The ability to read historical documents including contemporary explications about societal, economic and political issues provides a direct link to literacy as preparation for citizenship. As in the other disciplines, schools are unique sites for youth across class and ethnic boundaries to learn to read such documents and to develop the skills to engage in such reading for college and career success.

If Portuguese is your native language and you want to learn English online, use this tutorial to learn commonly used English words.

Lessons include: (1) Aprenda Inglês. Use this interactive tutorial to learn English if your native language is Portuguese.

If Arabic is your native language and you want to learn English online, use this tutorial to learn commonly used English words.

Lessons include: (1) Arabic. Use this interactive tutorial to learn English if your native language is Arabic.

This resource includes a 45-minute webcast with George Mason University education professor Dr. Lorraine Valdez Pierce, discussion questions, sample assessment tools, and other resources. Sample assessment tools are available as downloadable PDFs and include a teacher observation checklist, student self-assessment tool, and a sample scoring rubric.

A special subcollection of Project Gutenberg's online book catalog: audio books, recorded by real people (there is also a computer-generated audio books collection). Currently includes 35 or so selections ranging from fairy tales, Beatrix Potter stories, the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and the Wizard of Oz, to a short narrative written by Benjamin Franklin, World of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, or Shakespeare sonnets.

Links to 73 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.5.

A large collection of downloadable writing prompt worksheets to encourage students to develop their writing skills. Includes a variety of themes and some on special celebrations, such as Christmas and Halloween.

Learn about Canada's boreal forest and its importance to our whole earth's ecosystem. Meet the flora and fauna that inhabit this large area, and learn what we can and should do to preserve this environment.

From the Brooklyn Museum, this is the exhibit page for "Infinite Island (Contemporary Works of the Caribbean)", featuring selected images from the exhibit and an accompanying artist statement from the corresponding artist.

If Chinese is your native language and you want to learn English online, use this tutorial to learn commonly used English words.

Lessons include: (1) Chinese. Use this interactive tutorial to learn English if your native language is Chinese.

This page engages students in international issues. Curricular resources and instructional programs bring international public policy to life. Students engage in research and high-level thinking activities that revolve around what is in today's news. Everything necessary for their study is on the web site. There is curriculum for sale on the site, but the Teaching With The News section offers all online materials and has an archive.

A detailed list of proverbs by culture. Over 100 countries/cultures listed and over 2,000 proverbs! Also provides information about the country and culture, including maps and cultural information.

Students explore the idea of ńcrossing boundariesî through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.

In this video [3:12], when Donkey gives her new flower too much water, it grows so big that it disrupts her garden and her pals' fun. She must find a way to make it right. Explore with your class how, "being wrong can help you learn something new." Student materials are available; the video is available in English and Spanish,

This is an extremely useful place for the improving listening skills of English language learners. Contains numerous listening exercises, such as dialogues, games, interviews, songs, news broadcasts, and more. Each activity has a number of modes to choose from: listening to the audio, taking a quiz, or reading the text of the audio. Listening material is authentic, updated daily, and graded from beginner to advanced.

If German is your native language and you want to learn English online, use this tutorial to learn commonly used English words.

Lessons include: (1) Englisch lernen. Use this interactive tutorial to learn English if your native language is German.

ELL students create and share a botanic field guide incorporating depiction, measurement, description, and classification of common Minnesota trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and plants.

How sensitive are you to cultural and multicultural issues? Here a quick quiz, along with classroom discussion tips, to help you explore the answer. Available online or as a downloadable document (PDF, Word).

Ben Franklin is the subject of this passage and the comprehension questions which follow. The test is interactive online, and may be printed for use in the classroom by going to the site map and choosing PRINTABLE MATERIALS.