resourcesforenglishteachers

 

 

 

Interactive multimodal resources and learning activities

for teachers and students

created by teachers and students

 

 

 

This site offers historical background, apps to enhance lessons, suggested readings, and interactive learning activities for English/Language Arts and History/Social Studies/Civics classes.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sharing ideas about teaching reading, writing, and communication

to engage students with exciting, creative learning experiences.

 

 Visit our sister wiki, resourcesforhistoryteachers

 

Kids Have All the Write Stuff: Revised and Updated for a Digital Age by Sharon A. Edwards, Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)

 

Bookcase for Young Writers 

 

 

Digital Toolkit for Young Writers: Tools, Apps and Software for Inspiring and Supporting Young Writers

 

 

 

 

Resources by Topic

 American Literature

 

• Walden 

 

• The Crucible

 

• The Great Gatsby

 

• The Grapes of Wrath 

 

• To Kill a Mockingbird

 

• Walt Whitman, Bard of Democracy and Leaves of Grass

 

 World Literature

 

• The Iliad and The Odyssey 

 

• Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

 

• Dante and the Divine Comedy

 

• 1984 and Animal Farm

 

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

 

• Antigone by Sophocles

 

 Jane Austen: The Complete Works in Google Notebook LM

 

 

7th Grade English/Language Arts

 

• Myths and Stories of Classical Greece 
• Theseus and the Minotaur
• Daedalus and Icarus
• Jason and the Golden Fleece
• Pegasus and Bellerephon
• Perseus and Medusa 

 

 

Young Adult Literature Wiki Pages

 

Global History

• So Far from the Bamboo Grove

 

• Afrika

 

• Refugee

 

• Chain of Fire

 

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

 

• Year of Impossible Goodbyes

 

• A Long Walk to Water

 

• Who Came Down That Road

 

United States History

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963

 

• Ninth Ward. Jewell Parker Rhodes

 

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Brian Selznick and the Early History of Cinema

 

The Mark Twain House Virtual Tour

 

Teaching/Writing Poetry 

 

 

 Remix Poetry: Creating something new from something old 

 

Acrostic Poems As Word Mystery Theater Can you discover the hidden word(s)? Acrostic Poetry wiki page

Voice Poems Interesting Conversations make Interesting Poems Link here for  2 Voice and 3 Voice Poems

Fibonacci Poems 0,1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ... Poetry in Spirals  Here for examples of Fibonacci Poems

Concrete Poems = Picture poems Words Make Pictures Link to: Picture Poetry

Magnetic Poetry  Words that MOVE & STICK Plan for this workshop is below on this page

Reverso Poetry   Poems that read from top to bottom and bottom to top. Link here

Haiku/Sciku Poems One breath poems to convey moments in nature. Link here

 

 

Integrate Technology Tools with these National Poetry Month Competition and Resources (2023)

 

Poetry Wiki Pages 

•  Acrostics and Word Mystery Theatre

 

• Two Voice and Three Voice Conversation Poems

 

• Found Poetry, Blackout Poems, Magnetic Poetry

 

• Picture Poetry

Poem from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 

 

• Haikus, Scikus, and One Breath Poems

 

• Reverso Poems

 

• Fibonacci Poetry and Pi Poems

 

• Cento Poems

 

Poetry of World War I

 

 

 Singers and Songs

 

• Bob Dylan, Musician and Poet

 

• Langston Hughes, Poet, Playwright, and Civil Rights Activist

 

• Woody Guthrie, Singer, Songwriter, Activist 

 Teaching and Learning Resources

 

• The Poetry of Civil Rights

 

• Poetry of World War I

 

• Poetry Through the Ages:  An Expressive Journey

 

 

Writing and the Teaching of Writing

 

• Sketchnoting

 

• Writing Process Fit for Young Writers

 

• Creative Writing Ideas and Strategies 

 

• Comic Books and Graphic Stories

 

 

 

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