English Language Arts

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

Biography.com: A searchable biographical database of over 25,000 people, past and present. Suitable for grades 6-12.

Boston Public Library Overdrive: The Boston Public Library allows you to download and “borrow” books in digital audio format. Most books are only downloadable in Windows Media Player format. You can sign up for a free BPL eCard or you can use your existing library card.

Building Language for Literacy Scholastic Website.

Children's Literature Resources: Resources for teachers who are teaching Literature. Websites and lesson plans are available at this site.

Digital Books Online: Books are broken down by level, very early readers, early readers, intermediate and advanced readers.

Education World: Writing topics and more.

Educators Reference Desk: Formally, Ask Eric

EduHound: EduHound Directory is a highly specialized K-12 educational directory with categorized resource links.

EduHound Lesson Plans: feature thousands of free lessons that meet state and national standards.

EduHound Site Sets: are collections of topic-based online education resources.

EducatorTemplates: A free directory of customizable & printable education related templates.

Edutopia: A great resource for teachers and students.

Giggle Poetry: Fun poetry - student work and educator resources.

GoogleLitTrips: All levels. Excellent!

Helping Teachers Use the Internet Effectively (Language Arts): An extensive array of resources for English Language Arts teachers grades K-12. The site contains stories, poems, games, and interactive activities.

Internet Audio Archive, The: This library contains over a hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.

Lesson Corner: An online collection of free K-12 lesson plans.

LessonPlanZ.com: Free lesson plans and themes.

LibriVox: Librivox offers free audio books from the public domain.

Lit2go (Literature 2 Go): Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can:Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, view the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

MassONE: The Massachusetts Online Network For Educators - You can use this free tool to create online classrooms and online work groups. User can post documents, have a virtual hard drive to store documents, create discussion forums and surveys. There is also a resources section with a lesson planner tool and links to lesson plan databases searchable by grade level or content area. When you sign into MyBPS, there is a link that will take you to MassOne located on the upper left corner of the screen.

MES English Printables (Free): 1500+ flashcards, phonics cards, theme LESSON PLANS, multilingual handouts for foreign language teachers, worksheets, COLORING sheets, word searches, projects, ESL games, teaching advice, and activities.

Myths, Folktales & Fairy Tales: A Scholastic site. Writing with Jane Yolen, exploring, myths and folklore from around the world, and writing fairy tales with John Sciezka are highlighted at this site.

New York Public Library: Great source for information about children's literature! Free access to The Horn Book, famous journal of children's literature.

Online Children's Stories: There are a lot of stories available on the Internet to read or download. Some of them are from well-known books, others can be found only online.

QuestGarden.com: Webquest Portal. Free 30 day trial - Membership $20 for two years.

Raz-Kids: (K-6) Students improve their reading skills by: Listening for modeled fluency, Reading for practice, Checking comprehension with quizzes.

Read Write Think: Nation Council of Teachers of English.

Scholastic Resources: for Teachers and Students.

Scholastic Write It Website: Meet the authors and explore how they write and create and publish your own work.

Spelling Wizard: Created for younger students, this free Scholastic resource takes the stress out of memorizing spelling words.

Storyline Online: Read-a-louds by actors and professionals using an online video streaming program. This site also has lessons and related activities that go along with each book. Good resource for any elementary grade.

Starfall.com: A free, on-line service to help children learn to read. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. (K-2)

Study Skills: Strategies for developing good study and test taking skills.

TeAchnology: Over 30,000 lesson plans, TeAchnology is an excellent source of lesson plans on a wide range of subjects. The site also provides over 7,500 printable worksheets.

Test-Quiz.com: Reading, Math, Geography, Spanish and much more. Younger students can quickly absorb new sight words. Older students who use their automated spell check as a crutch can get much needed practice with commonly misspelled words. Learn the translations for popular words in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese by playing our ESL games! Practice often and play against your friends!

Visual Dictionary Online: Merriam-Webster has put together a visual dictionary of over 6000 images with visuals and descriptions.

Wilson Language Training: Reading instruction-phonics & fluency.

Publishing Sites for Children

Bookhooks: Students can publish their book reports, author studies etc. in a safe Internet site.

SchoolTube: A site where students can showcase their video work.

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