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Pinterest is one of my favorite sites. I have come across so many great ideas for lessons and activities! I am about to look up reading fluency games for Teaching Reading and Integrated Language Arts.

This is a NH DOE page that contains grade level alignment between new common core standards and current GLE's

This has been so helpful for me when writing my lesson plans! Just click on the grade level and you will get a side-by-side comparison of common core standards and NH state standards.

This article was excerpted from Easy Ways to Reach & Teach English Language Learners by Valerie Schiffer Danoff. These strategies are part good thinking and part best practices. They work for ELLs and EO students because they activate prior knowledge, encourage students to work together, and provide sensible foundations for teaching and learning in a classroom setting.

another great website for reading resources

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction. This website has great lesson plans for teaching reading and writing for grades K-12 and strategy guides for teachers.

I found these samples (based on Wallingford Public Schools) to be helpful for a foundation, but I don't know that I would use them as is for high school unless it was for an introductory lesson.

This is a fabulous, in-depth, yet student-accessible primer on grammar. I know, it was created by Canadians, but that's okay. I sometimes use their resources when discussing parts of speech and word interactions in class. Our students are increasingly digital; it helps to speak their language. 

This website provides much needed infomation to the popular question "Why assess our students?" It helps to break down the reasoning behind assessing students into various statges.