Middle School Language Arts

It’s nothing I was not already aware of, but there is a dizzying array of great interactive educational resources for students to use both independently and in a classroom setting.  The difficulty is in deciding which of these stand out above all others.  This task could take weeks…or months.  (Then, there is the temptation to try everything out.)  All that aside, www.readwritethink.org is one standout site for student and teacher alike.  There are hundreds of standards-based lesson ideas and–if I counted correctly–fifty-one activities for students of every ability level in K-12.  “Read, Write, Think”  is a collaborative product of the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), funded by the Verizon Foundation.  The site is easy to search and navigate.  It is one of many great sites out there, but indispensible for teachers of language arts.  For me, it is a “keeper.”