Yes, this page needs organizing. Yes, I'll do it. Eventually :-)

Writing Skills

• Grammar and Spelling Resources
• Mosaic Teaching Tools
• Visuwords
• Vocabulix (Language Learning)
• Wordia
• English Writing in Persuasive Mode - full on-line version of university course

University and some high-school writing centres share advice and handouts on the internet. These centres are usually set up to tutor students in writing skills and hold workshops throughout the year. Here is a list of some sites that I've found, just a few that are available.

• University of Toronto - http://www.utoronto.ca/ucwriting/index.html   Handouts: http://www.utoronto.ca/ucwriting/handouts.html
• York University - http://www.yorku.ca/laps/writ/   Resources: http://www.yorku.ca/laps/writ/resources.html
•   Purdue University Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ 
• Ryerson University Resources: http://www.ryerson.ca/writingcentre/students/handouts/index.html
• Writing Workshop Links

Citation

Please click the heading to go to information on citation and plagiarism.

Creative Writing

Please click the heading to go to information on creative writing.

Literature

TWO FAVOURITES:

http://www.bookdrum.com 

http://genius.com/artists/William-shakespeare and other authors (look under LIT)

• Moby Dick
• Shakespeare General
• Revision Ideas and Exercises - great ideas for Writer's Craft
• Blast Poetry Tool from BBC lets you mix poetry, video, still images and sound effects to create a presentation.
• http://www.60secondrecap.com/ - an energetic young woman has created videos talking about important points within many books studied in a high-school English class. 
• Literature Podcasts
• Short how-to videos at the educational site, Next Vista
• Quizzes on Literature: http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/literature/index.html
• More Quizzes: http://www.syvum.com/english/
• Children's Literature WebGuide
• Google Lit Trips
• Lit to Go
• World Literature Online
• Alternatives to a book report  - Book Report wiki page

English Teacher and ESL Blogs

The following are English, ESL and EFL Bloggers who share all sorts of wonderful ideas for incorporating tech into the English classroom. Enjoy:

• Dana Huff, One of my Favourite English Teachers on the Web - Huffenglish.com
• Ms. J. Weir: wiki: http://msjweir.pbworks.com/  and blog: http://msjweir.wordpress.com/
• Shelly Terrell at Teacher Reboot Camp writes an award winning blog! She also is involved with regular teacher microblogging (Twitter) discussions under the tag #Edchat.
• Nik's Daily English Activities - click on the link under Find More Activities (on the right) to get to her site map.
• http://rliberni.wordpress.com/  has a great article here, for example: http://rliberni.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/10-goofy-ways-to-practise-speaking-skills/
• http://www.scoop.it/t/english-language-teaching-in-practice

Rubrics

http://ocw.usu.edu/english/intermediate-writing/english-2010/-2010/rubric-chart.html

To Categorize

Character Traits Chart Student Interactive used in the Become a Character Lesson on ReadWriteThink
Metaphor Poems and other Poetry Tools from Poetry Forge
Shakespeare Searched is a database that searches by topic, work and character
Clickable Poems featuring an online journal of hypertext poetry
Make Beliefs Comix provide an easy format for students to create comics
TOPICS an online magazine for English Language Learners

Shakespeare - https://www.tes.com/teaching-shakespeare/

Pinterest Board of Resources - https://www.pinterest.com/tesusa/readers-unite-its-national-book-month/