These websites offer a wealth of resources for teaching Language Arts:

Reading Rockets

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Youthlearn

ERICdigests (search for "language arts")

Teaching Language Arts with Technology

In this lesson, small groups of students will use the VT to assist them in an inquiry based approach to discovering the meanings of some common Latin and Greek roots. Then, each student will then teach a particular root and related vocabulary words to another group of students through a "jigsaw" exercise.  Continue reading...

Michael Erard, the linguist and author we feature in this week's Behind the Dictionary column, recommends The Freudian Slip, by Sebastian Timpanaro, "a resounding rebuttal of Freud, in which you learn a lot about speech errors and Freud."

Visual Thesaurus subscriber Debbie Shults is a veteran teacher, literacy coach -- and now, blogger -- who's helping her Sarasota, Florida, middle school define a "new literacy." So what's so new about this new literacy? We spoke to Debbie about innovations in language arts education at her school, where teachers there now make literacy a fundamental part of their class work -- no matter what the subject, from math to gym to shop class (yes, even shop!). How? Read our conversation:  Continue reading...

Debbie Shults, the veteran teacher, literacy coach -- and now blogger -- we interview in this week's "Teachers at Work" column, recommends these blogs written by and for teachers:

"Jess Timmons, my young blogging mentor, has a blog called Meaningful Fragments. Jess's website was my original inspiration, and reading her posts keeps me in touch with what our best young teachers are thinking."

"Zach Chase, another young teacher in the Sarasota County Public School system, has a fabulous blog called, Mr. Chase's Room. He is a definite guru in the world of educational blogs. His posts are always thought provoking and innovative."

"Darren Kuropatwa. I found his blog, A Difference, through a link on Zach Chase's blog. Darren is a math teacher who writes about all kinds of ideas, especially what's on the cutting edge in integrating technology into the classroom."

Teachers from across the country write us about how the Visual Thesaurus helps their students increase reading comprehension. Now a federally-funded study is taking a closer look at the connection between the Visual Thesaurus and reading. Developed by researchers at the prestigious Education Development Center, Inc. in Boston, the study is following eighth grade students with learning disabilities who've been introduced to the Visual Thesaurus. The lead investigator, EDC Senior Director Dr. Judith Zorfass, emailed us recently about her observations:  Continue reading...