- Caring Kids
 - Series of stories by Irma Ghosn, addressing issues such as environment, ecology, human rights, tolerance, peace, and social responsibility. - Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
- Reviews of great books for kids. Plus activities to teach particular subjects, curriculum areas, and themes.
- Celebrating Cultural Diversity Through Children's Literature
- Annotated bibliography of multicultural children's books for elementary school teachers. Also offers links to related web sites.
- Dreampad
- Presents titles from the Fund for Global Awakening, including an anthology, Children's Inspirational Poetry, and the Language of the Awakened Heart Classroom Poetry Guide.
- Falcon Education Link
- Offers a guide to Macbeth and links to valuable education sites for students and teachers.
- High School Teachers at Random House
- Provides teacher's guides, book recommendations, author profiles, and professional resources.
- Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America
- Library of Congress exhibit which traces American authors and their description of place. Organised by region.
- Literature Circles Resource Center
- Provides in-depth information and resources on literature circles for elementary and middle school teachers. Includes overview, structure, discussion formats, and extension projects.
- MyBookPal
- Create your own personal online book diary. Track the books you've read, rate your recently read books, and find reviews on books by genre.
- Online Poetry Classroom
- From The Academy of American Poets. Encourages the development of new poetry curricula and teaching strategies by high school language arts teachers.
- PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature
- Includes lesson plans, online activities, classroom resources, and professional development projects for Art, Language Arts, and English teachers.
- Poetry 180
- Library of Congress collection featuring a poem a day for American high school students.
- Poetry Teachers
- Resources for teaching poetry, including lesson plans, performance tips, and activities. Learn how to inspire a love of poetry in your students and teach kids how to write different types of poems.
- Poetryclass
- Offers training for teachers wanting to bring poetry alive in the classroom.
- Poets.org: Great Poems to Teach
- Teachers submit poems they recommend for teaching to high school students.
- Poets.org: Songs My Teacher Taught Me
- From the Academy of American Poets. Offers three lesson plans intended to guide students through approximately one month of poetry study.
- Scholastic.com: Teacher Book Wizard
- Find children's books by reading level, topic, genre, and more. Enter a book title to find suggestions for similar books.
- Scholastic.com: Write a Book Review
- Online workshop outlining the steps to writing a book review, with advice from author Rodman Philbrick. Find writing tips and guidelines for revising your paper.
- Shakespearean Homework Helper
- SparkNotes: How to Write Literary Analysis
- Step-by-step advice on how to write a literary essay.
- Talk About Kids Books
- Authors of eight resource books on children's literature for teachers, librarians, and parents.
- Teaching & Learning Celebrations
- Compilation of literary resources, teaching methods, and other useful information.
- Web English Teacher
- Offers a directory of online lesson plans, web quests, texts, study guides, and more.
- Writing a Book Report
- Find step-by-step advice on how to write a book report. Includes information on typical book report formats, advice on developing, drafting, and writing your paper, and links.
- Writing With Writers: Poetry Writing
- Activities and lesson plans for teaching poetry writing to children, including suggestions from Jack Prelutsky, Karla Kuskin, and Jean Marzollo. From Scholastic.com.
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