Language Arts

Highly Recommended Lesson Plans

• Book Guides from TeachingBooks.net
  

Find ready-to-use lesson plans and discussion questions for the fiction and nonfiction books you're reading in K-12 classrooms.

• Into the Book

Online student activities for eight reading comprehension strategies.  Provided through BadgerLink.

• Read Write Think

"Every lesson plan on ReadWriteThink has been aligned not only to the IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts but to individual state standards and Common Core State Standards, when applicable." (description taken from the website)

More Recommended Lesson Plans

• Common Core ELA
  

Over 130 master teachers share their lessons.

• Core Knowledge Lesson Plans

Unit plans developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools and presented at Core Knowledge National Conferences.

• EDSITEment

Lesson plans and websites from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. Many of the lesson or unit plans have accompanying worksheets.

• pals activities

Classroom activities which promote phonological awareness and various literacy skills. Created by the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.

• PBS LearningMedia
  

"PBS LearningMedia is the go-to destination for instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos, games, audio clips, photos, lesson plans, and more! You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia is free for educators." (from the PBS website)

• Picture Book Lesson Plans from August House
  

Very detailed lesson plans and unit plans for over 40 picture books published by August House.

• ReadWorks.org

ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly. The ReadWorks curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension. (from the ReadWorks website)

• Web English Teacher

K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources, lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biographies, e-texts, puzzles and classroom activities.

• Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
  

Extensive unit plans developed by Yale University in collaboration with the New Haven Public Schools.

Other Language Arts Resource

• The Best Children's Books.org
  
       This resource is dedicated to making accessible the best children's books by organizing the multitude of children's books into various useful lists.
  

• Progressive Phonics
  

An online phonics-based program with downloadable e-books and worksheets. Free.