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The American Memory Learning Page
American Memory is a web site created by the Library of Congress. It provides public access to over five million historical items, presented in over 80 thematic collections through the World Wide Web. These items reflect the collective American memory, its history and culture. The items include unique and rare documents, photographs, films, and audio recordings.
ARTSEDGE
ARTSEDGE--the National Arts and Education Network--supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects.
Blue Web'n's List of English Lesson Plans
Blue Web'n is a searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, and tools). Blue Web'n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites, but only the most useful sites -- especially online activities targeted at learners.
Common Lesson Plan Models
Learn the steps to writing a lesson plan using Madeline Hunter's guide, Bloom's Taxonomy, Multiple Intelligences, and others.
DiscoverySchool: Literature
This is a list of literature lesson plans from DiscoverySchool.
EDSITEment
EDSITEment features literature and writing lesson plans for grades 9-12.
The Educator's Reference Desk: Language Arts Lesson Plans
Topics include debate, listening comprehension, vocabulary, journalism, literature, reading, writing, and many more.
Education World
Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.
English Webquests
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. Search for webquests here.
The New York Times on the Net Learning Network
The archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12. You may perform a keyword search to retrieve a lesson, browse the archive by subject, or scroll down the page to view the most recently published lessons.
Outta Ray's Head
This site features a collection of lesson plans with handouts by Ray Saitz and many contributors. All of the lessons have been used and refined in the classroom.
PBS TeacherSource
Professional articles, information, links, and lesson plans.
ReadWriteThink
ReadWriteThink is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.
RHL School: English Basics Worksheets
This page features original grammar worksheets for teachers and parent-teachers to copy.
Six Common Mistakes in Writing Lesson Plans
By Dr. Bob Kizlik: Planning lessons is a fundamental skill all teachers must develop and hone, although implementation of this skill in actual teaching can, and usually does, take some time.
Thinkfinity.org
This free, comprehensive digital learning platform is built upon the merger of two acclaimed programs Verizon MarcoPolo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network.
ThinkQuest: Languages and Language Arts Sites
The library contains unique educational web sites that have been created through ThinkQuest competitions and programs.
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute is an educational partnership between Yale University and the New Haven Public Schools designed to strengthen teaching and learning in local schools and, by example, in schools across the country.
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