Teaching Resources

Despite the creative enjoyment that can be found creating meaningful lessons, finding the time to build a lesson or unit from scratch can be challenging particularly when added to a teacher's many other commitments. As an English teacher, I find maintaining an active membership with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) essential. The NCTE journals as well as as their Read. Write. Think. lesson plan site are very helpful as is the "The New York Times" Learning Network site, which offers many different ways to students with the news.

National Council of Teachers of English

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NCTE's "Read. Write. Think."

At ReadWriteThink, our mission is to provide educators, parents and after school professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

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The New York Times "Learning Network"

Our mission is to offer rich and imaginative materials for teaching and learning using New York Times content. Throughout the year, we offer the following regular features:

  • Lesson Plans — Daily lesson plans based on New York Times content.
  • Student Opinion — News-related questions that invite response from students age 13 and older.
  • Word of the Day — Vocabulary words in the context of recent Times articles.
  • Test Yourself — Questions based on Times content that aim to strengthen academic skills.
  • 6 Q’s About the Newss — An activity in which students answer basic questions (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How) about an article.
  • News Quiz — Interactive daily and weekly news quizzes on current top stories.
  • On This Day in History — Listings of historical events and more for each day of the year.
  • Student Crosswords — Topical puzzles geared toward teens.
  • Teenagers in The Times — Monthly collections of the latest Times news, features and multimedia about young people.
  • What’s Going On in This Picture? — A weekly feature done in collaboration with Visual Thinking Strategies in which we publish a Times image without a caption or any other clues about its origins, then invite students to write in to discuss what they see in it. Full information about the image is posted 24 hours later.
  • Great Ideas From Our Readers — Ideas from teachers, parents, librarians, coaches, tutors, administrators or anyone else who uses The Times for teaching and learning. Write in with yours!
  • Poetry Pairings — A weekly collaboration with the Poetry Foundation in which we feature a work from its American Life in Poetry project alongside content from The Times that somehow echoes, extends or challenges the poem’s themes.
  • Ideas for Any Day’s Times — Graphic organizers and other activity sheets you can use to teach nearly any piece in The Times any day.