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This site has information for new teachers. It also includes articles and other helpful resources to make your class as successful as possible

The National Writing Project investigates more innovative ways to instill creativity in students' writing, one of which is detailed here in this article. A combination of art, writing and tactile sensory is used as students are encouraged to "write what they see."

This is a collaborative website by teachers for teachers, with links to resources for all levels of educators, from students and beginning teachers to mentoring teachers.

This seems like a great web resource for teachers who are looking for ideas and news related to current education, including pages on lesson planning, professional development, technology integration, and more.

A great online resource that not only provides free lesson plans for teachers, but also offers teachers daily news and trivia, blogs on current issues, and information on new technological tools, all relating to education today.

This resource is helpful because it offers beneficial quizzes that can help students improve their understanding of certain aspects of grammar. The Extra Practice Tab offers additional information on certain subjects and extended practice. This website also offers grammar related games for students to practice their grammar with.

This website has a blog (good for our personal learning networks!) news, research, information about funding, politics of education, educational research, and more. A solid resource for all of us future educators!

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 site gives free lesson plans and resources for teaching with technology. Good for people who are a little slower with technology things!

This website offers various articles about teaching topics, such as "pitfalls of wikipedia" and other topics that we will come in contact with when we are in the classroom.

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.

This website is so cool...it's a website...just for teachers! In this section of the website, teachers blog about different topics in their classroom, and some of them are really informative. In addition, you can explore other aspects of the website to see what resources better fit your class.

Great resource! It not only has cool games and ideas to use on smart boards, but other technology links as well.

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.

This website offers a great list of lesson plans for teaching high school English. They are a great place to start when brainstorming what types of activities to do for a text. It is especially helpful in regards to teaching grammar.

This page offers over 4,000 free English lessons for middle school and high school students. It could be extremely resourceful.

This site provides A LOT of lesson plans, for each content area, grade, etc. The site breaks up the lesson plans into sections as well, including poetry, reading comprehension, writing, etc. A great tool to gain some ideas for lesson plans in the future.

This is a great tool for teachers because it allows them to search for poems by specific author, title, or theme as well as giving audio clips for many of the poems. It also has resources for both teachers and students.

Shows students and teachers how to use digital storytelling. Gives resources to both groups on how to create and evaluate digital works.

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...

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 site has a very wide selection of different lesson plans for different authors. It is a good resource for teachers to find accompanying course work or helpful study tips for common high school English classes.