Resource Blog for High School English Teachers

“Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans.” Teachers Pay Teachers , www.teacherspayteachers.com/.     Teachers Pay Teachers is a website full of lesson plans and other tools for the classroom. There are resources for all subject areas, and for Language Arts there are lesson plans and other resources on numerous topics, some of which are close reading, grammar, vocabulary, writing, and many others. The lesson plans can be filtered by price, grade, or topic. There are other resource types including assessments, google apps, games, and unit plans. This would be a great resource for differentiated instruction or learning centers because it would give different options for students to choose from, on top of what teachers have already come up with. This resource is also a great way to get ideas for lessons from other teachers who have had success, and it reinforces the idea that teachers support and help each other be successful so students may be successful.

“All About Adolescent Literacy.” AdLit.org , WETA, www.adlit.org/.     Adlit is a website that offers resources and support for teachers and parents of struggling readers and writers, grades 4-12. There are tools and support for hot topics, classroom strategies for before, during, and after reading, blogs, themed book lists, videos for support, and professional development webcasts. The information is research-based and best practice for helping struggling readers. This website is a great tool for every classroom because there will always be a struggling reader. The website acknowledges in the importance of students being able to read and analyze what is read, not just the basics of literacy. Along with different tactics, having themed book lists is a great tool to help struggling readers become engaged and motivated to read the books they choose. Not only does this website focus on what students can do to become better readers, it also looks at the future and how to p...

“Study Guides and Strategies.” Study Guides and Strategies , www.studygs.net/.     This website offers tools for students and teachers. Some of the tools for students are how to take notes, prepare for tests, or write papers. These tools are focused on individual use but can be adapted as lesson plan support for teachers. This is a very student-centered website, and gives much information so that students can use it as a resource without having to ask for help. This would be a great tool for different ideas of how to teach different topics, such as different types of writing or reading. There are also guides for how to manage time, organize tasks, etc. on this website, which can be great for helping students who struggle with this. Teachers could use this website in their lesson directly, or they could use it for reading before teaching to give students things to focus on in an upcoming lesson. This would be a great resource for teachers to be actively engaged with dif...

“TeachHUB.” TeachHUB , K-12 Teachers Alliance, www.teachhub.com/.     Teachhub is a free website that offers lessons and teaching tools, video writing prompts, online lessons, as well as current news in education, professional development, and real teacher blogs. Teachhub not only focuses on providing tools for teaching students but also for helping teachers improve themselves. It offers lesson plans for grades K-12, in many different subjects. The video writing prompts give students a little bit of information to get them thinking about a topic, and then the students are able to use that information, plus more, when they write. These video writing prompts would be a great visual activity for students which they can then use to develop higher order thinking. For professional development, there are different speakers that can be booked for topics ranging from Common Core to Guided Reading. These speakers would be great for teacher workshops or in-service days. The speak...

“Teacher Resources, Children's Books, Student Activities for Teachers | Scholastic.com | Scholastic.” Scholastic Publishes Literacy Resources and Children's Books for Kids of All Ages , Scholastic Inc., www.scholastic.com/teachers/home/. Scholastic is a website that focuses on student learning through literacy. There are lesson plans, unit plans, vocabulary lists, and extension of learning tools on this website. Scholastic gives tools for grades K-8, as well as teachers, parents, and students. There are also daily starters, and this would be a great tool for bell ringer activities. There are book lists with discussion ideas, author interviews, and extension activities. There are videos that can be added for different lessons, and this would be a great tool for ELL students or struggling readers. The discussion ideas are centered around books, and this can be a great tool for small group or large group discussion. This website is focused on improving students’ literacy as a w...

“HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free Help with Your Algebra, Biology, Environmental Science, American Government, US History, Physics and Religion Homework.” HippoCampus.org , NROC, www.hippocampus.org/. HippoCampus is a free website that offers tools, instruction, and practice for teachers and students aged middle school through college. It mostly uses videos, animations, and simulations, which makes it a great tool for struggling readers. It presents the information in a different way and would be a great differentiation tool. It addresses many different subjects, but I will just focus on what it offers for english. There is a teaching English blog that has many different lesson plans for all aspects of teaching english such as writing, analyzing readings, and finding sources. Within each lesson plan, there is instruction for what to say when teaching, practical application, examples, practice, and metacognitive questioning. This website offers many different lessons for ...

“Homepage.” Edsitement! , National Endowment for the Humanities, edsitement.neh.gov/.     Edsitement is a website that has lesson plans, study activities, and closer readings in the subjects of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. It is a project by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Edsitement offers lesson plans and activities for grades K-12. There are different filters for searching the type of lesson plan or activity that you want, or there is a calendar that has lesson plans and activities based on what happened each day in history and different readings or activities to go along with it. Not only does this website focus on readings or things going on in the world, it also addresses different authors and important people in history. This website focuses on the humanities and connects literature with history or art. This would be a great tool for encouraging deeper thinking and analyzation of eve...