quizzizz: allows you to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.
Online Writing Resources
National Writing Project C3WP Resources for teaching argument writing Upper Elem., MS, and HS
College, Career, and Community Writing Program: Creating Respectful Discourse for Change
Mini-Units Summary: This resource from the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) features one-minute videos that define mini-units and explain the value of using nonfiction sources/texts. There are links to related pages on the C3WP website that focus on creating text sets and on developing and sequencing mini-units. These resources will take facilitators and teachers through both the content and implementation of researched argumentative modules, with space to supplement or customize. Teachers can write in response to some of the units to see how they might work with students.
Us Vs Hate and Teaching Tolerance website Join Us in the Fight Against Hate in Schools. Teaching Tolerance’s new program—#USvsHate—aims to provide easy-to-implement curricula and action steps to support educators and students in resisting hate in their communities. Learn more about how this program got its start in San Diego, California, and how you can bring #USvsHate to your school!
Lit to Go Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.
Newsela Prepare for distance learning with Newsela.
Whether your school is teaching through a closure or building plans to prepare, we’re here to help you ensure that learning doesn’t stop. We’re offering free access to Newsela’s entire product suite for the rest of the 2019/2020 school year.
Zinn Education Project Teaching People’s History
ReadWriteThink Resources for Teachers and Parents. The ability to READ, WRITE, and COMMUNICATE connects people and empowers them to achieve things they never thought possible.
Facing History and Ourselves Our collection of educator resources includes a wide range of flexible, multimedia materials, from primary sources and streaming videos to teaching strategies, lesson plans, and full units. Find resources that will support your students’ learning, whether you are teaching a complex moment in history or addressing today’s breaking news
Text Project Kid’s books: Strategies, tools, and texts to bring beginning readers and struggling readers to high levels of literacy
Online Book Resources
The International Children’s Digital Library
Online books
Here are some resources to use to choose good books for your students/children to read:
The American Library Association for Library Service to Children:
Recommended booklists
The Batchelder Award is given to the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States.
The Pura Belpré Award is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth
The Sibert Medal honors the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values
The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) – promoting international understanding through children’s books.
Hans Christian Andersen Award – International Best Children’s Book
International Literacy Association – Children’s book choices
Additional Online Resources
Additional Online Resources
How to Tell Stories to Children
The Science and Method of Storytelling: HOW TO TELL STORIES TO CHILDREN
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is the world’s biggest NGO specializing in the defense of media freedom, which we regard as the basic human right to be informed and to inform others.
The New York Times Free Digital Access
The New York Times is available to high schools across the U.S. — for free. Enjoy free digital access from April 6 to July 6
Helpful tips:
Create Your Own Digital Comics Whether You Can Draw or Not