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