Helpful websites for English teachers:
Handouts – rhetoric and grammar
Online Grammar practice quizzes
21st Century Literacy Curriculum Map by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Ten Allusions common to writers
How to Mark a Book by Mortimer Adler
Literary Terms in Modern Media
Google Doc Revision Lesson from Weekly Reader
Love is a Fallacy short story for teaching students about fallacies
American Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices – some of the examples are excellent
Google Lit Trips using Google Earth
Controversial Topics: Opposing Views, Pros and Cons, Hot Paper Topics
ManyBooks.net – free ebooks
RhymeZone – a rhyming dictionary
Clusty – a good search engine for students having difficulty with search terms because it clusters the results.
This I Believe NPR program with complete lesson plans
Townsend Press – I use the online vocabulary quizzes in my classroom.
General Web Resources:
Vodpod – organize your online videos
Wikimedia Commons – copyright free images
Jing – online screen capture
Wordle – create word clouds
Many Eyes – use to create visual data on the web
Zamzar – online file converter
Audacity - creating and edit recordings
PBwiki – collaborative website and easy to make
Survey Monkey - online surveys
Vixy.net – another online file converter
TeacherTube – videos created by teachers and students
Simple Booklets – a post by Richard Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers – great blog with resources)
My Teach with Picture Books site at http://teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com is aimed at teachers in grades 3-8, encouraging them in the use of picture books to enhance their instruction. The site features recommendations, themes, guiding questions, cross-curricular extensions, and related links.
Please check it out and consider adding it to your Resources list.
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing your blog with me. I checked it out, and I think it is a great resource to add to my list.