• U.S. Department of State
• Amnesty International homepage
• A Helpful Guide to Search Engines, Top Page
•  Activities for ESL/EFL Students (English Study Materials)
• American Collection
• American Library Association Home Page -- a super site for current booklists, especially young adult books
• Brevard College - Library --Teacher Education Resources
• ARTSEDGE: Teaching Materials: Curricula, Lessons and Activities
• bigchalk - The Education Network
• Cable in the Classroom
• Catalog Prentice Hall
• CHARACTER COUNTS! - How to Get Started - Teaching Tools --Resources for Character Education
• The School for Ethical Education (SEE) - Publishers, Consultants and Organizations
• Education World ® - Curriculum: One Character Education Program That Works!
• Literature Lists for Character Education
• Using Children's Literature for Character Education
• Character Education- Education Full Text Database Resources
• Character Education Book List
• Christopher-Gordon Publishing, Inc.
• Education World® The Educator's Best Friend
• Electronic Catalog of NCES Products -- National Center for Educational Statistics
• High School Certified Trainers of Writing --Certified Writing Trainers Information
• NCDPI Instructional Services Division
• English Language Arts Curriculum Resources
• English, Grades 6-12
• English Language Arts --NC 9th Grade English Resources
• The English Teacher's Companion
• Facts and Reference: Best Source for Facts on the Net - Refdesk.com
• FairTest: Introduction --The National Center for Fair and Open Testing
• Good Talk About Good Teaching
• Guide to Online Schools
• High School Journalism: Am. Society of Newspaper Editors
• Home Page: American Memory from the Library of Congress
• High School Hub
• Kabalarian Philosophy --Name analysis
• Literary Awards on Display
• News Central--links to 3500 newspapers worldwide
• North Carolina Scholastic Media Association --
• Language Arts Lesson Plans
• Lesson Plan Finder TeacherVision.com
• Read/Write/Think Lesson Plans
• Education World: Lesson Planning Center
• OFCN: Academy  Curricular Exchange High School Language Arts Lesson Plans
• The Educator's Reference Desk:Lesson Plans
• Lesson Plan Templates
• Awesome Library: K-12 Lesson Plans
• CA Cyberguides for Lesson Plans
•  LEARN NC
• Language Arts outline
• The Gateway to Educational Materials
• Mtn Rise Home
• NC Department of Public Instruction -- for standard course of study guides
• NC Wise Owl - The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
• NCTE -- everything you want to know about the teaching of English from the National Council of Teachers of English
• NCETA :: North Carolina English Teachers Association
• North Carolina Standard Course of Study
• NEA: Events - American Education Week 2003
• Online Activities: Scholastic.com
• Online Reports --Center on English Learning and Achievement
• North Carolina --PRAXIS II Pedagogy
• randomhouse.com | WELCOME
• ReadWriteThink --NCTE sponsored resources for English/Language Arts instruction
• Search Engines databases and Newswires @ Internets
• Integrating Technology in Lang.Arts and Communications
• Computer Technology in Special Education and Rehabilitation
• Office of Special Ed and Rehabilitative Services
• National Center to Improve Practice in Special Ed through technology, media, materials
• Critical Issue: Meeting the Diverse Needs of Young Children
• The Deaf Resource Library
• ED342175 1991-00-00 Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students. ERIC Digest #E510.
• ESE Website - Resources - National --Exceptional Student Education
• NICHCY: General Info About Learning Disabilities
• NCIP Home
• Source for creating rubrics
• Learning Disabilities OnLine: LD In-Depth: Gifted Students with Learning Disabilities
• Wrightslaw - Advocacy - Your Child's IEP: Practical & Legal Guidance by Pamela Wright & Peter Wright
• Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom
• SNOW - Accommodating Students With Special Needs
• Inclusive Technology:The Special Needs People
• RJ Cooper&Assoc. Software/Hardware for Persons with Special Needs
• Teacher Ideas Press
• Teachers.Net Gazette August 2002 - JOY JONES: SUMMER RECESS - Teachers.Net Gazette - BACK TO SCHOOL featuring columns and articles by top names in education and your teacher colleagues around the world! The Teachers.Net Gazette is a clearinghouse for teacher writing, from well-reasoned education essays to teacher prose, poems and humor! Bookmark the Teachers.Net Gazette and tell a friend!
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education --Teacher Quality
• CanTeach - resources for educators --Teacher Quality
• Teacher2Teacher Resource Store
• TeacherWeb - Free Websites for Educators
• The CEAP Teacher-Education Technology Initiative Homepage
• ChannelOne.com
• HIGH STAKES:--technology
• The Gateway to Educational Materials
• Raising Achieivement and Closing Gaps
• DiversityWeb - A Resource Hub for Higher Education
• Seattle Times on Martin Luther King Jr.
• MLK Historic Site
• National Women's History Project
• Association for Global New Thought
• Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine Site
• Photos of Civil Rights Movements
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans
• Tolerance.org
• The History of Jim Crow
• The Standard Deviants: Home
• Worksheets, Teaching Tips, and Rubrics from TeAch-nology.com --Web Portal for Educators
• Welcome to EDSITEment!
• Welcome to the K-12 Teaching & Learning Center for K-12 Educators, Students and Families
• Welcome to the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
• What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching
• Fulbright Information Page
• Yahoo! Groups : ncelahs
• CA Association of Teachers of English
• Professional Organizations
• CA Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
• New Teacher Center
• The English Teacher's Companion
• English E-Zone
• SCORE Language Arts
• Materials for Secondary English Teachers
• Social Learning Theory: A Bandura
• Social Learning Theory: Overview
• Social Learning Theory: Keith Rutledge

• California Department of Education
• State Library Agencies
• CA Commission on Teacher Credentialing
• Education World: State Certification Requirements
• U.S. Department of State: OFFICE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMS: English Language Specialist Program

• The Association on Teaching of English Grammar/NCTE
• Center for Digital Storytelling
• Coherence: Transitions between Ideas
• Common Errors in English
• Complete Guide to Writing and Grammar
• Community of Writers/Lesson Plans
• Creative Writing
• Daily Grammar
•  Dante and Grammar - Opening
•  The Dialectizer --convert English to dialects
• DiscoverySchool's Puzzlemaker allows kids to make crossword puzzles online.
• Education Network Grammar Site
•  English Centre --Language, Grammar, Vocabulary, etc.
•  FunBrain.com - The Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8 Teachers and Kids
•  The Gender Genie
•  Grammar Guide -- GrammarStation.com
•  Questions - GrammarStation
• Handouts & Links: Writing Poetry Explications
• HyperGrammar
• InfoWeb - Curriculum Matrix
•  The Internet Grammar of English
• Lewis Carrol: Using "Jabberwocky"
• Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style
• National Writing Project
•  The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
• NoodleTools - Smart Tools, Smart Research
•  Oxymorons
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• PlagiServe - Global Academic integrity service
•  The Bedford/St. Martin's Workshop on Plagiarism
•   Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus
•  Proofreading Symbols and Abbreviations
• Purdue English site -- Writing Info
•  The Bedford Researcher, by Mike Palmquist
•  Diana Hacker, A Writer's Reference, Fifth Edition
•  Research and Documentation Online
•  The St. Martin's Handbook, 5e
•  High School English writing and grammar resources
• Transparent Language - Limited Time Offer
• Turnitin.com
• Wacky Web Tales
• Welcome To Teachers & Writers OnLine
•  WordCentral.Com - Dictionary - Daily Buzzword - Word Games - Merriam-Webster
•  A.Word.A.Day Home Page : vocabulary, wordpower, words, language, english, dictionary, lexicon, logophile, wordsmith
•  AskOxford: Word Games
•  Solve Word Puzzles and Play Interactive Word Games On-Line
•  fun-with-words
•  Just Riddles and More...!
•  Vocal Answers Page
•  MPR's The Writer's Almanac
•  The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
•  Improve your English with WritingDEN!
•  Writing Well for the Web - webreference.com
•  Writing.Com

