Teacher Resources
Read Works: ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly.
Education Northwest: The creators of the 6+1 traits of writing offer a terrific overview of the model on their site, with research to support the program, lesson plans, writing prompts, and rubrics. You can also find writing samples to practice scoring and see how other teachers scored the same piece.
Core Standards: This site not only offers an overview of the new Common Core State Standards, but provides a thoughtful framework for how the standards were determined and what we can reasonably expect students at given grade levels to achieve.
Teachers Network: Teachers Network provides lesson plans, classroom specials, teacher designed activities for different subjects and many other resources.
Education World: This site provides teaching tips, lesson plans, activities, academic articles, web resources and many more.
EdHelper: EdHelper provides teachers with free printables, graphic organizers, worksheets, lesson plans, games and many other activities.
Teachers Pay Teachers: This site includes 1000000+ free and priced teaching resources created by teachers for instant download including lesson plans, unit plans, templates and more.