NCTE
Resources from the National Council of Teachers of English.

K-12 Literature Based Teaching Ideas
Do you need creative ideas for teaching a novel? You'll surely find some here!

Language Arts Learning Materials from Britannica
Interactive lessons, animations, study guides and activities.

Online Poetry Classroom
Combines poetry and technology and offers free curriculum units for teachers.

Scribbling Women
Online resources for teaching American women's literature using dramatizations produced by the Public Media Foundation.

Template for Poetry Analysis
Mr. Henshaw's three-step process in Microsoft Word™ format which you may adapt.

Poetry Archive
The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. Includes some video interviews with poets. For lesson plans and activities, click here.

Award-Winning Children's Literature
Use this database to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards. (Compiled by California State University Librarian Lisa Bartle).

ReadWriteThink
This site is full of fun and creative ideas for teachers. Check out the STUDENT MATERIALS INDEX for fun interactive learning tools like the Bio-Cube, Character Trading Cards, Comparison & Contrast Guide, Eye on Idioms, Fractured Fairy Tales, Drama Map, Literary Elements Map, Venn Diagrams, and more. For each interactive tool there are links to the lesson plans that use it.

Visual Thesaurus
Try this amazing interactive dictionary and thesaurus that creates word maps exploring the meaning and relationship of words.
To use Visual Thesaurus at home, CLICK HERE, but first see the Library PASSWORDS email on the FirstClass INFO FOR STUDENTS & PARENTS folder for user name and password. If you need help accessing this resource at home, watch this online tutorial.

Reading Rockets
Teach writing to teach reading!

Project Gutenberg
"A library of 17,000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the U.S."

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updated 07/23/2008