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Arts - Education - Language Arts

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Poetry Teachers
- Resources for teaching poetry to children, including lesson plans, performance tips, and fun activities.
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Teaching Ideas and Topics
- National Council of Teachers of English offers suggestions for teaching ESL, journalism, literature, reading, writing, and vocabulary.
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Lucid Learning
- English professor shares ideas for teaching the language arts at all grade levels.
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Mr. Lackey's Page
- Educational resources and curriculum links for secondary language arts teachers and students.
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The English Association
- Association for teachers of English literature and language at all levels from primary to post-graduate, and for all those with an interest in the English language and its literatures.
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Building Cathedrals
- Offers articles related to reading and writing instruction, as well as inspirational readings to motivate teachers.
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Velleman's Drama Workshops and Activities
- Offers free monthly drama activity. Also provides workshops for organizations and school districts.
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
- Provides educational materials, services, and coursework related to reading, English, writing, and the language arts.
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
- Links to educational materials, services, and coursework aimed mostly at primary and secondary students and teachers.
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School-Home Links
- Materials for families to ensure good reading skills in children. Includes 400 activities for K-3 students. From the U.S. Department of Education.
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Language and Literacy Environments in Preschools
- ERIC Digest discusses the research on preschool literacy environments and their contributions to reading skills development.
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Schools of California Online Resources for Education: Language Arts
- S.C.O.R.E. for language arts includes the cyberguides: web- based units of study which are centered on a piece of children's literature.
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Howell's Webroom
- Resources for English/Language Arts teachers, K-12 teachers, students, and parents.
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Scripts for Schools
- Markets play scripts, reading scripts, and choral speaking scripts for schools and libraries. Provides free online samples.
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K-12 English
- Annotated links to English resources online.
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The Moonlit Road
- Ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South, told by the region's most celebrated storytellers.
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Young Adult Literature; Middle and Secondary English-Language Arts
- Links to resources for teachers and librarians in middle and secondary schools.
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Legends
- Exploring legend in history, folklore, literature, fiction, and the arts.
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Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources Menu Page
- Resources on books and reading, elementary and middle school curricula, literary enrichment activities, lesson plans and other curriculum support.
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Reaching Out: The Evolution Of Communication
- Explores how oral and written language have developed over the centuries.
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Youth Poetry
- Program of the Philadelphia Free Library allows young writers to see their poetry published online.
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Global Access to Educational Sources
- Contains links to a variety of online resources on literature, writing, and grammar. Sites are geared toward children and children's literature.
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Story Arts Online!
- Educational Web site, designed for teachers, librarians, and students,explores the use of storytelling in the classroom to enhance speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
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Storycart Press Presents Readers Theatre
- Subscription service offers free sample scripts.
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Mr. Heitmann's Language Arts Page
- Report-writing guide as well as links to help with grammar, terms, writing skills and reading comprehension.
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SCORE Language Arts
- Cyberguides for literature studies, phonics resources, and teacher information.
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Activities to Help Your Child Learn to Write
- Activities to help parents teach their children to write well.
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WCPS's Language Arts Curriculum Page
- Includes information about reading and writing for grades K-5. Offers ideas on assessment, teaching strategies, and sample lesson plans.
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SpellMaster
- Free online tool allows teachers to create their own Flash-based vocabulary learning games. Program may also be downloaded for offline use.
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English/Language Arts Education - Michigan Teacher Network
- Offers K-12 language arts teachers 350+ reviews of Web resources correlated to Michigan curriculum standards, including reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, speech, journalism, and literature.
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EDSITEment
- Click on the "Literature and Language Arts" text to access numerous resources from the Academy of American Poets through Women of the West Museum as well as lesson plans and activities.
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Learning in Motion
- Resources from tongue twisters to Zen stories.
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lang
- Weekly grammar rules, person of the month, riddles, jokes, and miscellaneous non-language links.
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Language Arts - High School
- Mini-lessons for high school (9-12).
