Check out the newly 
entered sites!
Sites of the month!
- Literature
Learning Ladders--excellent well organized
site by Annett Lamb for creating literature circles. One of
the best!
- Gaggle.Net--excellant
free site for safe classroom e-mail. Provides teacher
controlled e-mail for students.
- Vivisimo--a
new, well organized search engine that groups search in
"Doable" retrieval of information.
Excellent research search engines
- CyberTimes Navigator--good for searching all sorts of facts and articles on the web. Supported by the New York Times.
- Library Spot--search professional and public libraries through the United States
- Book
Spot--search for discussion groups,
literature circles, book lists, etc.
- Digital Librarian--a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
- Online book search
- Guttenberg Project
- E-Server
-- for finding online texts
- Alex
Catalogue--American and English Literature
online
- Vivisimo--a
new, well organized search engine that groups search in
"Doable" retrieval of information.
- Bartleby
- Search Ebooks
- KidClick--just an all around good site for elementary to high school
- All-In-One Search
- All 4 One
- Beaucoup!--List of Search Engines by topics
- List and
description of major search engines
Let the Internet help us create!
- 4 Teachers full web site
- Worksheet Generators
- ESC Software Library--This site has demo software that is much like shareware in price and look; however, several of the available products, like vocabulary WISCO Wordpower, are pretty good. Thirty day evaluation. Most products between $15-$45.
- Internet searches and WebQuest with Filamentality --provides template for WebQuest and Internet assignments
- Worksheets for Teacher--a plethora of teacher tools for Teach-nology, e.g., worksheets, pips, WebQuest generators, etc.
- Create a Web Page for your Class--very easy and a pretty good looking as compared to some. No ads.
- Create a Web Page for yourself or your Class--Some ads, but a professional look and easy to edit.
- NiceNet--set
up an online classroom for sharing ideas, email, files, assignments.
- Blackboard--not
a free site but has a 60 trial period that I believe you can re-new
as a "new" trial period. sets up an online classroom with
e-mail, lesson, etc.
Graphic
Organizers
- Houghton Mifflin English--some familiar and some new graphic organizers
- Graphic Organizer Generators --timelines, venns, KWLs, SQ3Rs,
- Creating Venn Diagrams for your characters
- Classroom Uses of Graphic Organizers
- Models of Graphic Organizers
- More Graphic Organizers
- And still yet--More Graphic Organizers
- Article on "Why Graphic Organizers"
Online
Quiz makers and lessons
- Quia--quizzes and games. No longer free to create but free to browse and use already created sites.
- Quizbox--quizzes and games
- Funbrain--quizzes and games especially elementary level
- QuizStar--quiz and test scores sent home.
- SuperTeach--online grammar lesson for middle to high school
- High
School Hub--a web page with links to a
variety of different grammar, spelling, reading, writing sites for
high school
Don't
recreate the wheel sites.
Online sites already annotated or create your own
- TrackStar--excellent site for coordinated websites w/ tasks
- WebQuest
- Florida
State WebQuest--sponsored by Florida State
University
- ThinkQuests--ThinkQuest
Programs provide a highly motivating opportunity for students and
educators to work collaboratively in teams to learn as they create
web based learning materials and teach others.
- Ozline.com--a place for helping you make successful online projects
Creating
and using a WebQuest
- What a WebQuest is and how to run one--This brings you to my WebQuest site (sample webquests, templates, etc.)
- ExpertCentral--Need
an expert to be a resources for your webquest? Try this site.
Spelling
- Commonly Misspelled Words Quiz
- Rules for English Spelling
- Scrambled Words: 4-Letters
- Select 50 Correctly Spelled Words
- Spelling Test: ei, ie
Grammar
and writing sites
- A paragraph a week--decent ongoing writing unit. Good for elementary through 9th or 10th grade.
- Mystery Photo Contest
- Writing Mysteries--Online mysteries, student contests and writing, short stories.
- Check List Maker--list maker for writing, oral presentations, and multimedia projects.
- MissThistleBritchesWriting Prompts--also has Shakespeare, short stories, etc.
- Writing Worksheets
- Lists of 10--Things you can write about
- Guide to Grammar and Style: logical, user-friendly grammar and style site. Comes out of Rutgers U.
- Guide To Grammar and Writing
- Grammar Quizzes--for self-study
- More Grammar Quizzes
- Parts of speech exercies
- Common errors in English
- Big Dog's Grammar Site--Grammar and Research help (Spanish version available)
- Stone Soup: Multimedia creative writing site using student creations. Created by a New Jersey teacher.
