Related Organizations

Teaching Resources: Links to Explore

Lesson Plans and Teaching Materials

Read Write Think: ReadWriteThink is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. These groups are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

No Child Left Behind Resources: These are some links to information about the No Child Left Behind legislation assembled by the The Online Internet Institute (OII) web site.

PBS Arts and English: NewsHour Extra stories written for students, and reports from the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the nightly news broadcast on PBS (Lesson plans)

Free: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site. An Excellent Site!

BBC Teaching English: This site is a co-production between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the British Council.

Dictionaries and Language Useage

The American Heritage® Book of English Usage: A Guide to Contemporary English.

The Alpha Dictionary Site: This site provides dictionary access to literally hundreds of languages from Abenaki to Zulu.

Poetry

Academy of American Poets National

PBS Poetry: includes link to the Favorite Poem Project