ReadWriteThink

ReadWriteThink is a free website for teachers with a resource library of lessons, interactive activities, and printables for literacy instruction. It was created by by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and is assigned with NCTE standards, International Reading Association (IRA) standards and Common Core, where applicable. The site serves language arts teachers from K through 12th grade.

There's a rotating assortment of featured resources on the homepage, but most users will rely on the browse experience with a set of filters on the left hand side of the site. Here users can search for materials by grade level, learning objective, topic and more. The site also features a menu with three core sections Classroom Resources and Professional Development. The Classroom Resources section contains hundreds of unit plans, lesson plans, and activities, divided by topic, learning objective, and/or grade level. Note that in terms of activities there are printables as well as student interactives. There's also a literacy calendar makes it easy to find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and different holidays (with resources attached to them). The Professional Development section has strategy guides that break down teaching strategies and their research backing as well a meetings/events calendar and a library of research-based resources. A Collections section offers resources grouped into a few core concerns: Primary Sources, Booklists, Authors, Assessment, Writing, Poetry, and Media Literacy. 

ReadWriteThink is a gift for language arts teachers. There's a wealth of high-quality and accessible content here, spread out across grade levels and for the both students and teachers alike. Lesson plans and activities are well-designed and encourage depth of learning; however, many materials are PDFs which makes remixing a bit more difficult. Resources are considered classroom-tested and evidence-based, and feature author bios with credentials to verify that fact. To this end, ReadWriteThink aims to have all curriculum be reviewed by "at least two literacy educators" who are vetted as literacy experts, including NCTE members and professional educators. The site is free to use, but there are books and live events for sale -- discounted for NCTE members.

While there are comments on resources, that feature doesn't seem fully utilized. It'd be great to see ReadWriteThink get teachers more involved in the site and to support great dialogue and collaborate between teachers. The interactive resources, while still useful, are in need of updating and modernization.