Language+Arts

=**Welcome to the Language Arts Site for Brandywine Teachers!**=

Thank you for visiting our Language Arts page. I will use this website to post useful resources for you as well as sample lesson ideas. Please use the discussion feature of this page to post comments/ideas for your instructional technology coach. I will use this discussion thread to gather your ideas for my future research and post new resources to help you implement technology in your lessons.

**Language Arts Websites**
CFF English World Literature Literature Projects Teacher Example Teacher SIte

**WebQuests**
[|Literature Learning Ladders] - contains literature-based webquests

How to Write a Research Paper
[|Purdue] [|Guide to Research Papers] [|Infoplease] [|Evernote] - a cool (free) site for collecting information; allows you to easily **capture** information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information **accessible** and **searchable** at any time, from anywhere.

**Online Index Cards**
[|Note Star] [|Ever Note]

**Journalism Resources**
[|High School Journalism]

**Vocabulary**
[|Wordia] [|Visuwords] [|Merriam-Webster] [|InfoVisual] [|Visual Thesaurus] [|VoyCabulary] Makes the words on any webpage into links, so you can look them up with just a click--in a dictionary of your choice

**[|Google Lit Trip]**
Google Lit. Trips offers another way of teaching great literature. Students can "discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place." The site features great collections such as The Aeneid, The Grapes of Wrath, and Night, and continues to add more!




 * ===Digital Storytelling===

**Online Newspaper Creator**
[|Fodey] [|High School Journalism]- Presented by The American Society of Newspaper Editors

**Charitable Websites**
[|Free Rice] - Some of our teachers are already using this excellent resource for either their students benefit or for the simple pleasure of improving their vocabulary. For each word you determine the correct meaning for, Free Rice will donate 10 grains of rice to feed to the UN World Food Program to help fight hunger.

[|Free Poverty]- From the site: FreePoverty.com allows everyone to contribute in donating water to people from all over the world who live in extreme poverty. By letting users locate places on the map, their accuracy will determine how many cups of water will be donated on their behalf. Therefore, FreePoverty aims to: Provide clean drinking water to those in need, Make users realize that they can make a difference, and Let users learn something about geography that they may have not known before

[|The Breast Cancer Site]

**Resources**
[|Web English Teacher]- Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English / Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.

[|Read Write Think]- This website offers free lesson plans, web resources and student materials for language arts.

[|DigiTales - The Art of Telling Digital Stories]- "DigiTales ' website provides ideas, resources and inspiration for schools, organizations, ... and everyone else ready to discover the power and magic of merging the art of storytelling with the enchantment of using digital tools. Let all DigiTales StoryKeepers be heard far and wide!"

[|Toon Doo]- Create your own comic strips, Publish, Share & Discuss

[|eBook Creator]- Create an online eBook and get it published!

[|Wordle]- "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide."