Educator Resources

ELA/Literacy Resources

Achieve the Core		Free, ready-to-use classroom resources that align to college- and career-ready standards, including the Common Core: Anthology Alignment Project, Basal Alignment Project, Text Set Project, ELA/Literacy Lessons, Read Aloud Project, Academic Word Finder, Kentucky Text Set, Text Set Design Microcredential, Building Knowledge Mini-Course, Foundational Skills modules and resources & more.
AdLit.org		AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers.
Assessment Resources		ACT SAT CLEP College Level Examination Program
CommonLit: Digitial Library and Instructional Tools		CommonLit Literacy Model is built on a foundation of over 2,000 high-quality free reading passages for grades 3-12, complemented by aligned interim assessments, growth-oriented data, and expert-led teacher development.
Indigenous Voices of San Juan Capistrano		Free online resources for the Acjachemen (Juaneno) community
Khan Academy		Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization. Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short video lessons. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators.
Learning for Justice		Free online resources for educators that supplment the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
Library of Congress		Digital collections, including primary sources, of US history
Reading Rockets / Colorin Colorado		Reading & English Language Learner best practices and strategies.
School Library Book Selection Toolkit		The Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) offers these book selection suggestions to enrich the educational experience through diverse, inclusive, and engaging library selections. Informed by AB 1078, our suggestions are designed to guide the selection of library and classroom materials that support our student population's educational goals, standards, and diverse needs.
Shanahan on Literacy		Timothy Shanahan's research emphasizes the connections between reading and writing, literacy in the disciplines, and improvement of reading achievement.
Social Justice Books		Selection of multicultural and social justice books for children and educators. SocialJusticeBooks.org is a project of Teaching for Change, a non-profit organization whose mission to provide teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world. Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children's Books
Teaching and Learning Cycle		The Teaching and Learning Cycle (TLC) is a pedagogical framework for scaffolding academic writing through deep and critical thinking tasks, academic discussions, interactive reading, and language development. Through the TLC, students delve deeply into disciplinary learning, examine and unpack discipline-specific written text types, practice writing the same text type, and independently write using tools that support their reflection on (and self-evaluation of) both the content and language they are using.
TeachingBook.net		All California educators, librarians, and other professionals may freely start using TeachingBooks.net by entering their work e-mail address at www.teachingbooks.net
Text Project		Strategies, tools, and texts to bring beginning readers and struggling readers to high levels of literacy.

ELD & Multilingual Education

Californians Together	Californians Together, a coalition of education, civil rights, parent/caregiver, community, and advocacy organizations, champions the educational success of California’s more than 1.1 million English learners. Resources and Professional Learning to support ML Learners.
CA English Learner Roadmap Teacher Toolkit	These toolkits are designed to help classroom teachers understand and make meaning of the CA EL Roadmap policy. They include tools for individual and collective assessment of practices through the lens of the EL Roadmap principles, enabling teachers to hone in on their ownprofessional learning needs and priorities.
English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC)	The English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC) website serves as the portal for resources that a local educational agency (LEA) will need to administer the ELPAC.
English Learner Toolkit of Strategies	This toolkit is designed to be used in both Integrated and Designated English Language Development. The strategies address reading, writing, speaking and listening to prepare ELs for literacy in the 21st century.
English LearnerNewcomer Toolkit	The Newcomer Tool Kit is designed to help U.S. educators; elementary and secondary teachers, principals, and other school staff who work directly with immigrant students—including asyleesand refugees—and their families.Thisresource has 5 chapters, and contains an overview, sample tools, and resources.
OCDE Project GLAD® National Training Center	The Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) is the official National Training Center (NTC) for the Project GLAD® (Guided Language Acquisition Design) model. The goal of the NTC is to support Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) in building sustainable implementation structures to meet the needs of English learners/emergent bilinguals through the development of trainers. OCDE Project GLAD® en español
Resourcesfor Emergent Bilinguals and Translanguaing	The CUNY-NYSIEB website provides resources to educators to better understand translanguaging as a strategy that teachers could use to help students draw on their linguistic resources in order to make meaning of content, engage in learning, and to develop language practices for academic use.