• MAISA Units (K-12)

• MAISA Title I Support Modules

• MAISA Grammar Units

• Michigan Electronic Library - Kids Gateway

• Michigan Generated Common Core Resources/Facilitator Guides

• Video of the Gratiot Isabella Phase III MAISA ELA Reading Unit Rollout

• Common Core State Standards Main Page

• Common Core 3 minute video overview

• Great standards Grid for ATA Glance Viewing of ELA Standards

• Great standards Grid for ATA Glance Viewing of Literacy Standards

• Educore CCSS Resources from ASCD

• Michigan Career and College Ready Portal

• Text Complexity Common Core State Standards Updated 2012 (pg. 55)

• Fountas and Pinnell Common Core Resources

• MC3

• Curriculum Crafter - Common Core Units

• Michigan's Mission Possible (6-12)

• Access to MAISA units on Atlas video

• New York City Sample Units (K-12)

• Engage New York - Curriculum Exemplars

• Engage New York - Videos to support content

• Georgia Common Core Units

• Close Reading Exemplars (6-12)

• Text Examplar Documents and Graphic Organizers (K-12)

• Kansas Documents Text Complexity and More (K-12)

• Kelly Gallagher Article of the Week

• Sentence of the Week

• Vale Middle School Article of the Week

• Argumentative Writing Prompts New York Times Model

• Tween Tribune

• Mock Trial - Christopher Columbus

• Mock Trial - Living Wage

• Mock Trial - Truman/Japan

• Opinion Writing Continuum Teacher's College (K-8)

• Word Generation Resources

• Center on Instruction Crosswalk with FCRR Resource

• FCRR Resource Search Tool

• Using Instructional Routines to Differentiate Instruction: A Guide for Teachers

• FCRR Instructional Routine Tool

• OER Commons (Some exploration required)

• Share My Lesson Resource

• Ideas of Content for all subject areas

• A Tour of High-Quality Open Education Resources (OER) for Writing

• Read Works K-8 CCSS Reading Units and Resources (all content areas)

• Achieve the Core

• America Achieves the Common Core (Lesson Plans-must register to view)

• Celly and the Common Core Standards (cell phone use)

• Nonfiction Text Structures Resources

• Compilation of ELA Strategies Materials and More

• List of 21st Century Literacies from NCTE

• Reading and Writing Activities from Phyllis Hostmeyer - Illinois

• Quick Guide to the Common Core: Key Expectations Explained

• Balancing Literacy in the CCSS Nice Graphics

• Common Core ELA Overview Prezi

• Nice Literacy Slide Deck for CCSS

• Be a CCSS Ninja

• Lesson Cast (Videos on Literacy Strategies)

• CCSS Resources from Learning Unlimited

• NewsELA - Current Articles at different reading levels

• Common Lit-Fiction and NonFiction Stories with Question Items

• Common Core and Google Docs (a model)

• Perma Bound K-6 Text Leveling Correlation Guide

• Common Core Lessons from NEA - Amazing Site

• EduWidgets from Virginia DOE

• CCSS Toolkit for Evaluating Alignment of Instructional and Assessment Materials to CCSS

• Graphite Common Core Explorer

• National Geographic Informational Magazines for K-2 - Free

• Writing from Sources Overview from Carol Jago (Video)

• Reading and Writing Across the Content Areas by Susan Merten

• 2017-2018 MDE Guide to State Assessments

• M-STEP Sample Item Sets 2017 (pg. 3)

• MDE Assessment Toolkit

• Rick Stiggins Webinar on Assessment

• SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Homepage

• SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Assessment Homepage(scroll down to the Content and Item/Task Specification Sections for samples)

• SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Assessment Samples released October 12th 2012

• SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Pilot Test

• Webinar for October Assessment samples released by the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)

• SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium You Tube Channel

• American Dream (advance to slides 34-40)

• Teachers College Writing Project Performance Assessments (K-8)

• Kent ISD SBAC Assessment Samples Reworked

• Formative Assessment Ideas

• Mastery Connect - Just getting started exploration required

• More SBAC Resources from Ben Rimes - Mattawan Consolidated Schools

• Where are kids in their ability to research - Kent State University - Information Literacy Assessment Resource

