Language Arts Resources

19th Century American Writers. 19th Century American Writers is a chronological listing of major American authors which includes on-line versions of their works and information about their lives.
3D Computer Dictionary. 3D Computer Dictionary, being developed by MaranGraphics for K-12 students and teachers, is an on-line easy-to-use reference that features colorful, clear definitions on computer terms, with appealing cartoon illustrations.
4 Kids: Reading. 4 Kids: Reading is a catalog of on-line reading resources featuring interactive stories for younger readers, and over two dozen individual books for adolescents including Tale of Two Cities, Treasure Island, and Moby Dick.
ABC Educational Games. ABC Educational Games is a series of alphabet activities to help preschoolers with initial reading skills.
ABCDs of Learning. ABCDs of Learning provides over 40 language arts and math activities for the primary grades. T
Academy One (6-8). Academy One offers 33 mini-lesson plans covering various language arts topics at the middle school level.
Academy One (9-12). Academy One offers 14 mini-lesson plans covering various language arts topics at the high school level.
Academy One (K-5). Academy One offers 44 mini-lesson plans covering various language arts topics at the elementary school level.
Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin. Activity Search from Houghton Mifflin features a curriculum database where the K-8 teachers can search for language arts lesson plans/activities and other subject areas by grade level.
Aesop Fables. Aesop Fables is the creative efforts of Professor Giloth's students at the UMass Amherst.
Aesop & Me. Aesop & Me features an on-line collection of over 300 of Aesop's Fables
Alex's Scribbles: Koala Trouble-Trouble in Paradise. Alex's Scribbles: Koala Trouble-Trouble in Paradise is an on-line interactive story illustrated by a five-year old boy.
Anagram Insanity. Anagram Insanity is an interactive word game for grades 4-12.
Atlantic Unbond. Atlantic Unbond, maintained by The Atlantic Monthly, contains multimedia poetry pages for both classic and contemporary poems. You can read poems, read essays about them, and listen to them on RealAudio.
Author Profile. Author Profile, presented by Bantam Doubleday Dell On-line publishers, features weekly visits with noted contemporary writers and journalists.
Author, Author! Author, Author! contains an alphabetical list of authors on the Web, links to literature, and on-line libraries for children's books for grades 5-12.
Award-Winning Children's Books. Award-Winning Children's Books provides samples and illustrations from Caldecott and Newbery winners from 1987 to 1994.
Banned Books On-line. Banned Books On-line is an exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured range from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations lets you enter a word to find famous sayings related to that word. You can also search for familiar quotes by an alphabetical or chronological index of authors.
Basic Prose Style and Mechanics. Basic Prose Style and Mechanics, for high school English students, is an on-line guide with examples to the basic principles of prose style and mechanics.
Bill Henderson's Library. Bill's Library is a catalog of on-line literary resources for grades 6-12 which includes the following headings: The Magazine Rack, Stop By the Poet's Corner, My Favorite Writers and Works, The Public Library, and The Law Library.
Blue Web'n Learning Applications. Blue Web'n Learning Applications, sponsored by Pacific Bell, provides a wealth of resources for language arts teachers. To search for lessons, activities, and other language arts sites in the Blue Web'n Library
Boggle. Boggle is an interactive word-construction game for grades 4-12 where you try to find words in a letter grid. Players determine the grid size and the playing time. Answers are provided after each game is played.
Bohemian Ink. Bohemian Ink features an index of the acclaimed 20th century authors, including excerpts, essays, criticism, and links to their writings. This site is intended for the serious student and teacher of contemporary literature.
Book Nook. Book Nook encourages children to write book reports with the aid of a template.
book two: kindergarten. book two: kindergarten from education station's volume library features on-line mother goose rhymes, favorite poems, stories, and fables.
Books A to Z: K-12 Education Resources. Books A to Z provides a variety of on-line education resources of interest to the language arts teacher. Among the resources included are communications, curriculum, grants information, libraries & museums, and project resources.
Borderline Cartoons. Borderline Cartoons by Gabe Martin offers 250 free cartoons that you can use on your Web pages. The cartoons are organized in archives #1, archive #2, a list of 250, and monthly featuring the major holidays.
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions. British Poetry 1780-1910 is an archive of Romantic and Victorian poetry including Thomas Hardy's Wessex Poems & Other Verses and William Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works. Most of the texts are annotated and illustrated. For additional works of British and American literature, click on Etext Center's Modern English Collection at the bottom of the page.
Browse by Theme. Browse by Theme from Houghton Mifflin features a collection of lesson plans and activities organized by themes for the teaching of reading.
Building Blocks to Reading. Building Blocks to Reading is a readiness program for children 3 to 6 years old. It has many fun activities to give kids the love of learning and includes links to other readiness activities.
Canadian Teacher-Librarian's Resource Page. Canadian Teacher-Librarian's Resource Page features hundreds of children's literature sites for grades K-6. Among its myriad resources are associations, authors and illustrators, awards, and booklists.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site includes book reviews, ideas for classroom uses, and other professional resources.
