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English Plus article on origins of English and where our rules came from.

This is a list of modern music that was inspired by the artists reading classic literature. May be very helpful in the English classroom!

Humorous article about who makes the rules of grammar.

Cool website that has a bunch of lesson plans attached to current news events.

Study for Praxis II...Secondary English

Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, aligned with state standards

This is a NH DOE page that contains grade level alignment between new common core standards and current GLE's

This has been so helpful for me when writing my lesson plans! Just click on the grade level and you will get a side-by-side comparison of common core standards and NH state standards.

This website has many many pages of interactive activities and lessons. Students can study story elements, idioms, pronunciations, reading, spelling, play games, all sorts of things. When you have a day with a CoW, or a day in a lab, you can have the students pick a lesson from a list, or you can print out a page and use it as a sponge activity.

Check Ss work for plaigarism

Find rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, etc.

Love this for teaching poetry units.

This article was excerpted from Easy Ways to Reach & Teach English Language Learners by Valerie Schiffer Danoff. These strategies are part good thinking and part best practices. They work for ELLs and EO students because they activate prior knowledge, encourage students to work together, and provide sensible foundations for teaching and learning in a classroom setting.

Here you can access via PDF the entire standards jointly written by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Assn.

A cool website to use. This website has different trivia type questions and for every question you answer correctly they donate 10 grains of rice to end world hunger.