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About.com's Desktop Publishing. About.com's Desktop Publishing features DTP lesson plans and projects for grades 7-12. To find a variety of thematic lessons, click here and to find plans for creating and using business cards, brochures, and resumes in the classroom, click here.

About.com's Secondary School Lesson Plans. About.com provides a collection of lesson plan sites for teaching English and language arts and novels in grades 7-12.

Academy Curriculum Exchange (K-5). The Academy Curriculum Exchange offers 44 mini-lesson plans covering various language arts topics at the elementary school level.

Academy Curriculum Exchange (6-8). The Academy Curriculum Exchange offers 33 mini-lesson plans covering various language arts topics at the middle school level.

Academy Curriculum Exchange (9-12). The Academy Curriculum Exchange offers 14 mini-lesson plans covering various language arts topics at the high school level.

Academy Curriculum Exchange. The Academy Curriculum Exchange offers an assortment of miscellaneous lesson plans for K-12. Among these you'll find language arts plans for grades K-5, 6-8, and 9-12.

ACCESS INDIANA Teaching & Learning Center Teacher. The ACCESS INDIANA Teaching & Learning Center provides a collection of language arts lesson plans for grades K-12.

Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin. Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin features a curriculum database where the K-8 teachers can search for language arts lesson plans/activities by grade level.

Addison Wesley Longman Resource Bank. Addison Wesley Longman provides a collection of ESL plans with ready-made lessons and student worksheets for grades 1-8. For lesson plans you can print from your browser, click here or here, and for PDF lesson plans, you'll need to download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Although these plans are intended for ESL students, language arts teachers will find them useful for other students, too.

ALI Featured Cuuriculum Resources. The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) provides a library of computer and online lesson plans for the elementary, middle, and secondary schools. At each level, you'll find plans for language arts and across the curriculum. In addition, ALI offers a variety of themes in the Curriculum Center.

ALI Resources. The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) provides a collection thousands of Internet resources for teaching and learning in grades K-12. You can search this online catalog by subject and level, or by keyword. To find language arts lesson plans and ideas for English and literature, use the subject pull-down menu.

ALI Units of Practice. The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) contains lessons created by teachers for integrating technology into the teaching and learning process for grades K-12. To find all the language arts lessons for English or literature, use the "subject" and "level" pull-down menus. ALI also sponsors collaborative multidisciplinary projects for grades K-12.

Ancient Egypt Lesson Plans for Teachers. The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) provides a variety of cross-curricular lesson plans for grades 4-8 based upon the theme of ancient Egypt. For language arts teacher-created plans, click here.

Animate Your World. Animate Your World contains a collection of thematic creative writing activities for middle grade students. These activities do not require elaborate materials or intensive preparation and can be used without the videos. Each activity includes a reproducible worksheet that can be printed and distributed for classroom use.

Archive.edu. Archive.edu, from the University of Houston's College of Education, is a storehouse of instructional materials on a variety of topics for grades K-12. The site includes technology-related lesson plans for language arts.

AskERIC Lesson Plans: Interdisciplinary. AskERIC Lesson Plans provides a collection of nearly 100 interdisciplinary lesson plans contributed by teachers for grades K-12. Each lesson plan features an overview, purpose, objectives, activities, and resource materials. These interdisciplinary plans can complement thematic teaching units.

AskERIC Lesson Plans: Language Arts. AskERIC Lesson Plans provides a searchable collection of over 50 language arts lesson plans contributed by teachers for grades K-12. Each lesson plan features an overview, purpose, objectives, activities, and resource materials. Topics include literature, creative writing, reading, and spelling.

AskERIC lesson Plans: School Library Media Activities Monthly. AskERIC lesson Plans provides reading/language arts lesson activities for grades 1-8 where students use reference materials in the school library.

Ask Jeeves: Where can I find lesson plans? Ask Jeeves provides hundreds of K-12 lesson plans for a variety of subject areas. The site includes three pull-down menus, other seach engines, as well as a teacher resource center for finding language arts lesson plans and classroom activities.

A to Z Teacher Stuff. A to Z Teacher Stuff features a collection of lesson plans submitted by teachers for grades K-12. To find over 500 online lesson plans for children's literature arranged by book title, click here. To find over 400 online units organized by theme, click here or organized alphabetically, click here. For a collection of lesson plans submitted by teachers, click here, and for pages to go with the lessons as well as links to sites with printable pages, click on reproducibles.

Autumn's Free Activity Page for Kids. Autumn's Free Activity Page for Kids provides weekly a variety of printable worksheets for the primary grades to complement lessons in language arts and other subject areas.

Awesome Library: Language Arts Lesson Plans. The Awesome Library contains a collection of hundreds of language arts lesson plans for K-12. Another good source for language arts plans from this library is Multidisciplinary.

Ballantine Publishers Group Teacher's Guides. The Ballantine Publishers Group provides a collection of teacher's guides to books for middle and high school classrooms. Teachers can request a print version of any of their teacher's guides via email. Ballantine also features profiles of some of their leading authors.

Baltimore Curriculum Project Lesson Plans. Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP), based on the Core Knowledge Sequence, features monthly K-2 lesson plans for variety of curricular areas. To find language arts plans, click on Lit. in the table.

Beat the Clock. Beat the Clock features a series of four time management lesson plans designed for use with middle school students. Students learn how to use a daily planner, learn how to prioritize their daily and weekly activities, and learn how to use a Month-In-View calendar for long range planning. Each lesson includes printable worksheets for the students.

Biography Maker. Biography Maker provides online step-by-step lessons to help middle school students write biographies. The lessons include questioning, learning, synthesis, and story-telling activites and a list of great explorers and other biography resources.

Blue Web'N. Blue Web'N, sponsored by Pacific Bell, provides an online library of 20 lesson plan sites for English. To find English plans, scroll to "Browse the Content Table". You can also search the library for language arts resources. The site, suitable for grades 3-12, is updated weekly.

