Awesome Language Arts Links

If you are like me, I'm always on the hunt for new sources of ideas, engaging texts, and motivating activities. Below are some of my favorite sites that have been amazing resources for me in addition to not requiring me to reinvent the wheel, because, let's face it, who has time for that nowadays??

Odell Educational Research
This site has great informational comparative text sets. The set up is very similar to DBQs and allows kids to pull from multiple sources to answer an overarching question in addition to questions for each specific text.

Newsela
How did I ever get by without this site?? Newsela is awesome for informational texts particularly because you can change the Lexile level to differentiate for your students whether they need to be challenged or remediated. Many of the quizzes also come with quick reading check quizzes which serve as great informal assessments.

Ereading Worksheets
This site has added more and more awesome activities every year as well as aligned most everything to Common Core which makes it even more user friendly. Currently using the character analysis worksheets for my warm-ups, and they are great!

English for Everyone
Another great site for everything Language Arts.

Writing Center
This is a great site for everything writing and editing. From commonly misused words to argument analysis, it provides a plethora of mini lessons to incorporate into the classroom.

Literary Devices
This is where I have my students go for definitions and examples.

Carson-Newman College Poetry Website
Love this site for short poems, particularly if I'm having students compare two poems for a particular literary element.

Bright Hub
I love Bright Hub because it gets my creativity going and gets me looking at lessons and ideas in a new way that I hadn't considered before.