English

Welcome to the page for English teachers. Please add any resources or ideas for using the computers in the English classroom here. Also, please feel free to visit the discussion area and answer or post any questions there.

[|Read-Write-Think]
A phenomenal resource, with thousands of different lesson ideas. What sets this site apart are the Java templates and activities, which are set up so clearly that students can use them with very little guidance. Sample activities include letter-writing, paragraph writing, poetry, and many different literacy activites and strategies.



[|Media Awareness Network]
This well-known site contains many animations, diagrams, and videos, along with completed lesson plans. You can also browse their vast database by curriculum expectations.

[|Wordle]
A website which generates "word clouds" from any text; the more often the word appears in the text, the larger it appears in the cloud. Students can customize the font, colours, and arrangement. Below is an example of a word cloud for Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Students can do the same with their own essays to ensure that their main ideas dominate their work. media type="custom" key="5013653" width="252" height="252" align="center"