Browse by Theme. Browse by Theme from Houghton Mifflin contains a collection of cross-curricular lesson plans for grades K-6. Some of themes that include plans for reading are Community, Tales and Legends, Do You Believe This?, and Tell Me a Story.

CanTeach. CanTeach, maintained by Iram Khan & James Hörner, provides a wide variety of elementary school resources including a collection of English Language Arts lesson plans categorized by topic. The site also includes a variety of ready-to-use songs & poems for special days and events that teachers can incorporate in their language arts lessons.

Carol Gossett's Kindergarten Connection. Carol Gossett's Kindergarten Connection contains lesson plan archive including integrated units and language arts plans.

Casey at the Bat Activity. Casey at the Bat Activity features a collection of lesson plans based on the famous poem Casey at the Bat. Lessons include assessing the characters in the poem, making a trading card for the Mighty Casey, and casting a film version of the famous tale.

CEC Lesson Plans. CEC Lesson Plans, sponsored by the Columbia Education Center Portland (Oregon), features a wide variety of lesson plans created by teachers for use in their own classrooms. To find language arts plans to fit your needs, scroll to "Language Arts" and click on Elementary (K-5), Intermediate (6-8), or High School (9-12).

China: Dim Sum - A Connection to Chinese-American Culture. Dim Sum (a Cantonese term meaning "a little bit of heart"), developed by Newton's Angier School in Massachusetts, features a variety of cross-curriculum lesson plans to enhance awareness and understanding of Chinese-American culture in grades 2-5. To find 17 language arts plans, click here and to find a listing of all the lesson plans, click on Index.

Cinderella Stories. Cinderella Stories contains lesson plans with multicultural versions of Cinderella for grades 3-7. Scroll to "Teaching ideas by Jean Rusting" where you'll find plans for Tattercoats, Cap o' Rushes, The Twelve Months, and The Princess and the Golden Shoes. You can also print a copy of these different versions.

Cindy's K-12. Cindy's K-12 Web site contains the author's lesson plans as well as links to other lesson plan sites.

Classroom Connect's Internet Lesson Plans. Classroom Connect provides a collection of mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts lesson plans using the Internet for grades 7-12. To view and print the plans, you must download Adobe's free Acrobat Reader.

Collaborative Lesson Archive (CLA). Bill and Dee Chapman's Collaborative Lesson Archive (CLA) is a searchable database of lesson plans contributed by teachers for all grade levels and for all subject areas. To find language arts plans, click on a grade level and then select drama, reading, or writing for that grade.

Columbia Education Center's Mini Lessons. The Columbia Education Center provides a collection of lesson plans for grades K-12 contributed by teachers attending summer workshops. The site includes over 90 language arts plans for grades K-5, 6-8, and 9-12.

Connecting Students. Connecting Students, maintained by David Leahy, provides a collection of language arts lesson plans for grades K-12. Teachers will also find more language arts plans in the themes, Web lessons, and literacy sections.

Cooperative Learning Lesson Plan Categories. Patrick Morris' Cooperative Learning Categories for grades K-6 contain lesson plan activities in language arts, reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and writing.

Connections+ from McRel. Connections+ from McRel provides a collection of lesson plans and activities for teaching Shakespeare, folktales, spelling, creative and research writing, poetry, and other language arts topics in grades K-12. To find these plans, click here. In addition, the site offers Haiku resources.

Core Knowledge Lesson Plans from National Conferences. Core Knowledge provides a collection of integrated lesson plans and units developed by teachers for use in grades preK-8. To find language arts plans, click on a grade level.

Crayola Art Education Lesson Plans. Binney & Smith provides a searchable collection of lesson plans for grades K-12. To find language arts plans for grades K-6, choose "language arts" as the subject area and "any" for the other categories. To find all available lessons, select "any" for all the categories.

Creating a Classroom Newspaper. The Calgary Herald in Canada provides reading and writing activites for integrating journalism into the language arts curriculum. The site features an online "A Teacher's Guide" with lesson plans, student worksheets, a newspaper glossary, and other useful materials for creating a classroom newspaper in grades 6-12.

Crucible. The Crucible project, created by Margarida Mello and Leah Marquis for high school students, is an online unit of the study on Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible. The site contains activities, assignments, and pre-reading and post-reading projects, as well as a mutimedia PowerPoint presentation. To find resources related to the play, you can enter keywords such as "lessons" or "activities" into the site's search engine.

C-SPAN in the Classroom. C-SPAN in the Classroom, updated weekly, provides lesson plans with study questions for its About Books and Booknotes programs. You'll also find an archive of over 145 lesson plans dating back to November, 1994 for the About Books and the Books programs. The site, suitable for the high school classes, gives schedule information for all of C-SPAN's programming as well as schedules for programs of interest to teachers.

Curriculum Guide for the Elementary Level: English Language Arts. The Saskatchewan Department of Education provides a curriculum guide with over 50 lessons for teaching English language arts in grades 1-5. To find the lessons, scroll near the bottom of the page to "Sample Units".

Curriculum Resources: WebQuests. Curriculum Resources from the San Bernardino County's Instructional Technology Development Consortium contain a collection of interdisciplinary lesson plans (WebQuests) for grades K-12. WebQuests provide teacher directions as well as self-instructional student activities using the Internet. Topics for language arts include The World of Puppets, Weather Watchers, Literary Fan Club, and Civil War Newspaper.

Curriculum Studio. The Curriculum Studio, part of the Kennedy Center's ARTSEDGE Web site, provides a collection of language arts and theater lesson plans, units, and related resources for grades K-12.

CyberGuides: Teacher Guides & Student Activities. CyberGuides, from the California SCORE Language Arts Project, is a collection of supplementary teacher-developed units based on over 80 core works of literature for students in grades K-12. Each CyberGuide, organized by grade level, contains a student and teacher edition, objectives, a task and a process by which it may be completed, Web-searching activities, and a rubric for assessing the quality of the student's work. The site also includes bilingual CyberGuides.

Daily Learning Activities. Daily Learning Activities, prepared by the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training for parents and caregivers, is a collection of eleven packages of learning materials that can complement any language arts curriculum in grades 1-8.

