Sites with Lexile-Leveled/Adjustable Texts
Newsela
Click on Text Sets to find subject-specific nonfiction texts and increase or lower Lexile as necessary. |
Readworks.org
Click on Reading Passages: Leveled with Question Sets to search for articles by Lexile, grade level, topic, text type, or skill/strategy. |
CommonLit
Click on Library and Browse by Theme to find thematically linked fiction and nonfiction. Select grade levels and find Lexile levels for many of the works. |
Tween Tribune
Articles from Smithsonian for kids and teens. Offers paired texts and Lexile-specific articles. |
Standards-Aligned Curricular Unit Resources
Expeditionary Learning Units
Complete K-8 ELA standards-aligned curriculum. Lists of readings (text sets) are included in all units. |
Open Education Resources
Public digital library of open education resources including lessons and unit by grade level and standard. |
Unbound Ed
Complete standards-aligned ELA curriculum for grades k-12 with links and lists of readings. |
Louisiana Believes on LearnZillion
ELA Guidebooks: Standards-aligned units of instruction for grades 3-12. |
Literacy Design Collaborative
Standards-aligned tasks and modules, nationally peer reviewed, searchable by texts, skills, and modes. |
Books, Texts, and Media
Project Gutenberg
Online book catalog for books that are in the pubic domain. Print, audio and foreign language available for some books. |
Epic
Digital versions of books for kids under 12. GREAT for Book Baskets! |
Library of Congress
Primary source libraries, photos, data sets, and videos, grouped topically. |
DOCSTeach
National Archives primary documents grouped by topic, tools for analysis of text, leveled--social studies focus. |
Facing History and Ourselves
Collections, units, lessons, and resources on topics including racism, immigration, genocide, civic engagement, etc. |
Smithsonian Learning Lab
View collections, and make your own, of engaging images and videos from Smithsonian's collection. |
#ProjectPhonomena
A grade level appropriate phenomena that could be incorporated into science instruction, helps students engage in relevant, engaging, and meaningful phenomena as part of science process. |
Lit2Go
Free online collection of stories and poems on MP3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are provided for each text. |
ReadWriteThink
Student interactives and literacy resources for teachers and students. |
Text Set & Related Text Sites
Achieve the Core Text Sets
A collection of vetted, standards-aligned text sets sorted by grade level. |
Teachers College Reading & Writing Project
Some free resources for text set development. For FREE NONFICTION TEXT SETS, CLICK HERE. |
New York Times Room for Debate
Authors write about various topics, and four to six authors respond to the same issue from various perspectives. Appropriate for older students. |
Text Set Creation Resources
Scaffolding for Complex Texts