Favorite Links!
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English/Language Arts
Text Resources ELA/Social Studies |
Book and Reference
Vocabulary Gifted/Talented |
ESL Resources Math/Science
Media Literacy |
Test Prep
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ELA Sites
Link to the Common Core Standards
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AchievetheCore.org
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LDC Tasks/Templates
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Link to the LDC Module Creator
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Link to CIITS
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Click on Classroom Resources for Lessons, Student Writing Assessments, Academic Word Finder, etc.
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Instructional Library of Literacy Resources
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NY's ELA Common Core Resources, Video Series, etc.
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2,000+ Common Core Lessons Created by Teachers
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Digital ELA Resources for K-12
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PAARC Practice Tests for ELA
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Resources to Promote Critical Thinking
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First Days of School--Harry & Rosemary Wong's Classroom Management Blog on www.teachers.net
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Common Core Lessons for ELA
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Learning Guides and Teaching Resources
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Teaching That Makes Sense
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Reading
Reading Strategies
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Reading Strategies: Scaffolding Students' Interaction with Text
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Text Project--Reading Strategies and Tools
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Screen Actors Guild Actors Read Popular Stories
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Into the Book--Reading Strategies Site
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Florida Center for Reading Research
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FortheTeachers.org Excellent resources to use with DesCartes, leveled articles, and a wide variety of other instructional strategies.
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CCLD's Adolescent Literacy Toolkit
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Literacy Leader Site
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Phonics and Early Reading
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Writing
The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
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Northern Nevada's Writing Project Site
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Writing Center--Links to Writing Resources, Handouts, and Videos
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Teen Writing
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Grade Level Student Samples from The Reading and Writing Project
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On Demand Writing Lessons and Student Work Samples
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Build writing tasks from 29 templates AND find TONS of teacher created modules in various grades and content areas.
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ELA Lesson Planning
NCTE Lessons
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Jim Burke's Site--Incredible for Lesson Ideas and Instructional Strategies
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Outta Ray's Head
Lesson Ideas
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Web English Teacher Lesson Ideas
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Online Binders FULL of Teaching Ideas
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ELA/Literacy Resources
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The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge Lesson Plan Ideas
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Annenburg Learner--Teacher Resources
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Thinkfinity Instructional Resources
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QuestGarden WebQuests
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Dustin Smith's FABULOUS tips for elementary--Over 100 videos, printables, etc. LOVE his work!!
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The Library of Congress CCSS Lessons and Resources
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Pete's PowerPoint Station--All Content Areas
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K-12 Resources
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Text Resources
www.readworks.org
Leveled Non-Fiction Passages
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Current Events & News Articles for Students (many multimodal with videos and infographics)
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Archived Newspaper Articles on a Wide Variety of Topics
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www.fortheteachers.org
Leveled Passages
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Read Theory's Site for Comprehension--Passages & Questions
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Differentiated Lexiled Articles, CCSS Questions & Quizzes
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NEWSELA Text Sets
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Text Sets for Literature
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Choose a theme, choose a question, choose a text!
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Text & Video Sets for Argumentation
(check for grade level appropriateness)
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ThinkCERCA--Differentiated Texts & Text Sets
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Leveled Articles for Science Classes!!
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SLSN Science Article Resource Links
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Richard DeLong's Science Literacy Resources
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Smithsonian's Differentiated Lexiled Articles
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Multidisciplinary Content Aligned with CCSS and STEM Framework
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K-8 Resources
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Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week
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TimesMachine 129 Searchable Years of The New York Times
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Kentucky Virtual Library
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Google Scholar--Research/Reference Site
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Select MAS Ultra and/or Topic Search for Lexile leveled resources (If this link has expired, access EBSCO through your KVL account.)
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News Magazine--Online articles on a variety of topics
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Articles from The New York Times
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Archive of Past Issues of National Geographic Young Explorer Books
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Time for Kids online articles
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Archived Issues of Scholastic's Upfront Magazine
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Scholastic News Online--Online Articles
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KB Konnected News Sites for Kids
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Poems for HS
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Video clips of Americans sharing their favorite poems
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Poet Biographies and Poems
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Free ebooks!
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Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts from the University of Pittsburgh
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Great Books Online at www.bartleby.com
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Internet Public Library
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Free Audio Book Downloads
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Book & Reference Sites
Find Lexile Levels
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Find reading levels
for books
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Kentucky Virtual Library
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Internet Public Library
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Student search engine filtered by research experts.
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EasyBib Online Citation Site
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Online Citation Resource
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Citation Machine
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Google Books--Millions of books to preview or read for free!
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Find out what guys like to read!
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Teen Book Reviews
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Photo Pin--Free photos! (Use, but give credit.)
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Creative Commons--Image Resource
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Free Stock Photos
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Free Music Library
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MicroSoft Images & Clip Art
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Vocabulary Sites
ACT/SAT vocab prep
www.vocabtest.com
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ACT/SAT vocab prep
www.vocabulary.com
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ACT/SAT Vocabulary Builder
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Phonics Ideas and Activities
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Activities with Fry's 1000 Most Commonly Used Words
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Free Printable Sight Word Resources Pre-K-4th Grade
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Gifted/Talented Sites
Hoagie's Gifted--Games and Challenges
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Byrdseed.com
Differentiating Instruction for High Level Learners
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An Incredible Tool to Help Teachers Differentiate Tasks for Students
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ESL Sites
Resources from the Literacy Advocacy Project
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Free Online Learning for ESL--Excellent Reading and Every Day Life Practice
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40 Best ESL Sites
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Khan Academy for Spanish Speaking Students
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Social Studies/ELA Sites
Online Speech Bank
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Library of Congress Primary Source Sets
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100 Milestone Documents
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Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
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NPR's This I Believe Series
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NewsELA Social Studies Text Sets
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NCSS Teachers' Library
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Academy of Achievement--Biographies and Interviews from leaders and visionaries who have shaped our world.
