- Rewordify --change words and text to easy to read and understand.
- Visuwords --Online graphical dictionary
- Word Central Dictionary --thesauras and rhyming words too
- Hidden Heroes --interesting facts and information on everyday inventions
- Quoteland
- The Landlady --Roald Dahl
Poetry
- Poetry Dictionary
- No Water River: Video library of poems read by authors
- The Raven
- The Highwayman
- Metaphors in Poetry Lesson - Don Quixote
- Mark Smith Poetry Slam
- Poetry 180 - Poem for every day of the school year
- Imagery in Hamlet - lesson on writing a poem
Reading
- ReadWorks -database of text and lesson plans aligned to CCSS
- Elements of a Short Story
- Shakespeare - contains the full text of many of Shakespeare's plays, including Romeo and Juliet.
- Shakespeare Uncovered --lesson plans and videos
- Stories of the Civil War
- Prologue Magazine - stories based on the rich holdings and programs of the National Archives
- Waste and Recycling - 32 pg PDF file that explains the advantages of waste reduction.
- Cartoons in the Classroom - Students submit their own headline
- Digital History
- Unforgivable Blackness: Jack Johnson
- Library of Congress
- Teacher's Guide to Analyzing Texts - from Library of Congress
Writing
- Comic Strip Creators
- StoryJumper
- Little Story Bird Tales: book creator
- Wordle --Creating word clouds
- Writing Radio Plays
- Write It Memoirs Memoir Rubric
- Cowboys -- (eTheme link) differences from various countries, poetry, songs
- Debate Topic: Year Round School
- Funeral Customs: History, Military and other Countries
- Iditarod
- Ships an Shipwrecks
- African American Sports (Guilded Age- eThemes)
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