This site of PBS is designed to foster the reading skills of children aged four to seven years. The site contains 80 episodes of a television program. Videotapes and DVDs of the programs may be purchased. An online teacher’s handbook is available to enhance the reading curriculum in preschool or primary grades.

CARLA is one of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National Language Resource Centers concerned with teaching and learning foreign languages effectively. Its site has segments on research and programs, professional development of second language teachers, and resources. Its resources segment includes a curriculum language proficiency handbook for teachers, content-based instruction resources, and resource links for language teachers.

“A Compact for Reading is a written agreement among families, teachers, principals, and students to work together to improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third grade children.” The School-Home Links Reading Kits (for various student levels) are designed to help children reach that goal. Four hundred activities are presented in the program.

This web site, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the Verizon Foundation, is designed to help teachers integrate information in the humanities as a standard classroom resource to expand student knowledge and interest in the humanities. It provides lesson plans in the humanities for K-12 classes.

Provides guides for teachers at the preK-5 and 6-12 levels. Topics include curricula for reading outcomes, writing outcomes, speaking outcomes, and listening outcomes.

This comprehensive guide uses information from The Guide to Grammar and Writing and The Principles of Composition. It deals with categories, such as word and sentence level; paragraph level; essay and research paper level; ask grammar, quizzes, social devices; peripherals and PowerPoints; and grammarpoll, guest book, awards. The site contains an index and frequently asked questions.

Contains unit plans, teachers’ guides, study guides, and other literature information for middle school and high school English teachers. Some of the sites are free, but others are links to where the items may be purchased. You can access resources related to a specific author by selecting the author’s last name from the alphabetical list.

This site provides an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the internet. It also seeks to present unique Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the internet. The latter material includes a Shakespeare timeline, the Shakespeare canon, Rowe’s Some Accounts of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespear, and reviews of web sites, books, DVDs, and other material.

The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. NCTE has over 60,000 members and subscribers in the United States and other countries. Individual members are teachers and supervisors of English programs in elementary, middle, and secondary schools, faculty in college and university English departments, teacher educators, local and state agency English specialists, and professionals in related fields.

This digital library has a wide range of source materials in the humanities. Its collection subjects contain classics (Greek and Roman materials), papyri, Rensaissance materials, a digital archive on the history and topography of London, and other topics.

This Academy of American Poets web site seeks to support American poets and foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. The site includes poetry audio archives; essays and interviews about poetry; biographies of more than 500 poets; about 2,000 poems; and audio clips of 150 poems. The “For Educators” segment contains teacher resources, essays on teaching, a teacher forum, and lessons and units.

Designed to assist parents and teachers in getting children to read and learn. “Especially for Teachers” has segments on addressing special needs, working with parents, classroom ideas/lesson plans (which you can organize by grade and subject), and assessing assessments. The web site also contains segments on literary resources and “Especially for Parents.”

Provides lessons on research-based instruction in learning to read. The site has links to sites with state-of-the-art research reading, and to materials for reading teachers.

T & W—a nonprofit organization—seeks to assist writers and K-12 teachers in the teaching of writing in grades K-12. Its web site on teaching includes segments on lesson plans, book reviews, previous featured writers, and previous book reviews. Other segments include fiction writing and poetry.

ReadWriteThink, a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation, produces this web site discussing the resources in reading and language arts instruction through free Internet content. Specifically, it offers lesson plans in reading and language arts for classes from K-12; the IRA/NCTE standards for the English language arts, web resources; and online student materials.

Turnitin.com is a site designed for teachers and students and sponsored by iParadigms, LLC. iParadigms is a group of dedicated professionals who are committed to stopping plagiarism in schools. Teachers or students can submit written work online to be compared against the site’s database of previous works. Papers are checked for familiar phrases and words resulting in a report highlighting any suspect passages. The site also provides students the ability to have their papers peer reviewed by other students and provides teachers with software to electronically correct papers and keep track of grades.

Has audio recordings of the poems of famous poets such as Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound and Langston Hughes.