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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...

Toontastic: Digital Storytelling

Toontastic is a free tool to utilize for digital storytelling. Students love Toontastic! Check out the above video resource from Peter Pappas, which...

TeachingBooks: A Video Introduction

TeachingBooks is a database of resources for children's and young adult books and their authors and illustrators, including short movies, audiobook...

TeachingBooks: Sharing Resources

TeachingBooks is a database of resources for children's and young adult books and their authors and illustrators, including short movies, audiobook...

TeachingBooks: Educator Accounts

TeachingBooks is a database of resources for children's and young adult books and their authors and illustrators, including short movies, audiobook...

TeachingBooks: Custom Reading Lists

TeachingBooks is a database of resources for children's and young adult books and their authors and illustrators, including short movies, audiobook...

TeachingBooks: Thoughtfully Read Fiction and Nonfiction Books

This collection of resources from TeachingBooks.net includes vocabulary and discussion activities that you can use in your classroom for various...

StoryWeaver: A New World of Children's Stories

Are you looking for a reading platform that is interactive and has a wide variety of texts? If so, discover the magic of StoryWeaver! StoryWeaver is...

Reading Progress in Teams by Microsoft

Helping struggling readers is paramount to student success. In this resource from Holly Clark of Infused Classroom, learn more about Microsoft's free...

Visuwords

Visuwords is a visual dictionary and thesaurus that allows users to see a concept map of connecting words and definitions. Use this tool to find...

Wordtune

Wordtune is a free, AI-powered writing companion that suggests ways to make your writing clear, concise, and compelling. Add the extension to...

How and What to Teach to Build a Reading Brain in an Equitable Way

This session, led by Adrienne Mormino, serves as an introduction to The Science of Reading in 4 parts: How the brain learns to read (theoretical...

BoomWriter

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

Scholastic's Jobs of the Future

Introduce your middle school students to apprenticeships and careers with these engaging resources from Scholastic. With these lessons and...

Sketchnoting: A Mini-Workshop

Sketchnoting is a notetaking strategy in which imagery and pictures are drawn to remember key concepts. Fewer words, more doodles. You don't have to...

NY Times Picture Prompts

The illustrations and images from NY Times allow students to interpret art with the help of guiding questions. Scroll to find an image, open it, and...

Six Word Memoirs

Increase writing confidence, amplify social emotional learning, and help all your students find their writing voice with Six Word Memoirs. Utilize...

Growth Mindset Lesson and Other Teacher Resources

Author and educator Shannon Anderson has compiled various social-emotional learning items for teachers. Dive into this site for resources covering...

Syllables: An IREAD-3 Strategy

Understanding syllables is foundational in any reading program. Please view this video by the Institute of Education Sciences, which depicts a...

IREAD-3 Test Blueprint

Blueprints serve as a foundational resource in the assessment development process. They identify the point values and relative weight of each of the...