Middle School Language Arts

When a new teacher needs a tried and true lesson plan or the seasoned teacher just needs something new to try, there is much help to be had by simply typing “lesson plans” into a search engine.   Some sites are better than others, of course.  I have found two good sites for language arts lesson plans.  The first [...]

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It is not so much that it is difficult to find a resource site for teachers as it is to find one that is: easy to navigate, rich in quality ideas and resources, as well as “clean” and free of obnoxious ads and dead-ends.   edHelper was just the type of site I was looking for.  [...]

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Many school districts have their own support sites or coordinators for the technology issues that will inevitably arise.  However, teachers can try a few things on their own as well.  There are many helpful sites out there for just this purpose.  Take, for instance, www.educationworld.com/a_tech/ from where one can navigate from “top five” to “tech proof” (they meant [...]

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The Washington Township Board of Education has a “best of web” site for language arts, rich in quality links to all categories and sorts of language arts topics.  This is a wonderful resource for language arts teachers.  In it, I found many links to sites featuring audio and video.  One of these (appropriate for the [...]

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