Free Resources

• ReadWorks: non-fiction reading passages with lessons
  
• Comprehension Tool Kit-- K-6, K-2 Spanish (there's free samples)
Newsela.com--multiple content areas, Grades 4-12
• Picture of the Week--Time magazine offers a compelling visual documentation of the week through photographs. Grades 7-12
• Digital Textbook-- Grs. 7-12
• The Week Magazine: Grades 7-12
• Motion Poems: Grades 4-12
• Article of the Week: Kelly Gallagher requires a mini-task each week for his high school students (note—he uses one reading but asks students to do multiple things with it, including two products that can be scored; pair with a www.youtube.com clip) (Grades 8-12—but Gallagher’s assignment structure is good for grades 3-7)
• Reading Minutes: add self-reflection writing for a solid developmental reader mini-task (Grades 2-12)
• BeginningReads (Student Resources)

Sample Mini-Tasks:

• "How Plastic is Recycled" Science, Kindergarten
• “The Very Busy Spider” Life Science/ Science, K-1
• "A Great Statue" Social Studies, 1st grade
• "Bats" by Lee Elementary's Julie Johnson, Life Science 2nd grade
• "Magic Tomatoes" Life Science grade 3
• "Oxen" Life Science, grade 4
• "The SS Normandie" Social Studies, Technology, Grade 5
• “Fast Car” Social Studies / Language Arts, grades 7-12
• “The Day the Music Died” Language Arts / Social Studies, grades 9-12
• “The Myth of Free” CTE, Marketing, grades 9-12
• “Storage Shed” CTE, Marketing, grades 9-12 (with tweaks, it could be a construction task)