Literacy Design Collaborative offers a framework for building the college-and-career-ready literacy skills specified by the Common Core State Standards, illustrated well by the students and teachers in this Literacy Matters video. Within LDC, students develop their reading and writing skill as they take on teaching tasks that set demanding assignments in science, history, English, or another subject. Teachers build out the approach by filling in LDC template tasks with content appropriate to their own classrooms and then designing LDC that show the skills and instruction students need to succeed.
Digital Vault: The National Archives This site contains over 1,200 documents, photographs, etc. from the National Archives. If you click on the "create" tab at the bottom, you will see examples of how your students could make posters, movies, or pathways (connections) using these primary source documents. This has potential to be a great assessment tool for content literacy integrated projects.
Article of the Week Archive This site contains several years' worth of articles for annotation and discussion. Mr. Gallagher selects articles about relevant current events to help build his students' background knowledge. The site is updated weekly.
National Archives and Records Administration This page is dedicated to "Featured Documents," which are primary source documents from American history. This site is easier to navigate than the Digital Vault, but there is much less content here.
PBS Video This page includes links to access full episodes of shows for free. Includes Nova and The American Experience.
New York Times Archives This link goes to a page with free sample articles from the NYT Archives in PDF format.
Primary Source Analysis Questions to help students analyze primary source documents.
Digital Vault: The National Archives This site contains over 1,200 documents, photographs, etc. from the National Archives. If you click on the "create" tab at the bottom, you will see examples of how your students could make posters, movies, or pathways (connections) using these primary source documents. This has potential to be a great assessment tool for content literacy integrated projects.
Article of the Week Archive This site contains several years' worth of articles for annotation and discussion. Mr. Gallagher selects articles about relevant current events to help build his students' background knowledge. The site is updated weekly.
National Archives and Records Administration This page is dedicated to "Featured Documents," which are primary source documents from American history. This site is easier to navigate than the Digital Vault, but there is much less content here.
PBS Video This page includes links to access full episodes of shows for free. Includes Nova and The American Experience.
New York Times Archives This link goes to a page with free sample articles from the NYT Archives in PDF format.
Primary Source Analysis Questions to help students analyze primary source documents.