The Complete Lexical Tutor Analyse the vocabulary difficulty of your text.

The Complete Lexical Tutor: Analysis of word difficulty in text Paste a text you have written here to make a vocabulary profile of your writing - including the list of the most frequent 1000 word families, the list of the second 1000 word families, the Academic Word List, and the words that do not appear in any of the preceding lists.

An on-line tool to check the number and percentages of words in a particular text that come from different word frequency levels of English. This tool can be used to analyse the vocabulary level of a text to see whether it is appropriate for a certain group of learners.

The Big6 A clear outline for students of the steps in the research/information problem solving process.

If teachers are looking for international examples of good literature then this web site can supply of wide range of excellent samples. Teachers and students will find here examples of poetry from the Middle East, China and South America as well as both fiction and non-fiction works from the Korean peninsula, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and many other countries.

http://www.ag.iastate.edu/grants/strategies/vtech7.html

Claim-Support-Conclusion Worksheet A worksheet that helps teach students how to write a paragraph. It helps them understand that everything should relate to the claim/topic sentence.

CanTeach: Writing Prompts/Journal Topics The "What would happen if..." prompts are useful for teaching the language of probability.

http://www.arcanum-butler.k12.oh.us/writing_process.html

http://www.brandeis.edu/writing/process.html

http://www.powa.org/

http://www.newschool.edu/milano/owl/Over.htm

http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/maplewoods/writeplace/handoutindex.html

Don't Waste a Minute!
Mini-lessons and fill-in activity ideas to make the most of classroom time or ease awkward moments; from Education World's Lesson Planning pages.

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson168.shtml

This useful site describes itself as a "bare bones guide to grammar" and lives up to its claim with simple, entertaining explanations and exercises to reinforce basic grammatical concepts, especially about sentence structure.

Interactive lesson for students to use when planning to write a narrative -in two parts. In Write a Story 1, students look at how to identify the audience, how to choose the right kind of topic and appropriate language for that audience and how to create believable characters. In Write a Story 2, students explore how to choose what type of story to write, how to give their story a basic structure and how to choose the way they want to tell their story.

http://198.234.74.235/go/organize.html

http://pratt.edu/~wtc/understanding.html

http://karn.ohiolink.edu/~sg-ysu/revise.html

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/golive.html

http://www.epsb.edmonton.ab.ca/pd/tlc

Building on Biographies -- Bringing Real-Life Stories Into Your Curriculum Who can dispute the value of a good story? Biographies are the stuff that great classroom activities are made of -- history, honesty, and heroism. With the help of the Internet, every teacher can bring biographies into their classrooms!