DEEP 96. The Distance Education Environment Page (DEEP) 96 offers cooperative learning activities for a variety of subject areas in grades K-8. Language arts lesson plans include modules for reading, novels, writing, listening and speaking, and other topics.

Deep in the Bush Where People Rarely Go. Teachers in grades K-8 can use folktales to bring Africa alive in their classrooms. The site, developed by teacher Phillip Martin while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, contains lesson plans, the folktales, plays, African recipes, links to other African resources, and ideas for students to create and produce their own plays.

Discovery Channel School. Discovery Channel School provides an literature lesson plans for its 'Great Books' series. The Tales from the Brothers Grimm plan is suitable for the elementary school level, while the remaining 15 plans are suitable for grades 6-12. Each 'Great Book' lesson plan includes vocabulary, study questions, online activities, and related Internet sites.

Drama Teacher's Resource Room. The Drama Teacher's Resource Room contains a collection of lesson plans, backstage activities, and links for teaching drama in grades 4-12.

Edgar Allen Poe: An Author Unit. Edgar Allen Poe: An Author Unit, a SCORE CyberGuide, contains lesson plans designed for use by high school classes studying Poe's writing. The site includes teacher instructions, student materials, and suggestions for further reading and Internet searching.

EDSITEment. EDSITEment, a joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI Communications Corp., and the National Trust for the Humanities, contains a variety of online lesson plans for teaching English, history, art history, and other subjects at the high school level. The English lesson plans cover American and British literature, French language studies, and the classic heritage of Greece and Rome.

Educast Lesson Plan Search. Educast, designed by Davidson and Associates for grades K-12, provides a collection of lesson plans that is updated weekly. To search for language arts plans, choose all the grade levels, select language arts as your subject, and click on Search. To narrow a language arts search, select one grade level and use the keyword search option. Each lesson plan includes printable student activity sheets that require Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer.

Educate the Children: Lesson Plans. Educate the Children provides a collection of hundreds of lesson plans and worksheets contributed by teachers for grades K-12. The site includes 120 plans for English.

Education World: Language Arts Lesson Plans. Education World, sponsored by American Fidelity Services, provides nearly 200 language arts lesson plans for grades K-12. Categories include literature, reading, vocabulary/spelling, whole language, and writing/composition.

Education World: Lesson Planning Center. Education World, sponsored by American Fidelity Services for grades K-12, provides weekly an article focusing on a specific topical theme such as hurricanes, first day of school, whales, or a specific holiday. Included in each article are cross-curriculum lessons and activities. Each article offers printable student worksheets and links to relevant sites. In the lesson planning archive, you'll also find more language arts lessons.

Educator's Toolkit. The Educator's Toolkit offers a collection of over 60 sites with hundreds of lesson plans in various subject areas for grades K-12.

Educators' Web Resources! Educators' Web Resources, created by Professor Lynn Fleming at Southeastern Louisiana University, contains hundreds of English language lesson plans for grades K-12.

EdVenture's Teacher Resource Centre. EdVenture Web site provides a wide variety of lesson plans for grades K-12. The lesson plans are organized by grade level and each plan is identified by subject area.

Encarta Lesson Collection. Encarta's Schoolhouse offers a collection of lesson plans contributed by K-12 teachers for a variety of different subject areas. To find language arts plans, click here.

English Language Arts. English Language Arts, from the Evergreen Curriculum in Saskatchewan, contains two sample thematic units with a series of lesson plans for grades 1-5. For additional language arts lesson plans, click on Stewart Resources Centre Material on the top of each grade level page.

Fairy Tales from Far Off Lands. Fairy Tales from Far Off Lands, created by University of Richmond students for grades 4-6, feature a collection of Internet-based lesson plans for studying fables around the world. Places and countries covered include Africa, central Asia, China, Egypt, England, native American, Russia, ans Scotland.

Featured Childrens' Books. Carol Hurst's Featured Childrens' Books, for grades K-6, contains a collection of lessons and activities to accompany over 25 books ranging from Araminta's Paint Box to Redwall.

Filamentality. Filamentality, provided by the Pacific Bell Knowledge Network for grades K-12, helps teachers create online lessons and activities for their students. To view a list of language arts lessons and activities contributed by other teachers, click here and select All for both Activity Format and Grade Level and then choose English for Subject Area. The site provides step-by-step procedures for creating a variety of page formats including a hotlist page, a treasure hunt, and a Web-based activity page. Each page is accompanied by a description and an online example. For online help, tutorials, and guidelines for creating your own Web documents, click on Beyond the Son of Filamentality.

Firsteps. Firsteps, a parenting resource also useful for preschool and K-2 teachers, provides a collection of over 25 "short and sweet" reading lessons prepared by reading specialist, Julia Brady Ratliff. To be notified when new lessons are added, email Julia.

Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT). The FCIT, located at the University of South Florida, contains a searchable database of over 225 technology-related lesson plans developed by Florida teachers for grades 4-12. The collection, known as T'NT (Technology 'Nformation for Teachers), includes plans for a variety of subject areas including language arts. Teachers can search for lesson plans by grade level, subject, or keyword.

Free Exemplary Lesson Plans. The ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication offers a collection of free exemplary language arts lesson plans for K-12 from its publicatons.

Free Online Unit Studies. Free Online Unit Studies features Charity Lovelace's language arts units on Ducks, Learning With the Little House, A Sensory Summer, and Under the Sea for the primary grades. The site also includes a collection of over 300 other curriculum units for grades K-8 gathered from the Internet. To find an index to the collection, scroll to "More Online Units Studies".

Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM). GEM, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides access to hindreds of lesson plans on the Internet, curriculum units, and other education resources for grades K-12. To find a list of language arts plans, select Language Arts. Browse Subject Lists and scroll to "Language Arts" and click on Language Arts. For help using this subject index, click here.

GC EduNET Lesson Plans. GC EduNET Lesson Plans, from the Georgia College & State University server, provides a variety of lesson plans written by teachers for grades K-12. To find language arts plans, click GC EduNET Lesson Plans..

