ELA Resources

Great Reading and Writing Resources

• TeachingBooks.Net

Motivating Students to Read

• Samples of Booktalks through Scholastic
• SlimeKids is a great web site to link students with book trailers, book reviews, author web sites and so much more! Check it out. 
• College football book club member 
• Reading Fiction Makes You More Empathetic 

Read Aloud Websites

• Classic fairy tales read aloud - Speakaboo
• Stories read on line - Storylines Online

Stories online

• Online Children's Stories - including classics for young people

Improving Writing Skills

• English Zone - grammar games, reading passages etc.
• GiggleIT - a website that encourages students ages 10 -14 years of age to write about their culture
• Wordle - word clouds, visual poetry etc.

Poetry

• Poetry  Aloud: Classic Poetry Aloud, Poetry Archives, 
• Planning a Poetry Unit: New York Time - 30 Ways to Celebrate Poetry Month, ReadWriteThink Poetry Month, Scholastic Poetry Month
• Different Types of Poetry: Poetry Forms - ReadWriteThink, Simple Haiku, Shape Poems - ReadWriteThink
• Poetry Collection - Web English Teacher
• Lyrics Fly - search for song lyrics
• Poetry Idea Engine - Scholastic
• Online Poetry Classroom
• Inspired Picture Poetry Writing - Piclits.com
• RhymeZone - rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
• Lit2Go - traditional poems, rhymes, and stories

Other Interesting Sites

• English Vocabulary Games, Jumble - learning vocabulary 
• The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton or Web English Teacher or Teacher CyberGuide 
• Going Digital: Digital Booktalks, Book Trailers, More Book Trailers,and More Book Trailers, Digital Storytelling - Great Wiki to explain how to do digital Storytelling, Book Ninging 
• Other options for digital storytelling include: ReadWriteThink (without audio), Flip Book, Animoto (free 30 second audio video capacity), VoiceThreads, Produce a book using PowerPoint and then share it through SlideShare, Create photo books with Mixbook, Comic Storytelling - Comiqs or Toondoo,for the Scrapbooker try Scrapblog 
• Drama: Resources for drama, debate, graphic novels etc, Simple Scripts, 
• Create a Literature Trip that literally maps the journey made by characters in a novel
• About the Book or the Book Club: Book Browse, Reading Group Guide, TeachingBoooks.net , Librarything
• About the author:  How do you pronouce an author's name?, biographies: Omnibiography
• Censorship: Internet Censorship
• Story Elements: Interactive Story Elements - Cinderella
• Genres: historical fiction - History Now
• Teen Literature: Children's and YA Literature with Schlib, For Teen from the Winnipeg Public Library
• Debate: Pro and Con web site 
• TUSC integrated with L with ICT