PPT
National Humanities Center

Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
PPT
West Virginia Department of Education

Technical Writing: Real-World Writing in the 21st Century

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Wondering how to respond to the age-old question when will I ever use this? The answer is very simple when discussing technical writing. Teachers and administrators gain an understanding of using technical writing in the classroom....
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...
Lesson Plan
New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 13

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The six instructional shifts in this workshop definitely move math and science teachers' understanding of instruction. The workshop, 13th out of a series of 15, asks participants to examine sample tests and to look at how the six...
Lesson Plan
New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
Lesson Plan
Teachnology

Teachnology: English Language Arts Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Great lesson plans spanning a wide-range of language arts-related subjects.
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Other

Jefferson County Schools: Language Arts Presentations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a very large collection of PowerPoint presentations for teachers to use for teaching Language Arts. They cover early reading, novel studies, vocabulary development, spelling, writing technique, to mention just a few topics.
Study Guide
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Vocabulary Word List for English, Language Arts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This page offers links to around 8000 vocabulary words for English and Language Arts.
Interactive
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: List of Themes for English Language Arts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of themed puzzles for English Language Arts. Click on a theme or puzzle that will take you to an interactive activity. All content is printable without a charge. NOTE: Each theme has a corresponding vocabulary word list...
Study Guide
Other

Apda: Regents Exams: Grade 5 English Language Arts

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site offers New York State 5th grade language arts sample test and tests from 2006-2010. Each test includes reading and listening selections, a scoring key, and teacher directions. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Other

Kodak: Language Arts Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site from Kodak is overflowing with lesson plans to use in your language arts classroom. Teachers from every grade level have submitted activities integrating photography into their lessons.
Study Guide
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Leap: English Language Arts: Practice Test Grade 3

For Teachers 3rd
A PDF of the Louisiana state practice test for third grade English Language Arts. Find the LEAP 2025 Grade 3 English Language Arts Practice Test Answer Key PDF here: LEAP 2025 Grade 3 ELA Practice Test Answer Key:...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 5: The Birchbark House

For Teachers 5th Standards
Emphasizing the connections between English language arts and social studies, this unit teaches students how we learn about our past. Students explore various texts (literary and informational) to come to understand how Native Americans...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Languages

For Students 7th - 8th
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...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 9: Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore how patterns and contrasts in language (diction, imagery, figurative language) reveal central ideas in texts and develop various motifs (light vs. dark, dreams vs. reality, high vs. low, etc.) in Romeo and Juliet. They...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: Pushing Up the Sky

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn that storytelling is a performance art that also transmits knowledge about cultures and life. Through reading different tales from various cultures, 4th graders are able to compare and contrast similar themes,...
Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs: Academic Vocabulary in the Common Core: Middle School English Language Arts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This video [14:33] shows a demonstration of academic vocabulary instruction through the context of a complex work, a poem. The teacher demonstrates how to access the literal meaning of new vocabulary and then infer the deeper meaning....
Unit Plan
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Sfmoma: Art Think

For Teachers 9th - 10th
ArtThink lessons and activities show how interrelated art is with other disciplines, such as language arts and social studies, and teaches us that there are many way to look at and understand a piece of art. The glossary does more than...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Language Arts: Lesson Plans: Language Arts: Shakespeare's Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this lesson is to help students cope with unfamiliar language in Shakespeare's sonnets and to help them understand and appreciate both what he says and how he says it.
Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Fun Language Arts Games

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses reasons and suggestions for teaching the language arts curriculum through playing games including dictionary races and alphabetical order races, Mad Libs, punctuation games, crossword puzzle, word searches and...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 5: Wonderstruck

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders learn about the importance of language, education, and communication. By determining how characters respond to challenges of language barriers and ineffective communication, 5th graders learn how language and stories can...
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Language Arts Professional Books

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Resources for teachers in children's literature can be found in this bibliography--whole language philosophy, reading/writing techniques, spelling, and assessment.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Things Fall Apart

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn what happens when cultures collide from the perspective of the "other." They come to understand the effects of globalization, cultural diffusion, and the struggle between tradition and change. Students also learn to...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 8: Conservation

For Teachers 8th Standards
Eighth graders explore the beauty of the natural world and the responsibilities of leaving an abundance of resources to future generations. Students will read both literary and informational texts to gain insight into those who have...

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