WritingResearch in YAlitResearch
in Children's LitStudy
Questions for YA/ChLit Books
Teaching K-12

Do you often feel like Sisyphus?

This site will help.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as
a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."
~ Albert Einstein
Sources for the Classroom
- Teaching ELD
- Ask ERic--a great source for lesson plans and
other information
- SCORE---a very comprehensive guide to lesson plans
- Preparation
for the SAT and GRE
- Sites for enabling teachers greater use of email and interactive classrooms
via the net
- Bilbliomania--a
superb free link for etexts of short stories, dramas, novels, poetry
- Children's
Literature Resource for Teacher
- National Council
for Teachers of English: home page
that includes chat areas, lesson plans, and up-to-date information
- Puzzlemaker--free, for all sorts of classroom activities--a great program
- Funderstanding: about theoretical ways of learning
- Teachnology--the web portal for educators
- Optical Illusions
- Book Reports: Over 100
innovative ways to have Students give book reports
- Humanities Web Sites for Teachers
- "Metaphors We Live By," Lakoff and Johnson's explanation of how metaphors
structure our world
- Metaphorical nature of language: Contructing
meaning from Lakoff and Johnson's discoveries--an article
- Innovative
Ideas for Teaching a Novel in High School
- Teaching the Short Story in the classroom
- Historical and Multicultural links for studying issues and books
Gradebook Sites--
- Gradepal-http://www.gradepal.com/--offers for a $35.00 per year fee
a web site and grading program
- Classroom
planner software--http://www.scheppturner.com/
- Free
grade program--http://www.classroomwindows.com/
- freeware grading
program--http://www.shelltech.com/--create
reports, drop lowest scores, extra credit assignments
- gradekeeper--http://www.gradekeeper.com/--a
grading program and on-line interface for $20--Win and Mac] Powerful and easy to use gradebook software that allows
teachers to record grades for the entire school year. Gradekeeper can also create a web site so parents and students
can check their grades online.
- gradebusters--http://www.gradebusters.com/--free trial and download
- 1st
class gradebook--http://www.1st-class-software.com/--Here's
one for all of us---free trial and if you don't like it the manufacturer will send you $50
- http://www.tucows.com/--A site that grades grading programs and offers either shareware
or freeware programs of all kinds. Search for gradebook
- http://download.cnet.com/--site offers a number of useful and free software
- Bloom's
Taxonomy--a guide for devising questions
- About.com--Guides
to help you learn, find, and share
- Classroom Management
- Young
Adult: Middle and Secondary Language
Arts Resouces for
Teachers
- Link to Classroom Management tips from Education World
- Internet
4 kids--a great site for teaching kids about the internet & developing their own web page
- Historical
Searches: Newspaper archive
- Teaching American Literature--sample
syllabi from University of Pennsylvania
- American Literature Web Resources-
- American Stories--a
short but very good site
- Interactive site for teaching American Literature
- Author, Poet, and Book List Links
- Book List's choice of outstanding books for Youth
- Game
for Twisted Fairy Tales: for use
in schools. Free
- Summer Reading Ideas for various grades in
High School
- Quotations for Quick Writes and other Writing prompts
- Teaching Ways to Avoid Sentence Fragments:
handouts and lesson plans
Specific
Unit Lesson Plans for Middle & High School English Classes
See separate links for more material
on books especially for Young
Adult Literature and Children's Literature
Lincoln-Sudbury
High School, Boston, Massachusetts.
A Sample High School English Curriculum
from an outstanding school:

Links to studying Literature from
an Historical perspective

School Reform Issues Across the
Country: Strategies for Improving Literary
The
Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory
at Brown University (The LAB)
Articles about Young Adult Literature
and Teaching English in 7-12 Classes