• PARCC Prototypes

• SBAC Writing Rubrics Nicely Formatted

• SBAC Released Items Reformatted from Oregon

• Common Core Rubric for History/Social Studies 9-10

• Grade 11 SBAC Samples

• Grade 6 SBAC Samples

• Grade 5 SBAC Samples

• Acheivement Level Descriptors

• Information on MDE Interim Assessments

• SS focused Performance Task Samples from NMLC

• Annotated Mini-Assessments from Achieve

• PARCC Online Assessment Items

• Nonfiction Text Sets from Teacher's College

• Non-Fiction Read Aloud Blog - There's a Book for That

• Nonfiction Books for Boys

• Teaching Reading with Social Studies Book from NCSS

• Listed by MDE

• Listed by Wayne RESA

• Work from Ohio Scroll down to grade levels

• North Carolina Work

• Arizona Work

• Arizona Social Studies Content Literacy

• P21 Common Core Toolkit

• PARCC Unwrapping

• Wesley Fryers Consolidated Resources

• Determining Learning Targets PD 360 Webinar

• Determining Learning Targets PD 360 Handout

• Utah Common Core Resources

• Tennessee Can't Miss Pre-K - 3 Lessons and Units

• Hawaii Common Core Resources

• Hawaii Common Core Wiki

• Standards Written in Student Friendly Language

• Florida Common Core Resources

• Florida Common Core Apps

• Georgia Common Core Resources

• UMASS Content area sample lessons (4)

• Red River Valley Unwrapping "I Can" Statements

• Alabama unwrapping via Oregon

• OAISD Learning Targets

• Curriculum Corner CCSS Documents

• Reading Task Cards - ? Stems for CCSS Standards

• Project READI

• Word Generation

• Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervention (STARI)

• Let's Know! And Vamos a Aprender

• WRITING NEXT EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE WRITING OF ADOLESCENTS IN MS/HS

• Inquiry Based Instruction Skills

• Webinar on Text Complexity in the Common Core

• Teaching Channel Resoruces on the Common Core

• Ways to Include Students in Formative Assessment

• Tim Shanahan's CCSS PPT

• College Readiness Writing to Learn

• The Road to Rigor

• Looking to Create 21st Century Classrooms

• Building 21st Century Writers

• Doug Fisher on Vocabulary, Comprehension, and the Common Core

• Taming the Wild Text

• ASCD How to Improve Content Understanding Using Reading Strategies

• How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas?

• Educational Leadership Magazine Online Only Around Strong Readers

• Article on the fine line of building prior knowledge

• Every Child Everyday from ASCD

• Suggested Sequence of Sub Skills for CCSS K-5 Reading Foundations

• Nine Ways the Common Core Will Change Classroom Practice

• The Complex Matter of Text Complexity

• Releasing Responsibility by Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey

• Literacy Center of West Michigan Literacy Summit

• Teaching Research Writing Website all Disciplines 6-12

• Joel Malley Interview

• Carol Dweck Helping Every Child Reach their Potential

• Lord of the Flies Prezi

• Lord of the Flies Prezi 2nd Example

• Mt. Pleasant, MI Classroom Wiki Example

• Science and Literacy Instruction from MDE

• Common Core Conversations: Reading in the Disciplines

• Fordham University Internet Modern History Sourcebook

• The Analects of Confucius

• Great Depression Resource compared to more current Recession

• Books and Articles for Cultural Issues on a Left Leaning Perspective - Howard Zinn

• Procon.org

• Check the Facts - Factcheck.org

• Indexmundi.com - Demographic and Quality of life statistics

• Concord Review - Samples of Quality HS Writing

• The Choices Program - History and Current Issues for the Classrooms (Lesson Plans and Ideas)

• Social Studies Close and Critical Reading Samples Created by the Northern Michigan Learning Consortium (NMLC

• New York Times Supreme Court Cases

• Social Studies Common Core Samples

• History Tech Blog

• Literacy Design Collaborative Templates

• 8 Resources for Reluctant Writers

• Content-Literacy-Based Instruction And the Common Core State Standards

• CNN Student News (latest news, articles, videos, classroom ideas)

• Lesson Plans for Content Literacy

• Project Sharp Content Literacy Lessons

• Middle School Lesson on Analyzing Text Structures

• Docs Teach - Interactive Resources for SS and Primary Resources

• Beyond the Bubble - Assessing 21st Century Skills with Library of Congress Documents.

