Highschool
Hub This is a great source for kids and teachers.
Instructional Sites
Academy Curriculum Exchange Lesson plans for middle school.
Academy Curriculum Exchange Lesson plans for high school.
Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin Search for lesson plans/activities by grade level from K-8.
Ala Resources Great place to make reading selections. Designed for parents and teens, this site points out sections specifically for teachers. Use as a source for yourself or refer parents and students who are looking for recommended reading lists.
Alex: Electronic Texts A collection of documents in American literature and English literature.
American Literature, 20th Century Authors are listed along with lots of links and some on-line texts.
Awesome Library Language arts lesson plans.
Blue Web'n Lesson plans for grammar and poetry.
Biography Maker Step by step guided for writing a biography. A great site for middle school students.
Cartoonist's Index A huge collection of newspaper editorial cartoons on the web. Great for art, english, journalism and social science.
Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources
Children's Literature Resources for Teachers
Cinderella Stories Aimed toward a younger age group or an English learner, this site has lesson plans with different versions of Cinderella from around the world. Did you know that this famous fairy tale originated in Japan?
CEC Lesson Plans Lesson plans provided by the Columbia Education Center Portland (Oregon) for teachers.
Cobuild: Help learners with REAL English. (Idioms, dictionaries, wordbanks, definitions, etc.)
Common Errors in English This site can help you fix your common, sometimes repeated errors.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Creation Stories and Traditional Wisdom Creation stories can be used in language arts as well as social studies.
The Crucible A comprehensive site for studying Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible. Activities, assignments, projects and a power point presentation are provided. This site is for high school students.
Curriculum Studio Lesson plans and resources provided for language arts. Sponsored by the Kennedy Center's ARTSEDGE Web site.
Cyberguides: Teacher guides and Student activities
Cyber-Seuss Yes, this is Dr. Seuss!
Daily Learning Activities Add to your curriculum with lesson plans.
Discovery Channel Great literature lesson plans for its 'Great Books' series. Related activities, study questions and vocabulary are included. Check out the related links too.
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable This is a classic reference book.
Deep 96 The Distance Education Environment Page (DEEP) 96 offers cooperative learning activities for many curricular areas. Language arts lesson plans include topics for reading, novels, writing and listening and speaking.
Digital Dante "an online, multimedia Dante-related academic resource combining traditional elements of scholarly research with new communication and presentation possibilities enabled by networked digital technology" .
Edgar Allen Poe: An Author Unit Lesson plans created for high school students. Includes activities, extended reading and Internet search suggestions.
Editorial Cartoons by Kids Teach kids how to create an editorial cartoon. Lots of tips.
EDSITEment Learn how to use the Internet effectively as a tool for art history, economics, foreign languages, history, , language arts, and social studies.
Edventures Lots of lesson plans for K-12.
Education World Language Arts Lesson Plans for K-12. Over 150 language arts lesson plans. Topics include composition, journalism, literature, reading, vocabulary, whole language and writing.
ENCARTA Lessons Go to the language arts section for lesson plans.
Folk and Fairy Tales from around the World
Free Exemplary Lesson Plans from the ERIC Clearinghouse, K-12.
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales
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Homework Hotspot A great learning spot for kids.
How Language Really Works: The fundamentals of critical reading and effective writing.
Interactive Learning Resources Weekly online lessons for edited CNN news stories. Activities included. 6-12.
International Reading Association
Just for Kids who love Books Just for the kid who loves to read. Includes reviews and bestseller lists.
Kidreach Lesson plans for teaching literature. 7-12.
Legends Legends with guides to primary source materials. Commentaries, history and reviews available. 6-12.
The Library in the Sky "Containing over 10,000 links to some of the best educational resources on the Internet..."
Literature and Stuff Online book lists includes reference and lots of mythology.
Literary Resources on the Net 9-12
Literature: What makes a good short story
Malaspina: Great Books Interdisciplinary Matrix A huge list of titles by subject area and literary period
Mark Twain Take a look at this man's life.
Masterworks of British Literature
Midlink Magazine Middle school students write stories for this magazine for kids their age.
Midsummer Night's Dream Lesson Plan Intended for high school.
The Moonlit Road Ghost stories and folktales of the American South.
MLA Style This web site lists MLA's authorized guidelines for citing sources
Multicultural Children's Literature
Mysteries Five approaches for teaching the mystery genre.
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature
Newswise
A free educational resource, designed to improve literacy, encourage discussion and
promote citizenship using topical stories selected or adapted from the national press.
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Omaha Public School Language Arts
Lesson Plans Internet based language arts lesson plans. 7-12
PBS Teacher Source features an inventory of over 1,000 free lesson plans, teacher guides, and online activities that complement PBS television programs
Penquuin Putman Inc.: Online: Academic Area provides invaluable teachers' guides for a variety of Signet classics
Plays of William Shakespeare A guide to the Shakespeare plays commonly encountered in the high school curriculum
Premier Tracks K-12 Web-based lessons created by SCR*TEC's TrackStar.
Project Center: Reading Activity Updated weekly, features a variety of online reading projects. K-12
Random House Resource Area for Secondary Teachers
Recat Reading A successful technology-based remedial reading program.
Resource Village Internet based lesson plans for K-8
Rhode Island Teachers and Technology Initiative: Curriculum Database A K-12 searchable database.
The Robin Hood Project Bibliographies, images and texts about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales.
Sample Book Ideas for Literature Teaching suggestions to accompany a list of contemporary novels. The novels include Peg Kehret's Danger at the Fair, Avi's Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?, and Lois Duncan's Who Killed My Daughter? 7-12.
Schoolhouse: English and Language Arts A collection of English/language arts lesson plans for reading and writing. K-12.
School Zone: English lesson plans K-12
S.C.O.R.E. Cyberguides A California state based project providing lesson plans, student materials and teacher materials.
S.C.O.R.E. Promising Practices A collection of sites with language arts lesson and unit plans.
Smithsonian Education Cross-curricular lesson plans designed for upper elementary school and middle school students covering presidential elections, ocean ecology, landscape painting, creating a classroom museum, archaeology, and other topics.
Snow White Lesson ideas, assignments and background material for teaching this well-known fairy tale. 6-8.
Teachers First - Lesson plans K-12.
Teacher's Guide Online lesson plans that use an extensive collection of current editorial cartoons from newspapers around the country. 7-12.
Teachers Net Lesson Bank A collection of over 400 lesson plans and activities contributed by teachers for use with students in preschool through high school.
Teachnet Provides daily curriculum projects. 7-12
Teacher Talk Electronic lesson plans for language arts. 7-12.
Teaching and Learning with Interactive Fiction
Teaching Treasure Island A course of study for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island for middle grade students.
Think Online newspapers and magazines in Canada and the US as well as newspapers in English from around the world. Related sites too. Great for journalism.
UNHCR The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) contains a collection of UNICEF lesson plans for teaching about the themes of refuge and exile in the secondary schools.
Vintage Books: Reading Group Center Reading guides are offered for individual and group reading for the high school level.
Webtime Stories Lots of stories including links to fables, fairy tales, myths, young adult books and books just for fun.