Going to a Museum? A Teacher's Guide. Going to a Museum? A Teacher's Guide, written and compiled by teachers and students in the "Museums and Education" course at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education, offers a collection of lesson plans and resources for field trips to specific museums. The site provides a planning guide, sample lesson plans, and other Internet resources. To find language arts plans, click here.

Gryphon House Online. Gryphon House provides online a wealth of sample lessons from their books for preschool and primary grade children. To find language arts lessons, click on Free Activities!, scroll to "Activity Books" or "Language Arts", and select a title that interests you. For additional lesson material, click here.

Harper Collins Teachers' Guides. Harper Collins provides a collection of teachers' guides with discussion and study questions to novels published by the Harper Collins. Teachers are encouraged to print the guides for use in their own elementary school classrooms.

Homework Central: Language Arts. Homework Central provides a collection of language arts lesson plans arranged by topic for grades K-12. Teachers can also search for other language arts plans by subject or grade level in the Lesson Plan Archives.

Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy. Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy provides a collection of theme-related activities and related links for grades K-6 to supplement any reading series. To find this lesson material organized by grade level, click on Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, or Grade 6.

IBM Internet Lesson Plans. IBM provides monthly for grades K-12 thematic Internet-based lesson plans that encourage students to use the Internet to do research in various curricular areas.

Intel ACE Project Lesson Plans. The Applying Computers in Education (ACE) Project, sponsored by Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft, provides a searchable collection of nearly 1,000 technology-enhanced lesson plans created by teachers. The lessons, covering all subject areas for grades K-12, are searchable by topic, grade level, and keyword. Teachers can find plans for creative writing, grammar, literature, reading and other language arts topics.

Jan Brett's Home Page. Jan Brett's Home Page provides a number classroom resources for the primary grades. Piggybacks for Teachers contain lesson plans and projects to accompany Jan Brett's popular books, the alphabet sheets can be printed and displayed together as a letter line or used separately as flash cards, and the activities folder offers a collection of coloring pages for use with her books.

Japan Lessons: Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers. Japan Lessons provides plans for K-12 teachers focusing on writing and other subject areas. To find "Writing Skills" plans, use the the "Subject" and the "Student level" pull-down menus.. To view all the lesson plans for all subject areas, click on Browse.. Lesson plans include objectives, materials, suggested classroom time, procedures, extension ideas, teacher background information, and student worksheets.

Kevin's Lesson Center. Kevin's Lesson Center features a collection of lesson plans contributed by teachers for grades 4-12. The site includes English/language arts plans.

KidReach: Lesson Plans and Activities. KidReach provides unit lesson plans contributed by student teachers at State University of West Georgia for teaching literature in grades 4-12. The site includes unit plans for the following books and plays: Spirit Quest by Susan Sharpe, Daniel's Story by Carol Matas, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Night by Elie Wiesel.

Kids Love A Mystery. Kids Love A Mystery, part of the MysteryNet Web site, contains lesson plans and online mystery stories for teaching critical thinking, problem solving, writing, and literature in grades 4-7. You can also sign up via email for free updates including a new mystery every week.

Kimmy Smith's Lessons. Kimmy Smith's Lessons, for high school English classes, feature Kimmy's handouts on short stories, some novel notes, and some essay topics as well as lesson plan ideas from other English teachers' sites.

Kodak: Lesson Plans. Kodak provides a collection of lesson plans which combine photography and various curricular areas for grades K-12. To find a list of over 45 language arts plans, click here and to find a list of over 12 English plans, click here. All the plans require a camera.

Language Arts Thematic Lessons. The South Central Regional Technology In Education Consortium (SCR*TEC) provides a collection of language arts thematic lesson plans for integrating the Internet into K-12 classrooms. Themes cover a broad range of topics from alphabet & phonics to literature.

Leafy Greens Council. Leafy Greens Council features "Cruciferous Crusaders", an integrated 26-page unit with a variety of lesson plans for grades K-3. The language arts plans contain printable game activities, student handouts, test items, and an answer key.

Learning Resources. Learning Resources site uses current CNN news articles, edited for easier reading, to promote literacy for students in grades 6-12. Each week a new story is featured and accompanied by a comprehensive set of interactive activities that test the student's comprehension.

Lear, Limericks, & Literature. Lear, Limericks, & Literature, created by Beverly L. Adams-Gordon, is an unit of study for Edward Lear' poetry in grades 5-12. The unit features a series of creative writing and reading lesson plans. The site also contains background information about Lear's life and his limericks, a bibilography, and related sites.

Learning Activities Archive. Learning Activities Archive, from Kaplan's SCORE, provides a collection of lessons for various curriculum areas. Language arts topics include reading, vocabulary, grammar, creative writing, poetry, and writing a report.

Lesson Plan Place. The Internet Education Group provides a collection of hundreds of links to thousands of lesson plans for integrating the Internet into K-12 classrooms. To find language arts plans, click here. The site also offers miscellaneous plans and plans from friends on the Net as additional lesson plan sources.

Lesson Plans and Teaching Activities for School Librarians. Lesson Plans and Teaching Activities provides a collection of lesson plan sites useful for K-12 school libraries.

Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Desk. Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Desk is a collection of over 250 Angela A. Achley's lesson ideas and activities for teaching spelling, writing, English, reading, and vocabulary useful for grades 4-6.

Lesson Plans on the Internet. Elizabeth B. Miller has compiled a collection of lesson plans organized by topic for grades K-12. The following topics contain language arts plans: Lesson Plan Databases with Subject Categories, Language Arts/English, and Library Science.

Lesson Plans Page. Kyle Yamnitz's Lesson Plans Page contains hundreds of lesson plans contributed by Kyle and other teachers for grades K-8. To find language arts plans on the main page, click here. For more language arts plans on page# 2, click here.

Lesson Plan Wizard. Lesson Plan Wizard, from Globe Fearon's Teacher's Room for grades K-12, lets you search for lesson plans by interest (grade) level or by content area. To find language arts lesson plans, scroll to "Content Area", select the language arts and reading and literature items, and click on Search.

