Activities to Help Your Child Learn to Write
Activities to help parents teach their children to write well. |
Building Cathedrals
Offers articles related to reading and writing instruction, as well as inspirational readings to motivate teachers. |
Building Cathedrals: Finding the Oasis in the Writing Desert
Provides basic architecture and examples of writing forms in the writing process. |
Davis School District Language Arts Site
Links to categories such as research, literature, grammar, writing, reading, and lesson plans as well as course descriptions and standards. |
Dr. Grammar
Answers to questions about grammar, usage, punctuation, documentation, and word origins provided by Jim Hiduke of the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA. |
EDSITEment
Click on the "Literature and Language Arts" text to access numerous resources from the Academy of American Poets through Women of the West Museum as well as lesson plans and activities. |
English/Language Arts Education - Michigan Teacher Network
Offers K-12 language arts teachers 350+ reviews of Web resources correlated to Michigan curriculum standards, including reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, speech, journalism, and literature. |
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
Links to educational materials, services, and coursework aimed mostly at primary and secondary students and teachers. |
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
Provides educational materials, services, and coursework related to reading, English, writing, and the language arts. |
Essay Emporium
Student-generated essays on various works. |
K-12 English
Annotated links to English resources online. |
lang
Weekly grammar rules, person of the month, riddles, jokes, and miscellaneous non-language links. |
Language and Literacy Environments in Preschools
ERIC Digest discusses the research on preschool literacy environments and their contributions to reading skills development. |
Language Arts - High School
Mini-lessons for high school (9-12). |
Learning in Motion
Resources from tongue twisters to Zen stories. |
Legends
Exploring legend in history, folklore, literature, fiction, and the arts. |
Lucid Learning
English professor shares ideas for teaching the language arts at all grade levels. |
Orbislingua - "The WorldWeb Languages Piazza"
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. The range of articles on languages, countries, courses, translators etc is large but the articles are short, with emphasis on buying their recommended product. |
Poetry Teachers
Resources for teaching poetry to children, including lesson plans, performance tips, and fun activities. |
Reaching Out: The Evolution Of Communication
Explores how oral and written language have developed over the centuries. |
Readers Theatre Online Canada
Markets play scripts, reading scripts, and choral speaking scripts for schools and libraries. Provides free online samples. |
School-Home Links
Materials for families to ensure good reading skills in children. Includes 400 activities for K-3 students. From the U.S. Department of Education. |
SCORE Language Arts
Cyberguides for literature studies, phonics resources, and teacher information. |
SpellMaster
Free online tool allows teachers to create their own Flash-based vocabulary learning games. Program may also be downloaded for offline use. |
Story Arts Online!
Educational Web site, designed for teachers, librarians, and students,explores the use of storytelling in the classroom to enhance speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. |
Storycart Press Presents Readers Theatre
Subscription service offers free sample scripts. |
Teaching Ideas and Topics
National Council of Teachers of English offers suggestions for teaching ESL, journalism, literature, reading, writing, and vocabulary. |
The Dialect Coach
Offers dialect coaching in all dialects for actors as well as accent reduction services for all professionals. |
The English Association
Association for teachers of English literature and language at all levels from primary to post-graduate, and for all those with an interest in the English language and its literatures. |
Writers Abode
Volunteer critique services for unpublished, aspiring writers. |
Young Adult Literature; Middle and Secondary English-Language Arts
Links to resources for teachers and librarians in middle and secondary schools. |
Youth Poetry
Program of the Philadelphia Free Library allows young writers to see their poetry published online. |
