Students will research the relevance of possessing skills in the English language to career success.

A collection of videos, articles for parents and teachers, webcasts for teachesr, and research briefs on helping children develop their oral language skills.

You will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...

Tons of online resources for reading and language skills compiled nicely into a student-friendly SMART Notebook file.

In this story, a young girl does chores at home before going out to play. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.

In this story, a boy uses his imagination to make his bed into different things before actually tidying up as his mother asked him to. Includes audio narration in 13 additional languages with text in English.

In this story, a young girl helps out with chores at home. Includes audio narration in 10 additional languages with text in English.

For struggling adolescent readers, creating student interest is as vital as teaching language skills.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on activities that reinforce language skills such as vocabulary, handwriting as well as alphabet cheer, songs, and poems.

Links to articles, strategies, and webcasts to help teachers strengthen the reading and writing skills of the English language learners in their classes.

The training module, Implementing Effective Literacy Practices for Instructing English Language Learners Within the Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework, provides facilitators with materials to conduct a half-day workshop that can be...

This very readable piece uses charts, examples and brief discussions to explain ways to create gender-neutral writing and speech.

To ensure that the implementation of RTI strategies effectively addresses the needs of all students, this informational brief provides guidelines for organizing and implementing a school leadership team that focuses on the needs of...

A lesson plan focusing on the power of Iago's language, as shown through his crafty deception of Othello, "Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language" provides several links to information on Shakespeare, Othello, and rhetoric.

A sophisticated discussion on the language of mathematics, its origins, meanings, and precision.

Detailed lesson plans and materials designed for ELL/ESL young scholars that has them observing, discussion and writing about, and from the perspective of, plants and animals. Students create a book (may be bilingual) to be reviewed by...

This is a collection of links to teacher resources for teaching literacy to 2nd graders. It includes reading comprehension, word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, differentiated instruction, and using assessment data.

This unit focuses on preparing for the AP Exam for AP Literature and Composition. It offers strategies for taking multiple choice questions, essay exams, and exam day. It also provides practice for the essay test using the poem "It's a...

Discover how authors use figurative language to enhance their writing and explore the differences between similes and metaphors in this animated video [3:37] from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their...

This site provides 17 English language arts lessons for 7th grade. Grade-level standards are provided.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will sharpen your skill in reading figurative language and in connecting it with the historical and cultural settings in the text.

Links to 100 kindergarten activities arranged by skill set and designed to improve reading and writing. All activities are in PDF format and are ready to print and use. They can be downloaded individually, according to skill set, or as...

Match the Memory Interactive game where players match a word to either formal or informal language.