•  Adjust Your Teaching Styles to Students' Learning Styles
•  Learning Styles for Teachers
• Ebonics Notes and Discussion Learning Styles for Teachers
•  CMMR - BILINGUAL/ESL/MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION RESOURCES
•  ESL Teacher Resources, Job Boards, and Worksheets
•  Eflweb.com - The Place for new and prospective EFL/ESL Teachers, seeking jobs, vacancies and employment opportunities
•  English lessons and tests
•  ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
•   English as a Second Language
•  ESL  Online Resources, Games, Songs, Chat and Books
•  ESL Plans
•  ESL Resources, Handouts and Exercises for Students and Teachers
•  everythingESL.net
•  Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Free & Fun English Language Study)
•  WWW ESL Resource
•  Lesson Plan Archive
• Gullah Language & Culture - ICW-NET
•  Institute for Disabilities Research and Training, Inc. Home Page
•  Laureate Learning Systems - Special Needs Software for Language Disabilities and Intervention
•  Learning Disabilities OnLine: LD In-Depth: Reading software for students with Learning Disabilities (LD)
•  Special Educational Needs and the Foreign Service Child
•  TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links
• ESL Teacher Recruiter

• Harper Academic Newsletter
•  Heritage at Carthage: Chinua Achebe
•  Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656+ fables -
•  Childrens stories and fables from Farmhouse Fables.
• Children's Bedtime Stories
•  Conner Prairie Living History Museum
•  The Encyclopedia of the Midwest - Midwest Alive!
•  naturalism
•  American Folklore: Famous American folktales and legends, Native American myths, weather folklore, ghost stories and more from each of the 50 States.
•  North East Folklore Archive, music, songs, culture and traditions, Scotland
•  TheWildWest.org - American Old Western Culture
• African American Literature Book Club
• African American World/PBS
• Underground RR/History of Slavery
• The African-American Mosaic/Library of Congress
•  Flight to Freedom: Introduction --Interactive site on Slavery
•  The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com
•  Erich Maria Remarque
•  World War I - Trenches on the Web --All Quiet on the Western Front resources
•  The First World War --All Quiet on the Western Front resources
•  Vocabulary from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque for VOCAB U.
•  SCORE Teacher Guide: All Quiet on the Western Front
•  Title: "All Quiet on the Western Front" - Topics: World/Germany & WW I; World War One; World War I, Germany; Soldier, Soldiers, Erich Maria Remarque
•  Novels about War-Teen Services Berkeley Public Library
• American Writers
•  ML Literature Connections: Teaching Guide Animal Farm
•  George Orwell @Web English Teacher
•  ArtandCulture.com
•  Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
•  SCORE Teacher Guide: Arthurian Legends
•  The Code of Chivalry and Courtly Love
•  Modern English to Old English Vocabulary
•  Beowulf Lesson Plans
•  Electronic Beowulf
•  Anglo-Saxons.net : Maps
•  Biography/Autobiography
•  Biography.com
•  Biographical Dictionary
•  English Literature American Literature and other Literature - The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary
•  Lives, the Biography Resource
•  Biography-center indexes 18741 biographies !
•  Biographies
• http://www.sjsu.edu/english/--Literary Locales
• Burns Country  Robert Burns's Page
•  Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
• Carnegie Mellon English site -- Comprehensive site of humanities info
• British Literature Study Guides
• Chaucer Site
•  Chaucer. The Knight's Tale.
•  Chaucer. Wife of Bath's Tale.
•  14th Century Outline
