The National Endowment for the Arts

FREE hard copies of brochures and guides,

Also Pdf files

http://www.arts.gov:591/pub/index.html

GEM Gateway to Resources

http://www.thegateway.org/help/quick-start

The Educator’s Reference Desk

http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml

B.J. Pinchbeck’s

Homework Helper

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/index.html

K-8 Librarian-created Web Search pages -

(filtered - includes a Math section)

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

Kathy Schrock’s Page

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

LETSnet lessons

from Michigan State University

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/frames/subjects/index.html

Learning Style Inventories from Dr. Kacer’s Site:

Multiple Intelligences

http://www.mitest.com/o2ndary.htm

Similar to Myers-Briggs

http://www.oswego.edu/Acad_Dept/s_of_educ/curr/plsi/plsi48a.htm

Several Instruments Here

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/styles.html

International Reading Association: 

http://www.reading.org/

National Gallery of Art

Kids Collage Machine

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm

Maple Avenue School Teacher's Inbox

English-to-go© Instant English Lesson,

Links for Educators, lesson plans

http://www.geocities.com/janp_us/Inbox.html

Blaydes Language Arts Sites

http://www.blaydes.com/hslangarts.html

Creative Writing Corner ­

for teens

http://routeduvin.typepad.com/stories/inspiration/

Free Rubrics at Rubistar

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

More Rubrics from all over the US

http://eleaston.com/classroom.html

NteQ Lesson Plan Builder

http://www.nteq.com/LessonPlanner/view_all.asp?sortorder=subject

Smart Writers.com “For anyone who writes,

reads, or teaches literature for kids”

http://www.smartwriters.com/index.2ts?page=writingresources

Help with English Grammar Forum site

http://www.englishforums.com/ShowForumGroup.aspx?ForumGroupID=1

(from the website):

*Haunted by a Book? --* 

A long time ago when you were a kid you read a book.

 Now you'd like to purchase a copy, but you can't remember the

title or who wrote it. You're not the first person this has happened to.

You are no longer up the creek without a bookmark.

Here's help for your lousy memory:

http://www.logan.com/loganberry/stump.html

Mr. Stepp’s E Class in Ashland, Kentucky

English I and II ­ High School website ­

Paul G. Blazer High School

Very good ­ check this out!

http://www.blazer.ashland.k12.ky.us/Academics/English/Stepp/default.htm

There is an article in the Kentucky Teacher

about digital textbooks available for social studies,

language arts, and practical living/vocational studies.

Check out

http://apps.kde.state.ky.us/kamd

Make a film out of a poem or short story

http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001110/

The Traveller’s Graphic Journal webquest

http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/DBoin2/index.htm

Retelling the Classic Tales Drama Webquest:

http://www.mtbaker.wednet.edu/mbjh/somera/fairytale/

Paul G. Blazer High School

Electronic Locker

Great idea! Check this out too!

http://www.ashland.k12.ky.us/trt/HSLocker.htm

20 Great American Short Stories:

complete texts

http://www.americanliterature.com/SS/SSINDX.HTML

A Hobbit Webquest

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html

20 Great American Short Stories:

complete texts

http://www.americanliterature.com/SS/SSINDX.HTML

A simple concept web

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/conceptweb/

A concept-event map\

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/conmap/

A K-W-L worksheet

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/kwl/

Elements of the Story

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/storyele/

All about characterization ­

From a screenwriting site

http://www.scriptprof-filmand.tv/part3.html

The Archetypal Hero in Literature

http://titan.sfasu.edu/~beenet/resources/heromain.html

More about the Hero and the Quest

http://www.gcsu.edu/acad_affairs/coll_artsci/int/hero.html

Literature of the Quest

http://english.edgewood.edu/eng259/

The Theme of Paradise

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/paradise.html

Interview with a Hero:

Pick a hero and do research and a report

http://coestudents.valdosta.edu/lrgidden/

Webquest: How has the hero changed over time?

http://www.htc.net/~thehuels/heroes.htm

The Webquest Page (at San Diego State)

