English Language Arts

FLHS English Department

Check out the department website for important documents, announcements, and dates.

Our school's award-winning journalism academy frequently issues articles about the goings-on at Francis Lewis High School, as well as what's going on in, around, and beyond the five boroughs on its website.

Common Lit

CommonLit is a nonprofit education technology organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, especially students in Title I schools, graduate with the reading, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to be successful in college and beyond.

The Literary Maven

A big list of free online resources for secondary English Language Arts teachers.

Some of the sites are completely free, while others have some paid resources or premium versions that require a subscription.

NYT Learning Network

The Learning Network publishes about 1,000 teaching resources each school year, all based on using Times content — articles, essays, images, videos, graphics and podcasts — as teaching tools across subject areas.

Learning For Justice

From film kits and lesson plans to the building blocks of a customized Learning Plan—texts, student tasks and teaching strategies—our resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into your classroom—all for FREE.

Teaching Books

From our exclusive, ever-growing, vetted collection of instructional materials about children's and young adult books and authors, everyone can easily...

TeachingBooks offers every reader the power to enrich their relationship to the books they are reading.