If you are like me, sometimes our curriculum just doesn't address all the needs of our students. It's wonderful to have a few sites that always offer fresh and exciting approaches to reading and writing.
This one features printable stories for reading comprehension:
This site features current new stories broken into do-able lessons for ESL students--or any student! This week, I'm pulling an article from the site about divorce. I'll also use these quotes on the board for reflection:
Suicide Awareness for First Responders helps you to better understand suicidal people, how to help them, what to do at a scene of suicide threats or completion. Suicide threats and completion among first responders is also covered.
At last, a version of Simple Steps to Sentence Sense for younger students and those whose native language is not English. Students can learn to analyze sentences in 5 easy steps.
Do you teach more than one grade level?
If so, you may be ready for some NEW Reproducible Exercises, Tests, and Writing Connection Pages to use with Simple Steps to Sentence Sense for High School by Charlene Tess