Lesson Stop. Lesson Stop, maintained by Therese Sarah for grades K-12, contains over 500 sites with thousands of lesson plans for a variety of subject areas. To find a collection of language arts plans organized by topic and grade level, click here. In addition, the site includes Spinning Tales lesson plan for writing short stories.

LETSNet: Language Arts Lesson Plans. The Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students through the Internet (LETSNet), designed for the K-12 classroom, contains a collection of teaching units with online student activities that incorporate reading, writing, and research skills. The units include Ellis Island, Essay Exchange, School Newspaper, What's In A Name?, and Holiday Explorations.

Library in the Sky. The Library in the Sky, from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), provides hundreds of K-12 lesson plans for a variety of subject areas. To find language arts plans, click here, and to find additional language arts plans, click on Across Subjects.

Linguistics 577 Lesson Plans. Linguistics 577 lesson plans, created by Brigham Young University students, contains a collection of over 50 plans in reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and other language arts areas for grades 7-12.

Little Web Schoolhouse. The Little Web Schoolhouse, created by the Bolivar R-1 Schools in Missouri, provide online lessons in spelling, synonyms and antonyms, identifying and classifying sentences, and plural and singular possessives for elementary school students.

Lots of Lesson Plans. Lots of Lesson Plans, compiled by Elizabeth B. Miller, contains a wide variety of lesson plan resources for grades K-12 covering many subject areas.

Louisiana Challenge Lesson Plans for the K-12 Classroom. Louisiana Challenge provides a collection of lesson plans prepared by Louisiana teachers for grades K-12. The lessons, arranged by elementary, middle, and high school levels, are divided into subject areas including language arts. Each lesson covers one to three classroom sessions.

Making Multicultural Connections Through Trade Books. Making Multicultural Connections Through Trade Books, prepared by the Montgomery County Public Schools, is a database of books with lesson plans for various subject areas. Each trade book includes bibliographical information and a brief synopsis, and in most cases, a specific lesson for using the book in the elementary school classroom. You can access the database by theme, title, cultural group, or by grade level/subject.

MayaQuest '96 Teacher To Teacher Center. MayaQuest '96 Teacher To Teacher Center, sponsored by Minnesota's Technology and Information Services (TIES), provides a variety of lesson plans and activities about the Mayan culture for the middle school curriculum. The plans also include language arts classroom activities.

McDougal Littell's Spelling Lessons. McDougal Littell provides online 32 spelling lessons for each of the following: grade 6, grade 7, and grade 8. The lessons can supplement any middle school language arts program, and each lesson includes a teacher's as well as a student's page.

McREL: Lesson Plans and Activities. Lesson plans and Activities, compiled by Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), contains a collection of K-12 lesson plans for a variety of curricular areas. For the language arts plans and activites, click here.

MEL: Lesson Plans. The Michigan Electronic Library (MEL), an online information system, contains lesson plan collections for grades K-12. Each collection includes language arts lesson plans.

Microsoft Lessons and Activities. Microsoft provides a collection of lesson plans and computer activities for integrating technology into the K-12 classroom. Microsoft includes Productivity in the Classroom curriculum workbooks, Teacher Activity guides, and lesson plans from teachers.

Middle School Partnership: Language Arts Lesson Plans. The Middle School Partnership provides a collection of sites with hundreds of language arts lesson plans for grades 5-8.

Microsoft Productivity in the Classroom. Microsoft provides a collection of lesson plans and computer activities to integrate software into the K-12 classroom. The site offers plans for various subject areas, and each plan includes a teaching guide as well as a student activity. To view the complete list of lessons, click on Lessons at a Glance. To find other Microsoft and Scholastic's lessons and activities for integrating specific software in the classroom, click here and scroll to "Teacher Activity Guides".

Mrs Donn's K-12 Lesson Plan & Activities. Mrs Donn provides a collection of lesson plan sites for grades K-12 including language arts and journalism/newspapers plans.

Mrs. G's Lessons. Mrs. G's Lessons feature Internet adventures for teaching vocabulary, writing, grammar, and review exercises to high school students.

Neptune's Web. Neptune's Web, sponsored by Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC), provides a variety of cross-curricular lesson plans including language arts. The site, suitable for grades K-12, offers printable student worksheets with the lessons.

New York Times on the Web Learning Network. The New York Times on the Web Learning Network provides a daily lesson plan as well an extensive lesson plan archive covering a variety of topics for grades 6-12. Topics include language arts and journalism. Each plan is based on today's news and includes the New York Times article that you can print out and recopy for classroom use.

Northmoor's Internet Lesson Plans for K-6 Teachers. The Northmoor Elementary School from Oklahoma provides a collection of lesson plans for grades K-6. The site includes plans in reading as well as in language arts for K-3 and 4-6.

Novel/Drama Sample Units. The Center for Learning provides a collection of sample lesson plans for teaching interdisciplinary novel/drama units in grades 7-12. The site also includes lessons for English/Language Arts as well as an alphabetical list of titles containing more lesson plans for many of the novels.

Omaha Public School Language Arts Lesson Plans. Omaha Public Schools provides Internet-based language arts lesson plans for middle and high school teachers.

Online Education. Online Education provides ready-to-use lesson plans and classroom activities in a variety of subject areas for grades 6-12. You'll find Web-based lesson material in the Educator Internet Resources section.

Online Project Center. About.com's Online Project Center features a variety of K-6 lesson plans contributed by elementary school teachers. The site includes plans for cross-curriculum and language arts as well for other subject areas.

Outta Ray's Head. Outta Ray's Head features a collection of over 100 language arts lesson plans containing printable handouts for teaching poetry, literature, writing, and library skills in grades 7-12.

Patti's Electronic Classroom: Windows to Reading. Patti's Electronic Classroom features phonics activities for the primary grade classroom. In addition, you'll find reading assessment tools including a hands-on alphabet assessment in the teacher's corner section.

