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Resources for English Language Arts Teachers


This site is an interactive place for everyone interested or involved in the NC 1:1 learning collaborative. Listed below you will find postings about resources specific to English teachers.

English Resources and Discussion:

 

Friday Institute ELA Workshop Wikispace

Link: http://1to1ela.wikispaces.com/

This Wiki was created during the 1:1 ELA Workshop on October 29-30.  Included are online resources and materials created by participants of the workshop.

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The Plantation Letters

Link: http://plantationletters.com/teaching.html

This teaching resource contains digitized primary source letters from the Cameron Family Papers extracted from the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill. The letters are associated with antebellum plantation life.

They also have lessons primarily for social studies and language arts, with plans to add more soon. Lessons can be found in the forum.

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Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

Link: http://www.free.ed.gov/

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) provides hundreds of resources on Art and Music, Language Arts, Math, Science, World Studies, U.S. History, and Health and Physical Education. Maintained by the U.S. Department of Education, this site is continually updated by the many contributing federal agency partner organizations.

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Teaching English through Technology

Link: http://www.wmich.edu/teachenglish/index.htm

 
At this site you can find resources for teachers of language arts, including strategies for teaching with technology such as building an e-community and designing a webquest,  literature resources such as electron text archives and composition resources.

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The Web English Teacher

Link: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html


This site contains information on how to incorporate blogs, podcasts, and wikis into an English class. It also contains links to resources for AP& IB classes, Book reports, poetry, grammar, wiring, vocabulary and more.

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Center for Digital Story Telling

Link: http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html

View digital stories, find links to resources and articles on digital story telling.

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Teaching Literature and Writing with Technology

Link: http://thwt.org/writingandlit.htm


This site offers links to General Resources, Guides, Reference, and Articles,  Resources and Lesson Plans for Commonly Taught Books,  Web Sites and Projects,  Grammar and Writing Lessons, Exercise, and Quizzes, English and Language Arts Lesson Plans and Activities, and Resources for Poetry by Emily Dickinson, Seamus Heany, Sharon Olds, and Walt Whitman.

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 Read∙Think∙Write Lesson Database

Link: http://readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp

This site provides hundreds of lessons based on National Council of Teacher of English (NCTE) standards that can be search by grade or topic.  Lessons include embedded links to external resources as well as links to online interactive tools.

These tools, which can also be used independently, can be found here: http://readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp . The student interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills.

This website also provides a Web Resources Gallery, which can be found here: http://readwritethink.org/resources/index.asp. The Web Resources Gallery provides links to a plethora of English language arts resources on the Internet. A small sampling of resources includes a list of 100 Best Books for Kids, Dickinson Electronic Archives, Girls Voices Literature Database , the Library of Congress’ Literature and Poetry Community Center. 

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ESL & EFL News Articles

Link: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

Free, ready-to-use ESL/EFL current affairs lessons are uploaded daily. Each lesson contains a recent news article, communication activity, pair work, discussion questions, reading activity and vocabulary. Printable classroom worksheets and teacher’s plans are downloadable in MS Word and pdf formats.

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Curriculum Pathways on NC WiseOwl: online resources for all disciplines

An online resource for students and teachers, Curriculum Pathways provides standards-based content in all the core disciplines, grades 8-14. The site offers standards-based lessons and resources that help to integrate technology into the curriculum. The materials are interactive, target higher-order thinking skills, and differentiated for varied learning styles.

Learn more about Curriculum Pathways at http://www.sasinschool.com/products/pathways
and view samples in all disciplines at http://www.sasinschool.com/products/pathways/pages/disciplines.shtml

Curriculum Pathways is licensed for free to all NC public schools as part of NC WiseOwl. If you have questions about accessing your school’s account, contact your curriculum specialist or contact SASinSchool.

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Annotated Collection of Our Favorite Online Resources

We have posted a collection of our favorite online resources for English/Language Arts teachers on the New Literacies Collaborative blog. We hope this list will continue to grow as each of you contribute your favorite sites.

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Nov. 07 Workshop presented by the New Literacies Collaborative

The New Literacies Collaborative was happy to present a workshop to the English teachers participating in the NC 1-1 Learning Collaborative on November 16th. These teachers are (or soon will be!) in classrooms where each student has a laptop computer. Our workshop focused on digital storytelling as a way to engage students in English content while also using 21st century skills and technology.

The teachers created their own digital book talk videos and posted them on their personal class blogs. If you would like to share your class blog, please post your web address in the comment section!

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Educause Learning Initiative’s 7 Things You Should Know About…

Link: http://www.educause.edu/ELI7Things/7495

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI’s) 7 Things You Should Know About… pieces provide quick, no-jargon overviews of emerging technologies and related practices that have demonstrated or may demonstrate positive learning impacts.

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