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PBS LearningMedia provides trusted, free, high-quality resources organized into subject-specific collection pages that can be filtered by grade and subtopic within English Language Arts (ELA). ELA resources include short videos, lessons and interactive games. PBS LearningMedia‘s online library of resources is here to help your students keep learning!
We’ve listed all of the ELA collections in PBS LearningMedia for easy use. Find a featured collection and suggested learning activity to get you started. Note that all resources can be shared to Google Classroom, emailed or posted to a website.
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Featured Resource
Spring Semester English Language Arts
These collections of resources curated by LA Unified School District can support distance learning during school closures.
Grades 3-5: English/Language Arts
Grades 6-12: English/Language Arts
PBS LearningMedia English Language Arts Collections (full list)
→ Within these collections, you can filter by grade and resource type.
English Language Arts Collections by Topics
- Literature: Explores the main themes of written language.
- Featured collections: The Great American Read (grades 3-12) and American Masters (grades 5-12)
- Featured video and materials from American Masters: Invisible Man: The Hero’s Journey (grades 9-12)
- Informational Texts: Explores the strategies and techniques used to read, write, and teach how text can be used to transfer knowledge to the reader.
- Featured collection: KQED’s Above the Noise (grades 6-12)
- Featured stand-alone interactive lesson: Latinx Americans Share Their Experience (grades 6-9)
- Reading Foundational Skills: Provides resources for emerging readers and teachers of emerging readers.
- Featured collection: Inspiring Middle School Literacy (grades 5-8)
- Featured lesson from the collection: Fact and Opinion-Parents, Teens and Texting (grades 5-8)
- ELA Writing: Explores all types of writing, including argumentative, personal, and explanatory narrative and writing.
- Featured video series with support material: How to Write an Argumentative Essay (grades 6-12)
- Featured stand-alone video with support materials: Meet Comic Book Artist Phil Jimenez (grades 5-8)
- Language: Examines the standard rules of English grammar and the conventions of the English language.
- Featured Collection: No Nonsense Grammar (grades 1-12)
- Featured lesson from the collection: Using Varied Sentence Types (grades 3-8)
For additional resources, PreK-12 Resources for Emergency Closing Collection is a more extensive list of PBS LearningMedia collection organized by grade and subject area.
Find more resources here: How Teachers Can Navigate School Closures Due to the Coronavirus, including KQED Learn training webinars, curriculum aligned-TV schedule and more.