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The best of K-12 English Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans for reading, writing, and speaking & listening for all grade levels; literature (including nonfiction); poetry; drama; journalism; vocabulary; and professional development.

This is a website that provides many inspirational quotes. I think it is important to keep our students motivated and by providing inspiration to them through words of others is one way to start.

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Weebly is a great site that I have used for creating websites and blogs with students. I particularly love the blog creator. My students loved how easy it was to personalize their blogs. The finished projects look very professional. The privacy standards are great. My honors class created their own literature study guides by using the blog software.

IXL is the Web's most comprehensive K-12 practice site. An adaptive learning system features games and awards, inspiring students to achieve.

Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.

Want to promote something online but don't know how? Smore makes it easy. It's also fun, for a change.

I think current events are important and our students do not know enough about what is happening in the world. I use current events in my English class as important daily writing tools. The Nation's Newspaper provides you with up-to-date coverage of US and international news, weather, entertainment, finance, and more.

One of my FAVORITE websites. I teach journalism and this website is very useful in learning about fonts (typography). I highly encourage everyone to check it out and learn why Times is the common font we use today, and why we should be discouraged from using it! Please visit.

PicMonkey: Easy and versatile online photo editing and it is free! Great for students who are creating projects which need high quality, customized photos. Users can create collages, add fonts, effects, filters, frames and stickers to their project.

Photo Journalism is an important learning tool. Use this website to explore different edit options for print. Editing your photos is easy with PicMonkey. Add filters, frames, text, and effects with our free online photo editing tool.

Write as you play The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those branches back together again. It keeps track of which paths you've finished, and which still need to be written. There's no set-up, no programming, no drawing diagrams - so there's nothing between you and the empty page.

A trick that many high school student's don't know about. Have students use Google Scholar to find articles for research, and teach them how to conduct successful research instead on using Wikipedia.

Good to use with ESL learners allows them to view videos to help them learn English.