Motivating Students to Read

• Samples of Booktalks through Scholastic

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.

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
• 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 
• Resources for drama, debate, graphic novels etc
• Create a Literature Trip that literally maps the journey made by characters in a novel
• How do you pronouce an author's name?
• Biographies: Omnibiography
• Censorship: Internet Censorship
• Story Elements: Interactive Story Elements - Cinderella