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This site is a favorite of mine. You can create a profile and log all the books you have read, are reading, or want to read as well as give them ratings. For English teachers it is a great resource because it provides thousands of reviews on books you might be interested in teaching. It also has lists of books such as "new authors to watch for", "best young adult books", and of course the humorous ones such as "sexiest immortal males of all" might also give you a good laugh. There is also trivia, quizzes, information on authors and more...

This clip from the Simpsons is a great resource to use when reading Poe's The Raven. It reads to poem out loud and acts it out in an entertaining way that i think high school students would get a kick out of! It would also help students understand the poem better and lead into a discussion about it.

This is a tool to help students better understand Paradise Lost. It follows the idea that poetry is meant to be read out loud as well as read. I think this will be a great asset to students!

This website is a wonderful, easily accessible tool for educators aspiring to promote and improve literary among students. It offers useful advice, tips, lesson plans, books, and workshops on reading and writing.

This website is useful because it offers straight forward explanations about teaching students how to dissect and analyze a reading passage in order to encounter the main idea and major focal point within a passage.

This list contains only 3 or 4 books that I've read and I think that as teachers we should both adhere to classics, but also read material that isn't as well known

This article describes the use one teacher made of World of Warcraft as an outside the classroom teaching tool for reading and writing.

This is an excellent resource page that teachers can use to get links to information about literature, grammar, poetry, tests, standardized tests, writing, reading, and this is just the beginning.

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.

Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.

It has free online texts. I personally use it to search for relevant quotes for papers.

Watch the video before reading the article. While watching, count the number of passes by people wearing white. I won't spoil it for those of you who haven't seen this before, but read the article. Our surprisingly intense level of "selective attention" will be useful to understand about our future students.

This website offers 101 beneficial reading options for high school students making it a valuable resource because it grants students an abundance of options to choose from as well as gives teachers plentiful curriculum options.

A really good book list.

This blog is a high school English teacher that likes to post about novels usually in the chick novel, romantic, youth categories that she feels high school students would appreciate. Its a good site to look at if you are wanting to teach your kids to free read outside of class a book that is worth while

This is a website that offers resources, lesson plans, and ideas for teaching reading and writing up to a middle school classroom. This is important in teaching the basics of these skills

This website will particularly be beneficial to my own lesson plan creation and professional development. The website offers a multitude of activities and strategies for teachers to use. In addition, it offers online professional growth training.

I found this clip of Mercutio's death scene from the 1996 Romeo and Juliet. I think it would be useful for the students to see what they are reading be preformed in a way they could relate to more. This clip can also be used in a discussion of whether this play is a tragedy or a comedy.

This is a site similar to sparknotes. It has summaries, analysis, character lists, and quizzes. What I liked about this site is the Why Should I Care section they have for every book that describes why they are studying this book in a witty way. If used as a tool and not a substitution for reading the book i think it is a great asset for teachers and students. 

This site contains a lot of information on just about every aspect of teaching English. All of the various areas broken down, with lesson plan, project and unit ideas on poetry, literature, writing, reading, vocab, grammar, esl, etc.

This site provides activities for high school students to improve their vocabulary, grammer skills and other necessary english skills.

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.