Resources for Middle School
Language arts
http://www.middleweb.com/CurrLangArt.html
lesson plans
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/language_arts/68/
Literature and Reading
Reading Comprehension guides for middle school
literature
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/reading_comprehension/middlehigh_school/
reading
comprehensuion quizzes and worksheets
http://www.kwiznet.com/p/showCurriculum.php?curriculumID=41
practice for reading comprehesion
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/reading_comp/
SCORE CyberGuides - CyberGuide's link books for students from 6-8 to activities on the World Wide Web. These supplementary lessons include objectives, tasks and rubics for assessment. This is an excellent way to enhance student interest in reading and the internet.
Read, Write, Think - Lesson plans for language arts from the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English.
Poetry Teachers.Com - Site of ideas for teaching poetry, poetry theater, and poetry contests.
More Ideas than You'll Ever Use for Book Reports - Hundreds of them.
Technology Enhanced Ideas for Book Reports -Try this ideas
Reading Rockets - News and articles to help improve the teaching of reading.
25 Ideas for Better Book Reports - Article from Education World
Teachers@Random - From Random House, Bantam, Doubleday, Dell. Ideas for teaching Young Adult literature with books from these publishers.
Book Discussion Guides - Guides for books for children and young adults. This site is by the Multnomah Public Library.
Books R4 Teens
- Book summaries, teaching ideas, related media and texts, and links to related
web sites. This site is by the University of Texas at Austin.
AdLit
- A site promoting adolescent literacy. Explore the teaching strategies and
topics sections for teaching ideas.
Writing
Language Arts Lesson Plans - From Teachnology.
Language Arts Lesson Plans - From the Awesome Library. Many, many lesson plans for k-12 language arts classes.
The Teacher's Desk - Lesson plans for reading, writing, and spelling for students in grades 5 and 6.
30 Ideas for Teaching Writing - From the National Writing Project.
Everyday Edits - Students check for grammatical mistakes in these writing passages.
Teaching Grammar without the Hammer - Lesson plans from Education World.
Using Newspapers in the Classroom - From Newspapers in Education.
The Grammar Acquarium - This site offers online practice or printable worksheets for many grammar topics.
Free Rice - Selection of the correct definitions of words will send free rice to a starving world.
Language Arts Worksheets - For all grades from Education World.