Children's Authors. Children's Authors provides a wealth of information about well-known children's authors and illustrators who maintain Web sites.
Children's Literature Links. Children's Literature Links contains a large collection of on-line stories, some interactive, for kids in grades K-6.
Children's Literature Web Guide. Children's Literature Web Guide is a comprehensive resource guide for teaching literature to children in grades K-6. This site includes on-line children's stories, general children's literature resources, and resources for teachers and parents.
Children's Literature Web Guide - provides Newberry and Caldecott Medal winners, on-line children's stories, best selling books for children, resources for parents and teachers, and more.
Children's Literature-Resources for Teachers. Children's Literature-Resources for Teachers features detailed lesson plans (grades 4-8) by Jean Ruskin for Cinderella variants.
Children's Stories. Children's Stories are fiction and nonfiction reading passages that Phil Shapiro wrote for his elementary school students.
Childrens Literature Web Guide - provides Newberry and Caldecott Medal winners, on-line children's stories, best selling books for children, resources for parents and teachers, and more.
Classroom Activities. Classroom Activities from Scott Foresman, for grades K-6, offer sample language arts activities from their books, Daily Journals, Daily Poetry, Letters to Parents, and The Whole Earth Holiday Book.
Classroom Connect: Grades. Classroom Connect: Grades is a directory of educational sites on the Web for grades K-12.
CMARGIN Notes. CMARGIN Notes is a weekly free email newsletter for K-12 teachers that presents brief summaries of articles selected from dozens of on-line publications. These articles serve as current resources for conducting research and preparing reports.
Collab-o-Write. Collab-o-Write offers a variety of options for middle school students to publish their own work at this site.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BARTLEBY LIBRARY. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BARTLEBY LIBRARY features an alphabetical listing of major British and American authors which includes biographical information, illustrations, and on-line versions of their works.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Complete Works of William Shakespeare includes a discussion area, Shakespeare resources on the Internet, and links to his plays and poetry.
Computer-Generated Haiku. Computer-Generated Haiku automatically creates Haiku poems. New poems appear every 25 seconds.
Concertina. Concertina offers on-line illustrated stories and poems for children ages 3 to 7. You can order hard copy versions of these books directly from the publisher.
Connections+. Connections+ consists of Internet resources---lesson plans, activities and curriculum resources provided by Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McRel).
Cool Word of the Day. Cool Word of the Day presents a new word every day for grades 6-12. Click on Definition to find its meaning. You are also encouraged to submit your own cool word. For an archive of previous words, click on View Past Words.
Core Knowledge Lesson Plans and Units. Core Knowledge Lesson Plans and Units for
Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction. Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction, prepared by Paul Brians of Washington State University, contains science fiction study guides for high school English.
CREATING A CLASSROOM NEWSPAPER. CREATING A CLASSROOM NEWSPAPER, sponsored by Calgary Herald (Canada), is a teaching unit on the use of a daily newspaper in grades 6-12. The unit, which is part of the Newspaper-In-Education (NIE) programs, features a "A Teacher's Guide" containing lesson plans, student worksheets, a newspaper glossary, and other useful materials.
Creative Nexus: Literature. Creative Nexus: Literature features four major writing categories with over 40 creative works contributed students. The categories include poetry, short story, essay, and journalism.
Crossword Crosswords. Crossword Crosswords is a collection of ten crossword puzzles for grades 3-8. You can print them out along with their accompanying solutions. Most of the clues have links to other interesting sites.
Cyber-Seuss. Cyber-Seuss contains an on-line collection of the Dr. Seuss' books and includes stories about the author's life.
Cyber-Seuss - provides information about Dr. Seuss including text to many of his books
Cyber-Seuss - provides information about Dr. Seuss including text to many of his books
CyberKids. published by Mountain Lake Software, are award-winning on-line children's magazines featuring stories, poems, and fun interactive activities for kids.
Cyberteens.Cyberteens , published by Mountain Lake Software, are award-winning on-line children's magazines featuring stories, poems, and fun interactive activities for teens.
Daily Puzzle. Daily Puzzle, published by Dell, provides every day a word game (usually a crossword) from one of their wide range of puzzle magazines. A solution is given the next day.
Digital Education Network (DEN). Digital Education Network (DEN), created by ACT Laboratory, offers Internet-based lessons in various curriculum areas for students in grades 6-12 . The
Doucette Index to K-12 Teaching Ideas for Literature. Doucette Index to K-12 Teaching Ideas for Literature lets you search the Web and the library for a list of resources for teaching literature. For example, to find teaching suggestions for Shakespeare, enter Shakespeare in the author box and click on Begin Search.
EDITOR & PUBLISHER'S On-line Newspapers. EDITOR & PUBLISHER'S On-line Newspapers, sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, contains an exhaustive collection of more than 1,500 of the world's on-line newspapers.
EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS FOR PRESCHOOLERS. EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS FOR PRE SCHOOLERS is a collection of 87 interdisciplinary lesson plans for preschoolers from a variety of on-line resources. Many of the activities relate to language development.
EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS FOR WRITING. EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS FOR WRITING is a collection of 30 lesson plans for K-12 from a variety of on-line resources.
EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS. EDUCATION STATION: LESSON PLANS, for K-12, offers nearly 150 lesson plans
Edward Lear's Nonsense Poetry and Art. Edward Lear's Nonsense Poetry and Art contains selected examples of the author's work. The site includes an on-line copy of his Book of Nonsense, which is accompanied by 60 original illustrated limericks.
Electronic Newstand (ENEWS). Electronic Newstand (ENEWS) offers a huge collection of more than 2,000 on-line magazines.
Electronic Resources for Youth Services: Children's Literature. Electronic Resources for Youth Services provides an index of children's literature Web resources where you can search by category. Topics include book reviews, storytelling, writing, reading, publishers, bestsellers, and on-line books.
Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. Electronic Text Center is a virtual English language library for high school teachers. Among its collection are British and American literature resources and an archive of the Greek classics.
English Language Arts Framework for the K-12 curriculum. The site provides on-line projects for students, lessons plans for teachers, and resources that reflect the framework.
English Literature Page! English Literature Page! covers the seven major periods of English literature from medieval times to the twentieth century featuring historical backgrounds, original sources on-line, and profiles of popular authors. The site is suitable for advanced high school English classes.
English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660). English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603-1660) features biographies, works, and Web resources of six of the most celebrated English authors including John Donne, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, and John Milton. The site is an invaluable resource for the study of British literature in high school.
ERIC/REC Clearinghouse. The ERIC Clearinghouse on reading, English, and communication (ERIC/REC) is dedicated to providing educational materials, services, and coursework to everyone interested in the language arts.
essays written by high school students at Ronald McNair Academic High in New Jersey.
Etymology of First Names. Etymology of First Names provides an alphabetical index where you can find what your first name means. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.
Evergreen Curriculum. Evergreen Curriculum, prepared by Saskatchewan Education Curriculum and Instruction Branch, provides curriculum ideas and activities for K-12 teachers.
Fables and Fairy Tales. Fables and Fairy Tales is a collection of on-line illustrated stories for K-8. Among the famous authors are George MacDonald, Lord Dunsany, and Hans Christian Andersen.
Fairrosa Cyber Library. Fairrosa Cyber Library contains shelves of on-line children's books, a Lewis Carroll collection, an index of famous children's authors and illustrators, an electronic magazine rack, and links to related sites.
Fairy Tales - Gopher site of full text of many stories including: Adventures of Tom Thumb, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Pinocchio, Thumbelina and many more.
Fairy Tales - Gopher site of full text of many stories including: Adventures of Tom Thumb, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Pinocchio, Thumbelina and many more.
Fake Out! Fake Out is a guessing game for grades 2-6 in which a child selects a word from a category and tries to match it with its definition. The site provides answers, an archive of words used in previous games, and teaching suggestions. Kids are invited to email definitions for the following week's game.
Famous Americans Biography Book Reports. Famous Americans Biography Book Reports produced by fifth-grade student contains illustrated biographies of famous Americans.
Featured Childrens' Books. Carol Hurst's Featured Childrens' Books contains a collection of lessons and activities for books in grades K-6.
Fluency Through Fables. Fluency Through Fables are short fables presented each month by the Comenius Group. Each fable is accompanied by a variety of self-correcting exercises.
Folktales From Around the World. Folktales From Around the World is a collection of illustrated interactive fables from the Caribbean and Cape Verdian islands.
Free Exemplary Lesson Plans. Free Exemplary Lesson Plans from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication (ERIC/REC) bookstore contains plans on writing, reading. and comprehension for K-12.
Free Internet Encyclopedia . Free Internet Encyclopedia is composed of information from the Internet and is available in MacroReference and MicroReference editions.
Fun Crossword! Fun Crossword is an on-line collection crossword puzzles you can do on the computer.
Fun Fact. Fun Fact is a reservoir of interesting tidbits of knowledge such as: "The fear that he might conceal a joke in it was one reason that Benjamin Franklin was not entrusted by his peers with the assignment of writing the Declaration of Independence." (Source: Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts). For other tidbits, click on Fun Fact.
Gopher Menu from Big Sky. Gopher Menu from Big Sky features a collection of language arts lesson plans for grades K-12. It includes a variety of topics including reading and composition.
Gopher Menu from ERIC. Gopher Menu from ERIC for K-12 has more than one hundred language arts lesson plans contributed by teachers. Each lesson plan includes an overview, purpose, objectives, activities, and resource materials.
Gopher Search. Gopher Search from Ask ERIC Virtual Library provides a searchable index to lesson plans for K-12. To find a list of language arts lesson plans. enter a topic such as "creative writing" or "vocabulary".
Grammar Style Notes. Grammar and Style Notes, maintained by Jack Lynch, is a alphabetical guide for grammar rules, correct style, and tips on usage for grades 8-12.