PBS TeacherSource. PBS TeacherSource features an inventory of over1,000 free lesson plans, teacher guides, and online activities that complement PBS television programs. Using the keyword feature of Find It!, teachers can find lesson plans for a variety of language arts topics for grades 4-12. Many of these plans can be used independently of the TV programs. The site, suitable for grades 4-12, also includes information about how teachers can legally tape the PBS shows for classroom use as well as advance schedules and information about local PBS broadcasting, and ordering PBS videos.

Peace Corps: World Wise Schools. Peace Corps through its World Wise Schools provides a collection of global education lesson plans for social studies, science, and language arts indexed by grade level, 3-12. The site also includes Teacher Guides to help students gain a greater understanding of a culture and region of the world that is different from their own.

Penquin Putman Inc. Online: Academic Area. Penquin Putman Inc: Academic Area provides invaluable teachers' guides for a variety of Signet classics. These printable guides contain ready-to-use lesson plans, discussion questions, chapter-by-chapter and scene-by-scene breakdowns of numerous books used in high English classes. Another lesson plan source is the Readers' Guides.

PIGS in Cyberspace: Modules. PIGS in Cyberspace, a networking New Brunswick project, features cooperative lesson plan modules developed by teachers for grades 4-8. The language arts module contains plans for reading, writing, listening and speaking, rapid reinforcers, and novels. Each lesson provides activities, enrichment suggestions, and Internet activities which be adapted to any classroom situation.

Pit Pony. Pit Pony is the companion site for the feature-length film inspired by Joyce Barkhouse's classic children's novel for grades 4-9. The site provides a ready-to-use teachers guide to complement the book and film Pit Pony. You can also download a free complete classroom guide with lesson plans, background materials, and resources.

Pizzaz!... People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling. Pizzaz, created by Leslie Opp-Beckman, provides creative writing lessons and activities with copyable student handouts. The site features explanations of various kinds of poetry from limericks to haiku to quatrains. Although the poetry lessons were designed for older ESL students, the materials can be adapted to be used in any 3-8 classroom.

Plays of William Shakespeare. The Plays of William Shakespeare from TeachersFirst Web site is guide to the Shakespeare plays commonly encountered in the high school curriculum. The site provides lesson plans, electronic texts, multi-media materials, translations, and student-developed projects for several plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, and The Tempest. In addition, teachers will find related resources (near the bottom of the page) dealing with the English Monarchy and life and customs in Elizabethan England.

Premier Tracks. Premier Tracks offers a collection of K-12 Web-based lessons created by SCR*TEC's TrackStar. To use this tool, teachers enter a list Web site addresses, annotations, and questions for TrackStar to organize them into an online, interactive, ready-to use lesson. The site provides recent Web lessons and a lesson archive created by other teachers.

Project Center: Reading Activities. Houghton Mifflin Project Center, updated weekly, features a variety of online reading projects for grades K-12. In addition, you'll find a list of Key Pals and Correspondents Exchange projects for your classroom. You can also post your own projects at projects@hmco.com.

ProTeacher. ProTeacher, created by George Hein, contains a collection of lesson plans and other curricular resources for grades K-5. To find language arts plans, click here; to find multi-subject lesson plan sites, click here; to find thematic plans, click here; and to find lterature-based plan sites, click here. You can also browse for language arts plans and resources in the Reading & Language section.

Random House Academic Marketing Teacher's Guides. Random House Academic Marketing provides a collection of teacher's guides to books for grades 8-12. Each guide contains background information, comprehension and classroom discussion questions, related research topics, and other books for further reading.

Resources. Resources, developed by the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University, features cross-curricular lesson plans organized by grade level. To find these plans, click on K-3, 4-6, 6-9, and 9-12..

Resource Village. Resource Village, created by McGraw-Hill for grades K-8, features Web-based lesson plans with printable worksheets for a variety of subject areas. To find reading/language arts plans and activities, click here. In addition, teachers can ask CyberScout to search the Web for sites that match their reading/language arts curriculum.

Rhode Island Teachers and Technology Initiative: Search of Curriculum Database. Rhode Island Teachers and Technology Initiative provides a searchable database of unit ideas contributed by teachers for grades K-12. To view the entire list, click on Find All.

RHL School. RHL School provides weekly printable worksheets to complement any language arts program in grades 4-8. You'll find a collection of worksheets for English basics, reading comprehension, and reference skills. Teachers can request a free weekly updated answer key sent by email at keys@rhlschool.com.

Sabine Parish Teachers' Lesson Plans. Sabine Parish Schools from Louisiana offers a collection of lesson plans designed by their teachers for grades 3-12. On page 1, you'll find plans for language arts and reading near the middle of this page, and on page 3, you'll find a lesson plan for writing an email letter.

Sample Book Ideas for Literature. Sample Book Ideas for Literature from the Young Readers Choice Awards Handbooks of the Pacific Northwest Library Association, contains extensive teaching suggestions to accompany a list of contemporary novels for grades 4-12. The novels include Peg Kehret's Danger at the Fair, Avi's Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?, and Lois Duncan's Who Killed My Daughter?.

Scavenger Hunts. Scavenger Hunts, from the Holy Redeemer Catholic School in Canada are Internet-based activities in which students search for specific information online to complete an assignment. Other excellent scavenger hunts are the Greek Myth and the Reference Library. These sites are suitable for students in grades 4-8.

Scholastic In School. Scholastic In School provides a collection of ready-to- use reproducible activities that can complement the K-6 language arts curriculum. You'll find printable worksheets for reading, writing, phonics, and spelling. The activities include answers keys and can be used independently of Scholastic materials.

School Express Free Worksheets. School Express provides a collection of over 1,000 printable and copyable worksheets for a wide variety of subject areas in grades preK-6. Teachers will find free worksheets to complement language arts, phonics, writing, as well as early childhood lessons. The site is updated weekly with new worksheets..

Schoolhouse: English and Language Arts. Schoolhouse, part of Teacher/Pathfinder, provides a collection of English/language arts lesson plans for reading and writing in grades K-12. You can also search the site for lesson plans.