• Engaging Students with Primary Resources

• Social Studies Central - SS in the CCSS

• Civic Education and CCSS Idea Document for K-12

• WHST 9-10.2 Writing Planner

• NSTA Recommended Common Core Books for Science

• Edsitement Lesson Plans and more Resources

• Diagram of Practices in ELA, Math, and Science

• Booklist for Mentor Texts on Grammar, Words, and Mechanics

• Pinterest on Mentor Texts for Punctuation

• Language Myths from Grammarphobia

• Grammar Handbook

• 20 Most Common Errors for Writers

• Jeff Anderson - The Write Guy

• Grammar Girl

• Kent ISD Early Literacy Resources

• MDE Early Literacy Initiative Homepage

• Essential Instructional Practices In Early Literacy: Pre-K

• Essential Instructional Practices In Early Literacy: Grades K to 3

• Essential Instructional Practices In Early Literacy: Grades 4-5

• Supporting Early Literacy Development and Science Instruction Document

• St. Clair County RESA's Student Success Calendar

• Michigans Mission Possible

• Helping Students Own Language Through Word Study, Vocabulary, and Grammar Instruction

• TCRWP Main Page

• TCRWP Videos

• Adolescent Literacy.org

• Ingham ISD HS Assessments (Click on "Login as Guest")

• Michigan Reading Association

• Graphic Organizers and more for free

• Teaching that Makes Sense!

• World of Words Website

• UDL Bookbuilder

• Robert Munsch Author reads his own books

• Literacy Resources for all Grade Levels

• Interactive Slideshows on Literacy and More

• PBS Digital Learning Library

• Animal Info Books

• Mrs. Lash's Leveled Library - LiveBinder

• Free Children's Ebooks

• Visual Literacy Periodic Table

• Get Connected via Skype with Authors of all Age Books

• Loose Leaves

• Want help to pronounce a word? Try this resource

• Reader's and Writer's Workshop

• 8 Great Sites for Reluctant Writers

• Read Works Comprehension Solutions

• Tween Tribune

• Grammar Practice Online

• 10th Grade Common Core Research Project

• K-12 Instructional Resources

• Instagrok: search and gather multiple sources on a topic

• Logic of an Argument in 6 steps

• Teach Mentor Texts

• Non-Fiction Mentor Texts

• Lit 2 Go

• The Week - possible headlines or infographics

• ReWordify - simplifies English, teaches vocabulary, creates learning materials

• Free Online Courses from Stanford

• Odell Education Literacy Curriculum and Strategies

• PBS Preschool U

• Florida Research on Reading (Resources for small group instruction)

• Starfall Reading

• Teaching and Writing College Main Page

• Digital Writing Workshop Examples

• Word Study White Paper

• 180 Days Podcast Part 1

• 180 Days Podcast Part 2

• Common Core Standards

• Focus Area Strategies for Literacy

• CCSS Livebinder

• Common Core Standards open for feedback and conversation

• Lexile.com

• Lexile Codes

• Text Readability Calculator

• What Content-Area Teachers Should Know about Literacy Publication

• Data Deb (Great Literacy Resources some with CCSS Emphasis)

• Talk Activities Flow Chart

• Text Dependent Question Resource

• Generating Text Dependent Question Stems

• Vocabulary.com

• Oklahoma Academic Vocabulary Resources

• Vocabulary Article from Educational Leadership Magazine

• Vocabulary and Spelling City

• Vocabulary Learning Games for Kids

• Use Digital Text to Expand Vocabulary: Time for Kids

• Use Digital Text to Expand Vocabulary: Science News for Kids

• Top 1000 Words

• Flash Card Machine

• Free Rice Vocabluary Practice

• Vocabulary Games From Illinois

• 3 tips to Asking Better Questions

• Ruth Ayers - Conferring Forms

• PBS Games for Kids on Reading

• PBS Games for Kids on Vocabulary

• Mem Fox Read Alouds

• Storyline Online - Books Read Aloud

• Story Nory (Books read aloud)

• Super Why Home

• Detectives Notebook Game

• Storia Scholastic E Book App

• 3rd Grade Writes Reviews

• Project Write (1-3)

• Writer Pep Talk

• Opinion Writing in First Grade

• Road to Grammar Jr.