Granddad's Animal Alphabet Book. Granddad's Animal Alphabet Book is an illustrated animal alphabet book for beginning readers which combines interactive science activities with reading.
Great Books Interdisciplinary Matrix. Great Books Interdisciplinary Matrix provides links to Internet resources on 150 authors many of whom come from the reading list for How to Read a Book.
Greeting Cards on WWW. Greeting Cards on WWW is a Yahoo index where teachers and kids can send on-line personal, colorful postcards to friends. The postcards feature pictures of famous paintings or contemporary scenes.
Gryphon House, Inc. Gryphon House, Inc. offers a wealth of interdisciplinary lessons with language-centered activities for early childhood education, ages 2-7. To find these activities taken directly from more than 36 of their books
HAIKU for PEOPLE! HAIKU for PEOPLE provides instructions on how to write Haiku, numerous examples of Haiku poems, and links to other Haiku sites.
Handbook of Student-Centered and Thinking Skills Lessons. Handbook of Student-Centered and Thinking Skills Lessons, for grades 7-12, provides a variety of English lesson plans contributed by preservice teachers at UCLA Graduate School of Education.
Hangman is a word game for older grades .
Hangman. Hangman is a word game for grades 3-8 in which kids guess the letters of a mystery word.
HarperAudio! HarperAudio, owned by HarperCollins Publishers, provides background information and rebroadcasts of famous works. Among the works that you can listen to on your computer are Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, James Mason reading of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities", Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", Peter Ustinov's readings of the fables of humorist James Thurber, and J.R.R. Tolkien reading excerpts from his mythical saga "The Lord of the Rings".
Helping Your Child Learn To Read. Helping Your Child Learn To Read, prepared the U.S. Department of Education, contains an useful list of reading activities for parents/teachers and kids, ages 3-10.
Helping Your Child Learn To Write Well. Helping Your Child Learn To Read, prepared the U.S. Department of Education, contains an useful list of writing activities for parents/teachers and kids, ages 6-10.
here. This monthly on-line newspaper is a forum for teenagers worldwide to express their ideas and be heard.
High School NewsWeb. High School NewsWeb is an on-line newswire and resource center for high school journalists. Kids can learn how to get their school newspaper on-line, find other schools and newspapers on the Web, and register to participate in electronic news conferences.
Holidays on the Net. Holidays on the Net features Mother's and Father's Day, Valentine's Day, Chanukah, Purim, Easter, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur. For each holiday, there are stories and fun activities to be used in the K-8 language arts teaching.
Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy. Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy is a series of hands-on, cross-curricular activities organized by grade level to supplement its reading program.
How the Leopard Got His Spots by Rudyard Kipling.
How to Tell the Birds From the Flowers. How to Tell the Birds From the Flowers is an on-line picture book written by Robert Wood.
IBM Internet Activities. IBM Internet Activities, updated monthly, features lesson plans/activities that encourage students in grades 3-12 to use the Internet to do research in various subject areas.
InfoWeb: English Language Arts Curriculum. English Language Arts Curriculum, provided by North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), features a collection of lesson plans for K-12 related to competency goals, objectives and focus areas. Under resources for each separate objective, select the grade level and computer lesson plans where you will find sample activities and K-8 computer lesson plans.
Inkspot - Resources for Young Writer - a site for those interested in books and being an author, learn how books are made, how to start your own book, and where to send the manuscript.
Inkspot - Resources for Young Writer - a site for those interested in books and being an author, learn how books are made, how to start your own book, and where to send the manuscript.
Instructor Magazine. Instructor magazine from Scholastic offers a variety of on-line lessons and ideas for K-6. Click on
Integrated Resource Packages. Integrated Resource Packages, developed by British Columbia Ministry of Education, are plans and guidelines for teaching the various curriculum areas in grades K-12.
Integrating the Curriculum to find plans for reading and writing.
Interactive Teacher. Interactive Teacher , a bimonthly on-line magazine, features thematic lesson plans from its previous issues.
International Reading Association (IRA). International Reading Association (IRA), sponsored by Microsoft Corporation, provides leadership in promoting literacy, in improving the quality of reading instruction and teaching techniques, in serving as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research, and in encouraging the lifetime reading habit.
Internet Anagram Server. Internet Anagram Server is a fun page that can spice up a language arts classroom. Anagrams are words made from the rearranged letters of other words.
Internet Public Library: A World of Readers. Internet Public Library: A World of Readers is a place where kids worldwide can share the good books they have read by writing a short review. Categories of book reviews include adventure, animal, mystery, sports, scary, fantasy stories, and more.
Internet Public Library: Reading Room. Internet Public Library: Reading Room features an enormous on-line collection to pubic books, magazines, newspapers, works of Shakespeare, and includes links to sites with other catalogs.
Internet Public Library: Reference Center. Internet Public Library: Reference Center contains a variety of on-line resources of interest to k-12 teachers.
