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English/Language Arts Grades K-12 Vertical Articulation Guide

The K-12 ELA Vertical Articulation Guide outlines the progression of English/language arts standards across all grade levels in one resource.

CommonLit Tutorial

Look no further if you're looking for quality, rigorous, and standards-based texts for literacy instruction! CommonLit provides...

CommonLit: An Online Library of Free Texts

CommonLit provides instructional materials to support literacy development aimed at students in grades 5-12. Included in their library are short...

10 Resources for Writing School AI Policies

In this resource from Ditch that Textbook, discover 10 resources for writing AI policies for your school district.Resources include...ChatGPT,...

The Knowledge Gap: What It Is and How to Narrow It

This presentation, facilitated by Natalie Wexler, author of The Knowledge Gap, will explain why it’s important to start building knowledge early...

Creating Collections in Epic!

You can create collections of books and videos from your teacher profile in Epic! A collection is like a reading list or group of books and/or videos...

Myths and Mysteries of Memorization

Join IDOE's Tara Bohn and Andrea Washington as they explore myths around sight words and word walls and how to shift those ideas based on research....

8 Steps to Great Digital Storytelling

While students need to become creators of content rather than just consumers, the steps to create a quality product are not always...

Google Docs: Table of Contents

Google Docs is a word processing tool that, while very similar in layout to Microsoft Word, has additional features that make sharing and...

Rewordify

Rewordify is a free tool that simplifies difficult text—sentences, whole chapters, or even website URLs—to facilitate a scaffolded reading...

What Kids Are Reading

Books vary in popularity from year to year, from state to state, and from one grade level to the next. Renaissance has identified these...

BoomWriter

BoomWriter is a collaborative platform that will get your students excited about writing! With BoomWriter, students can co-author books by writing...

Business and Entrepreneurship Lessons

Looking to inspire future entrepreneurs and CEOs? These standards-connected lessons and activities from Scholastic and Shark Tank will inspire your...

PBS Learning Media Resources

PBS Learning Media has curated free, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for Indiana teachers and students. Search by...

Computational Thinking Across the Content Areas

What is computational thinking? Computation happens everywhere! Spend 30 minutes with Mike Gorman as he defines and addresses the need for...

Discovery Education: Daily Learning Activities

Finding high-quality, ready-to-use activities from trusted sources is a significant win in the teaching world. With Daily Activities...

Pre-teaching Vocabulary: Inductive Vocab Teaching

Pre-teaching vocabulary is an essential part of the learning cycle. Oftentimes, we as educators believe this scaffold is important only for English...

Creating Student Profiles in Epic!

This short tutorial from Ms. Mundo will help guide you through creating student profiles in Epic! Epic! is a free digital library for students and...

English Language Arts Structural Elements and Organization: Third Grade

This resource from the Indiana Department of Education and the Partnership for Inquiry Learning, Matt Glover, breaks down the structural elements and...

English Language Arts Structural Elements and Organization: Second Grade

This resource from the Indiana Department of Education and the Partnership for Inquiry Learning, Matt Glover, breaks down the structural elements and...