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Davis School District Language Arts Site
- Links to categories such as research, literature, grammar, writing, reading, and lesson plans as well as course descriptions and standards.
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Ask Oxford
- Word of the Day, Quote of the Week, and several word games. In addition, there is a question form to Ask the Experts and receive the Final Word on English language questions.
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Dr. Grammar
- Answers to questions about grammar, usage, punctuation, documentation, and word origins provided by Jim Hiduke of the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA.
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Essay Emporium
- Student-generated essays on various works.
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The Dialect Coach
- Offers dialect coaching in all dialects for actors as well as accent reduction services for all professionals.
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Orbislingua - "The WorldWeb Languages Piazza"
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. The range of articles on languages, countries, courses, translators etc is large but the articles are short, with emphasis on buying their recommended product.
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Succeed to Read
- Provides tips and techniques parents and teachers can use to teach children how to read.
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Mrs. ABC's Spelling and Phonics Curriculum
- Interactive site helps students learn spelling, phonics, alphabetical order, rhyming, punctuation and capitalization. Requires free registration.
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America Reads Challenge
- Program seeks to have every American child reading well and independently by the end of 3rd grade. Site includes directory of program participants, resource kit, and information on getting involved.
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Reading and Language Arts Resources on the Web
- Annotated directory of some 200 sites on phonics, whole language, lesson plans, and reading research.
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ReadingLady.com
- The place where teachers can turn to find ready to go units, as well as information about reading and learning with other teachers. Lesson plans are ready to go in your classroom.
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Suggestions for Improving Reading Speed
- This article, provided by Virginia Tech's Division of Student Affairs, gives insight to factors that reduce reading rates and conditions for increased reading rates.
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The Phonics Room
- Provides poems, songs, literature, and other activities related to the letters of the alphabet.
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KidBibs
- Identifies strategies and resources to help children become better readers, writers, and learners.
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Teachers' Developmental Reading Resource For Young Adult Fiction
- Metasite containing original summaries, reviews, and readability assessment of YA fiction. Lots of resource links
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Reading Reform Foundation
- Includes online newsletters, subscription information, and links.
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Using Picture Books to Teach Narrative Writing Traits
- Bibliography contains annotations for narrative writing traits, character traits, and curriculum connections.
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Rhode Island READS
- Statewide program utilizes AmeriCorps*VISTA workers and other volunteers to increase literacy among children, and promote and support literacy programs.
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Not Another Inservice
- Information for guided reading, shared reading, writer's workshop, balanced literacy, centers, phonemic awareness, and literature circles.
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The Reading Genie
- Links and lessons about learning to read including research based methods
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Whirlwind Basic Reading Through Dance
- Organization partners with teachers to improve children's language arts and learning skills through the arts.
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Speed Reading Self-Pacing Methods
- By Dennis Doyle - Glendale Community College. Provides simple motion techniques to increase reading speed.
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KidReach Online Reading Center
- Includes lesson plans, anticipation guides, and live chat about teaching reading.
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Reading Rainbow - The Official Web Site
- Companion site to the PBS program provides classroom activities to accompany daily programs as well as information on annual young writers' and illustrators' competitions.
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Sunshine Online
- Internet-based magazine and web technology used to foster reading; content for teachers and students.
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Books That Changed Your World
- Includes reviews of fiction and nonfiction written by and for high school students.
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ABC Teach
- Newsletter and free printable reading comprehension pages for ages K-8 developed by teachers.
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Booktalks -- Quick and Simple
- Database of over 600 ready-to-use booktalks. Designed for K-12 teachers and librarians.
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CyberGuides
- Standards-based, teacher-designed, Web-searching and writing/reading activities for K-12 students; based on core literature.
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Nerd World: Education - Literature
- Links related to the teaching of literature.
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Reading Comprehension
- Includes weekly worksheets for upper elementary and middle school levels.
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The Catch Up Programme
- Literacy intervention program designed for use with primary school children who have difficulty with reading and writing.
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The Reading Corner
- Newsletter with reading strategies to increase reading ability, comprehension as well as tips for parents to use at home with their children.
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TeAch-nology Teaching Tutorials: A Model Lesson Plan For Teaching Phonics
- Thinking process entailed in the area of phonics.
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The Andrew Carroll Book Drive
- A free school program that helps kids to better understand reading.
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Reading Matters: Tips at Home
- Presents tips for parents who wish to raise a child who not only can read, but will love reading for a lifetime.
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Reading Recovery Council of North America
- News articles, membership information and upcoming events.
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Research in Reading Recovery
- A collection of academic research about the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery approach.
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Reading Recovery
- Education Consumer Guide.
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National Data Evaluation Center
- NDEC processes evaluation research data for the United States. Its web site provides methodological documentation, and allows data entry by teachers.
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The National Right to Read Foundation
- Critical review of Reading Recovery research and cost analysis.
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Reading Recovery: An Evaluation of Costs and Benefits
- A paper which examines the cost-effectiveness of the Reading Recovery approach and finds it lacking.
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Reading Recovery Council of California
- Promotes reading and literacy intervention, reading and writing instruction and professional development.
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Reading Pathfinder
- Literacy activities, exercises, answers, and links.
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Education Week Article
- Researchers urge officials to reject Reading Recovery
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Education Week Rebuttal
- Reading Recovery professionals respond
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Michigan Education Report
- Article critical of the intervention's costs and analyses
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Teachers.Net
- Remedial Reading/Reading Recovery chatboard
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U.S. - Arizona - Tucson
- Examines the Tucson Unified School District's implementation of the Spanish-language version of Reading Recovery.
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U.S. - Texas - Austin
- The Austin Independent School District's Reading Recovery pages.
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U.S. - California - San Francisco
- Description of the Reading Recovery and Descubriendo La Lectura programs in San Francisco.
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U.S. - Arkansas
- The Arkansas Comprehensive Early Literacy Model
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U.S. - California
- Information on regional training centers, events, conferences, book lists, and teacher resources
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U.S. - Massachusetts - Hampshire
- Implementation in sites are located in South Hadley, Greenfield, and Dalton, Massachusetts.
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Australia - Victoria
- A history of RR in over a thousand Victoria schools.
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Australia - Queensland
- A state-wide implementation of the intervention.
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Canada - York Region
- "Believe they can learn and make it happen!"
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U.S. - Maine - Central
- M.S.A.D. #46 Reading Recovery
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U.S. - Louisiana - Southeast
- Contact information for RR programs
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U.S. - Alabama - Decatur
- Professional development for RR teachers
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Purdue University Reading Recovery Training Center
- Resources for Reading Recovery in Indiana.
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The University of Maine
- The University of Maine Reading Recovery Training Center.
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Reading Recovery in New Zealand
- The birthplace of Reading Recovery. Information regarding training and history.
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Reading Recovery National Network in the United Kingdom
- Training and co-ordinating centre for Reading Recovery in the United Kingdom.
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Texas Woman's University
- Provides specialized training for Reading Recovery teachers, teacher leaders, and trainers of teachers.
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The Ohio State University
- Reading Recovery in Ohio and beyond.
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New York University
- Reading Recovery at NYU serves sites in the New York and New England areas.
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The University of North Carolina - Wilmington
- The Donald R. Watson School of Education offers training and ongoing professional development for Reading Recovery professionals.
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National Louis University
- Home of the Illinois Reading Recovery and Descubriendo la Lectura Program.
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Lesley University
- In 1991, Lesley became a university center for the training of Reading Recovery teacher leaders and teachers and now coordinates the program in the region.
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Georgia State University
- GSU is a regional training center for teacher leaders. School systems or consortia that adopt Reading Recovery select a teacher(s) to send to GSU for a year-long full-time graduate-level training program. The teacher leader(s) return to their home system/consortia to train other teachers in Reading Recovery.
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Clemson University
- Our Reading faculty are involved in various professional associations such as Reading Recovery, the International Reading Association, the National Reading Conference, the National Council of Teachers of English, the College Reading Association, the American Educational Research Association, and various related regional and state organizations.
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Oakland University - Michigan
- The Department of Reading and Language Arts at Oakland University offers courses and programs in literacy education (RDG) and instructional systems technology (IST). In addition to providing service courses to students from other departments, we offer graduate degree and certification programs at the masters and doctoral levels.
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Western Michigan University
- Teacher Leader training is provided by trainers of teacher leaders at Michigan universities.
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Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
- Provides teacher leader training and professional development for Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic states.
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California State University, Fresno
- The Department of Literacy and Early Education is home to the Central California Reading Recovery Project.
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Saint Mary's College
- Saint Mary's College School of Education is the Northern California Regional Training Center for this professional development program.
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The University of South Dakota
- USD trains Reading Recovery Teacher Leaders and Reading Recovery Teachers. Currently, the USD Center has trained Teacher Leaders in South Dakota, Iowa, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming.
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University of Connecticut
- The Neag School of Education houses the Reading-Language Arts Center, which serves as a coordinating agency for the improvement of reading instruction from the undergraduate through the doctoral level.
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Reading Recovery Center of Iowa
- The Reading Recovery Center of Iowa is supported by the University of Iowa and Drake University.
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Emporia State University
- The Teachers College at ESU trains and supports Reading Recovery professionals in and around the state of Kansas.
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham
- The University of Alabama at Birmingham serves as a regional center for Reading Recovery, offering school districts in Alabama better access to Reading Recovery training and expertise.
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University of Kentucky
- Reading Recovery at the University of Kentucky is a project of the Institute on Education Reform.
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Literature 101: The Fusion Cuisine Approach
- Examines the evolution of reading instruction in the U.S. and suggests ways to include the best aspects of various strategies in the reading classroom.
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Issues in Literacy Development
- Summarizes the research and professional expertise related to literacy instruction for students from kindergarten through Grade 8.
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Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success
- A study by Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children. M. Susan Burns, Peg Griffin, and Catherine E. Snow, editors.
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Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
- A guide to prevention and intervention.
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Reading Online
- A journal for literacy educators K-12; includes articles, commentaries, reviews, and discussion forums.
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Delaware County Community College, Reading Department Web Page
- Information for teachers and people interested in current issues and information surrounding reading. Includes suggested activities and reading lists.
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Literacy for All: Issues in Teaching and Learning
- Suggestions for teaching reading and writing and preventing literacy failure
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Reading - Suite101.com
- An extensive directory of web sites relating to reading instruction and research.
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Children's Literature Web Guide
- Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
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Absolutely Whootie: Stories to Grow By
- Fairytales and folk tales courtesy of Whootie Owl. Award-winning site has ethical, fun stories from around the world.
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The Audrey Wood Clubhouse
- Children's book author/illustrator Audrey Wood's clubhouse. The Clubhouse is an educational resource for teachers and librarians. Learn how children's books are created and have fun with the activity pages.
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Charlotte Zolotow: IPL Youth Division Ask the Author
- This delightful interview is written in words children can understand. It is on an excellent website: The Internet Public Library. There are a dozen interviews with other well known authors at the Author link.
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Allan Cooper's Homonym List
- This is simply a long list of homonyms arranged in alphabetical order. It takes awhile to load, but would be useful to show students when studying homonyms.
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6+1 Traits of Writing Poster
- The writing process in chart format.
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Nifty Nibbles: Children's Literary Magazine
- A magazine where K-12 authors and artists can be published.
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Children's Literature Web Guide
- Titles, reviews, discussion and excellent links to other sites relating to books for children and young adults. Compiled by David Brown of the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary. Searchable.
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Academic K12 Vocabulary and Theme Crosswords for Publications
- Crosswords and puzzles for k-12 education, recreation and edutainment will challenge your brain power!
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Introduction to Virtual Renaissance
- You have traveled back through time and space to a period completely different from your own. You will meet many interesting characters who will be most happy to speak with you about their lives and times.Learn about the different people from this time period; what they did and who they were. See how the technology and medicine differs from today, and experience the dramatic change in life conditions.
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Internet Park: Online Interactive Word Games
- An interesting and friendly place to play word games live on the Internet. No need to download and install software, simply enter the Park and play. An intimate environment to enjoy word games and to chat with other players.
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Eslflow
- A guide to ESL/EFL language games and activities on the Internet.
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Clueword
- Multilingual word puzzles.
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Lingua Center
- Grammar safari game.
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eslflow
- eslflow's guide to English as a Second Language lessons from around the Internet.
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Language Arts Lesson Plans
- Teacher-made lesson plans for Pre-K through high school language classrooms.
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Language Arts Lesson Plans
- Comprehensive lesson plans for middle- and high-school.
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Language Arts Resources at Classroom Connect
- Indexes many language arts lesson plan sites.
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Language Arts Lesson Plans
- Archive includes dozens of reading, grammar, and writing lesson plans geared toward young learners.
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Big Sky Language Arts Lesson Plans
- Gopher site offers dozens of lesson plans for all grade levels.
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Lesson Plans Across the Curriculum
- Language arts, literature, world languages & ESL, library skills, and drama lesson plans
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Kodak's Language Arts Lesson Plans
- K-6 language activities involving photographs and/or photography.
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Kodak's English Lesson Plans
- K-12 English activities involving photographs and/or photography.
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Library in the Sky Language Arts Lesson Plans
- Links to hundreds of language arts lesson plans on the Internet.
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100 Remedial Reading and Phonics Worksheets
- Free printable worksheets for improving reading and phonics skills. Also includes vocabulary lists and downloads resources for teachers and parents.
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English Teaching Ideas
- Suggested classroom activities for students ages 5-11.
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Lesson Plan Search: Writing
- Provides writing lesson plans for kindergarten through high school.
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Lesson Plans
- This site enables teachers to easily access lesson plans developed and tested by other teachers.
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Educate the Children - English Lessons
- Free worksheets, lesson plans, ideas, teaching strategies, reviews and internet links.
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Warrior Radio: Writing in Stereo
- Offers lesson plans employing a whole language approach to the teaching of English. The author uses radio dramatics and broadcast style news to enhance writing instruction.
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The English Room
- English and language arts lesson plans for grades 6-12 in poetry, literature study, and internet treasure hunts.
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Literature Based Reading Lessons
- Phonics based reading lesson plans for lower elementary students based on chapter books including Boxcar Children, Stone Fox, Flat Stanley, and Little House in the Big Woods.
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Calliope, Muse of Eloquence
- A collection of interactive, online vocabulary lessons and worksheets designed for grades 9 and 10,using words drawn from Classical Mythology.
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English III: American Literature Online
- Comprehensive course website with a full range of academic resources related to American Literature.
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Literary Resources -- American
- Clearinghouse for academic resources related to American Literature. Closely updated and developed by Rutgers University.
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Draw Write Now, Books 1 - 8
- Drawing and writing lessons for K - 6 children. Make the language and drawing connection with these easy-to-use science, history, geography and social studies unit studies.
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Teachit's resources for English teachers
- A free online library for English, media and drama teachers, offering quality worksheets, lesson plans, online lessons and links.
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Lesson Plans for Children's Books
- A-Z lesson plans and classroom activities designed for K-12 teachers and students for hundreds of children's books.
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The Writing & Spelling Road to Reading & Thinking
- Non-profit agency/small publisher w/brain-based complete language arts curriculum/optional training to teach listening, speaking, penmanship, spelling (w/explicit phonics & 47 rules), composition, reading, comprehension, vocabulary, comprehension, analytical/inferential thinking + auditory/visual/verbal/motor cognitive development. K - adult
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Lesson Tutor Hands-On Phonics A to Z
- Multi-sensory lessons for phonics. Listen, say, trace/write, and "do" the alphabet sounds A to Z. Jump up and trade Caps for hard C, make Gooey Glue G, or Lie and Laugh about L. Fun exercises that make the introduction to Reading enticing.
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How Does the Effect Affect You? - Another Grammatical Riddle
- Explanations of grammar, so often confused. Lesson, examples, and answer key.
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Is It Farther or Further?
- Farther away or further on in the discussion? Do you know? Explanation of these words so often confused. Lesson, examples, and answer key.
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Lose It or Loose It - There's a Difference
- That one little "o" makes a big difference in meaning. Understand these words so often confused. Lesson, examples, and answer key.
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Verb Usage: Tense and Conjugation
- Lessons in tenses for first, second, and third person and conjugation in present, past, future, and perfect tenses. Exercises and Answer Key.
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Teacher's Guide to Using Songs in the Classroom
- A lesson plan, articles and links for foreign language teachers interested in using music in the classroom.
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Language Arts Grammar Lessons
- Several lessons ranging from parts of speech, and words often confused. Each incorporate exercises and answer key.
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Creative Writing - Grades 7 & 8
- Springboard assignments for middle schoolers. Think beyond the concrete and reach toward abstract thought processes.
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Writing Center Handouts
- Numerous writing and editing resources.
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Reflection of an Echo: 5 tips to help kids enjoy poetry
- A short tutorial for parents/teachers on how to get kids interested in poetry.
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The English Teacher: Teaching Composition
- This website contains units for teaching English Composition including complete lesson plans for a research writing course. Further units will be added.
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The Key
- a printable worksheet that takes on the form of a short story about problem solving. Arranged with graduating fonts for practice in several "sizes" of print.
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Basketball: Jargon, Fouls, and Synonyms
- A puzzle using basketball terms - great way to preview the sport and the words associated with it.
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Fun With Harry
- Harry Potter series-Downloadable and reproducible activity sheets of all types for the classroom or individual use; to use as an enhancement to the series by J.K. Rowling
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Jurassic Park
- Teaching materials for Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. Includes study guide questions, a WebQuest, writing topics, grammar practice, and a viewing guide for the video.
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What's in a Name?: Romeo & Juliet Unit
- A unit plan for William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the subject of this site, mainly geared toward a ninth grade classroom. Included activities require internet access and a video camera. Many of the activities are cooperative learning based.
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Cave of Wonders
- Wide variety of teaching resources! Literature units, grammar units, writing and reading activities...just ask and I'll share what I have!
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AskERIC Language Arts Lesson Plans
- Debating, handwriting, journalism, listening, literature, reading, spelling, story telling, vocabulary, whole language, and writing composition lessons.
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A Walk in the Woods
- An original short story in teaching and learning independence. Printable worksheet for tracing, printing, and reading.
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Frankie's ESL Worksheets
- Worksheets, mainly literature-based, for Grade 6-12 students. Carefully structured exercises in essay writing as well as reading tasks related to Dahl, Fitzgerald, Angelou, S E Hinton, Minfong Ho and many others.
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eslflow's Guide to Communicative Teaching
- ESL lessons,activities and teaching ideas relating to story creation from around the Internet brought together in easy-to-navigate flow charts.
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French in Paris
- Offers French lessons whether you are a beginner, intermediate or higher level.
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Art Lesson Plans
- These are Lesson Plans in Arts Education. Also, it is gathering " the time of the synthetic learning " from the activities such as the environment OBJ DO, information OBJ DO and international understanding to make. Moreover, it is introducing a paper with art education and the amount, and a way of putting together a time 10, the viewpoint of the evaluation and so on, too.
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Explore Island of the Blue Dolphins
- A thematic exploration of Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. Chart the island, study the wildlife and island natives.
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Children's Literature Activiti
- Children's Literature Activities for the Classroom
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UN Refugee Agency Language and Literature Lesson Plans
- Activities focus on refugee issues and are grouped by ages.
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TeachersFirst - The Interactive Raven
- Interactive presentation of Poe's classic poem lets students learn the vocabulary and literary devices in Poe's writing.
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Carol Huebner
- Tutoring services, via e-mail, for essays, research papers, college application essays, letters, pronuciation, grammar and vocabulary.
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Secondary English Resources
- Directory of language and literature resources for high school level students.
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Calls for Papers
- Announcement of calls for papers for conference presentations, scholarly journal articles and edited anthologies in the fields surrounding English departments.
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Mrs. Adams' Red Apple Site
- Includes world, American, and British literature resources, as well as Advanced Placement materials for high school teachers and students.
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Electronic Text Collective (ETC)
- Formed to research and explore emerging how e-textualities such as e-mail, listservers, hypertext, MOOs, change the use of English, composition and other disciplines.
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Voice of America Pronunciation Guide
- Sound files and pronunciation guide for more than 2,200 names of people, groups, places, and things in the news around the world.
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Silly-plurals
- Mailing list for discussion of plural forms of words, and announcements of new discoveries. Archives and subscription information.
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High School Hub: English
- Provides vocabulary, grammar, writing, poetry, and literature resources for high school students.
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Promote Yourself With Better Grammar.
- Information and printable practice exercises on nouns and verbs, from the book series.
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TutorPal
- Provides references to resources for HEL (history of the English language) the IPA, grammar, and homeschool materials. Private tutoring and lessons are also available.
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Why Every English Classroom Should Have a Periodic Table
- Thoreau and Emerson, both transcendentalists, stressed the interrelatedness of all things.
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The Story Tent
- A resource for literacy and oracy through story in schools in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. Tellings use puppets, mask, mime and particpation. Support materials provided.
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Iowa Literacy Resource Center
- Offers resources in literacy, ESL, adult basic education, and GED preparation.
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English Language Self Access Centre
- Fee based learning modules for self-assessment, vocabulary and grammar which includes a free demonstration. For beginner to advanced students as well as teachers.
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Language Study Network
- Resources for students and teachers, online community and search and posting ability for teachers and schools.
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ESL Partyland
- Provides many interactive quizzes, discussion forums and topic-based learning pages for students. On the teachers side, lessons and printable materials to use in class.
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Cutting Edge CALL Resources
- Features interactive and video demonstrations of language learning tools for teachers and students, such as a TOEFL preparation quiz, listening, alphabet and integrated skills practice modules. Computer requirements listed.
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It's Online Network
- Offers areas which include penpals, website creation, messaging, interactive grammar and vocabulary exercises, activities, resources for teachers and students.
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The Linguistic Funland TESL Page
- Information for teachers and students on finding penpals, teaching materials, activities, and jobs.
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Dave's ESL Cafe
- Resource for students and teachers. Offers more than 50 discussion forums, chat room, interactive exercises, online tutorials, and extensive web guide. Also provides resume board, teaching ideas, and regulary-updated job postings.
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Offshore English
- Resources and exercises for students and teachers, including a photodictionary and grammar exercises.
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Aardvark's English Forum
- Portal with resources for students and teachers. Interactive exercises, message boards, bookshop, school guide, web directory, and world news.
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Pumpkin and Company
- Free learning and teaching resources for students, teachers and parents. Free publication of teachers' own interactive activities.
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English Language Learning and UK Study Materials
- Quizzes, songs and projects for learners and teachers emphasizing Sussex local history and discussion topics.
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English
- Features an e-zine, discussion forum, grammar explanations, interactive exercises, schools and jobs listings, and examinations information. Vocabulary exercises for Italian, French and German speakers.
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English4theworld
- Resources for learners and teachers. Classroom activities, games, lesson plans and articles. Requires login.