Internet Public Library: Story Hour. The Internet Public Library: Story Hour presents five on-line illustrated stories for the younger child.
Internet Public Library - provides reference, youth, teen, MOO, exhibit hall, reading room, and more. A good starting point is to go to "Directory and Tour"; and learn about the features of this site.
Internet Public Library - provides reference, youth, teen, MOO, exhibit hall, reading room, and more. A good starting point is to go to "Directory and Tour"; and learn about the features of this site.
J World World Dates Archive. J World World Dates Archive is a comprehensive calendar of birthdays, holidays, historical events, and fun dates.
Japan Lessons: Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers. Japan Lessons: Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers focuses on lesson plans for writing. To find these plans, select "Writing Skills" from the pull-down menu in the Subject box, choose the desired grade-level cluster from the pull-down menu in the Student level box, and click on the "search" button..
John's Word Search Puzzles. John's Word Search Puzzles provides teachers and kids in grades 3-8 with more than two dozen word searches that can be printed out. There are puzzles for animals, holidays, states, and other topics.
Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection. Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection contains a variety of collaborative and network activities that encourage communication through the use of email for grades K-12.
Jumble & Crossword Solver. Jumble & Crossword Solver makes scrambled words and crossword puzzles easier to do. Enter a scrambled word in the box, click the Scrambled Word button, and then select Solve It! This handy puzzle-solving tool will check the results against Webster's dictionary to return only real words that can result from this scramble. To use the cross word puzzle solver, follow the screen directions. This interactive site is suitable for grades 4-12.
Katie's Quest. Katie's Quest is an on-line story about a girl who flies to Lunaland and has an exciting adventure. The story allows you to change the characters' names to personalize it and also gives you the option to print out the pictures to make a coloring book. The site is suitable for kids in K-2.
KidNews. KidNews is a news and writing service for elementary school and middle school students and teachers around the world. Using this free exchange service, teachers and kids can gather news stories and ideas for their own school papers. KidNews includes stories about news, features, profiles, sports, and other newspaper-related topics.
Kids Did This Hotlist: Language Arts. Kids Did This Hotlist: Language Arts is a collection of samples of kids' original works and stories.
Kids' After School Clubhouse Reading Room. Kids' After School Clubhouse Reading Room offers a list of good books for grades 3-8 that you can find at your school or public library. Read the kidview book reports (click on pencil) before going to the library.
Kidstuff! Kidstuff is a place on the Web where kids up to age 12 can have their stories published.
KidzPage. KidzPage contains humorous poetry and limericks written by adults and kids and selections from Odgen Nash and Lewis Carroll. You can submit for publication your own poems, limerick, or good jokes.
Kodak: Lesson Plans. Kodak provides a variety of lesson plans, using a camera, in many curriculum areas for grades K-12.
Language Arts, created by teachers throughout the country, feature an interdisciplinary approach to teaching literature in grades K-6.
Language Sites on the Internet. Language Sites on the Internet is a collection of language arts-related links organized in categories such as grammar & usage, reference, word games, and vocabulary development.
Lear, Limericks, & Literature. Lear, Limericks, & Literature is an unit featuring a series of creative writing and reading lesson plans, created by Beverly L. Adams-Gordon, for studying Edward Lear' poetry in grades 5-12. The site also contains background information about his life and limericks, a bibliography, and related sites.
LEO: Literacy Education On-line. LEO: Literacy Education On-line provides writing strategies, grammar rules, and general help to high school English students.
Lesson Plans .
Lewis Carroll Home Page Illustrated. Lewis Carroll Home Page Illustrated contains on-line versions of three of Carroll's classics, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Through The Looking-Glass, and Hunting of the Snark.
Library in the Sky. Library in the Sky, provided by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), features lesson plans and other resources for a variety of subjects in grades K-12.
Library Lesson Plans Gopher Menu. Library Lesson Plans Gopher Menu, for grades 1-8, is a collection of lessons/activities for reading/language arts assignments using reference materials in the school library.
Life of Mark Twain. Life of Mark Twain is a comprehensive Web research project prepared by two high school students. The site contains Mark Twain quotes, information about his life, a bibliography, and related Web resources.
Links For Book Lovers. Links For Book Lovers features a collection of sites for children's authors and illustrators on the Web.
Links to American authors.
Literary Hyper Calendar. Literary Hyper Calendar allows you to click on a date and see what important literary events have occurred. Some of the events include links to related resources. Suitable for grades 9-12.
LITERARY MENAGERIE. LITERARY MENAGERIE is an index of author-based sites on the Web. A
Literature Resources for the High School and College Student. Literature Resources for the High School and College Student is a comprehensive compendium of sites for on-line literature, literary magazines, and other related collections.
Little Explorers. Little Explorers, designed by Enchanted Learning Software, is an easy-to-use picture dictionary with Web sites for preschool kids. The collection provides a wealth of information and on-line activities for any elementary school student.
Little Planet Times. The Little Planet Times is an interactive on-line newspaper for kids, by kids, that promotes reading, writing, and communication skills for grades K-5.
Looking Glass Gazette. Looking Glass Gazette is the on-line version of Monty Harper's newsletter, which publishes stories, poems, and artwork by students in preschool - eighth grade.
Macbeth Plugged. Macbeth Plugged, best viewed with Netscape 3.0, features an in-depth analysis of the Shakespearean tragedy presenting an annotated, on-line multimedia version for honors classes.
Mad Libs. Mad Libs offers a list story situations in which students in grades 7-12 can create madlibs by supplying the required part of speech.
Madlib! The Wheel of Time site explains what madlibs are and provides a guide to parts of speech.
Mariam's Story Park. Mariam's Story Park is a personal collection of short folk tales from around the globe.
Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web. Mark Twain Resources on the World Wide Web provides materials about the celebrated American author to show that his works are alive and well in our current culture. The materials include exhibits, Twain's famous sayings, biography and criticism, and teaching resources for grades 8-12.
Mayan Folktales. Mayan Folktales are stories told to the writer, Fernando Peñalosa, by don Pedro Miguel Say, a well-known Guatemalan storyteller. New folktales will appear each month.
McREL: Lesson Plans and Activities. Lesson plans and activities, assembled by Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), contains a collection of lesson plan sites for a variety of subject areas.
Medieval World. Medieval World features annotated bibliographies for children and young adults including Arthurian literature, books about castles, books about crusaders and the crusades, books about dragons, books about knights, books about Robin Hood, and much more.
Megabrands' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Megabrands' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, best viewed with Netscape 3.0, is an on-line multimedia presentation illustrated and accompanied by music. This dynamic version takes time to load because of its graphic and sound features, but any waiting is well worth your time.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam Webster Dictionary is an on-line, all-in-one tool where you can search for definitions by using its dictionary or thesaurus to get synonyms, antonyms, pronunciations, and even learn word origins.
Middlezine. Middlezine is an on-line magazine that features the writing of students from Hudson Middle School in Hudson, Ohio including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, science fiction, and other genre.
MidLink Magazine. MidLink Magazine is an on-line award-winning quarterly to which middle school kids can contribute. Each issue features a special theme.
Mind's Eye: the Monster Exchange Project. Mind's Eye: the Monster Exchange Project is a collaborative Internet email project that has grown to involve over a hundred elementary schools and 3,000 kids from all around the world. Kids use their language arts and computer technology skills to communicate an original monster picture into another kid's mind.
Monsters, Monsters, Monsters Project - a whole language project for early childhood students to get involved in the Internet and email projects.
Monsters, Monsters, Monsters Project - a whole language project for early childhood students to get involved in the Internet and email projects.
My Hero. My Hero celebrates the heroes among us by asking you to write about your very special person who has shown acts of courage, kindness, generosity, or ability. You can learn about other heroes by choosing a category such as teacher, family, or sports from among the 15 categories.
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is the leading professional organization for improving the teaching of English and language arts at all grade levels. The site presents relevant information of value to classroom teachers.
Neil/Fred's Gigantic List of Palindromes. Neil/Fred's Gigantic List of Palindromes offers word play for students in grades 4-12. (A palindrome is a word or sentence that reads the same forwards as it does backwards.)
New Gopher Menu from ERIC. New Gopher Menu from ERIC for 4-12 contains more than 20 language arts lesson plans contributed by teachers. Each lesson plan includes an overview, purpose, objectives, activities, and resource materials.
Newbery Award Winners. Newbery Award Winners is an annual index of children's books from 1922 to 1996.
Newspaper-In-Education (NIE) On-line. Newspaper-In-Education (NIE) On-line, sponsored by the Detroit News, contains a collection of lesson plans using the daily newspaper in the classroom. The site features links to daily lesson plans and an index of weekly plans. Many of the lessons involve reading, writing, and critical thinking skills for students in grades 6-12.
Notable Citizens of the Planet Earth: Biographical Dictionary. Notable Citizens of the Planet Earth: Biographical Dictionary is an on-line resource that provides biographical information for over 18,000 people from ancient times to the present day.
On-line Books Page. On-line Books Page is an index of more than 1,400 English works that are free. You can search or browse by author or by title.
ON-LINE EDUCATOR. ON-LINE EDUCATOR is a monthly magazine for K-12 providing Internet-based lesson plans in a variety of subject areas.
On-line English Grammar. On-line English Grammar, created by Anthony Hughes, offers a complete treatment of the mechanics of English grammar for grades 5-12
On-line Literature Library. On-line Literature Library features the complete text versions of such children's classics as Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz , Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol , Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days , and Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables .
On-line Spell Checker. On-line Spell Checker is a simple tool where you enter a misspelled word to find its correct spelling and synonyms. For example, entering "holliday", gets "holiday" and clicking on "holiday" produces its synonyms.
On-line Thesaurus. On-line Thesaurus is an easy-to-use reference where you enter a word to find its synonyms.
Outta Ray's Head. Outta Ray's Head contains a list of Ray Saitz's lesson plans, handouts, and activities for teaching high school English.