Schoolzone. The UK's Schoolzone provides a collection of English lesson plans for grades K-12.

SCORE In The Classroom. The Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE) provide a collection of phonics lesson plans and activities for the primary grades.

SCORE Promising Practices. The Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE) provide a collection of sites with language arts lesson and unit plans for grades K-12.

Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee: Study Activities and Tips. Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee actually offers an entire year's worth of vocabulary activities, tips, and spelling lessons for grades 4-8. To find this material, click on Mrs. Brooks' lesson plans and on Carolyn's Corner. Students can explore word elements, complete fun word puzzles, answer questions posed by an etymology expert, and learn various ways to study vocabulary. The site also covers Greek and Latin roots and word history, and includes Dr. Cameron's word pronounciations and definitions via RealAudio.

Secondary School Lesson Plans. About.com provides a variety of secondary school lesson plans organized by subject area including English and Language Arts Plans.

Shakespeare in Education: Courses & Lesson Plans. Terry A. Gray provides a collection of Shakespeare specific lesson plans and online courses for grades 6-12. It is part of his much larger and valuable site, Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet.

Shu-Chen Jenny Yen's Online Montessori Language Development Album. Shu-Chen Jenny Yen provides 39 Montessori-method lesson plans for children, ages 3-6, on opposites, rhyming, classification, beginning, middle, and ending sounds, sandpaper letters, and other topics.

Silly Billy's Lesson Plans. Lesson Plans from Bill Dallas Lewis' Silly Billy Home Page contain thematic units of instruction developed by teachers for the primary grades. The Pumpkin Patch and native American Indians themes feature lesson plans for the kindergarten, while the reading and plants theme features a week's plans for the first grade. The site also offers writing ideas for one person, or a class, or school wide project.

Silver Burdett Ginn: Teacher Activity Center for Reading/Language Arts. SBG's Teacher Activity Center for Reading/Language Arts provides a variety of online lesson plans for grades K-6. For grades K-2, you'll find plans for the topics, an amazing story and author, author. For reading and language arts in grades 3-6, you'll find plans for the following topics: imagination, self and others, the world around us, transitions, and voices and perspectives.

Smithsonian Education. Smithsonian Education provides cross-curricular lesson plans designed for upper elementary school and middle school students covering presidential elections, ocean ecology, landscape painting, creating a classroom museum, archaeology, and other topics. For classroom-ready language arts lessons, click here.

Snow White. Snow White Web site, developed by Kay Vandergrift, contains lesson ideas, assignments, and backgound material for teaching about this well-known fairy tale in grades 4-8. The site also offers online many versions of Snow White. illustrations, cinematic versions of the story, and a selected bibliography.

Story House Bound Books. Story House Bound Books contains teachers Guides for a wide variety of books from Arthur Meets The President to The Titanic Lost... And Found to Walk Two Moons for grades 1-7. Each book includes also a brief description. In addition, the site offers other teacher's Guides for The Giver, Under The Blood-Red Sunand, and The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, and sample activites from units for the Magic School Bus Literature Series.

Subway Poems. Subway Poems, part of Dia's Arts Education program, features a collection of poems written by Candace Burnett's students at the Booker T. Washington Middle School 54 in Manhattan. These poems can serve as lesson activities for students learning how to write the different forms of poetry. The Willis School 5th grade Poetry Club also ideas for teaching poetry. These sites are suitable for students in grades 5-8.

Surfing for ABC's. Surfing for ABC's is an A to Z index of Web sites created by Loogootee Elementary West (Indiana) kindergarten and first grade students. The site includes a lesson plan for this Internet-based language arts activity. Loogootee Elementary West provides other online projects for integrating the Internet with your curriculum.

Surfing with the Bard: Lesson Plans. Amy Ulen provides over 40 lesson plans for teaching Shakespeare to high school classes. Included are plans for Hamlet, As You Like It, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, and other plays.

TeachersFirst Web Content Matrix. TeachersFirst Web Content Matrix, provided by the Network for Instructional TV (NITV), offers a collection of lesson plans at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. To find language arts plans, scroll to "Literature & Reading" or "Writing" in the table, and click on lesson plans.

Teacher's Helper. Teacher's Helper, created by Debi Flowers, for the elementary school, provides seasonal lesson plans that include ideas for getting students started in creative writing. The site, updated monthly, offers new lesson plans, suggested vocabulary, and references to American holidays.

Teachers Helping Teachers: Language Arts. Teachers Helping Teachers, updated weekly, is a forum where K-12 teachers can share lesson plans in language arts and other subject areas. Teachers will also find more language arts plans in the topic of the week section and strategies for effective classroom management.

Teacher's Lounge. Teacher's Lounge contains a collection of over 25 teaching guides (lesson plans) for elementary school children's books published by Simon and Shuster. Each printable guide includes discussion questions, writing exercises, and research projects

Teachers.Net Lesson Bank. The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank, a curriclum exchange forum for grades preK-12, provides a searchable collection of over 400 lesson plans and activities contributed by teachers. The collection is categorized by grade level and subject area. To find language arts lesson plans, click on language arts, reading/writing, or literature.

Teacher's Resource Center. Teacher's Resource Center provides a collection of teacher's guides to over 60 novels published by Random House for grades 5-12. To find these guides indexed by title, authors, grade level, theme, reluctant readers, and black history, scroll to "teacher's guides" and choose the index you want.

Teacher's Toy Box. Teacher's Toy Box provides a collection of lesson plans and activities for grades K-6. Click here for language arts plans and thematic units.

Teacher Talk Forum. Teacher Talk Forum, sponsored by Indiana University's Center for Adolescent Studies for grades 7-12, provides a collection of electronic lesson plans for language arts.

TeacherVision.com. TeacherVision, part of the FamilyEducation Network, provides a collection of reading and language arts and general curriculum areas lesson plans for grades K-12.

Teaching & More. Teaching & More provides a collection of lesson plans for grades 2-6. To find language arts plans, click here. The site also includes learning centers and units & themes activities.

Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers. Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers, created by Mark Warner, contains a collection English and time-filler activities to complement a K-5 language arts curriculum. The site also includes worksheets which can be printed and photocopied for classroom use. To find the latest additions, click here.

Teaching Materials Online. Teaching Materials Online, from the Stewart Resources Centre in Saskatchewan, contains a collection of online thematic instructional units written by Saskatchewan teachers. Click on English Language Arts, Library Activities, or Miscellaneous & Integrated Studies to find language arts units for grades K-12.

Teaching OnLine: Lessons Library. Teaching OnLine is the Web site of the New Zealand classroom magazines, Starters & Strategies and Early Starters Teachers for grades K-12. The site provides a library of ready-to-use lessons developed by New Zealand teachers for various curriculum areas. To find language arts lessons, click here and to find ideas for language arts lessons, click here.

Teaching Shakespeare.Teaching Shakespeare, sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, contains a collection of lesson plans contributed by classroom teachers covering a variety plays and ideas for grades 8-12.

Teaching Unit for Treasure Island. Joan Bigelow provides a course of study for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island for middle grade students. It is a seven week teaching unit integrating online research activities with traditional classroom activities.

Teaching with the SOLs. Teaching with the SOLs, maintained by Dr. Patricia Stohr-Hunt of the University of Richmond, contains a collection of lesson plan sites for grades K-12 supporting the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs). To find language arts lesson activities that match most state English standards, select a grade level section and click on a grade in that English category.

Teachnet.Com. Teachnet.Com, designed for K-12 teachers, provides a collection of lesson planning resources including Lessons Ideas for the various subject areas. The site also offers brainstorming ideas, micro activities, classroom management strategies in the How-To section, and a free email newsletter for sharing and exchanging your tips.

TeachNet.org. TeachNet.org, sponsored by AT&T's IMPACT II for grades K-12, provides daily curriculum projects as well as over 500 teacher-designed activites across all subject areas.

TEAMS Distance Learning: K-12 Lesson Plans. TEAMS Distance Learning, maintainted by the Los Angeles County Office of Education, provides a collection of lessons plan sites for grades K-12 organized by subject. To find language arts plans, click here. You'll also find other language arts plans in the multi-subject lesson plan collection.

Theatre Lesson Plan Exchange. Theatre Lesson Plan Exchange provides a collection of lesson plans and warm-up activities for teaching drama in grades K-12.

Thematic Planning Units. The Thematic Units, developed by elementary school teachers, contain 21 primary units for grades K-2 and 16 intermediate units for grades 3-5. Each unit consists of objectives, vocabulary, daily and extended lesson plans, assessment, and a culiminating activity. To be able to view and print these plans for use in your classroom, you'll need to download the free Acrobat Reader.

Tried *n* True Model Lesson Plans. Tried *n* True, from the North Carolina Department Public Instruction, is a collection of lesson plans contributed by teachers for grades K-12. To find language arts plans, select a grade level and click on a English language arts key in the table.

TRMS Virtual Library. Taylor Road Middlle School (TRMS) in Fulton County, Georgia provides a collection of Internet-based lesson plans for grades 5-8. For language arts plans, click here.

Tutorial World. Tutorial World provides a collection of free worksheets that elementary school teachers can print out to complement the math, English, and science curriculum.

UALR College of Education Online: Lesson Plans. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) College of Education provides a collection of lesson plan sites as well as seven search engines for finding lesson plans for grades K-12. To use a search engine, scroll to Find Lesson Plans yourself... and select a blue triangle in the language arts column of the table.

UNHCR. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) contains a collection of UNICEF lesson plans for teaching about the themes of refuge and exile in the secondary schools. Click on for teachers to find language and literature unit plans. Each unit includes comprehension and discussion questions as well as printable student worksheets.

Valder Phonics Program. Valder Phonics Program offers online free six phonics lessons for teaching a child how to read. The lessons consist of basic sounds, word families and short vowel sounds, the basic consonant ch, sh, th and digraphs, vowel blends, the vowels + 'R', and the long vowel sounds.

Vintge Books: Reading Group Center. Vintge Books offers over 50 reading group guides to enhance individual reading and group discussions at the high school level. Click here to find an alphabetical list of guides for books such as The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett, Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean, Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser. Each guide includes a description of the book, questions, discussion topics, author biography, and often the author's notes. Students can also participate in an online discussion forum.

WebQuest Page. Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Page contains a collection of an interdisciplinary Web-based lesson plans (WebQuests) for grades K-12. Each WebQuest includes teacher directions as well as self-instructional student activities using the Web. To find language arts WebQuests, click on Matrix of Examples. For a listing of WebQuest lessons, click here.

Wonderful World of American Tall Tales. The Wonderful World of American Tall Tales provides a printable handout guide with activities and assignments for grades 4-6.

World School. The World School, created by the West Virginia Department of Education, provides a collection of Internet-based lesson plans developed by teachers for grades K-12. Among the lesson plans are language arts including an alphabetical list of literature units.

Write Site. The Write Site, developed by Greater Dayton Public Television for the middle school language arts curriculum, has students take the role of reporters and editors to research, write, and publish their own newspaper. The site includes unit outlines, student handouts, exercises, how to write materials, and much more.

WritingDEN. The WritingDEN provides online interactive reading, comprehension, and writing lessons for students in grades 6-12. The site includes a teacher's guide, a topics menu, a tips-o-matic grammar guide, an email word-of-day activity, and a student message board. In addition, students can hear words pronounced and sentences narrated using RealAudio on their computers.

WWW Research Lessons Library: Language Arts. The WWW Research Lessons Library provides a collection of online language arts lessons for grades K-12 created by Washington state teachers. To view a list of all the lesson titles organized by grade level in the library, click here. The site also includes a rubric to help teachers design and create their own Internet lessons.

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute offers a collection of hundreds of curriculum units for grades K-12 prepared by teachers attending summer workshops from 1978 to 1997. Many of the units include lesson plans, student handouts, and specific classroom ideas. You can find language arts units using a thematic directory, an alphabetical topical index, or the site's own search engine which is located in the mddle of this page.

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