Teaching English
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Professional Associations, Journals, Blogs |
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- Illinois Association of Teachers of English
- Illinois Reading Council
- International Reading Association
- National Council for the Teachers of English
- Teachers & Writers Magazine A great resource for creative writing teachers.
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Learning Standards |
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- Illinois State Standards for English Language Arts Incorporating the Common Core
- NCTE/IRA Standards for the English Language Arts
- Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing From the National Council for the Teachers of English
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General Resources |
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- AP & IB Resources From Web English Teacher, this site collects resources for teachers who teach AP English class.
- English Resources Lists websites relating to English including authors, drama, mythology, novels, poetry, and writing skills.
- Readwritethink This free resource provides teachers with lesson plans and activities aligned to the Common Core relating to English and language arts classes.
- 21st Century Lit Offers a curriculum focused on reading and writing skills and can be "taught using journalistic methods and new digital tools" -- from FAQ page.
- Web English Teacher Gathers writing, literature, speech, AP/IB, ESL/ENL resources for English teachers.
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Literature & Reading Skills |
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- American Literature Contains American short stories, children's stories, novels, author profiles, study guides, and teacher resources.
- Chicago Shakespeare Theater Teacher Handbooks Teachers can download these guides full of classroom activities that are aligned with the Common Core standards.
- The Classroom Bookshelf Reviews children and young adult literature that could be incorporated into classrooms.
- CommonLit Provides teachers grades 3-12 with free fiction and nonfiction passages to help develop and improve reading skills and comprehension.
- Disability in Kidlit Discusses how people with disabilities are portrayed in middle grade and young adult literature.
- How to Encourage a Teen to Read Lists some advice on how parents can get their teens interested in reading.
- The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Literature Journal that explores classic as well as modern children's and young adult literature.
- Mythology Teacher Provides resources for teachers planning units on mythology.
- Myths, Folktales, and Fairy Tales Teacher Activity Guide Scholastic provides this online teacher's guide for grades K-12 about incorporating myths, folktales, and fairy tales into the curriculum.
- Penguin’s Teacher Guides Penguin, a book publisher, provides teachers with guides for many titles in PDF format which includes character lists, synopsis, suggested activities, and more.
- The Poetry of Hip Hop: A Playlist for Your Classroom Presents an hour-long playlist of hip-hop songs suitable for the classroom study.
- Poetry Society: The Poetry Class Collects lesson plans and activities around poems for all grade levels.
- Support Materials for Core Content for Assessment: Reading Describes the four levels of Norman L. Webb's Depth of Knowledge in relations to reading skills.
- Teachers at Random A teacher's resource center from Random House.
- Websites on Mythology in World Cultures Provides a list of online resources, lesson plans and classroom activity ideas, and webquests.
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Writing and Grammar Skills
- Classroom Cereal Provides teachers with grammar practice in free, printable short stories.
- Experimental Learning: Methods and Benefits Describes what experimental learning is and its benefits to students with their writing.
- Journalist's Resource Provides articles in the areas of government, economics, environment, politics, society, and international. Also includes tips for journalists or budding journalists and suggesting syllabi for teachers.
- The News Literacy Project Connects journalists with educators to teach how to determine what is fact and what is fiction.
- Plagiarism An extensive annotated plagiarism guide to articles, case studies, detection tools, term paper sites, copyright, and other ethics resources on the Web.
- Quill Provides grammar practice for students.
- Support Materials for Core Content for Assessment: Writing Describes the four levels of Norman L. Webb's Depth of Knowledge in relations to writing skills.
- Teaching Copyright Provides a curriculum on how to teach students about copyright laws.
- 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing The National Writing Project presents thirty ideas for writing teachers.
- Writing Fix Contains writing lesson plans, writing prompt ideas, and more.
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