•  Fruit Cream Tart --Medieval banquet recipe
•  American Classical League
•  KY Classics
•  Perseus Digital Library --Resources for Classical Literature
• SCORE Teacher Guide: "Cyrano de Bergerac"
• Annie Dillard Biography
• Encyclopaedia Britannica: Dillard, Annie
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Introduction
•  AppLit --Resourse for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature
•  Discovering The Sacred Land Film Project
• Welcome to Dover Publications
• Bible History Online Images and Resources for Biblical History
•  National Gallery of Art - Directory of Teacher Programs and Resources
• WebMuseum: Artist index
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
•  Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
• Electronic Texts Available at LETRS
•  Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia Library
•  The Online Books Page: Book Listings
• Perseus: On-line Access to Full Text of Classics
•  PAL: Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) --Raisin in the Sun  background
•  A Raisin in the Sun
•  NPR : 'A Raisin in the Sun', Present at the Creation
•  Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
•  SCORE: The Crucible-- Teacher's Guide
•   The Crucible & McCarthyism
•  National Geographic: Salem--Online Witch-Hunt Game
•  Salem Witch Trials Chronology
•  Text Library - Online Downloads - Home Page
•  University of Toronto Electronic Resources
•  SCORE: Teacher Guide--Night by Elie Weisel
•  TheHistoryNet at About.com: Where History Lives on the Web
• Auschwitz/Birkenau - Photographs by Alan Jacobs
•  A Cybrary of the Holocaust, Remember.org
•  Face of Russia
•  The Holocaust
•  Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
• INFERNO - Dante Alighieri - La Divina Commedia
•  Literary Analysis Lesson Plans
• IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection Main Page
•  Teachers First: The Interactive Raven --Literary Terms
• Making of America
•  Home Page: American Memory from the Library of Congress
•  Squashed Machiavelli
• Browse Lesson Plans By Topic --New York Times  lesson plans
• Jane Chance's Page Medieval Literature Links
•  BBC - Arts - Poetry
• PBS Online
•  MPT: Knowing Poe: Home
•  PAL: Appendix F - Elements of Poetry: A Brief Introduction
• http://www.poets.org/The Academy of American Poetry
• http://www.americanpoems.com/poets --American Poems list of Poets
• Favorite Poem Project
•  Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY
• Online Poetry Classroom
•  Poetry Teachers
• Poems, Poetry, Poets
•  The Heuristic Elements of Poetry
• National Public Radio
•  Romeo and Juliet Theme Page
•  Romeo and Juliet: List of Scenes
•  CliffsNotes Lit Notes: Shakespeare glossary
• TeachersFirst.com: The Plays of William Shakespeare
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
•  Shakespeare Online
•  Cable in the Classroom || Shakespeare : Subject to Change
•  Absolute Shakespeare - plays, quotes, summaries, essays...
•  Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
• Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tales Theme Page
•  The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys
•  Mark Twain quotations
•  PAL: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
•  Mark Twain in His Times Homepage
•  The Mark Twain Papers and Project - Home
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• SparkNotes
• The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
•  National Archives and Records Administration Home Page
• Teachers.Net Lesson Plans on Literature
• PinkMonkey.com-Over 320 FREE Literature Notes, Literature Classics, Study Guides, Online Textbooks, All FREE, all the time
•  Soundings - 99.01.06
• Sacred Land Film Project
• Daily Lesson Plan