- Writing Lesson plans at AskEric
- The English Room--30 Days of Poetry
- Writing with Writers--lesson plans, guided tour with writers, etc.
- Alan Cooper's Homonym Site.--just a handy list of homonyms.
- 100 Ways to Say "Said"--Don't know why but I just like this. I can see creating "thesaurus" pages for the classroom.
- Write Me a Story--Site for creative writing-- elementary to middle school.
- You be the Editor--upper middle school and high school. Asks students to "play editor," by responding to cases based on real news events
Reading
Stuff:
- State
Award Books list--New Jersey's included
- Ask the Author--Provides frequently asked questions plus links to favorite children's authors.
- Learn
about the Author and Illustrator--more
than six hundred links to author/illustrator sites
- Pro-Teacher--good
material on reading and language arts. Check out it's Book
Board.
- The Poetry Project
- Doucette Index for K-12 Text and Websites: provides access to books and websites that contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books.
- Aesop's Fables online
- Excellent site of sites for Reading and Literature
- S.C.O.R.E. CyberGuide--supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature
- Cool Books for Tough Guys--Reading list for middle school to high school boys
- Harry Potter links
- NEA Read Across America
- Harry Potter Unofficial Fan Club
- Alfy's Picks for Harry Potter
- Database of Award Winning Literature
- ALA's List of Newberry Winners
- ALA's List of Randolph Caldecott
- Creating Literature Circles
- Books for K-12
- Children's and Young Adults Index to Authors and Illustrators
- Book by Author--BBC guide to about 100 authors with related information
- Authors on the Web
- The Ultimate Science Fiction Site
- Electronic Text
- Poetry for Kids
- Great
Books Index--High School online text
- The
Scoop--material on authors, best books, etc.
- Dolch Lists
- Mother Goose RhymeZone
- Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales--Sammy the Turkey Snake is among my favorites
- 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
- A Bibliography of Wordless Books
- A Bibliography of ABC Books
Elementary through Middle
- Scholastic's
Teaching with Books
- SimonSaysKids.com--site
for teachers and parents
- Paula
Bernard's Book Resources--elementary
- Children's
Literature Resources--
- Book Adventure: Reading motivation program grades K-8.
- Poetry on Line for Upper Elementary--Links to poems suitable for middle school and even high school
- Myths and Creation Stories --a list of KidsClick Mythology sites.
- Seussville University--really young
- Time for Kids: Current Events, Games, and Resources
- Carol Hurst's Children's Series
- Winners--best winning picture books
- The Book Hive: Reviews and recommendations for children's literature
- Children's Book Council--CBC promotes the use and enjoyment of children’s trade books
- Literature Units on the Web--links to pages by teachers that incorporate picture books, chapter books and/or novels into the curriculum.
- Little
Planet Book Club -- middle school
- Will
Hobbs Books
- Kidsreads.com--book
club
- EducETH: Reading list --lists of authors with support material on literature and biography (some multimedia)
- Great Reads--1st Chapters - Ghost and other free online short story, novel and novella links From free full length online novels to first chapters.
- Online Mysteries--Free online mysteries, interviews with authors, online writing, etc.
- Wired for Books--Online interviews with authors by Don Swaim. Authors include: Clancy, Hinton, Ginsburg, etc.
- Edgewise Cage--The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre is a member of Telepoetics Inc and e-poets
- Poetry Shows and Video--from about.com
- Norton Poets online--Poems, links, audio
Book Report and Alternative Ideas
- 103 Things to Do Before and After Reading
- 101 Book Report Ideas
- More Ideas Than You'll Ever Use for Writing Book Reports (140)
- More Written Response for Writing Book Reports
- Primarily Reading--alternatives to book reports
- 10 Ways to Teach Biographies--provides 100s of ways to teach novels from K-12. Search through this site; there is some really interesting stuff here.
- 10 Ways to Teach Biographies--another site with the same name.
- How to Approach a Book Review--my page on book report questions
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Research, Plagiarism and Evaluation Sites |
- Create an MLA bibliography
- Step by Step: Writing a Research Paper--good review for students.
- ThinkTank--Research for grades 4 through 8
- MLA Style Sheet
- MLA Style Sheet -- another one
- Nueva Library Research--good site for creating a bibliography. Noodletools is now a subscription site.
