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 is “Lesson Planet,” which does require a user to subscribe to its service, though there is a ten day free trial.  Lesson Planet has its own staff comb through lesson plans from all over the internet, assigning each a rating between one and five stars.  Lesson Planet also provides various templates and teacher tools.  Another promising site is from the National Endowment for the Humanities (a dot-gov site.)  While the lessons are not as numerous in any one subject area at  http://edsitement.neh.gov/ , as those at Lesson Planet, all are of reliable quality and, best of all, free of charge.