Sites for Language Arts Teachers
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This virtual tour allows your students to see interiors and exteriors of a castle. They can see an entire room and can zoom in.
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Online games and activities to improve English skills including crosswords, madlibs, reading comprehension exercises
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This site from Starfall.com gives a video with sound for each letter of the alphabet which shows capital and lowercase, and pronounces the alphabet sound and the phonemic sound of each letter. Short videos are also available for each vowel and for the ABCs.
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Links to over 2,000 full-text works of literature...searchable by author, title, and date
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Allows you to search 922 online dictionaries at once
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Links to the Indigenous Peoples' Literature sites which includes literature for all North American tribes
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Read a chapter a day of classics of American literature online
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A free translator that allows you to enter (or paste) text and translate it into Spanish, French, German, Italian, and many other languages
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A great resource for censorship...discusses books commonly banned with links to information on the works, often including full text of the work
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A website for all things dealing with Lord of the Rings including information on the books and interactive games
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Online reference books and works of fiction and nonfiction |
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Beautifully illustrated children's books available full-text online
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This game from FunSchool requires students to click on pictures of objects that begin with a certain letter. Great SmartBoard activity.
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Etymology and history of first names
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Offers an excellent collection of full-text books, articles, poems and short stories.
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This free website is intended to motivate students to read. Students can register (only uses first name and last initial and promises privacy) and take online quizzes to earn points. Points can be redeemed for books, magazines, and other literary prizes
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Another online "Cliff's” notes for major works of literature |
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Reviews and lesson plan ideas for children's literature
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A resource from the University of Calgary with links to criticism, authors, lesson plans, and websites on children's literature
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Creates citations for most formats
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Community Learning Network's Educational Resources in English/Language Arts |
Great resources for grammar, writing, and literature
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The complete texts and links to Internet sites about Shakespeare.
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A website dedicate to...you guessed it...confusing words. More that 3,000 often confused words are discussed.
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George's own website with games and activities
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Grammar exercises with answers
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Gives access to Ebsco, which gives access to thousands of full-text resource
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Resources including lesson plans, games, and online activities for teachers of English as a second language
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Tools for English teachers
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Online interactive grammar exercises, worksheets, and handouts
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Lesson plans and online activities for language arts
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This website guides students step by step through the process of writing a five-paragraph persuasive essay. To begin click on Start Writing Now.
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Instant poetry forms
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Some great resources for language arts activities...be sure to check out AN American Time Capsule from the Library of Congress
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Online full-text versions of common fairy and folk tales. Some come from other English-speaking countries
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For older elementary students, this game from FunSchool requires them to click on misspelled words.
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Another online "Cliff's” notes for major works of literature
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Online grammar exercises.
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Fun interactive grammar lessons covering comma splices, pronoun agreement, fragments, pronoun reference, irregular verbs, subject-verb agreement, commas, and word choice. There are multiple exercises for each topic and printouts so students can track their progress.
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Links to websites on authors
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Online resources for grammar and writing
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An online version of the text with hyperlinks to a glossary and further information...also good information on the author and the work
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The ultimate online resource for Shakespeare's Hamlet. This site includes interpretations, explanations, history, etc. It is truly a Hamlet encyclopedia.
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Links to a Harry Potter encyclopedia, galleries of pictures, news about upcoming books and films, and anything else of interest to Potter fans
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A board game on the life of Henry VIII and his marriages
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IL Mathematics and Science Academy
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A tool that allows students to enter information and create a citation
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A website connected tot he PBS program...it offers an online game, lesson plans, and information on Shakespeare
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Numerous reference materials, especially good biographies
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This site offers some great interactive grammar activities. It is a British site, however, so some of the grammar is a bit peculiar from our perspective. |
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Reference materials, kid and teen areas, literary criticism
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Literary criticism and author biographies
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The Internet School Library Media Center offers information on children's literature including authors, book reviews and lesson plans
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Access to newspapers world-wide
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Numerous resources for children's literature including author biographies, reviews, and online games and activities
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The ultimate Poe website. Online resources, videos, and images, including on Poe's life and complete works. Includes full-text access to Poe's works.
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Great educational games to increase literacy in English, Spanish, French or German.
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Great resource for photos of author’s homes, settings, etc.
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Free access to over 1,200 books and 2,000 short stories and poems.
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Access to 5.5 million full-text articles in over 900 publications
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A beautiful site with links to resources about authors from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the 17th century
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Who would you be in the Middle Ages? A career profile which shows where you’d be likely to end up in the social system of the Middle Ages.
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Links to all sorts of sites on the Middle Ages
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National Council of Teachers of English
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Lesson plans and other resources for English teachers
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Literary analysis of great novels
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The University of Pennsylvania's online text resource...a large collection
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An easy-to-use online version of an etymological dictionary, giving the origin of the word or term and usually the original form, but not other forms (for example, may give the Old English form, but not the Middle English)
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Another resource for online texts...this one organized by author
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The Open Directory Project is "the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web"...this section gives access to thousands of websites that are connected to English
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This site guides students step-by-step through the writing process for a persuasive essay including peer review and publishing. A rubric for evaluation is also included. |
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An online picture dictionary for younger students
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Online "Cliff's” notes for major works of literature
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Online poems, biographies of poets, and recordings of poems
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An online interactive game which requires students to find errors in capitalization, punctuation, and/or grammar for grades 2 through 8
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Ready-to-use PowerPoint presentations on capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, usage, and other grammar topics
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Probably the largest of the online libraries with full-text access to classic works of literature and primary source documents...searchable by title or author
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Great resources on writing and grammar and probably the best resource on the web for APA, MLA and other formats
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This site allows users to create citations using MLA, APA, or Chicago format. Easy to use and reliable.
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Resources for writing and reading activities
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This site offers reading comprehension, text analysis, vocabulary, and other reading skill exercises for elementary students.
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An online version of the old standby reference
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Online rhyming dictionary
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Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project |
For all those teachers of The Crucible...a fabulous resource allowing digital access to primary source documents
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Lesson plans and activities for language arts from the California Department of Education
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A biography of Dr. Seuss and online games and activities related to his books
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Online "Cliff's notes" for literature, history, math, science, etc.
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This fun interactive game from EduPlace offers spelling practice for games one through eight.
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This site from PBS offers interactive stories with related games for elementary students, grades 1 to 3.
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From Morehead State, links to lesson plans, standards, writing resources and literature resources
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Full-text fairy tales and folk tales from around the world
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A site from Indiana University that offers full-text articles on many issues dealing with classroom control, student problems, and other issues that aren't often covered on web sites
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Interactive tours, history, and games on the Tower of London
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A great collection of electronic texts...one of the largest
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A site devoted to the works of Victorian women writers, created and maintained by Indiana University
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An interactive tour of a virtual castle. Click on "Kid's Castle".
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Online exercises and games to improve vocabulary for all grade levels
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An interesting site offering concordances (and some workbooks) for poetry of Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Hopkins
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Tools for English teachers.
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Online lessons and tests on verbs |
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This site from the BBC offers fun phonemic activities and games for elementary students.
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Online vocabulary lessons, dictionaries, poem generators, and other activities to increase word power
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Links checked 6/16/06 |
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