This presentation deals with worksheets for the school subject German for native speakers lhat are offered online and free of charge. Firstly, a variety of sites (such as www.zum.de, www.4teachers.de, www.schulportal.de, www.deulschunddeullich.de, and www.lehrerfreund.de) has been evaluated analyzing the following aspects: quantity, arrangement of topics, addressee, specifics of the medium, structure, and context. As a result, substantial differences have been found in both quantity and structure. The quantity of the material offered ranges from 100 up to 100.000 worksheets. The service of most sites consists of the offer of worksheets ready to print out. Only a few interactive exercises could be found free of charge and they are strongly linked to certain topics. Additional contents such as comments or introductions into topics for teachers or the possibility of grading worksheets or information with regard to the number of users can befound. The analysis of the structure ofthe different sites has revealed that all of them focus an different aspects, such as the age of /earners, topics, authors in a/phabetica/ order, types of tasks. Whereas modern teaching methods call for the integration of grammar, literature, reading, writing, and speaking, this is not ojfered in the material found online. Secondly, worksheets dealing with the topic "summary" have been analyzed exemplarily. The result is not in accordance with topical research in didactics - most of the materials ojfer only information sheets, instead of instructing the pupils to /earn how to write his /ext.