Oz Kids Write. Oz Kids Write provides a place on the Internet for all Aussie students from lower primary to secondary schools to publish and share their creative talents with thousands of students from around the world. The site includes guidelines for Web publishing.
Palindrome Page. Palindrome Page generates a word, verse, or sentence or a number which reads the same backward or forward.
Parents and Children Together On-line (PCTO). Parents and Children Together On-line (PCTO) is a free magazine where kids can send their own contributions.
Patrik's Easy Hangman. Patrik's Easy Hangman is a word game for kids in the primary grades in which the computer gives the first two letters a mystery word, and the kids have to guess the third letter. All the words are three letters long.
PBS Teacher Connex. PBS Teacher Connex offers information about programs from the PBS National Program Service schedule with extended videotaping rights for pre K-12 educators in the United States.
Penquin USA: Academic Resources. Penquin USA: Academic Resources, for high school classes, provides teachers' guides for a variety of Signet literature classics including Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and King Lear, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Red Pony, and selected short stories of Stephen King. The guides include ready-to-use lesson plans, discussion questions, chapter-by-chapter and scene-by-scene breakdowns of the work under discussion.
Personalized On-line Electronic Text Services (POETS). Personalized On-line Electronic Text Services (POETS), provided by Notre Dame Women's College, offers a spelling checker and a vocabulary helper, WordNet 1.5, for students and teachers in grades 6-12.
Phrase Finder.Phrase Finder does for phrases what a thesaurus does for words. Give it a word and it will give you a list of phrases that are related to it in some way.
PLANET EARTH HOME PAGE: BOOKS AND LIBRARIES. PLANET EARTH HOME PAGE: BOOKS AND LIBRARIES features a collection of on-line reference and research sites for a variety of topics useful to students and teachers in grades 6-12.
Poet's Corner. Poet's Corner contains an alphabetical listing of more than 1,600 poems by over 300 poets.
Poetry Archives. Poetry Archives is an index of more than on-line 2,400 poems by over 50 poets.
Poetry Generator. Poetry Generator automatically creates poems for students and teachers in grades 7-12. Enter a number for the number of lines, a number for the number of words in each line, and click on generate more. Using the same set-up, you can get other poems.
Portrait Gallery of American Authors. Portrait Gallery of American Authors contains snapshot-size photos.
Positively Poetry. Positively Poetry, created by a 13 year old, contains poems submitted by kids from ages 5-15 around the globe. Kids are invited to email their poems for publishing them here on the Web.
Project Center. Project Center from Houghton Mifflin, updated weekly, features a variety of curricular activities from the Kidsphere and Classroom Connect mailing lists involving the Internet .
Project Gutenberg - complete texts of books including the works of Shakespeare, Aesop's Fables, Roget's Thesaurus, Scarlett Letter, Gift of Magi, Peter Pan, and more.
Project Gutenberg - complete texts of books including the works of Shakespeare, Aesop's Fables, Roget's Thesaurus, Scarlett Letter, Gift of Magi, Peter Pan, and more.
Pun Net. Pun Net, maintained by Matt Overholt, a student at City-High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, provides hours of fun with puns and is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Puppet's Page - a site the gives students different ideas for puppets and how to make them.
Puppet's Page - a site the gives students different ideas for puppets and how to make them.
Purdue On-line Writing Laboratory (OWL). Purdue On-line Writing Laboratory (OWL) provides an inventory of student handouts for grades 8-12 to improve writing skills.
Purdue Writing Lab - provides an on-line information for writers, with resources for planning and writing papers.
Purdue Writing Lab - provides an on-line information for writers, with resources for planning and writing papers.
PUZZLE CONNECTION. PUZZLE CONNECTION, maintained by Insight Software Solutions , offers weekly a free crossword and word search puzzle centered around a theme.
Puzzle Depot. Puzzle Depot, managed by Pinnacle Solutions, contains on-line language arts puzzles and games for students and teachers in grades 6-12.
Puzzle Depot: Web Links Gateway. Puzzle Depot: Web Links Gateway is a collection of crossword puzzle sites for grades 6-12.
Puzzles. Chicago Tribune's Puzzle Page presents daily on-line word games,
Quotation Guide. Quotation Guide offers large collection of quotes, arranged by topic. Many of the quotes are useful for sparking interest in creative writing and public speaking for grades 5-12.
Random Quotes. Random
Read Aloud! Read Aloud is a guide to reading children's books aloud providing anthologies and book lists suitable for kids from early childhood through eight grade.
READING BY TEENS FOR TEENS.READING BY TEENS FOR TEENS is a Web site for students in grades 7-12 to report on a book they've read and find out other students' rating of the book. Students first select a category from science fiction to sports and then express their opinions filling out a simple on-line survey form.
Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow is a PBS TV series designed to encourage and motivate young children to read good books and visit their local libraries. The site includes a broadcast schedule for 1996-1997 season and a program description and activity suggestions for each book.
