Lessons
- Longwood lesson plan template; SPED lesson plan template
- Read, Write, Think NCTE/IRA lesson plans
- AASL’s best websites for teaching and learning
- Speak the Speech – free online readings of Shakespeare’s plays
- Becoming Network-Wise (Use this info to go to Longwood library’s Find it feature)
- PBS teachers: time travel with multimedia; when worlds collide; Jason & the Argonauts; 5 things to know about Jupiter
- American Shakespeare Center study guides
- Teachers First: wonderful resources for and by teachers
- Colleen Hirn’s poetry materials
- American Federation for Teachers website for sharing lessons and materials
- Promethean Planet – a place to share and communicate about teaching
- Grafitti wall to respond to reading
Pedagogy
- 180 days of poetry
- RubiStar rubric machine
- PBS word games
- Collaboration Rubric
- Engaging students
- Principles of adolescent literacy reform
- Honor Code – an op-ed piece in the NY Times about how our educational system disadvantages males
- What is the purpose of education?
- Alternatives to book reports by NCTE
Articles & Blogs
- Does language affect your thinking?
- Do You Speak American? – a PBS special; Language & Society article
- What makes kids do good work; Meaningful homework; What’s homework for; late work; motivation; the battle over homework
- How to make kids feel comfortable at school
- Forget what you know about study habits; study habits lesson
- Time management
- U.S. Is Urged to Raise Teachers’ Status
- The Literate Mother: Blog of Mormon mothers about children’s books
- You think you know what teachers do? Wrong.
Miscellaneous
- Reading Vine – free reading selections with questions, context clues, etc. on varied grade levels
- Goodreads
- Books to get them talking; pdf version
- Global pen pals
- Grammar Girl explains what’s “right” and why–in memorable ways
- The American Memory project by the Library of Congress is an amazing collection of music, photographs, maps, letters, ads, and other memorabilia.
- Ted Talks
- Imagine It
- Online journals that accept student work: TeenInk, Merlyn’s Pen, Liminal
- Classic children’s books available online from the Library of Congress: Turn the pages to explore bygone eras, time-honored tales, and historical narratives.
- Books that shaped America from the Library of Congress, the world’s largest repository of knowledge and information.
- Library of Congress searchable collection of photos, music, and more.
- Young Adult Nonfiction Award-winning titles to pair with fiction texts.
- Room for Debate pages in New York Times to pair with fiction texts and to use for writing persuasion.