Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Nory Ryan's Song
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
Library of Congress
Loc: The Grapes of Wrath: Voices From the Great Depression
By examining primary sources, including songs, newspapers, interviews, and photographs of migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression, young scholars create a scrapbook from the point of view of a migrant worker,...
Kids' Wings
The Little Red Music Room
This site has curriculum based songs set to folk melodies. At this site teach language arts, science and math through songs.
Other
The Official George Crumb Home Page
The official site, with sections devoted to his life, compositions, recordings, writings, and news. The news section has internet links, and the site has a search function!
Other
Joseph Bruchac Home Page: Joseph Bruchac
This site is Joseph Bruchac's homepage. It provides links to his biography, a listing of his major works, and other online resources for the author. It also provides links to several of his poems to open or download on mp3.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Childhood Through the Looking Glass
The objective of this site is to explore the visition of childhood through Lewis Caroll's eyes. This site features learning objectives and lesson plans. Don't miss out.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Your Glorious Gene Pool
Students read the books like I Am the Dog. I Am the Cat by Donald Hall and Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and read the lyrics while listening to the song "Shallow End of the Gene Pool" by the Austin Lounge Lizards. Then students learn...
English Verse
English Verse: William Blake (1757 1827)
Several of Blake's famous poems are available in full text here, along with a brief biography and a book recommendation.
Other
Danielle's Place: Bible Theme Crafts for Kids
If you teach religion to elementary students, then you have to see this site! It is overflowing with creative ideas to use in your classroom and will get your students excited about the Bible. Many of these lessons also integrate math,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Right Brained Lesson: Serendipitous Love Metaphors
Based on its title, student writers predict what Benatar's song means when it says that "Love Is a Battlefield." After discussing Benatar's extended metaphor as a class, students will create an original extended metaphor about love in...
Other
The Land of Music: Homepage
Principally an e-commerce site, although free sample lessons and music clips are available from this award-winning provider of music education tools. The Land of Music teaches how to read, write, and enjoy music through songs, stories,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Memoirs About Photographs
This review discusses Looking Back, a memoir written by Lois Lowry. The song "Photograph", performed by Nickelback, and "In Color" by Jamey Johnson, are suggested as sources to assist with extending the students' understanding of memoir....
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University of Alabama: Virginia Woolf Seminar
This University of Alabama site offers a wealth of material on Woolf. In addition to the customary biography, links take you to comments and analyses of several of her novels, an essay on "Men and Women" written by Woolf, and an essay on...
Library of Congress
Loc: Volcano of Delight Historic Sheet Music 1800 1922
This sheet music collection consists of about 9,000 items published from 1800 to 1922.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Langston Hughes
This resource focuses on the works of famous African-American author, Langston Hughes.
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa
Red Escolar: Cantando La Revolucion
In Spanish. The Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1921) has been widely reported and studied through the songs that stayed in the voice of the people even after the fight ended. Besides having a historical value, it has a cultural and artistic...
Curated OER
Johnny Hartman
Johnny Hartman's beautiful baritone voice can be heard by clicking on "Hear Songs" on this website. You can also read a brief biography and listen to the jazz profile about him on NPR.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancile
Ancilia carried by Salii. The sacred shield carried by the Salii, and made of bronze. The original ancile was found, according to tradition, in the palace of Numa; and, as no numan hand has brought it there, it was concluded that it had...