Teachers can print off a lesson, make copies or use the resources online. The Just Think Foundation aims to equip young people with the literacy tools critical for their future. Students research and write their own news stories. New York Times Learning Network - a free service for students, teachers and parents. Students can read the day's top stories using, take a quiz write a letter to the editor, or ask a reporter a question.
Teachers can access daily lesson plans that can be printed out for classroom use.
The Media History Site - contains lots of media specific information, including useful timelines. Genre The Victorian Web - British authors include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson and Lord Tennyson. Origin of Phrases - Also useful for KAL, especially the origins of everyday figures of speech. Yet another site useful for teaching KAL, containing a quiz on the origins of words. PhraseFinder - Another useful KAL resource.