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ReadWriteThink features K-12 classroom resources, professional development, and parent resources. There are lesson plans aligned with NCTE and IRA standards and student interactives.

This site teaches younger students about the mechanics of Cinquain, Haiku, Free Verse and Limericks. Students can choose from several phrases to complete poems of each style. Poetry Engine would be a great introduction to a basic poetry unit and is interactive whiteboard ready.

This link is to the language arts portion of learner.org, a series of video on demand workshops for teacher professional development. Videos are produced and distributed by Annenberg Foundation.

A writing generator for grades K-6, this resource is very teacher- and student-friendly. An animated guide on the home page for teachers was very simple to understand.

Scholastic Story Starters help students generate ideas, allow creativity, identify story elements, accommodate writing levels and allow students to illustrate their work. It can be used for whole class instruction and individual writing projects.

Enter words into this site and watch them come to life. Site was developed by Jonathan Feinberg and is non-commercial.

This website allows students to choose a subject area and then collect information in a variety of formats. Students can get a dictionary definition, use a thesaurus, look at a map in an atlas, find more information in an encyclopedia or view a timeline related to the topic. I think this would be a great general reference site for student or teachers. Wonderful for the interactive white board.

The Write Source website has writing topics by grade level (K-12) and provides student models with comments by grade level. It helps students create multimedia reports. The materials are created by teachers and writers. It provides information on MLA and APA style, a blog, and a list of publishers for student writing. The site has two very useful student resources: guidelines for how to evaluate interent resources and Research Links: Homework Help and Search Engines. The Write Source could be used by teachers and students.

The Literature Network features access to books, short stories, and poems, an author search, a quote search, quizzes, and a literary periods timeline. Users can also search by literary period or literature history. It has literature forums for reading, book & author discussions, writing, and teaching. Older students could locate resources for projects. Teachers could use the literary periods timeline visual for instruction.

KidPub has stories, poems, creative writing, videos, and reviews by kids and teens. It has links to Twitter, writing contests, message boards, and events. The site exclusively publishes (for a yearly fee) books and ebooks by kids and teens (who get royalties) as well as professionally edit and format, create cover art with input from the author, and help publicize and sell the books. The site offers a Publishing Guide. KidPub is a good resource to explore the publishing process and show students published works by other kids their age.

Google Books includes: QRC codes, author information and website links, bibliographic information, reviews, summaries, Wikipedia references, and related books, magazines and websites. Users can view, purchase, create an online library, or locate a book in a local library. Options to select a one or two page view can remove the menu and ads and be used to accommodate readers' needs. Older students could locate resources for projects. Users need to have selection skills to navigate the site. Not all book titles or authors searched had useable results.