English teaching online
(for General Teaching sites go to this page instead).
Geoff Barton has moved on to other things, but his roots are in English teaching, and there is a wealth of excellent material on his website.
fivebooks.com. Outstanding site with great riches. A simple idea: experts choose the 5 books you should read on their area of expertise. A great one for teachers to direct their pupils to: no better place for deeper reading on almost any subject.
haggardhawks.com. Haggard Hawks is fabulous for word-lovers (as all English teachers should be). Several books now, too.
inote.ie. Irish National Organisation for Teachers of English.
Jamie Clark’s Dropbox is full of well-designed templates for literature and language teaching.
kellygallagher.org. The American teacher and writer (author of Readicide, 180 Days and more, and originator of the Article of the Week idea - my list is here).
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com. Blog by Chris Curtis, author of How to Teach English.
leavingcertenglish.net. Evelyn O’Connor’s now dormant site has lots of good material for the Irish Leaving Certificate English course.
litdrive.org.uk. A community of English teachers (UK) with lots of resources to download and amend for a tiny annual subscription.
poetryarchive.org. 2000+ recordings of poems read by their authors.
poetryfoundation.org. Superb resources from this Chicago organisation.
sccenglish.ie. Since 2006.
shanahanonliteracy.com. Professor Timothy Shanahan of the University of Illinois is one of the world’s top experts on literacy.
Stuart Pryke generously shares a huge array of inventive resources via Dropbox. Lots of formats to amend for your own content.
theconfidentteacher.com/resources. Alex Quigley’s site has resources associated with his outstanding book Closing the Vocabulary Gap.
Episode 8 of the King Lear scene by scene post looks at the horrifying Act 3 scene 7 - the blinding of Gloucester, and how images of seeing and blindness ramify through the story.