• Fun English Games

• What's a Word Worth? Activity

• Cookie - Online ELA Stories and Games

• ABC Ya

• Roll a Sight Word Game

• TCRWP - Mini-Courses

• Read Along by Google

• Ingham ISD HS Assessments (Click on "Login as Guest")

• Common Core Conversation: Vocabulary

• What Works Clearinghouse

• Power Up What Works

• Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey You Tube Channel

• Annenberg Learner Reading and Writing in the Disciplines Videos

• Best Evidence in Brief

• Kent ISD MKEO Resources

• MKEO/KRA Guide

• KRA Planning and Observation

• KRA March Webinar Slide Deck

• KRA Webinar 3-19-18

• KRA April Communication

• Summary Table for FCRR Reports

• What Works Clearing House

• Ed Reports

• National Center on Intervention at the National Institutes of Research

• Best Evidence Encyclopedia

• National Center on Improving Literacy

• The National Writing Project

• Graphic Organizers and more for free

• Digital Poetry

• Shel Silversteins Main Page

• 5 minute film festival - Poetry Month

• Write Steps

• Waiting Rarely Works: "Late Boomers" Usually Just Wilt from AFT

• Avoiding the Devastating Downward Spiral

• Catch Them Before They Fall: Identification and Assessment to Prevent Reading Failure in Young Children from Reading Rockets

• Findings of the National Reading Panel synthesis by Reading Rockets

• Connecting What Teachers Know About State ELA Standards for Reading and What They Do in Their Classrooms: Findings from the American Teacher Panel

• Michigan SAT Homepage

• MAISA SAT Resources Homepage (scroll down)

• College Board Live Score Portal

• SAT Score Converter Official App

• Official KHAN Academy SAT Prep Website

• SAT and MSTEP Overview 2016 - Kent ISD

• Official SAT Practice Lesson Plans for Teachers by Teachers

• ReDesigned SAT Teacher Implementation Guide

• ReDesigned SAT Counselor Resource Guide

• ReDesigned SAT Professional Development Modules

• SAT/ACT Side by Side Comparison Document from MASSP

• SAT ACT Comparison Document from Summit Educational Group

• MEL SAT Test Prep Opportunity

• MASSP SAT Slideshare

• Indiana shares their story of transition from ACT to SAT for Kent County Principals (90 minutes)

• Official ACT Test Prep Site

• Official ACT Explore Test Prep Site

• ACT Plus Writing Format and Information

• More Macomb County ACT Resources to use

• Directions access test prep through MEL

• MEL Learning Express URL

• Education Planner

• Macomb County ACT Resources

• ACT Test Prep Site

• ACT Flash Card Sample

• Free ACT On-Line Test Taking

• Vocab Sushi - Designed for ACT/SAT Vocab Practice

• Word Definitions and Word Lists

• Manual to look at HS SAT Scores and Results

• Achieve Article on High School Assessment in a New Era

• SAT Essay Prompt 2016

• SAT Essary Prompt 2017

• Formative Assessment in Social Studies MAC and MCSS Supported

• MDE Memo on Social Studies Standards 2019

• Approved Social Studies Standards - June 2019

• College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards

• C3 Resources

• MC3

• MC3 Website Tutorial - Open video in a media player

• MC3 Social Studies support link

• MDE Social Studies Align Docs.

• Cracking the Code

• MEAP/MSTEP Standards Assessed

• Free Courses by Hoagies

• Graphic Organizers and more for free

• Common Core Standards

• 12 Electronic Resources to Try for Social Studies!

