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Tools for Teachers

These are my favorite sites for quickly finding text to use in classrooms. Whether it is finding paired text for ELA, student-friendly research opportunities to support NGSS, or primary sources and inquiry tools for social studies, these are my first stops.

Teacher Resources

• NEWSELA—Everyone's favorite resource high interest topics and current events. Articles available at different Lexile levels.
• ReadWorks.org—Similar to NEWSELA, but with paired texts and links for literature.
• America's Story From America's Library—This site from the Library of Congress is a great way to access primary resources in a simple formats for elementary and middle school students.

• EyeWitness to History—A fantastic collection of first person accounts throughout history, as well as analyzing different points of view about events. 
• Time for Kids—Check out the resources geared for elementary students that include timely topics and articles.
• National Geographic Kids—A great resource for finding text about science topics.

• The Smithsonian—Check out the awesome articles about Smithsonian Museum exhibits, research, and more.
• Infoplease®—This resource is ideal for finding reference texts to complement your units.
• The Digital Collections From the Library of Congress—There is no place that has a better reserve of primary resources.
• Literature Learning Ladders—This is website is perfect for genre studies, literature circles, and other literary text resources. 

Multimedia Sources

• CNN Student News—Pair these news stories with print versions from different sources.
• American Rhetoric—This site houses an extensive collection of speeches, with both audio and text-based materials.

• History™.com—An excellent selection of videos from their network, as well as other multimedia on timely topics.
• TeacherTube®—An educational channel that is not blocked by firewalls.

• Archive.org—This is a free online library with print and video resources.