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Online Biographies
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History Channel Video Clip Archive
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Digital History Resources
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Digital Media Lessons for Economics, History, and Government
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Historyteacher.net TONS of history resources
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PBS Teachers--K-12 Resources
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Center for Teaching History and New Media--Teaching Resources, plus, Links to MANY History Sites
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California's History & Social Science Resources
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Mission U.S.--A Revolutionary Way to Learn History
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Cartoons in the Classroom--Reading Political Cartoons
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Free Educational Videos at www.watchknowlearn.com
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History Assessments from Stanford
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Gilder Lerhman Institute of American History
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Links to TONS of History Sites
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Animated/Narrated Maps
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Interactive Timelines
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SmARThistory--Art Through Historical Periods
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Google Art Project--Explore Museums Around the World
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EdTech Teacher's Best History Websites Sorted by Category
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iCivics--Free Lesson Plans and Games
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HistoryTeachers YouTube Channel--History for music lovers!
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Digital Social Studies Resources for K-12
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ELA, Social Studies, Arts & Humanities Videos--Connect to the World's Top Universities and Scholars
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Sweet Search for Social Studies
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www.teachinghistory.org
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Science Sites
Harvard's Math in the Movies--Clips for use in math and science (be sure to use discretion with age appropriateness).
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Leveled Science Articles
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Khan Academy
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Science and Math Simulations by University of Colorado at Boulder
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Digital Media Resources for Science and Math
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Digital Science and Math Resources for K-12
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Math & Science Videos--Connect to the World's Top Universities and Scholars
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Learn How and Why Everything Works
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PBS Teachers--K-12 Resources
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NOAA's Science Educational Resources
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Lessons and Resources from the National Science Teachers' Association
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Next Generation Science Standards
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NGSS Science Videos
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Scoot Pad for Math and Reading
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Math Sites
MDC FALS--Math Formative Assessment Lessons--Shell Center
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Math Tasks by Robert Kaplinsky
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Graham Fletcher's 3 Act Tasks
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Click on Starter Pack or 3 Act Math for the tasks
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When Math Happens
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Math Formative Assessment Lessons
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Illustrative Math
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Click on Classroom Resources for Math Lessons, Tasks, Assessments, etc.
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NCTM Illuminations
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Inside Mathematics
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Open MIddle Math Resources for K-12
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Renee Yates, KDE Math Specialist
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Debbie Waggoner's Math Resources
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PAARC Practice Tests for Math
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Algebra application in the real world.
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CCSS Math Lessons
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Solve Any Problem
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Media Literacy Sites
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lesson Plans
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Center for Media Literacy
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Ryan Goble's Making Curriculum Pop Ning
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Frank Baker's Media Literacy Clearinghouse
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Pictures of the Week
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PBS NewsHour Essays
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Cowbird--Online Stories--LOVE!!!
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AMAZING Photo Site!
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Learning From Lyrics
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TV Ad Songs
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www.youtube.com
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www.teachertube.com
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www.schooltube.com
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Media Literacy Lessons--Search by Grade and Content
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Discover/Analyze the Meaning of Rap Lyrics
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The Literacy Shed--Video Literacy Ideas, Clips, Teaching Strategies
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Movie clips can be sorted by theme or category.
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Movie Clips by Theme
*K-College--Use Viewer Discretion
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*Viewer Discretion Advised
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Free Documentaries
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Free Documentaries--Use Viewer Discretion
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Test Prep Sites
ACT Test Prep
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MAP Skills Practice
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MAP Skills Practice
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MAP Reading Skills Practice
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KDE's Released Items for EOC and K-PREP
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Partnership for Assessment Readiness for College and Careers
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NAEP Questions Tool--Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Extended Response--even test yourself! Be sure questions are congruent with CCSS!
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ACT/SAT Free Test Prep
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Incredible K-12 On Demand Instructional Materials!
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RTI Resource Sites
Kentucky's System of Interventions
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National Center on RTI
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Jim Wright's Intervention Central
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Easy CBM--Free Progress Monitoring
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Institute of Educational Sciences What Works Clearinghouse
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AIMSweb--Assessment and Progress Monitoring
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RTI Action Network
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Reading Strategies
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Project/Teaching Tool Sites
Create Your Own Interactive Timelines
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Create Online Posters
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Create Polls that Participants May Respond to with their Cell Phones
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Create Scenes with Walking, Talking Avatars using your Words! www.xtranormal.com
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Bring a Talking Avatar to Life to Read Your Script! www.voki.com
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www.blabberize.com--Make your photos talk!
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www.voicethread.com
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www.animoto.com--Create stunning videos!
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www.tagxedo.com--Create word clouds around your favorite images!
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www.wordle.net--Create art with words!
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Instant Screen-casts!
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One click screen-casts!
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Comic Strip Creator--Create and Share Comic Strips
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