Teachers Pay Teachers

“Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans.” Teachers Pay Teachers, www.teacherspayteachers.com/.
    Teachers Pay Teachers is a website full of lesson plans and other tools for the classroom. There are resources for all subject areas, and for Language Arts there are lesson plans and other resources on numerous topics, some of which are close reading, grammar, vocabulary, writing, and many others. The lesson plans can be filtered by price, grade, or topic. There are other resource types including assessments, google apps, games, and unit plans. This would be a great resource for differentiated instruction or learning centers because it would give different options for students to choose from, on top of what teachers have already come up with. This resource is also a great way to get ideas for lessons from other teachers who have had success, and it reinforces the idea that teachers support and help each other be successful so students may be successful.

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