Writing Prompts (Grades 1 -8) 

 Paragraph a Week (middle school writing prompts)

Grade Level Language Arts skills to do online

Benchmark papers: Grades 6-8

Houghton Mifflin English for middle school teachers and for students

Maggie's Earth Adventures (4-8)

Quotations to use as journal topics

Great literature (cyberguides) units. K-12 and bilingual

Story Units from Tennessee (6-8)- See if any of the books you teach are here.  Example: The Giver, and  Holes  Additional resources for each book under the chapters and activities.

Links to children's authors and illustrators

Bantam Double Day teacher's guides to literature

Random House Guides to Literature

Language Arts Treasures from FreshPond

Language Arts Lessons and activities -ready to use or copy and paste the parts you want 

Native American Authors Teacher Resource List

Read - Write - Think - resources for language arts and reading instruction. List of Interactive activities  
Examples: Cartoon Creator,  Letter Generator,  Literary Concept Maker, Stapleless book with planning sheet, Plot diagram, [plot diagram of Jack and the Beanstalk]

The Write Site - An interactive language arts and journalism project for middle schools

Traci's Lists of 10 - Teaching tips for all aspects of language arts instruction.  Examples: Persuasive writing prompts, reading comprehension

42 pages of graphic organizers

Grade Level Language arts Skills -(activities to do online)

TV411-interactive reading and language activities (middle -HS)

More handouts and organizers - can be adapted for many age levels [Example: Literature Circles]

Lessons and Teacher Resources

Writing for Writers from Scholastic  (scroll down for each specific activity) Online workshops that allow you to post student work at the end.  Teacher's guide

WebEnglishTeacher - Check this one out!! click on links on the left

Super site for lots of student handouts  Greece Central School District                                                       

Englishcompanion.com (check out the yellow links in the lower left for handouts [Example: Reading comphrension bookmark]

PBS Teacher Source - select level and topic

EdSitement: - language arts and literature

Sites that publish student work on the web

TeenInk -

KidAuthors.com --publish stories and poetry

Email an author -one list from Random House  - list of Authors web sites

Web quests --(Click on "top", "middling" and "new" at the bottom of the menu on left)     
Even More Webquests - created by teachers from all over the country
Check these new webquests literature links
Florida State English Education Webquests

Biography Maker --

Search MarcoPolo for lesson plans by grade and subject area.

Dr. B's Online Lessons and resources

Free from Discovery School  Puzzlemaker.com -you or your students can create your own crossword and other kinds of puzzles.  Also try Worksheet Generator If you register you can save puzzles and worksheets

Easy Test Maker - create and then print

Create your own online interactive tests

Language Arts Teacher Activity Bank
(Graphic organizers, Forms for reports and journals, Rubrics and more),   Graphic organizer makers  Example: Concept Map Generator, Create Venn Diagrams

Online Vocabulary Drill

Word Central - Dictionary and vocabulary activities

 Interactive grammar activities  Purdue Online Writing Lab

The English Room

Spellingcity - Online spelling practice - very nicely done!  (enter your own words and get activities for your student to do online)

Interactive grammar lessons

American Writing Gateway -  online material about some widely taught American writers.

Language arts worksheet library

ESL

ESL Listening Lab -   Dave's ESL Cafe (Resource for ESL teachers) 
Puzzles for ESL --  More Links for ESL --
eslGold.com organized list of hundreds of links in speaking,
pronunciation, reading, idioms, and much more for all levels of ESL

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Online - Gameaday -

Everyday Spelling - online activities

Homework Spot - high school English, Middle School English,

Novel guides from classzone

Spark Notes (Like Cliff notes but free- Written by Harvard students)

Novelguide.com - free source for literary analysis

Literature study guides (Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District the English Department of Calhoun High School)

The 5 W's of Cyberspace - how to evaluate a web site

Citing Internet Sources (Rules for creating citations)

Online Citation Tool- (Slate Citation Machine) select from menu on left - Fill in the information and the citation will be created ready to be copied and pasted into your document.  APA or MLA
Online Research Paper Organizer

Link to Learn - Interactive lessons for all grades and subject areas example: Trial of Hamlet

Theater History on the Web

American Writers

Shakespeare connection -- Shakespeare on the Internet

The Drama Teacher's Resource Room

FunBrain Online Word Games-

 

Spelling Practice rules and activities

Visual Thesaurus -

Interactive Stories and quizzes with sound from Digital Education Network

Rubric Template

Teach-nology - Worksheet Makers (forms for lab reports, puzzles, assignment sheets).free critical thinking worksheets,  graphic organizer creator, rubric maker, SQ3R
Project Based Learning Checklist -customizable for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects.