English Language Arts Resources A mix of fun and educational resources for all!

Teachers
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf y ImportantNEW common core standards for ELA

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ y
Students and teachers can share ideas, get ideas for lesson plans, and it is a great source for inspiration and guidance. Resources from poetry, mythology to Shakespeare and writing.

http://edhelper.com/language/language.html y
This website has lesson plans to adapt, worksheets, spelling, reading, and vocabulary comprehension activities, and more for English and others.

http://www.readwritethink.org/ y
This website has parent, teacher, and student resources. Lesson plans, professional development and more.

http://www.ncte.org/ y
This site is the National Council of teachers. It is something for English teachers to join, receive newsletters, news about conferences.

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/readlanguage/ y
This website allows you to adapt lessons, engage in discussion with other professionals, participate in professional development. It also has a cool feature called webinars where teachers can learn about how to incorporate technology into the classroom.

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/reading-and-language-arts/teacherresources/55691.html y
Although this website requires a fee after the free trial, you have access to a lot of great materials from lesson plans, activities, and graphic organizers in strictly language arts or co curricular with other subjects.

http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/language/donner/teacher /resources.html#portfolio y This site shares links to other sites that feature information on many things. Of most interest are the links connected to portfolios and assessment.

Students
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ y
For students this site features resources like study guides, homework help, and young adult literature

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/678/01/ y This is a great site for learning how to properly site and format research papers and assignments.

http://aesopfables.com/ y This site features Aesops fables which are fun to read.

http://www.victorianweb.org/ y This is a great site for introductory information about the Victorian Era.

Teachers, Parents, and Students

http://mayaangelou.com/ y Maya Angelous official website. Features news, a biography, and more.

http://lcsna.org/carroll/ y A site dedicated to the works of Lewis Carroll

http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html y This site is devoted to giving information about Charles Dickens, his life and works.

http://www.annefrank.com/

Sponsored by the The Anne Frank Center USA, this site features news and events about Anne at the center, and information about Educational Programs.

http://remember.org/ y This Holocaust Cybrary features information about the Holocaust, and it also contains a research library and discussion boards.

http://www.william-golding.co.uk/ y This site is devoted to the life and works of William Golding, most commonly known by Lord of the Flies.

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xShakeSph.html y This site is a pretty comprehensive study guide to the life and works of William Shakespeare.

http://www.maicar.com/GML/ y This site is about Greek Mythology. Photo galleries, information about the myths, biographies about characters, and a dictionary.

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/timeline/timeline.htm y        This site is a great timeline of Shakespeares life. Also includes a genealogy, biography, summary chart, and quiz.