English / Language Arts

Calisphere - A World of Primary Sources and More  - More than 150,000 digitized items  including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and more. Sets supporting the California Content Standards in History-Social Sciences, English-Language Arts, and Visual Arts for use in K-12 classrooms. Information / links about teaching and learning with primary sources,  sample lesson plans, primary source analysis sheets, and more.

Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication - Literacy education and literature resources including lesson plans for early childhood to adolescence.

Columbia Education Center's Language Arts Minilessons - From their summer workshops, lists of specific lesson plans for the following grades:
K-5
Intermediate, 6-8
High School, 9-12

Curriculum Areas from Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - Links to integrate language arts with subject areas like U.S. history, listing topics to link to such as flight and planes, World War II, and quilts. Some lesson plans included.

Doucette Index - "K-12 literature-based teaching ideas, an index to books and websites."

The English Room - Under development by Marsha Brown, an English teacher, includes poetry lessons, grading rubrics, and Internet treasure hunts for students.

The OWL at Purdue  -  find help with grammar, style, formattting and help with writing tasks. Included are APA and MLA formatting and style guides, links to the writing lab resources, tutorials, and a wealth of materials related to the writing process across disciplines and purposes. The Online Writing Lab (OWL) website is divided into four major sections: handouts and materials, Internet resources, workshops and presentations, and Writing Lab and OWL information.    

read-write-think -a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation. Provides educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Aaron Shepard’s RT Page - created and hosted by children's book author Aaron Shepard. Find a wealth resources for reader’s theater (or readers theatre) including background information,free scripts from Reader’s Theater Editions, worksheets for scripting, tips and much more.

SCORE CyberGuides - From the Schools of California Online Resources for Education. "Supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature."

International Reading Association (IRA) - Includes news, meetings and events, selections from print journals such as The Reading Teacher, Reading Online, an electronic journal of research and practice for K-12 teachers, and Children's, Teachers' and Young Adults' Choices.

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) - Spotlight on related news, conventions, position statements, resources for new teachers, listservs, and teaching ideas can be found at this site. Journals show table of contents for current issue and selections from previous issues.

 

Absolute Shakespeare - Contains full text of plays, sonnets, and poems as well as studyguides, biographical information, trivia, history of the Globe Theater, timeline, and debate about Shakespeare's authorship. Gr. 8 and up.

Giggle Poetry - Poems, activities, and contests available for elementary students plus some tips for teachers at this site.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - An annotated guide to scholarly resources. Includes a Shakespeare timeline, genealogical chart, timeline summary chart, and bibliograpy.

Poets.org - From the Academy of American Poets, this site features biographies, clips of poets reading their poems, information about National Poetry Month (April), a poetry map listing poets, organizations, bookstores and events by state, and lesson plan ideas for teachers. Grades 8-12.

 

Poetry 180   - Poetry 180 presents more than 180 poems suitable for reading and sharing, in printer friendly style, with advice about how to read a poem aloud and suggestions about good times and places for sharing peotry on a daily basis.

RPO: Representative Poetry Online - Poets and poetry searchable by name, first line, and a keyword. Grades 9-12.

Shakespeare for Kids - From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this site provides word games, facts, coloring pages, and more to engage students Grades 5 and up.

Shakespeare for Students - Contains six open-ended activities to be completed using the Encyclopedia Brittanica online; each activity includes a teacher guide with teaching ideas and additional resources. Gr. 8 and up.

Writing with Writers: Poetry - Workshops with writers Jack Prelutsky (for grades 1-4), Karla Kuskin (for grades 4-8) and Jean Marzollo (for grades 2-5) offer tips and techniques to help students write their own poetry.

 

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Searchable by keyword and indexes.

Dictionaries - A variety of dictionaries available including languages, vocabulary, and slang.

Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus - In addition to the dictionary and thesaurus, vocabulary games and crosswords.