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The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading comprehension. So, how can we as teachers continue to monitor our students understanding of reading material without killing the love of reading? Enter technology.

Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learning About Multiple Intelligences: For Students and For Teachers

The Shakespeare Standard is a news, feature, and blog hub for Shakespeare-related news on the web. They publish news items from around the world on a regular basis while featuring reports, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts from our editorial staff and community contributors.

A good collection of poetry for high school students.

Participating in an online discussion on events and issues in the news not only gives students a forum, but it also helps them build critical thinking, writing and news literacy skills and provides an opportunity to write for an authentic audience.

Statistical techniques can give us a good estimate of how many words Shakespeare knew based on how many he used.

Spell with flickr is a neat app that allows you to create banners or other text with flickr images. Perfect for embedding in wikis or using on blogs or other Web sites.

Resources for teaching mythology, including Reader's Theater approach and Webquests.

If this is the future of studying a Shakespeare play, sign me up.

Shakespeare Geek, a lifelong computer geek and Shakespeare lover, explains how Shakespeare and information technology are connected.

Shakespeare gets it right again. Washing your hands may help "scrub away the inner turmoil you feel."

An Online Learning Lab with activities and texts to edit to practice using the six traits

English Skills Worksheets for Grades 5-8

Diaries and letters from WW1.

Diaries and letters from WW1.