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Norton's English Exchange
- For teachers and students in Japan, particularly for AEON. For sharing ideas, teaching and studying methods. Includes information about Japan and teachers' home countries.
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English Inside
- Portal for students and teachers. There is a forum discussion, TESOL news, and a directory of institutes for students and teachers.
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ESL in the Middle
- Teacher showcases the achievement and writing of 7th and 8th grade students with tips for content area teachers and links to activities for students and parents.
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A Guide to Learning English as a Second Language
- Grammar and vocabulary quizzes and tips for teachers, parents and students.
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1-language.com
- Includes student and teacher forums, chat, job center, multilingual helplines, links directory, resource library and, study materials. Also a bank of teacher contributed teaching ideas, multilingual translation help, and interactive lessons.
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Learning Post
- Offers vocabulary lessons, news stories, reading and teaching tips. Primarily for Thai learners and teachers.
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The British Council
- Aims to connect people worldwide with learning opportunities and creative ideas from the UK. Includes resources for teachers and students.
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English Exercises Online
- Offering interactive materials for students and ready-to-use handouts for teachers
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Study Business and Academic English
- Courses, materials and resources for students and teachers of academic and business English. Requires RealAudio and RealVideo.
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The English Professor
- Free study materials, reproducible worksheets, listening and pronunciation practice, learning tools and games for students and teachers.
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Steps to Employment in Ontario
- Offers a series of workshop training manuals, in PDF format, which include job-specific vocabulary and help in orienting to a new culture.
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English Language Learning Online
- Question bank for students, language forum, tests, language news for teachers, and an irregular verb list program.
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Lagan Language Network
- Resources for teachers and students. Teacher recruitment, CV submission, discussion forums and message boards. Also courses in Ireland and the U.K.
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Richard Scott's ESL Quest
- Student and teacher resources for idioms, synonyms, homonyms, antonyms and phrasal verbs. Jobs board and resume posting area for teachers.
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ESLgold.com
- Resources for teachers and students with a variety of free learning and teaching materials, all categorized for access by skill and level.
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ESL Worldwide
- Jobs posting for schools, searchable resume and jobs database, career resources and a forum for discussion.
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TEFL.net
- Offers a jobs wanted and a teachers wanted section, sends job updates via Email, teacher training, handouts and resources, lesson plans and a teacher's forum.
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TEFL.com
- Resume database with free resume forwarding system. Jobs database organized by country with daily forwarding of job openings via Email upon reqest. Career tips and advice, teacher training database, newsletters, health insurance available for purchase and, member discounts. All services free to potential employers and job seekers.
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US Department of State Office of Overseas Schools
- Contact and background information on worldwide American-sponsored elementary and secondary schools overseas, current fact sheets on the American international schools, and job hunting resources.
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ESL Career Guide from about.com
- Details on qualifications, finding a job, career guides, personal teaching experiences, and teaching in specific countries.
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English International
- Information on TEFL/TESL job market, job searching techiques, job guides, and related resources.
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Global ESL
- Resume posting and jobs search by world region. Forums, country facts and an events directory.
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ESL Employment
- Searchable database for the teaching jobs and career opportunities abroad.
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Language Teaching Network
- Teaching vacancies, jobs posting for schools, career development, newsletter and resources.
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Teach English in Africa
- Searching for volunteers to teach English in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Three-month, six-month and one-year tours are available.
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SoYouWanna - Teach English Abroad?
- Offers guidance in teaching English abroad: where to go, what to expect, and how to find a job.
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Teacher's Club
- A searchable database of ESL teaching jobs in Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Mexico.
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ESL Classifieds Jobs Offered
- Listing of ESL jobs offered and opportunity to post resumes for jobs wanted.
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All ESL Jobs
- Jobs and career listings. Service to potential job seekers and employers. Provides discussion forums and information
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English Job Maze
- TEFL jobs and information for teachers and employers. International job postings plus a guide to TEFL pay, taxes, visas, etc., in many teaching destinations.
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