District Wide Information

ReadWorks.org - http://www.readworks.org/
The mission of ReadWorks.org is to improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement by providing K‐6 educators with a proven online reading comprehension curriculum and methodology.  Like Reading Rockets.org and Adlit.org, this site has many standards based lessons for comprehension including novel units for grades 5 and 6.  There are short video tutorials about this site at the following link http://www.readworks.org/full-site-tour#part5.  Here the videos highlight the following Part 1: Finding the Lessons (3 min.); Part 2: The K-4 Units (4 min.); Part 3: The Non-Fiction Reading Passages (3 min.); Part 4: The Elements of a Lesson and Standards Alignment (6 min.); Part 5: The 5th-6th Novel Units (4 min.); Part 6: Sharing Lessons and Searching by Standards (6 min.)

HippoCampus.org - http://www.hippocampus.org/
HippoCampus offers free multimedia study materials and educational information to high school students. Subjects include algebra, statistics, calculus, biology, physics, chemistry, Earth science, economics, history and government, psychology, and religion. Users can “mix” their own multimedia playlists, find existing playlists, and share their playlists with peers. Teachers can create playlists for easy student access. This is another great teaching resource using NROC (National Repository of Online Course), Khan Academy, PhET Interactive Simulations, and NOAA Collections (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). 
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) and was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. (HippoCampus requires Adobe Flash.)