Free Language Arts Lesson Plans – High School

Why spend hours clicking through the over 1,000 sites that are dedicated to High School Language Arts Lesson Plans? You waste valuable time perusing sites that don’t relate to your subject matter, whose material is sketchy at best, and where you cannot find a single resource to help you. Here we have listed some of the popular Language Arts lesson plan websites and offered detailed descriptions of what you will find. We have also ranked each site based upon the quality, quantity and usefulness of its High School Language Arts lesson plans and activities. Best of all, each of these sites has been checked out and ranked by a certified Lanaguage Arts teacher!

Ranking System

3 Site offers multiple relevant lessons/activities and is well organized.

2 Site offers some good information, but is not well organized or the area covered is very narrow.

1 Site offers only a few lessons/activities or has limited information, but is worth listing.

HIGH SHOOL LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON PLAN WEB RESOURCES

AskERIC Language Arts Pagehttp://askeric.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgiLanguage_Arts

A site with High School Language Arts lesson plans and activities in areas such as grammar, speech, listening comprehension, and MANY others. Rank: 3

The Lesson Plans Page http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAJH.htm

Offers hundreds of ideas and High School Language Arts lesson plans on all English topics, from reading comprehension, to parts of speech, to letter writing, etc. Each lesson plan is broken down into grade levels and gives step-by-step procedures and objectives. Rank: 3

Columbia Education Center –Language Arts Lesson Plans http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang.html

Basic website that offers a clear-cut explanation to each High School Language Arts lesson plan. Lessons are detailed and easy to understand. Rank: 3

Web English Teacher http://www.webenglishteacher.com

This site allows teachers to share resources and learn from each other. It includes lesson plans, activities, and resources for all areas in the English discipline. They range from poetry to Shakespeare to yearbook publishing. Rank: 3

Lesson Planz http://lessonplanz.com/Lesson_Plans/Language_Arts/

Offers mainly reading and literature activity lessons, but has some grammar based lessons as well. The site is also broken down into 6-8 and 9-12 categories. Rank: 2

Education Planet Linguistics and Language Arts Page http://www.educationplanet.com/search/Linguistics_and_Language_Arts

This website has everything from links, information on many language arts subcategories, education news, and featured software. This site does not have a lot of specific High School Language Arts lesson plans or activities, but the content covers a broad range of Language Arts topics and is sure to help get the creative juices flowing. Rank: 2

Ed Helper http://www.edhelper.com/cat165.htm

Ed Helper contains hundreds of websites that contain full High School Language Arts lesson plans, some with tests and worksheets attached. This site also has a link to various webquests. Rank: 2

Creative Writing for Teens http://kidswriting.about.com/?once=true&