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Wow some amazing resources here for English. This worth a look when planning for the week or term ahead

great interactive ICT activities in the area of math the arts and english

Another great post by Tom Barret. Where does he find the time? Great ideas for digital writing and integrating ICT into your Literacy and english lessons

The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) received a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to help promote and provide deeper learning opportunities for teachers and students. Recognizing that 11,000 teachers will participate in BIE's 3-day PBL 101 workshop in 2012, the Hewlett Foundation helped BIE expand its professional development resources and expertise online. Now BIE can work with every school and every teacher through PBL University (PBLU). This summer, PBLU will pilot several Common Core aligned Math & English/Language Arts projects with complementary 2-week online classes. Teachers can receive PBL Teacher Certification from BIE, if they choose to complete all the necessary classes and implement the project with their students.

This could be useful for level 4 or level 3 good spellers.

Very helpful for WUSU writing.

A fantastic read, if not for the fascinating history of reading education in the US. However it totally applies to the Australian context too.

I love comic life kids do to. A good piece not just extolling the virtues of comic life but also discusses how comics are a great source of reading material and can be engaging

Worth having a look if anything to inform students that they exist. They may want to use them perhaps for a literacy lesson.

Great list of 5 animation tools that could be used in the classroom. Think I might check some of these out to see if they are suitable for my writers workshop class.

DEFINITELY checking these out! I've been looking for some good ones. Thanks Andrew!

Lots of fun games!

This site has fantastic virtual worlds for the kids to explore. In particular, check out "Big Little Bang".

Smart Board Activities for all grades

Graves approach to writing stimuli. Some of this could be useful for writers workshop and WUSW etc 

Skratch is a simple program for children to use and track what books they have finished reading online.

Interactive grammar activities and 

Yay Verbs! Prezi style. 

Transmedia is it the new way to teach storytelling/writing? This idea could fit nicely into our students multi platformed online lives and communities. Interesting. 

Has helpful lesson ideas and resources for reading, writing and thinking and great for persuasive writing