Better English resources and exercises: Free journalism resources from www.hsj.org

“Reaching Generation Next: A News Media Guide to Creating Successful High School Partnerships” from ASNE by Lisa Frazier Page (PDF book how-to for editors, newspaper advisers and principals to come together to create good scholastic journalists; complete book 41mb; also available 200+ lesson plan archive for journalism teachers)

Chapter 1 Hooking Them Early: The Rewards of Investing in Scholastic Journalism (5.4 mb)

Chapter 2 Getting Started: Creating a Successful Print or Broadcast Partnership (9.2 mb)

Chapter 3 Resurrecting Scholastic Journalism: A Look Inside Some Model Newspaper-High School Training Programs (8.3 mb)

Chapter 4 Turning Students On To Television And Radio: Broadcast Partnerships That Work (5.6 mb)

Chapter 5 Teaching The Teachers: Print and Broadcast Training Programs for High School Teachers (5.8 mb)

Chapter 6 Resources (553kb)

Free resources for teachers (lesson plans, printables, worksheets)

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Ultimate Top 100 Kids Sites (for children, teens, parents, and teachers, with links to fun, games, education, coloring, poetry, stories, cartoons, worksheet creator or generator, game makers, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images)

ESL Kids Lab for English teaching and learning.
MES-English.com by Mark Cox (free printables for teachers of young learners)
ESL Tower (printable grammar and vocabulary exercises to make the lives of English teachers very easy)
ESL Printables, a website where English language teachers exchange resources like worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc.
ESL Galaxy offers over 2,368 free printable worksheets for ESL lesson plans and ESL Activities and there are more additions every other day

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