BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: Music of Africa
This site is a part of the About Music site of the BBC, and this interactive site lets you explore various parts of Africa, their music, their instruments, their sounds. Requires Real Player.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Noodle Alliteration
This lesson allows students an opportunity to explore the dictionary and thesaurus to write creative alliterations about pasta after reading Jack Prelutsky's poem, "Spaghetti, Spaghetti."
Marxists Internet Archive
Marxist Internet Archive: Floyd Dell's "The Beating"
This site provides the text of Dell's "The Beating," a short story that originally appeared in the Socialist paper "The Masses" in 1914.
Other
Canada's School Net: Sports Writing
Brief, colorful page that covers the basics, with several examples. Not enough by itself, but a good start for would-be sportswriters.
PBS
Pbs: American Masters: The Source
The PBS show 'The Source' looks at the lives and works of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, three writers largely credited with leading the way in developing new forms of writing during the rise of the 'Beat'...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Letter & Number Tracing
Letter & Number Tracing is a great way for children to practice letter and number formation. Children can choose to trace upper case letters, lower case letters or numbers. A guide will appear before each stroke to show where lines...
Writing Fix
Writingfix: Alliteration Potluck
In this lesson plan, Potluck by Anne Shelby, is used as a mentor text for word choice. The content focus of the instructional activity is to highlight alliteration. Each student will use alliteration in a sentence as the student include...
My Hero Project
My Hero: Langston Hughes
This introduction to the life and writing of Langston Hughes profiles the poet who emerged with the Harlem Renaissance to earn "a place amongst the greatest poets America has ever produced."
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Spelling Race
In this lesson, students are divided into two or three teams; one person from each team goes to the board, the teacher says one of the spelling words, and the team members write the word spelled correctly while trying to beat the opponents.