• Great Resources to Explore across many SS topics

• Great Resource specific to Africa

• Stanford History of Education Website

• Resources on the 13 Colonies and more

• Games Children Play Around the World

• Digital Vaults from the National Archives

• Docs Teach from the National Archives

• PBS Digital Learning Library

• Michigan County Histories and Atlases

• World Memory Project - Holocaust Archived Documents

• Echoes and Reflections Holocaust Curriculum and Resources

• I Michigan Productions

• Smithonian Folklife Resources

• Newseum - Front Page of any Newspaper at any time

• The First Thanksgiving Videos from Scholastic

• Collection of Museum Virtual Exhibits

• Primary Resources for other Countries

• Primary Lessons for other Countries

• Interactive US Geography Map

• Interactive Community Map

• C-Span Classroom

• GVSU Hauenstein Center for Presidential Resources

• Apps for SS

• Top Apps for Social Studies

• Gilder Lehman SS Resources

• Human Migration Timeline

• History Dictionary

• National Geographic - Map Maker

• History Scene Investigation

• Population and Migration Chart

• Studies Weekly

• Studies Weekly - Michigan Sharing Ideas Digital Flyer

• MC3

• PASST Assessment Project

• MI Open Book Project

• MI Open Book Project Correlation Guides Scroll to Bottom of Page

• Jump$tart Coalition - free resources

• FTC Consumer Resources Free

• Request your Credit Report Free 1 time a year

• Federal Reserve - Educational Resources

• Federal Reserve Finance Resources

• Economics Link to more Websites

• MCEE Programs - Stock Market Game

• Stock Trading Simulation

• Stock Market Simulation Game

• EconEd Link

• Practical Money Skills - Financial Football

• Fool Proof for Educators

• Meet Us at the Mall - Economics

• Economic Research Homepage - See Tools on Tab in the middle of the screen

• Kids Economics - Get Ideas-Some Resources Cost $

• Foundation for Teaching Economics

• The Mint

• Lemonade Stand Game

• Top Ten Personal Finance Resources

• Michigan Council for Social Studies (MCSS)

• Michigan Council for History Education (MCHE)

• Michigan Center for Civic Education (MCCE)

• Michigan Geographic Alliance (MGA)

• Michigan Council on Economic Education (MCEE)

• MDE Writing Across the Curriculum SS

• Teaching History Through Inquiry

• Social Studies NMLC Inquiry Hub

• Henry Ford Education Main Page

• Henry Ford Resource Bank - Search for Materials

• Henry Ford OnInnovation Page

• Henry Ford Collections/Exhibit Builder

• Henry Ford Digikits

• Henry Ford Liberty and Justice for All Exhibit

• Henry Ford Rosa Parks Bus Exhibit

• Henry Ford Dymaxion House Exhibit

• Henry Ford Heroes of the Sky Exhibit

• Henry Ford Your Place in Time Exhibit

• Mr. Beat World History You Tube Content

• Mr. Beat World History You Tube Songs

• World History Website

• Indian Ocean in World History

• Learning History with Twitter

• Interviews of Voices from Dunkirk

• Pearson Brief Review App (IPhone Only)

• Michigan World History Google Group

• Virtual Field Trip Samplings

• Teaching History with Technology Virtual Tours

• Field Trip Archive

• Museum Field Trip

• More Virtual Field Trips

• I Civics

• Civic Action Project

• Ben's Guide to Government

• President for the Day

• If you Were the President

• Time for Kids Articles

• How a Bill becomes a Law

• Law for Kids

• If you were the President Online Activity

• Abe Lincoln at 200

• IPod App over 480 American History Resources - $1.99

• 5th Grade MC3 Resources

• Free Online Video Series around the Civil Rights Movement

• Primary Resource Documents on the Civil War

• Jamestown Adventure Game

• Mission US Game (6-8)

• Lessons around Primary Resources for US History

• Kody's Constitution Rap

• Find out more on Tribal Groups along Lewis and Clark Trails

• 13 Colonies Prezi

• Stories of 14 Vice Presidents Who Became Presidents

• Capzles

• Time Rime

• xTimeline

• Timeglider

• Dipity

• Time Toast

• Preceden

• Timelinr

• Our Timelines

• 1st Grade Group

• 2nd Grade Group

• 3rd Grade Group

• 4th Grade Group

• 5th Grade Group

• 6th Grade/7th Grade Group

• 8th Grade

• US History

• World History

• Civics

• Economics

• PBS History Detectives

• Historical Scene Investigation

• Scholastic History Mystery

• Visual History of the American Presidency

• Visual History of the Supreme Court of the United States

• Visual History of the United States Senate

• Time Life Pictures for Anticipatory Sets/Conversation

• Bridging World History

• Education Extras

• LOC Main Page

Here are links to the Supreme Court Videos on-line:

 

Oral Argument   https://vimeo.com/57604524  

 

Student Debriefing    https://vimeo.com/59437375

• Link to Kent ISD Science Consultant Jen Arnswald's Livebinder

• National Science Standards (NGSS)

• NGSS Science School Improvement Language

• National Geographic for Educators

• Try Science

• Power Up Game

• Solar System Scope

• Science Net Links

• Ocean SI EDU

• All Systems Go (5-8)

• Acids and Bases Game (3-8)

• Explore Science 1 Game at a Time - Web Adventures

• Turfmutt

• Vernier Video Physics App

• Energy Balance 101

• Science Baloney Detection Kit - Making a Claim in Science

• Learn Genetics

• NSTA Recommended Common Core Books for Science

• Science and Literacy Instruction