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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Name That Place: Cultural Place Names in the United States

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the origin of the people that settled in the United States.  In this United States History lesson, students work in small groups to complete several activities that explore early settlement, such as a worksheet, a...
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Article
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: A Cultural, Linguistic, Ecological Approach

For Teachers K - 1st
This 2008 brief discusses how RTI can be adapted for English Language Learners (ELL). It provides an initial framework in the use of RTI that considers students' life experiences, including their language proficiencies in their first and...
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Website
W. W. Norton

Norton Anthology: The Linguistic and Literary Contexts of "Beowulf"

For Students 9th - 10th
Use these online resources from the "Norton Anthology of English Literature" to provide both depth and breadth to your understanding of the poem "Beowulf," whether you are a student reading it for the first time or a teacher preparing to...
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Handout
Stanford University

Many Valued Logic/stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the logical theory of "many-valued logic," a modern alternative to classic logic. Sections address its history, notation and proofs, and applications to linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. For the...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Armstrong Atlantic State University: English Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover more about the history of the English language when you visit this informative site. Students and teachers will benefit from this educational resource.
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Website
BBC

Bbc: The Route of English

For Students 9th - 10th
The Routes of English is a series of four six-week features on the development of English as a language, presented on BBC Channel 4 by host Melvyn Bragg. In addition, there are three special programs which deal with the language of the...
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Professional Doc
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: Culturally Responsive Rti

For Teachers K - 1st
This series of professional learning modules, released by the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt), presents Response to Intervention (RTI) as a culturally responsive framework for ensuring...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Antonyms, Synonyms & Homonyms

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
If you need to brush up on antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms check out this game. Practice identifying these three tricky types of words by matching the identified words on the frog with the words on the correct flies.
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Unit Plan
Quia

Quia: Online Stories

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site focuses on beginning, medial, and ending sounds. It offers a collection of games, exercises, and activities to teach letter sounds including beginning letters, phonemes, and ending sounds to emergent readers. These sites...
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Alliteration

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site fully explores the term "alliteration." Content includes a definition, examples in literature, and a look at why and how it has been used throughout literary history.
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Article
Smithsonian Institution

Tween Tribune: Teenage Girls Have Led Language Innovation

For Students 5th - 8th
Article reports on the influence teenage girls have had on language over the centuries.