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Tch - Teaching Channel is a Common Core aligned resource that might be worth a look for E/LA curriculum work

This example comes from grade 5/6, but could be scaled up....

ThinkCERCA is an online program designed to support individualized instruction in critical thinking for students in grades 4-12. The CERCA acronym (Claims, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterarguments, Audience) represents the site's structured approach to teaching critical thinking and argumentation. While reading one of the program's numerous text selections, students can make claims about what they're reading.

"Newsela is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing. "

A tool that tests the "grade/age level" of a webpage. 

An interesting article about the push for nonfiction in LA curriculum. 

Just be glad that people are reading!

the other side of the workshop model - interesting opinion piece 

"Analyzing Texts: Overview of a Lesson Series"  These are a series of videos of a 5th grade class to demonstrate incorporating the Common Core Standards using Non-Fiction

"Tinychat provides dead simple, free to use, video chat rooms that just work!"

I read an article about a month ago on when watching a video or movie in class, teachers were using a chat room to simultaneously discuss the movie. Tiny Chat is only one of many sites where you can create temporary chat rooms for the class and share the link to all of your students. At the end, many of these chat rooms disappear and the info gets cleared. What I liked about Tiny chat is that is also has the ability to show webcams, share Youtube videos, and you can create a whiteboard to share with the group so they can do some brainstorming.

Becky's blog summarizes many young adult novels and categorizes them by genre and interest.

Thanks, Jackie. Becky's Blog has a great reference to a Classic book reading project I plan to use.