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"A great site for more than just English teachers. The tools are easy to use and logically constructed. You can copy/paste from documents you have already created." 

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"These are some of the daily writing prompts that I use in class. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions please let me know. Other stuff I'm working on is over here."

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(h/t @janemaness) "Toasted Cheese is a daily writing prompt site that publishes prompts on a monthly calendar. The whole month is laid out for you with a different prompt each day. Don't see anything you like on the current calendar? That's okay, click through the previous months to find old prompts."

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(via @NikPeachey) "On the surface of it Just-the-Word looks just like any other online dictionary or thesaurus, but start using it and you will soon find that it's much more."

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Books Should Be Free
Free Audio Books from the public domain
Download a free audiobook in mp3, iPod, or iTunes format

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in list: Reading and Literacy

An introduction of the basics of plagiarism and how to avoid it, told via a story of a student completing an assignment

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These ten books are really worth reading for anyone from age 14 to 100. A few are okay for younger readers, but that should really be left to the parents’ discretion. Some of these books are commonly taught in schools. Others would undoubtedly be considered controversial. Most language arts teachers feel that controversial books can be a great way to open up discussions with teenagers.

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Join us in Memphis on September 30 and October 1, 2011, to celebrate heroic teachers and explore both the stories we love as teachers of language arts and the myths about what we do as educators.  

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"The Pit and the Pendulum" interactive comic book

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Grammaropolis is website designed to help elementary school students learn the parts of speech.

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Ask yourself, “Does my gradebook mean anything to anyone other than myself? How can I use assessment tools to better communicate with  students about their progress?” Finally, can we use assessment to empower students to control their own formative behavior in the classroom?

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Share your experiences with project based learning in the English classroom and ask your questions here!

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(via @rmbyrne) "Knoword is a fun and challenging game that tests your ability to match definitions to words. Knoword is played like this; you're presented with the first letter of a word, its part of speech, and the definition. You then have to fill in the correct spelling of the word. If you enter the correct word, you earn points. If you don't get it right, you lose points."

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(h/t @nikpeachey) "It's manual proofreading that works!"

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(h/t @AngelaMaiers) "Simple. You’ll see one word at the top of the following screen. You have sixty seconds to write about it. Click ‘go’ and the page will load with the cursor in place. Don’t think. Just write."

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(h/t @webenglishteach) "How can we help students connect what they’re learning in English class with history, science, or the arts? The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts offers support via a collection of K-12 lesson plans called ArtsEdge."

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(h/t @webenglishteach) "Overview | Who was Mark Twain? How do Twain's characters and works reflect his sometimes contradictory view of the world? In this lesson, students mark the Twain centennial by reading about the man and then investigating and choosing a Twain project to further learn about the author, his times and his relevance to our world.

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(h/t @webenglishteach) Pronouncing Chaucer's English

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