RESA Shared Resources

Five Videos - Distinguish fact from opinion in different media: e.g., TV ads, billboards, essays, literary non-fiction, TV commentary, editorials, political speeches, letters to the editor.

Animal Track Identification Guide

This is a "laundry list" including mostly free sites for short nonfiction texts.

NWREL hosts this site which includes K-12 student writing samples, rubrics, and prompts to assist teachers with writing instruction as well as on demand writing assessments.

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.

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