K-12 Open Education Resources (OERs): English Language Arts

Browse this OER for lesson plans, resources, and activities relating to ELA.

This OER contains lessons specifically designed to highlight the ELA/literacy shifts and expectations of college- and career-ready standards.

This OER contains lesson plans, resources, and activities for teaching a variety of topics relating to English Language Arts.

This OER contains lessons and activities related to English Language Arts topics for grades K-5.

cK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving student learning by increasing access to FREE, high-quality educational materials through the Flex Book® 2.0 platform and concept-based modalities. This OER resource contains resources for teaching topics relating to Writing and Spelling.

Core Knowledge Language Arts is a comprehensive language arts curriculum program for students in preschool through grade 6. All curriculum materials for preschool through grade 3 are free to download, except for certain trade book titles. For grades 4 and 5, several CKLA units are available for free download, while others are not due to copyright restrictions.

This OER contains lesson plans for a variety of topics related to English Language Arts.

This OER contains lesson plans for teaching a variety of topics related to Language Arts.

This OER contains resources related to English Language Arts.

This OER contains resources for fostering Literacy in the classroom.

The EL Education K-8 Language Arts curriculum is a comprehensive, standards-based literacy program that engages teachers and students through compelling, real-world content.

This OER contains resources and activities for teaching various topics relating to Language Arts.

This OER contains teaching units, resources, and activities for teaching English Language Arts.

The activities are designed for students in grades K-5 to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught, sometimes with teacher assistance and sometimes independently. Students can complete the activities in small groups, pairs, or individually. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials.

Contains activities and intervention materials for the following early literacy skills: print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and writing.

This OER contains lesson plans, resources, and activities for teaching English Language Arts in the secondary classroom.

This OER contains lesson plans, resources, and activities for teaching English Language Arts in grades 2-9.

Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year. The poems were selected with high school students in mind. They are intended to be listened to, and it's suggested that all members of the school community be included as readers.

The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress invites people of all ages to discover the fascinating people, places and events that await you whenever you read.

The Mini Page is a four-page weekly newspaper feature directed to kids but of interest to readers of all ages. The feature has won many awards for excellence in educational journalism and has appeared in as many as 500 newspapers. This digital archive provides online access to issues about Phonics.

This OER contains the following for grades K-8:
-Student Materials: digital & print options
-Teacher Materials: digital & print options, including
module and unit plans, lesson plans,
assessments, and embedded professional
learning
-Book list of authentic texts at the heart of the
curriculum
-Curriculum map
-Integrated, lesson-specific supports for ELLs
-Lesson-level supports for students with special
needs
-Family Resources

Browse standards-aligned ELA resources for students in all grades.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

Provides educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

This OER holds a collection of resources for teaching various topics related to English Language Arts.

Online instructional modules for ELA in grades 6-12.

This OER contains lesson plans and resources for a variety of topics within Language Arts.

This OER provides teachers with lesson plans, resources, and activities for teaching a variety of topics within English Language Arts. Sponsored by the Texas Learning Exchange.

The Utah Core Standards support student access to increased non-fiction/informational text to ensure that all students are prepared to meet the reading and cognitive demands of college and careers. These Open Texts provide access to grade-leveled and grade-appropriate readings and learning tasks to support the Core by providing a wide range of informational and literary non-fiction texts. These texts have been assessed by teacher teams for text complexity by using both quantitative lexile level and qualitative criteria.

Search our free professional learning resources for content guides and text sets that focus on the application of ELA content related to the standards in the classroom for K-12. Download and share. Visit our YouTube channel for videos.