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The Electric Eclectic
A varied and wonderful assortment of links for "writers and lovers of words and language."

English Companion
Links, assignments, and "illuminating texts" for English teachers. Easy to navigate.

www.FetchBook.Info: New & Used Books
Looking for books? Find the lowest price - Scan 81 online book stores, 40,000 sellers, in a click.

Flash Card Exchange
Create flash cards for quick review. You can also use the online cards from other teachers, download for later use, or print them.

The Folger Shakespeare Library
Lesson plans, primary sources, and Shakespeare for kids: a terrific resource!

Free Resources for English Teaching (FRET)
Providing free resources, lesson ideas and SoW for teachers of English Language and Literature at secondary level in the UK. This site covers Key Stage 3, GCSE and the Curriculum Cymreig (Welsh Curriculum) in English and is organised according to the National Curriculum Orders for English.

Grant Writing
Tips for writing successful grants and some organizations offering them.

Graphic Organizers
KWL charts, Venn diagrams, Webs, and a variety of language arts organizers.

Hot Potatoes Homepage
Six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Available in both Mac and Windows versions. Read the licensing agreement carefully: it's free under certain circumstances (for which most teachers will qualify).

The Jigsaw Classroom
Everything you need to know to implement the jigsaw technique in your classroom.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
An outstanding Web resource for teachers!

Kidsites
Colorful and easy to navigate, this site offers links to a variety of resources for young children.

Language Arts Warm-ups for Every Day
Sometimes called "warm-ups," "do nows," or "bellwork," these exercises help a class focus on a task while the teacher takes attendance. This site offers 36 weeks' worth of activities.

Learning.now
Andy Carvin's blog at PBS, focusing on educational uses of Web 2.0 technology.

Lesson Plan Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Suggestions from a professor of education.

Library Spot
You say you need a library? This site has almanacs, current events, public records, legal references, and many more, along with helpful articles and trivia of the day. If you can't find the right reference resource here, it's not online.

Literature Circles
Definitions of literature circles and student roles, as well as other resources.

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