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General

Theme worksheets

Short reads with exit type questions

Grammar

Parts of Speech Poetry Lesson Plan

Grammar lessons

Guide to grammar and writing

"Superhero" project

"The Mt. Diamonte Adventure"

"The Perfect Park" project

Grammar quizzes

Grammar lessons

Big Dog's Grammar Resource Page

Video (Discovery Education) search: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Interjections, Modifiers

Vocabulary

Vocabulary Word of the Day site

Using a word journal to create a personal dictionary

Teaching Vocabulary

Vocabulary puzzles

Teaching Vocabulary

Academic vocabulary

Background for Novels

Across Five Aprils
Lesson Plan

Performing Arts for Across Five Aprils
Mystery Book Project

House of Dies Drear

Gary Soto - author

Gary Soto Home Site
About Gary Soto Taking Sides

The Iditarod Sled Dog Race reading resources related to the King of Mazy May
Learning Resources Iditarod information

Jack London site

Jack London's journal of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

Background Romeo & Juliet (Smart Exchange Log on required)

Edgar Allan Poe - author
A directed-listening-thinking activity

Another lesson plan

Exploring character traits with adjectives lesson plans

"A Day No Pigs Would Die" vocabulary list

Propaganda Lesson Plan

Ad Attack lesson plan

Enhancing a poetry unit with American Memory

Wonderful site using American Memory

Tell Tale Heart

Edgar Allen Poe - Challenge

Character Traits

Ransom of Red Chief

Read-Write-Think lesson plans K - 12

Read-Think-Write Lesson Plan Index 6-8

List of Language Arts Resources

Students create a Timeline of the life of a character in a story or of their self

Research - Writing

Interactive six trait writing process
WritingFix - The 6 Writing Traits

A writing lesson plan

Teen friendly "how-to" on writing a research paper.

Sample writing rubrics

List of Harlem Renaissance sites

Harlem Renaissance Websites

Harlem Renaissance

Student reflection

Create a Venn Diagram related to the Harlem Renaissance

A Rubric for Narrative writing

"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" lesson plan

Personal Narrative writing lesson plan

Personal Narrative - Change Over Time

Personal Narrative - Personal Survival

Peer Review lesson plan

Comment Form

Sample Peer-Review Form

Range of Peer-Review Comments

Narrative essays

Great Leads Lesson plan

Three elements of characterization

Cinquain Graphic Organizer

Revising for connotation lesson plan

Good graphic for discussion

Three elements of Setting Development graphic organizer

Lesson plan on paragraphing and dialogue

Dialogue tags

List of Dialogue Tags

Dialogue Writing

Collaborating to Write Dialogue

Dialogue Tag Revision Activity

Quotation marks lesson plan

Nikki Grimes' website

Reading Strategies and Poetry

Reading Strategies

How and Why Characters Change -Organizer

Lesson Plan for "The Road Not Taken"

Parts of Speech Poetry lesson plan

Closed reading activity

Good resources for poetry

Poets.org for Educators

Using poetry to teach the subordinate clause lesson plan

Story Telling Activities

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