I need more TEXT to use with my students!

If I had a dime for every time I heard a teacher say, "I need more text to use with my students", I would be a rich person!  In our county, as with many across the country, we do not use textbooks for any of our core subjects.  This leaves our teachers searching for sources of good text for ELA, science, and social studies instruction.  So, I started digging to find some good sources. You may or may not be familiar with them.  I'm going to give a brief synopsis of each so you can decide if one of them would be helpful to you.

These sites provided "leveled" or "lexiled" text for free:

• Lit2Go is a resource library from Florida (same site as the math etc clipart site that I LOVE).  This site is organized in several ways; by readability, author, book, genre, and collection.  Text includes fantasy, poetry, folktales, science fiction, essays, historical fiction, and so much more!  All text includes AUDIO as well as pdf form.  If you have not visited and used this site, please do!!
• NEWSELA and E.NEWSELA (the elementary version) is a site filled with free news articles for kids (through high school).  Each article has an approximate lexile level.  These articles are about a page in length.  Check out NewsELA.com for upper elementary - high school.  Go to E.newsELA.com for elementary only articles.  Topics include:  science, kids, money, law, health, arts, and sports.  
• ReadWorks.org is a FABULOUS site full of both literary and informational text.  You can search by grade level (K-12), lexile, skill, strategy and domain.  Topics include history, science, arts, sports, civics, government, and much, much more!    All activities are also connected to CCSS. 
• Textproject.org provides teachers with high-quality student texts and teacher resources for free. Click on classroom resources at the top and select student text.  These text are not lexiled leveled but have a leveling system of text from 1 to 5.  
• Tweentribute is a Smithsonian site that includes articles for kids which are categorized by topics as well as reading level (lexile).  These articles are high quality and interesting for students.  

Be sure to check out Sources of Text tab above for my symbalooedu links to WONDERFUL and FREE text to use with students.