Teaching Reading and Writing

Some other resources that I value for reading and writing:

Our very own University of Texas Undergraduate Writing Center has one of the coolest on-line writing help sites. It's called Virgil. I'm so proud of my friends and former-co-workers who developed it!

The CCC's writing and grammar resource site is also pretty useful.

Cando's Helper Page is a much more basic spelling and writing resource page for students, and I love the powerpoints for supplementing usage, punctuation, and style lessons!


Sean Banville's Breaking News English is a great source for short, level-specific, non-fiction articles and activities. The articles tend to be pretty interesting, although I wish the original news source were attached. The activities vary a lot in quality and difficulty, but there are so many that you can always find something worth using. I have had a lot of luck finding an article in the Breaking News Archives to go with units that I'm teaching with a fiction piece or a film.
They're also good for fitting with student interests!

Keep reading and writing!

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  1. Janet SabbNovember 1, 2009 at 5:53 PM

    Hi Will,

    I'm assuming you're back to feeling yourself after your bad bug. Glad for that. Thanks for the sites you've offered here. I inadvertently misunderstood our assignment and thought we were to only be looking for 'reading' resources. The first few sites you mentioned are treasure troves of writing reference material. I can imagine referring to them myself when in doubt of a particular English grammar or writing rule, and for handy guides to print out for my students regarding key writing points.

    I had also found the Breaking News English site and found it useful as well.

    All the best,

    Janet

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