Language Arts/Reading/Literature (K-12)

• Read, Write, Think

  A website maintained by the International Reading Association. It has tons and tons of lesson plans. Everything is research based.

• Book Adventure

  Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they’ve read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.

• FREE RICE

  What a great site! It’s addictive—as well as increasing your vocabulary. Here’s what they say: For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. TRY IT!

• Daily Grammar lesson

  From the site: Improve your grammar and writing skills with our complimentary e-mail service. By signing up for the Daily Grammar e-mail, you’ll receive a free grammar lesson daily. After every five lessons, a review quiz will be sent. Our service is completely free! A great instructional tool for all ages and skill levels, Daily Grammar lessons will transform you into a grammar pro!

• Web English Teacher

  This site contains a link to just about everything a language arts teacher could want. It includes information on authors and their literature as well as grammar, and even DIAGRAMMING! It includes section for ESOL teachers, AP& IB, book reports, children’ literature, drama, media, mythology, speech and vocabulary.

• Silly Books.net

  Welcome to SillyBooks.net where every child’s story gets published. All of our kids are authors! And every month one story is produced as an animated book, complete with voices, music and sound effects for all to enjoy. FABULOUS FIND! CHECK IT OUT.

• edHelper.com

  Math, reading, comprehension, themes,lessonplans and many more.

• Tips on scripting

  This is a site that will help you turn stories into scripts for Reader’s Theater projects! It’s really great.

• Children's Literature: Plans and Resources

  For teacher in grades K-6 who are looking for lesson plans that tie in multicultural literature. The lessons are listed according to the grade they fit or the subject they address.

• Reading Comprehension

  Featuring free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and … They
  are most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school years. …

• American Poets

  Lesson plans and educational resources based on American poets from Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes

• Story Arts online

  Beautiful site! It focuses on the value of storytelling in the classroom. Also, it offers lots of lesson plans and activities

• Best Practices: Synectics

  This site offers great ideas on ways to use many teaching strategues like learning centers, literature circles, cooperative learning, simulations, and a multitude more! Check it out!

• Your Dictionary

  This site not only has definitions, but word games from crossword puzzles to tongue twisters. It’s a fun site to look at word etymologies, grammar, and the importance of words in general since they make up our life!

• Writing Process

  This site offers a unique approach to writing where students are given writing assignments with clear procedures and focused content skills. The content skills help focus students in what to concentrate on as they write, as well as making writing seem more manageable.

• The Teacher's Desk

  This site has several resources in spelling, reading, and writing. One of the tools I like the best is the paragraph a week program. It is a strategy of helping parents and students work together to emphasize writing. It has students writing on a number of different topics to get them writing on a weekly basis, exposing them to different formats of writing, and working through the writing process.

• Spark Notes

  While sparknotes has been used by students to get out of doing reading assignments, I have been able to use it as a tool for teaching through novels. It has summaries, themes, symbols, character analysis, etc. It is a great resource for teachers in helping students understand what they are reading

• Vocabulary.com

  Everything for vocabulary is organized for you. There are word lists, puzzles, lesson plans, as well as preparation for tests. Although sometimes you have to change the words around, it’s a great starting point and provides great directives.

• Online Spelling Program

  Spelling City can be used to let students work on spelling words on the computer. It has a feature where a student can hear a real voice say the spelling words, which is great. I love this site because it lets kids have an alternate way to practice spelling that may be a better fit for certain learning styles.

• WORDLE!

  Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. FUN!!

• The Phonics Dance

  The Phonics Dance!™ is a quick and easy way for primary grade
  educators to teach phonics and increase the reading and writing skills
  of each and every student in your classroom. It is multilevel learning at
  its best, and can provide success for all students, regardless of their
  developmental level. This is a nationally recognized program which is
  based on research and meets the standards for the Leave no Child
  Behind Law.

  This Six Step Program offers learning through cost free strategies that
  incorporate rhyme, movement and chant. Building on phonemic
  awareness, students become confident, successful writers.