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Good site for content area literacy activities in the area of evidence and argumentation. Students use higher-order thinking skills when they learn to critically construct, evaluate, and defend their arguments using the "Showing Evidence Tool". Project examples and strategies are also provided here.

Also includes story resources, writing resources, digital tools, information resources and more.

I like the comprehensive nature of this LiveBinder. Our Technology Integration tab might need to be more streamlined but I would love to see us provide this type of resource on our LB.

TextProject aims to bring beginning and struggling readers to high levels of literacy through a variety of strategies and tools, particularly the texts used for reading instruction.

The leader of this project, Elfrieda Heibert, is on the IRA Common Core ELA standards committee as well. One of the most interesting things I saw on the text complexity module is how we can modify the complexity levels of texts (higher and lower) by making a few changes to word choice, conventions, sentence length, etc. There are good examples included. This may be something valuable for students with IEPs and those learning English.

The National Archives Experience Docs Teach section contain ready made activities, tools to create your own activities, and a wealth of primary source documents.  Create an account in order to save documents and create custom made activities.

This site provides a wealth of resources and ideas for teaching all areas of social studies.  Comprehensive guide for tools (with tutorials) for student projects and activities.  The focus of the lessons are inquiry based.

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Good resource for Common Core information. Site contains helpful guide for creating questions for a close read, and close read exemplars for grades 6-12.

One of the easiest online graphing sites I have ever seen.

online video creator - free to educators