General

• The Voice of the Shuttle Huge site from Berkeley that serves as a gateway to thousands of websites dealing with the humanities.
• National Council of Teachers of English Books, Conventions, Issues/Positions, Journals, News, Teaching Ideas.

Lesson Plans

• New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards: Language and Arts Literacy
• Standards for the English Language Arts
• Exemplary English/Language Arts/Reading Lesson Plans Provides curriculum-relevant resources on writing and literature.
• English Teaching Resources Click a tab at the top of the page to choose an age group, then choose a topic like Shakespeare, literature, poetry, drama biography, etc.
• Academy Curricular Exchange Language Arts Lessons Intermediate (grades 6-8) Lesson plans, ideas, and activities.
• Academy Curricular Exchange Language Arts Lessons Intermediate (grades 9-12)Lesson plans, ideas, and activities.
• Lesson Plans-Language Arts Contains lesson plans for drama, poetry, reading/comprehension, literature, spelling, vocabulary, writing, and interdisciplinary units.

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Grammar

• Guide to Grammar and Writing This site contains everything you ever wanted to know about grammar and then some! Interactive quizzes are available to test skill level. A floating index should pop up when this page loads. A keyword search is available.
• Common Errors in English Deviations form the standard use of English as judged by professional writers, editors and teachers.
• Grammar Bytes Terms, rules, and printable exercises.
• Online English Grammar Use the table of contents to locate answers to common grammar questions. One of the Internet's most visited English language resources.

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Literature

• Young Adult Booklists Seven links to lists for all reading levels.
• Award-winning Books from the American Library Association Lists of award winning novels for the current year.
• TeenReads Offers extensive book, author and general information for teen readers.
• Reading Rants: Out of the Ordinary Teen Book Lists Create book lists based on genre.
• Alex Awards Annotated lists of adult books for young adults.
• NovelGuide - Novel Resource Guide and Literary Analysis An educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary literature through chapter summaries, character profiles, metaphor analysis, theme analysis, and author biographies.
• American Literature on the Web Links to sites dealing with American literature and its social/cultural contexts. It includes homepages and documents on over 300 authors and electronic texts of their works.
• Yahoo: Authors Massive gateway to sites about every author imaginable and their works.
• Literary Criticism Critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.
• Childrens' Literature Web Guide Directory of resources including book award winners and information on authors, illustrators, and teaching.
• Internet Classics Archive Select from a list of over 400 works of classic literature by 59 authors.
• A Glossary of Literary Terms

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Writing

• Hot Paper Topics Click on topics related to society, arts and literature, history, business and science and view links to information on each one.
• Idea Generator Click on the topic categories to view hundreds of research paper topics.
• Internet Public Library Guide to Research and Writing Follow the steps from getting the assignment to writing the paper.
• Research Center Geared mainly for middle school, the site presents a nine step process to writing a research paper.
• Ten Tips on Writing Opinion Pieces
• Journal Writing Everyday An article on the effectiveness of journal writing plus a list of prompts.
• Journalism Theme Page Excellent source for tools and resources.

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Shakespeare

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet An annotated, searchable guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet. Contents: Works, Life and Times, Theatre, Criticism, Renaissance, Sources, Educational Sites.
• Lesson Plan Archive: Shakespeare K-12 lesson plans on general Shakespeare knowledge and the individual plays.
• Romeo and Juliet Navigator: Lessons Plans
• Shakespeare Resources Lessons, worksheets, webquests, links, and his complete works.
• All Shakespeare Guides to the plays, essays and criticism, quotes, Q&A.

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SAT Preperation

• Dante's Inferno and A Quick Review of the Infernal Subjects of Grammar, Usage and Sentence Structure as Encountered in the SAT II A unit designed to help teachers introduce students working at all skill levels to the elements of The Inferno and apply that knowledge to SAT preparation.
• 5000 Free SAT Vocabulary Words At the top of the screen, click on Edit and choose "Find" to locate a particular word. Copy and paste words to form specialized lists.

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