RIF Reading Planet - superb interactive literature adventure
http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/

Literacy Matters - lesson plans, adolescent literature, content literacy, web links
http://www.literacymatters.org

Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/

Reading Quilt Pathfinder - links to ALA, Horn Book award lists, etc.
http://www.guilderlandschools.org/farnsworth/Library/readingquilt.htm

American Authors on the Web
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

American Literature Anthology
http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/amlitchron_index.html

Harlem, 1900 - 1940
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/exhibition.html

Brief Timeline of American Literature Pre-1620 to 1920
 - aligns lit with history of time period
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/timefram.html

MysteryNet: Kids Mysteries
http://kids.MysteryNet.com

Poetry 

Forms of Poetry for Children - forms and examples in literature
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poeform.htm

The Children's Poetry Archive
http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do

Education World - April is Poetry Month
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/poetrymonth.shtml

Poetry Tool - Children
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/tool.child.html

For Eighth Grade Poetry Units:

The Academy of American Poets - poems, biographies, links
http://www.poets.org

The Poetry Archive
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

Shakespeare

Life in Elizabethan England
http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/

Shakespeare Online
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (large and well-organized)
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu

Shakespeare - Chill  with Will (helping high school students love Shakespeare)
http://library.thinkquest.org/19539/front.htm

Shakespeare Resource Center
http://www.bardweb.net

Surfing with the Bard (useful information by an English teacher)
http://www.shakespearehigh.com/library/surfbard/

Absolute Shakespeare (essential resource for plays, poems, quotes, biography, and the Globe Theater)
http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/index.htm

Heroes

Time: 100 Most Important People of the Century
www.time.com/time/time100/

Nobel Prize
http://nobelprize.org/

Writing

Teach Writing - Feature Articles
http://www.teachwriting.com/FeatureArticles.htm

The Quotation Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/

Great Source - iwrite (lots of writing aids and tips)
http://www.greatsource.com/iwrite/

Student Writing Models
http://thewritesource.com/models.htm

National Writing Project - Ten Ideas that Get Kids Writing
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/nwp/ten-ideas.html

Graphic Organizers

SCORE: Graphic Organizers
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/actbank/torganiz.htm

Education Place: Graphic Organizers
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/