- PlagiServe--an excellent site for determining if your students have plagiarized off of the Internet. And the nice part of it is that it is Free!
- Writing and Citation Guide
- Untangling the Web--sites to help teachers combat the problem of plagiarism .
- Plagiarism: DGN Library: excellent plagiarism site for teachers, librarians, and students
- A List of Papermills
- Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers--an article about reducing plagiarism
SAT
sites for students
- College Prep Quiz --interactive site tests knowledge of a variety of subjects.
- The KidReach Reading Site--Lesson plans, book reviews, reading links
- Web English Teacher--Book review, poetry, media literacy, Journalism...
- The Gateway to Education--a collection of teaching materials, for example lesson plans, links, etc.
- Literature Learning Ladders--excellent well organized site by Annett Lamb for creating literature circles. One of the best!
- LiteratureCircles.Com--discussions, book recommendations, classroom management ideas, links to related sites and organizations, a monthly featured article, and photos of students participating in literature circles.
- ABC Teach (Literature Circles)--forms, handouts, planning of Literature Circles.
- Teaching Students How to Discuss
- A Review of Literature Circles
- Literature Circles' Student Roles--quick overview of some of the roles in a literature circle
- More on Student Roles--another quick overview of some of the roles in a literature circle.
- Electric Teacher--more themes for Literature circles
- ePals--Tools to create a Literature Circle hub
- BookBoard--good site for participating in other's reading circles or posting your own.
- Literature Circles Resource Center
- Article on Literature Circles--Education World
- Literature Circle for the Cay
- Literature Circle: How to start one
- School Stuff: Literature Circle Templates
- Writing for Literature Circles--Design your own research units and Literature Circles with our working templates
- Theme Pages for Elementary
- eThemes--eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes.
- MightyBook--books read to students online for ages 2-preteen. Excellent for ESL students
- Chateau Meddybemps' Beantime Stories--pre school to elementary. Online stories, teacher guides, etc.
- Moonlit Road--ghosts stories and stories of the unusual (Audio available)
- Read-Aloud Books--list of books/articles that can be read aloud in the classroom.
- Great Read Alouds for Kids-list of recommended books.
- Read Aloud 2 Kids--list of recommended books.
- Reading Aloud--Are Kids Ever Too Old?--Article on reading to students.
Lesson
plans
- New York Times Learning--Includes daily quizzes, lesson plans w/current events, links to an encyclopedia and vocabulary study. Well-worth at a 15-minute daily visit. Also includes a current events photo for grades 3-5.
- New York Times Daily Lesson Plans--archived lists
- The
Gateway to Education--collection of lesson plans
and teaching materials
- EDSITEment--Literature
lesson plans for all grades
- Middlesex County Project--Language Arts lesson plans for CCCS
- NJ PEP--"Professional Ed Portal" provides some model plans for CCCS, plus articles on early reading and literacy
- NJ FrameWorks
- Outta Ray's Head--Ray's stuff is mostly middle school and high school
- Mr. Donn's Pages for K-12 Lit
- Teachit's English Teaching Resources--some good lesson plans for poetry, drama, and media.
- Teacher Net
- Michigan Teachers' Network--although Michigan's standards, provides good lesson plan and literature links
- Sites for teachers
- Language Arts Lesson Plans
- Ask Eric Lesson Plans
- Teachers helping Teachers
- Book Plans--Lesson plans for popular children's novels
- Reading Plans from "The Teacher's Desk"
- Reading Lesson plans at AskEric
- Literature Lesson plans at AskEric
- LessonPlansPage
- Awesome Library
- Connecting Students Lesson Plans--most of the plans are non-technology.
- CanTeach --elementary lesson plans
- LessonPlansPage
- ProTeacher Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plan Search: Drama
- Lesson Plan Search: Reading
- Lesson Plan Search: Writing
- Teacher Feature Lesson Plans
- Teaching Mysteries
- A Month of Mysteries
- CEC Lesson Plans
- School Discovery--all grades
- edhelper--all grades
- K-12 Lesson Plans--lesson plans and links to lesson plan pages
- Academy Curriculum Exchange
- McGraw Hill: Reading and Language Arts
- Resources, Lesson Plans and ActivitiLanguage Arts Lesson Planses for Kindergarten
- Giggleplotz
- Scribbling Women--lesson plans for women writers
- Scholastics--lesson plans and reproducibles
- Core Lesson Plans
- Yahoo Teaching Literature--annoying pop-ups
- Yahoo Teaching Poetry
- Poetry Teachers
- Alliteration Lesson Plans
- Bookplans--elementary to middle
- Lesson Plans from Teachers.Net
- Editorial Cartoons (high school only if students are visiting site--even here use discretion) Lesson plans available.
