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This blog offers very insightful articles on how to improve traditional teaching methods of teaching English as a second language, and it explores language acquisition more in-depth as well. Many of these are incorporated into different strategic lesson plans.

For those of you who are in English because of your love of language, Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue is a fascinating and entertaining book all about our wonderfully weird language: English. I have read a lot of Bryson's stuff and he's one of my favorite writers. But this particular book can be helpful for English teachers, as it better acquaint them to the language they will be teaching.

This site provides definitions and context to difficult Shakespearean language, a useful tool for teaching students Shakespeare.

This somewhat silly interpretation of the story of Macbeth actually provides an easy way to show student who are having difficulty with the play's language the basics of the plot in a fun and engaging way.

We have been discussing ESL classes and how teachers are not prepared for classrooms with students who do not speak any english. This blog gives advice and helpful resources for teachers.

This is a blog that gives new updates in grammar, defining rhetorical devices, dictionaries and the like. It's a good place to look if you have a random question about grammar or what is happening in the English language today.

Informative and insightful video done in the perspective of an English learner

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.

This has a ton of lesson plans for every kind of classroom. They do seem a little cheesy, but we can at least get ideas from this website!

This professional association of educators of English, literacy, and language arts offers many resourceful tools for other English educators, such as teaching strategies among numerous others.

I know some English majors that are also studying to achieve a Spanish endorsement...I figured some of these tips and tricks on how to teach Spanish to Secondary Ed. students would be greatly beneficial to prospective teachers!

Unique one liners that will cause students to think a little deeper in terms of language

A page where actual teachers personally voice their opinions on which way is the most effective way to teach ELLs.