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This website can help differentiate reading levels of curriculum texts. It will reword/translate complex text into a text that is more accessible for decoding and comprehension purposes. This is an outstanding site for differentiating reading levels of curriculum text!!!! Make sure you do the demo and look at their new YouTube video. Easy to use!

A good site for younger students to practice phonics skills

A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books.

A free website to help students with their Phonics. Students work through various difficulty levels to help with their reading. This website can also be used for English Language Development.

A fun site for kids to practice reading comprehension with explinations of the skills practiced in each game and a breakdown of which games would be relevant to each grade level.

California Dept of Ed recommended literature list--search for books by author, grade level, subject, and language.

by Saul McLeod published 2010, updated 2012 The zone of proximal development (ZPD) has been defined as " the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peers" (Vygotsky, 1978, p86).

This website contains strategies to assist parents in helping their child with reading. It provides resources for each grade level such as games to enhance reading skills and tips to develop comprehension.

Award-winning reading solution with thousands of leveled readers, lesson plans, worksheets and assessments to teach guided reading, reading proficiency and comprehension to K-5 students

Great shared writing activity/ outline for all grade levels within SDC and beyond.

A website to learn and practice keyboard typing. There are four levels with twelve stages to complete!

Daily news articles written at multiple levels of complexity in order to provide a text that is accessible to students with ranges of abilities. Just click the appropriate Lexile on the right side of the page. There is an optional quiz for each article, and an ability to assign articles and track activity for groups of students.

This site has a lot of reading passages that are leveled. Also comprehension and Novel Study units

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Lesson Plan Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension Students can use these printables to visualize how ideas fit together, and you can use them to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Graphic organizers help students construct meaning. The following learning tools can be used with any book and across all grade levels.

TEACHER RESOURCE for academic version of gameshow 'To Tell The Truth.' Gives the example of George Washington.