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

An SQ3R Chart for reading a story

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/sq3r/

Triple Circle Venn Diagram

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/venn3/

Character Analysis Pyramid

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic/character/

Literary Concepts ­ elements of a story

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/

di/Burleson/Lessons/LiteraryConcepts.htm

Sites for Teachers Language Arts site

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/resources

_sharp/language_arts/languagearts.html

Grammar Help Sites

Quotation Marks help site

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm

Filling the Tool Box ­

how to get your students to ask questions in class:

http://www.fno.org/toolbox.html#Beginning

Using the Socratic Method in the classroom

http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/socratic/fourth.html

Poem, music and art lesson ­ a combination!

http://www.scs.k12.tn.us/STT99_WQ/STT99/Collierville

_HS/tuckerc3/Considering_the_Possibility.htm

English Teachers File website ­

Also some Canadian and UK sites

http://www.englishteachersfile.com/links3.htm

Rapid City Teacher Resources

Includes Gifted links

Create your own Quizzes

Don’t click on the Virtual Tours site though ­

It no longer works

http://lh050.k12.sd.us/helps.htm

St. John’s Preparatory School website

GREAT LINKS

http://www.stjohnsprep.org/teachers/mm_english/mm_home.html

Mrs. Dukeman’s English Class website:

Has great humor ideas and also Study Hints!

http://rrmhs.pasco.k12.fl.us/bdukeman/index.aw

Curriculum

Literature/Reading Curriculum Links

from Cherokee County School District, Georgia

Includes some multicultural ­ lists books by name

with links underneath too.

http://webtech.cherokee.k12.ga.us/littleriver-es/ewilliams/readingcurriculumlinks.htm

David K. Brown’s

Children and Young Adult

Literature Resource Page

At the U. of Calgary

Plus 1995-1999 book guide

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/

Education World Poetry page

http://www.education-world.com/a_sites/sites013.shtml

The Electronic Canterbury Tales

http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/afdtk/ECT_Main.htm

Chaucer

What a Knight wore in 1385

http://historymedren.about.com/library/weekly/aa041500b.htm

This Date in Medieval History ­ 1385

http://historymedren.about.com/library/date/blfinddate.htm

The Online Medieval Library

http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/OMACL/

The Labyrinth

Resources for Medieval Studies at

Georgetown University

http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

The Geoffrey Chaucer Page

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/varia/life_of_Ch/ch-life.html/

The Essential Chaucer

ttp://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/chbib.htm

Chronology of Chaucer’s Life and Times

http://www.librarius.com/chauchro.htm

Chaucer’s Life ­ by the Literature Network ­ short

http://www.literature-web.net/chaucer

Medieval Jewelry

http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/SRM/types.htm

14^th century shoes

http://www.medievallife.com/Pages/14thCenturyShoePoulaine01.htm

Pictures of Late Medieval Footwear

http://sales.ana.users.btopenworld.com/lateME.htm

A few good gothic period hats

http://lynnmcmasters.com/gothic.html

Daily life in Medieval Society

http://historymedren.about.com/od/dailylifesociety/

Gold Crusader coin ­ photo

http://historymedren.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?

site=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.tripod.com%

2F%7ECharlemagne64%2Fmedieval.html

How to make a webquest ­ a template guide

http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuestTemplate/webquesttemp.htm

Netsquirrel.com - about technology ­ free

Patrick Crispen’s site

http://www.netsquirrel.com/classroom/

Learn to write a

Journalism story

At Ohio’s web site

The Write Site

http://www.writesite.org/

Learning about Propaganda website for

High School students  from Newspapers in Education:

http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/workbooks/highnewswrite.html

16th Century Renaissance English Lit:

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet:

http://www.palomar.edu/Library/shake.html

Linda’s Literature Links

Lesson Plans linked to the Book Titles

http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion

/LITERATURE/literature_lesson_plans_w.htm

Creative Writing Corner ­

for teens

http://routeduvin.typepad.com/stories/inspiration/

check these out:

Dr. Mark Canada’s courses at UNC:

About Grammar:

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/caneng/canenwel.htm

Grammar ­ people and terms

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/alleng/grammar/grammar.htm

Dr. Mark Canada’s Modern America website for literature:

http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/allam.htm