• K-12 TLC Guide to NC
•  K-12 TLC Guide to North Carolina
• Issues of the Growing Up Newsletter
•  K-12 TLC Teaching & Learning Center: Growing Up
•  The K-12 Teaching and Learning Center: Daily Update --Guides to Nobel Prizes
•  K-12 TLC Teacher's Calendar: January --Hot Links of TLC

• TLC updates (Click here to see an index of each day's planner)

• The K-12 TLC Teacher's Daily Planner
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•  The K-12 TLC Teacher's Daily Planner
•  TEACHING TIPS for the Effective Use of the Teacher's Daily Planner in Your School and Classroom

 

•  Ad Council
• Cal. Tech. Literacy Assistance Project --specific to info literacy
• Checking for Hoaxes
•  CNN - Downloadable term papers: A Web of cheating? - Sept. 7, 1997
• Cornell info lit --excellent site, not specifically labeled
•  Evaluating Web Sites
•  The Virtual Chase: Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
•  NCTE Assembly on Computers in English
• T is for Thinking Web Site
•  The Internet Public Library
•  The New York Times on the Web
• U of WI Parkside -- excellent site that is clear, well-organized
• UT Austin Library

•   Articles by YA authors on YA Lit.
• http://www.outdoortoysdirect.co.uk/Article/great-childrens-literature-author
•  Contemporary Literature
•  A to Z Teacher Stuff - Educational Sites for Teachers
•  Authors 4 Teens
•  Annotated Bibliographyi - Author - Full List
•  adolescent literature lesson plans and resources
•  Articles, Links, and More!
•  Young Adult Fiction, A-D @Web English Teacher --Web English Teacher YA Lit Resources
• A Beginner's Bibliography of the Inklings
•  Anne Frank Curriculum Resources
•  ALA | Outstanding Books for the College Bound
•  ALAN--The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE :: Professional Organization Studying Young Adult Literature
•  ALA | YAttitudes -- A list of books that anyone connected to YA Lit MUST read
•  ALAN Volume 27, Number 3
•  Yahoo! Arts>Humanities>Literature>Authors>Young Adult --YA authors
•  Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
• Holocaust Timeline
•  Education World® : Wire Side Chat : A Forgotten Genocide Recalled --Author Adam Bagdasarian's
• Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
•  Judy Blume's Home Base
•  Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University
•  Picturing Books: A Web Site About Picture Books
•  C. S. Lewis and the Inklings Home Page
•  Into the Wardrobe: a Web site devoted to C. S. Lewis
•  Children's Authors & Illustrators on the Web
•  Young Adult Authors
•  Hatrack River - The Official Web Site of Orson Scott Card
•  Center for International Studies --for use with Sheila Gordon's Waiting for the Rain
•  Bibliography on Conflict Resolution --Novels related to conflict resolution
• School District of Philadelphia Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development Recommended Reading
• Scholastic Books for Children and Young Adults: Newsletter
• Historical Fiction resources for Teens
•  The Problem Novel --Gender Identity--The Drowning of Stephan Jones
•  Owens Library Multiculturalism in Education WWW Resources
•  Multicultural Children's and Young Adult Books
• Diaries of Desperation--Immigrant Stories
• Book Banter:NYSRA Children's Literature Committee
• Reading Around the World
•  Supplemental Information about Pam Muñoz Ryan's Books --Latino/a--Hispanic novel
•  Click Here! --Afghan Women's Book List--connected to My Forbidden Face
•  Biography and personal recollections --connected to My Forbidden Face
•  Women tell own stories of Taliban oppression
•  Lives of torment and resistance unveiled | csmonitor.com
•  Holocaust Web Sites
• Internet Public Library: Teen Section
•  Madeleine L'Engle: Home
•  Children's book author Ben Mikaelsen
•  Author Profile: Norma Fox Mazer
•  PAULO COELHO --author of The Alchemist, The Fifth Mountain, and many other works
• Read-in
•  BCPS Grade Six English - Novels and Units --Baltimore County Librarians' book list
•  BCPS Grade Eight English - Novels and Units --Baltimore County Librarians' book list
•  freedomforum.org: From Harry Potter to 'Blubber': 100 books make list of most challenged of the '90s
•  Booklists at TeensPoint.org
• Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!
•  Reading Resources Network
•  Scranton Memorial Library - Madison, CT - Young Adults
•  2003 Garden State Teen Book Award Fiction 6 - 8
•  vsbayalist --Volunteer State Book List
•  WORLD WAR I and WORLD WAR II FICTION --book lists for Young Adults about WWI and WWII
•  Here are some specific novels with lesson plans and some available resources online. --Lesson Plans to accompany YA Lit. books
•  Katherine Paterson @Web English Teacher
•  Slavery in America --for use with Nightjohn and Sarny by Gary Paulsen
•  Freak the Mighty: Literature-based Reading Comprehension Skill builders --use with Rodman Philbrick books
• Teachers at Random House
•  MG Press Books - Fiction - True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High --Marilyn Reynolds' works
•  RICE UNIVERSITY J.R.R. Tolkien Course
•  Jerry Spinelli on Milkweed (Reference)
•  Jerry Spinelli 2
•  Spiritual Themes in Young Adult Books
•  Netscape Search: Results for "Shabanu and teaching ideas"
•  Suzanne Fisher Staples
•  Teenreads.com
•  The Dr. Seuss Web Page
•  The Looking Glass
•  Tolkien Online | Lord of the Rings Source
•  Vandergrift's Special Interest Page --Young Adult Literature page
•  Netscape Search: Results for "Veciana-Suarez, Ana and Teaching Ideas"
•  High School Teachers : Teacher's Guides : Dicey's Song --Cynthia Voight
•  Young Adult Librarian's Help/Homepage
•  Young Adult Lit.
•  Get the Facts --Young Women fiction
• Gary Paulsen Web site
• Kathryn Lasky Homepage
• Hate Crimes Traveling Trunk (for use with works like WITNESS by Karen Hesse
• Lois Lowry homepage
• YA Library Services Assocation YA Lit page of the American Library Association
• Jabberwocky poem
• Children's Literature Web Guide
• Lesson Plans on numerous authors

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