American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Supporting Teachers With Progress Monitoring
This 2006 presentation (PDF PowerPoint and Handouts), conducted by Dr. Erica Lembke and Dr. Laura Saenz.at the Summer Institute on Student Progress Monitoring, discusses issues related to successfully implementing Curriculum Based...
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
The King's English: 18th Century Language
This article about the language spoken in the 18th century comes from the teacher newsletter for Colonial Williamsburg. Forms of address, greeting, and farewells are covered in detail.
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute: Colonial Punishment
Article on crime and types of punishment used in Colonial Virginia. Gives students an idea of what it was like to live in the English colonies.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Freedom's Story: Pigmentocracy
Trudier Harris, Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, takes a look at pigmentocracy, the distinctions that people of African descent in America make in their various skin tones. She suggests that there is a...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The Trickster in African American Literature
Trudier Harris, Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explains the role of tricksters in African American literature.
Other
Kind News Online Teacher Zone
Readings, activities, and lesson plans from KIND News Online. Teach children social responsibility with focus on animal protection and environmental conservation. News articles available in both English and Spanish.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: High School English Literary Terms
This article focuses on a variety of key literary terms used in high school English including their definitions. These terms include flashback, genre, irony, parody, satire, setting, subplot, tone, and symbol.
Other
National Council of Teachers of English: Teaching With Blogs
Reading and writing texts online are basic skills that students need to be literate citizens in today's world. Teaching with blogs provides the opportunity to engage students in both of these literacy activities, and the strategy has the...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Religion, Women, and the Family
This National Humanities Center site from the University of Delaware discusses family life, childrearing, and the importance of religion in colonial America as written about in various books.
Other
Working Effectively With English Language Learners
A brief essay aimed at teachers who newly find that their responsibilities have expanded to include teaching both academic content and language skills to English language learners. Practical advice for improving instruction and becoming...
Northern Illinois University
Se Asite: Teaching Learning: Controversial Issues in the Classroom
Inspired by a meeting at a Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference, this article is a summary of the main points made by presenter Professor H. Douglas Brown. Teaching students to be respectful citizens can...
Northern Illinois University
Se Asite: Teaching Learning: Controversial Issues in the Classroom
Inspired by a meeting at a Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference, this article is a summary of the main points made by presenter Professor H. Douglas Brown. Teaching students to be respectful citizens can...
Everything ESL
Everything esl.net: Seven Teaching Strategies for Teaching El Ls
Article that outlines seven teaching strategies for classroom teachers to use when instructing English language learners.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Teaching Determiners and Articles
This article focuses on teaching articles and determiners to native and non-native English speakers. It suggests beginning with articles (a, an, the), then moving to determiners (my, her, his, this, that, these, those); it also suggests...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Communication Strategies for All Classrooms: Focusing on Ell
Concrete suggestions for teachers who want to communicate well with all of their students, especially English language learners and students with learning disabilities.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Six Syllable Types
Six written syllable-spelling conventions are used in English spelling. The conventions are useful to teach because they help students remember when to double letters in spelling and how to pronounce the vowels in new words. The...
Other
Ncte: "Can We Blog About This?": Amplifying Student Voice in Secondary Language
This article describes blogging implementation in ninth-grade pre-advanced placement language arts classes to support strong writing practices. The author found that blogging empowered high school authors to craft worlds of digital...
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Learning Disability or Language Development Issue?
Help for teachers struggling to determine whether an English language learner is challenged by a learning disability or by a normal language acquisition issue.