English Sites for Educators

Check here daily for Today in Literature - This site straddles the line between a "free and paid" subscription.  Nonpaying users receive a certain amount of credits for use in viewing full articles on the site.  The high-tech page offers an "original biographical story each calendar day about the great writers, books, and events in literary history."  Articles are footnoted with a wide variety of links to related articles and texts.  "Teaching literature demands that dry text be watered and brought to bloom; both students and book lovers will enjoy stopping to smell these flowers."(Keir Graff)

AOL@School for Language arts teachers

Beat the Cheating!  take the time to go through this webquest.  An excellent listing of links dealing with how to avoid the problem.

Big 6 Skills - Interactive site for teaching research skills BIG6

BookBrowse - Carefully selected titles from the current books out for sale.

Careers Lesson Plan - EconoEDLink - The Economics of Income If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?  Multi-part lesson about income level and what determines it, with lots of related activities

Children's Literature - Resources for Teachers - Part of the "Children's Literature Web Guide" which is developed to assist teachers in linking to a variety of other sites.

Copyright Guidelines - from St. Andrew's School in Texas.

CyberGuides - Each CyberGuide includes a student and teacher edition, teacher-selected Web sites, and a rubric. They're arranged by grade level.

EDSITEment - MarcoPolo - offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.  Links over 100 of the top humanities sites and contains online lesson plans.

Educational CyberPlayground for Literacy

Fiction DataBase -  Designed for the genre fiction reader, this site contains fiction bibliographies, reviews, links to author Web sites, a pseudonym directory, series listings, and more. All entries are grouped by genre. Currently, Western, Romance, and Mystery divisions are available, with Suspense and Speculative fiction divisions to come. The site also contains links to a variety of vendors for purchase of specific titles. - np  Subjects: Fiction genres | Readers' advisory services

Hatchet Resources:  Hatchet Teacher's Guide

Instant Poetry Forms -      Basic Poetry templates and much more.

International Bibliography of Literature written in English since 1970 that deals with cross-cultural experiences.  Indexed by country and subject.

Journals: 

• ALAN Review (NCTE sponsored journal)
• Book Links (ALA)
• Booklist (ALA)
• Book Wire (Bowker)
• Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
• English Journal (NCTE)
• Horn Book
• Journal of Adolescents & Adult Literacy (IRA)
• Kirkus Reviews (Bowker)
• Kliatt
• School Library Journal
• VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

Language Sites on the Internet - Richard Lederer, writer and lover of the English Language, created this annotated directory of language sites on the Internet. Word mavens may browse etymology, dictionary, and thesaurus links and then be amused by "Home for Abused Apostrophes" or challenged by the interactive "Grammar Bytes." The site includes links to anagrams, oxymorons, palindromes, puns, idioms, banished words and expressions, city-by-city slanguage, mondegreens, logophilia, heteronyms, chiasmus, and much more. Browse Other Language Reference Links, Language Columns/Online Magazines, and Word Watching & Vocabulary Development for hours

National Council of Teachers of English - Linked to the Secondary section of this web site offering.

Novel Guide - premier free source for literary analysis on the web. We provide an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary Literature Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies

103 Things to do Before, During, and After Reading -  from Reading Rockets

Online Poetry Classroom - OPC provides both professional development for high school Language Arts teachers and a virtual teaching community enabling teachers across the country to access free poetry resources online, including innovative, classroom-tested curricula

Read, Write, Think - International Reading Association's partnership with MarcoPolo.

Readers Theatre Digest - an online magazine in which experts in this unique theatre form share their experiences, opinions and ideas in essays and interviews.

Reading for Kids and Teens - Links to pursue.

Reading Online - An electronic journal published by the International Reading Association. This is in addition to their other printed journal offerings and is updated frequently.

SCBWI - New England's Society of Children's Book Writers
 
SCORE Language Arts - resources, plans, and book reviews posted by the CA Education link.

Shakespeare Magnet Poetry - a game using words from Shakespeare's writings.

Shakespeare Online  - Comprehensive information provided by Amanda Mabillard, B.A.  Shakespeare on the Net - a field guide tour

Smithsonian Institution's Teacher Resource Page - explore the fields of: Art & Design, History & Culture, Science & Technology, and Language Arts.

Spark Notes - On-line literature guides (compare to Cliff Notes) prepared by Harvard students, past and present. 

Spellbee.org - encourages students to compete against one another in the hope that their skills will improve out of an inherent desire to succeed.  You must log-on, but no personal information is collected.

TeachersFirst Reading List Links

Textmapping Project - Improving Reading Comprehension Skills Instruction.

Tracie's List of 10 - lesson ideas that appeared on the NCTE website.

Web English Teacher - A very comprehensive Hotlist for English teachers, with links to prose, drama, poetry sites, YA authors, journalism, etc....

Writing - Creative Writing Techniques - get your students inspired!

Writing Fix - For writers, teachers, and students - everything to do with Writing!  Massive site.

Written Voices - Bring authors and readers together.

Young Adult Literature links and articles.

YA Lit - 10 Core Sites to Explore:

• ALAN - Assembly on Literature for Adolescents
• No Flying, No Tights for Teens
• Reading Rants
• See YA Around!
• Teen Librarian
• Teen Reads
• Virtual YA
• VOYA
• YA Librarian's Homepage
• YALSA - Young Adult Library Services Assoc.

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