- Exploring Multiple Intelligences--lesson plans available.
Pre-made
worksheets
- RHL School--Worksheets for grammar and reading comprehension. Good substitute day fillers.
- Teaching Resources--Worksheets, lesson plans, etc.
- Connecting Students Worksheets, puzzles, etc.
Rubrics
and worksheets
- An online rubric maker-- this is really neat!!!
- Several Rubrics from 4teachers
- Some more rubric makers--also some good ones.
- ClassWeb Tools Rubric Maker--Open rubric, you supply the criteria
- Writing Rubrics
- CheckList for Writing
- 6+1 Traits Writing Rubric
- Rubrics for Projects
- Article on and Models of Rubrics--The Rubric Bank from Chicago Schools
- The Whining Rubric--A favorite of mine!
- Kathy Schrock's collection of rubrics
- Multimedia book report rubric
- Rubrics for Multimedia Projects Using HyperStudio, PowerPoint
- Rubrics for evaluating WebQuest
- Critical evaluation of web sites
- Language Arts Rubric
- Report Rubric
- Scoring Guide for Autobiographical Incidents
Drama
Lessons 
- Creative Dramas Guidelines -- (lessons for all grade levels)
- Creative Drama and Theater -- Some great ideas (i.e., prop bag, theater games)
- The Dramas teacher's Resource Room--(lessons for all grade levels)
- Reader's Theater Editions--scripts, mostly humor, fantasy, and world tales with most scripts aimed between grades 3 and 9
Study
Guides
- Teachers
@ Random House
- High
School Teachers @ Random House--some good study
guides w/additional resources.
- Houghton-Mifflin
Books Guides
- Bibliomania --Study Guides and also full text drama, short stories, etc., includes audio sections.
- Sparknotes
- Harper Children's Teaching Guides--elementary/middle school in PDF files
- NovelGuide
- Homework Online
- BookRags--decent material but annoying ads
- Free Booknotes
- Classic Literature Guides
- Pink Monkey
- Glencoe Literature Guides -- Book company
- GradeSaver
- English Web Teacher
- Yahoo Study Guides
- CyberGuides
from Score
- Romeo and Juliet, 1984, Of Mice and Men, The Crucible, Night, Poe Unit, and much more
- Nancy Polette Literature Guides for elementary
- Literature Guides--collection of different sites
- Interactive Learning Guides
Dictionaries
and such
- Encarta World Dictionary--pronounces words. Teaching Idea--Audio Vocabulary lists, PowerPoint lists. Model
- A collection of dictionaries
- Miriam Webster Dictionary and word games
- Yourdictionary.com
- Add a dictionary to your toolbar
- Ask Doctor Dictionary
- Literary Terms and more
- My Literary Terms
- Acronym Finder
- Behind the Name--Good as a lead in lesson for teaching etymology for names and also for picking symbolic names for creative writing characters.
Fun
stuff
- Classroom
Conferencing-- meetings conducted over the
internet in which the participants can see and hear each other, even
though the attendees may be in different places. Need CU-SeeMe,
NetMeeting or other such programs.
- Anagrams--can you figure out this one? "Hell! I'm weak as praise."
- Match Authors and their Works-Trivia--Just reload site for new trivia game. Best I can do is 17 seconds.
- SAT Matching Game--Same site as above
- New York Times Crossword Puzzles
- First Lines
- Photos of Lit Places
- Trivia Portal for Literature
- Poetry Magnets
Search
stuff
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Vocabulary
Sites
- Vocabulary.com--This site has some excellent games to aid you in your vocaulary acquistion. Excellent for daily SAT* studying.
- Word of the Day--Elaborate definitions are followed by sample sentence and then a useful 'Did you know?' feature.
- Vocabulary Games and Lessons--cute but annoying cursor!
- The Illustrated Vocabulary--as a model, could make a good project for your students using PowerPoint.
- 250 Important Roots (Greek/Latin) for understanding words used in the mass media.
- Templates for Excel
- ABCs of Spreadsheets
- Microsoft projects and lesson Plans
- Tutorials and Lesson plans for Excel
- Barry Haines' Template Site