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Sorry I am a little obsessed with young adult novel popularity, but this provides the novels that are popular at this moment for the high school and middle school age, so that as teachers we can get a grasp on what are students are reading and interested in.

This lesson plan is designed to help students develop effective listening skills and identify literary genres.

I watched this clip of the Beatles performing the play within a play, 'Pyramus and Thisbe' from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a class and found it not only extremely amusing but also educational. Their interpretation can be seen as a credible imitation of the Mechanicals' performance or simply as entertainment in honor of Shakespeare-either way, it provokes discussion!

Free access to full-text of Huckleberry Finn. This is a great book to teach in high school.

Yes, I know you've probably used sporcle as a distraction FROM homework, but I'm posting it because I think it can also be a great resource FOR teachers to use with kids to get them to learn in a fun way. The site is filled with quizzes on pretty much every subject possible. I think the sections on geography, literature, and language could be useful. For example, there are timed country and capital quizzes that are great study tools.

I personally wasn't aware of this website until it was mentioned in class last Friday. I was surprised that so many texts were available online. While many texts are not provided in their full, I feel that it could still be very beneficial to take specific chapters and sections from books.

This website allows students to enter poetry and essay contests. Teachers can use this to motivate students and find a purpose for writing.

This website is pretty useful. It is similar to Spark Notes in some regards, but it is great for broad ideas and concepts that may seem confusing, like those discussed in English, such as different literary genres and what they encompass. The site allows for the reader/student to get an easy and strong foot hold in the concept they are exploring.

This video is really cool! And there are many more like it on youtube. Essentially the videos are of pictures of poets with animated mouths. They move corresponding to the words on an audio track of the poem, so it looks like they are speaking the poetry outloud. It's a good way to listen to a poem or reading your version while listening to the audio. Perhaps the listener can also see how others would approach reading and vocalizing the poem.

Website that offers study guides, resources, links to children's literature, etc.

It has lesson plans, guides to teaching, links to other sites, and a lot of other great resources for the classroom.

This website is a helpful tool because it has resources for just English teachers. Whether you are trying to teach poetry or grammar, this website has tools to help you.

This is a great example of a media project that student's could do on a variety of authors. They could put it together using power point and showing it to the class could be beneficial for all students when reading texts by that particular author.

When working with different plays in high school, I think it can be very beneficial for students to recreate scenes from the play. In high school, I had to do this several times and it was a creative outlet to further understand the play while having fun. This is a nice model for students to create their own video.

I think it will be beneficial for students to do book reviews on their own outside the classroom. This is a chance for them to use their critical thinking skills while responding to a piece of fiction that they can choose on their own. This website can provide an academic list of accepted books which my students can choose from.