LibGuides: ELA Resources: Open Curriculum Resources

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available, openly licensed materials that are useful for teaching, learning, assessment, and research purposes. Open access scholarly literature is freely available online but, like all intellectual property, it still carries restrictive copyright and licensing barriers, albeit less restrictive than for profit or traditionally published works. For more information about open access materials, check out the links below!

This is an evolving resource, and we welcome your contributions and input!

An Introduction to Open Access
A quick overview of open access materials adapted from the work of Peter Suber, a leader of the open access model.
Introduction to Open Access
An ebook published by the UN that reviews open access.
A Beginner’s Guide to Open Access
A final quick guide to open access, published by Wonkhe.

ELA Curriculum

Achievement First: Open Source Curriculum (K-12)
Achievement First created a web portal to share the resources found in their schools in hopes that the resources will help everyone go farther, faster toward the goal of an excellent school for every child.
ELA Guidebooks (K-8)
The Louisiana Department of Education created these ELA Guidebooks as an English language arts curriculum for whole-class instruction. The resources are made by teachers for teachers, and the guidebook units ensure all students can read, understand, and express their understanding of complex, grade-level texts.
EL Education: Language Arts Curriculum (K-8)
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. Created by teachers for teachers, our highly-acclaimed curriculum draws on EL Education's 25 years of experience in engaging teachers and students in active and meaningful learning. Note: You will need to make a free account to access the resources.
Open Up: ELA Curriculum (K-12)
Open Up Resources began as the K–12 OER Collaborative, a 13-state initiative to address quality gaps in the curriculum market. Explore three separate collections: Bookworms K-5 Reading & Writing, EL Education K-8 Language Arts, and Odell Education High School Literacy Program.
UnboundEd: ELA Curriculum (P-12)
These curriculum resources were created and shared by EngageNY. UnboundEd now hosts these resources offering a more user friendly interface and search. They offer a collection of P-12 ELA Curriculum.

General Curriculum Resources

Teaching and Learning Resources (K-12)
ISKME's digital librarians have curated collections of kindergarten through high school resources and full courses to help leverage OER for your students. Whether you are looking for resources your students can complete at home, or dynamic content to inspire your own teaching and learning practice, this hub, organized by education level, subject, and content provider will help you discover the resources you need. This resource contains lessons, activities, assignments, and assessments.

Other Subject Areas

Want curricular resources for other subject areas? Visit the full Open Curriculum Resources guide!