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Thoughts about teaching, literacy, and English Language Arts in the twenty-first century.

Sammy Garey, a recent graduate of Burlingame High School in Burlingame, Calif., is a devoted user of Twitter. She's used the website with her classmates for online book discussions for her AP English class, in which they post and share feedback, analysis, and questions about novels such as Crime and Punishment. Garey also turns to the website to check breaking news and feed her interest in science by following the tweets of specialized Twitter accounts such as MedUpdates and DrugInfo.

Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after you've read their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you. See the alphabetical list in the scrolling author box on the left. Read on to find out just how easy it is!

An awesome plethora of interactive resources!!

"This Online Program will help you create an acrostic poem for your name. The program will help you decide on descriptive words for your acrostic poem. It will then turn your acrostic poem into a beautiful looking poem. Be sure to start each word with a capital letter. "

Excellent videos and images free to use in the classroom. Science and Social Studies resources significantly more engaging than math.

"We've built the smartest online vocabulary program and are giving it away! "

A really cool visual dictionary, thesaurus, vocabulary website that gives results as a web/mind-map. Users can click to find different parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms and more.

Digitized collection of materials created through a teaming with Google Books project. You can search full-text or limited version only.