Reading/Language Arts Center. Reading/Language Arts Center, provided by Houghton Mifflin, is a collection of on-line activities and resources for teaching language arts in K-6.
related Web links to learn more about his work. In addition, to visit with previous authors, click on their names and select related Web links.
Resources. Resources, developed by the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University, features K-12 cross-curricular lesson plans with the emphasis on language arts instruction.
Rhyme and Reason. Rhyme and Reason is a site devoted to William Blake's (1757-1827) poems, "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience"
School Libraries on the Web: A Directory. School Libraries on the Web: A Directory is an index of Web pages maintained by K-12 school libraries in the United States and in countries around the world. Includes links to other on-line libraries.
Schoolhouse. Schoolhouse provides a multitude of K-12 educational resources including lesson plans for a variety of subject areas.
SCORE: California Language Arts. Schools of California On-line Resources for Education (SCORE) Language Arts home page is intended to reflect the California
Shakespeare Mystery. Shakespeare Mystery is a PBS update for AP classes on the question: Who was Shakespeare? The site includes transcripts, feedback, excerpts on RealAudio, air times and related links.
Shakespeare on the World Wide Web. Shakespeare on the World Wide Web is a study guide to A Midsummer Night's Dream created by the students of Moscow Alternative School in Idaho. The site includes a simplified version of the story, production photos, study questions, and biographical information on Shakespeare's life.
Shakespeare Showcase. Shakespeare Showcase features a collection of on-line Shakespeare's plays with sample study questions.
Shakespearean Insult Server.
Shakespearean Insulter by Chris Seidel. Chris Seidel's Shakespearean Insulter delivers a verbal abuse from one the Bard's plays every time you click on "Insult me again". The name of the play from which the insult is taken is often given.
Shiki Internet Haiku Salon. Shiki Internet Haiku Salon presents a new style of haiku which is popular in American schools. The site includes biographical information about the author, Shiki Masaoka, anthologies of haiku, lessons on how to write this type of poetry, and related links.
Shining Time Station. Shining Time Station is an award-winning PBS TV series that helps preschoolers develop language abilities. The site provides teachers with broadcast schedule, episode activities in Spanish and English, and on-line fun with coloring pages.
Silly Billy's World. Silly Billy's World is an on-line collection of multicultural stories and parables for K-6 written and illustrated by Bill Dallas Lewis.
Simple Rhyming Dictionary. Simple Rhyming Dictionary is an on-line resource where you enter a word to find other words that rhyme with it.
Special Monster Edition of Wacky Web Tales. Special Monster Edition of Wacky Web Tales, adapted from Awesome Animated Monster Maker CD-ROM and published by Houghton Mifflin, features two monster tales in which 3-6 students supply the required part of speech to create madlibs.
Spice Islands Voyage.
Stage Hand Puppets' Activity Page. Stage Hand Puppets' Activity Page for grades 3-6 includes tips and patterns for making paper and scrap hand puppets that can be used in the language arts curriculum. Also, included are short puppet plays written by kids.
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Story Resources on the Web. Story Resources on the Web is a comprehensive collection of on-line multicultural stories and literature resources for K-6 which teachers can print out.
STORY WRITING PROJECT. STORY WRITING PROJECT is an Internet-based, collaborative writing project, conceived by Deborah L. Falk, for schools (grades 1-8) around the globe. Each participating class writes and emails a paragraph to Deborah who serves as the story coordinator and who posts the completed story at this site.
Study Web: English. Study Web, provided by American Computer Resources (ACR), features an extensive collection of on-line English and literature sites for grades K-12. Among the topics are Biographical Resources, Literature and Anthologies, The English Language, Writing and Writers, and So Ya Wanna Write...What?.
SuccessMaker On-line. SuccessMaker On-line, sponsored by Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC), offers cross-curricular thematic units with lesson plans and learning games, designed for grades six through nine.
Surfing for ABC's. Surfing for ABC's displays the Web sites listed in alphabetical order that K-1 kids discovered while working on the Web.
Syndicate.Com. Syndicate.Com makes learning vocabulary fun in grades 4-8. The site offers a variety of crossword and comic strips puzzles, word finds and games, and other vocabulary-building activities. You can compete for prizes or just play for fun.
Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Tales of the Brothers Grimm features the complete compilation of the tales of the Brothers Grimm including Aladdin, Bluebeard, and The Emperor's New Clothes.
Tales of Wonder. Tales of Wonder contains a collection of folk and fairy tales from around the world for grades 3-8.
Tales to Tell. Tales to Tell presents beautifully illustrated stories from around the world for kids in grades K-6. The stories include rhymes, fables, adventure stories, and folk and fairy tales.
Tall Tales and Short Stories. Tall Tales and Short Stories, for the primary grades, contains interactive stories that can be printed, on-line reading comprehension activities, and a madlib story in which you help to create by adding your own words.
Teacher Resource Center. Teacher Resource Center, provided by On-line Bantan Doubleday Dell (BDD), contains teacher's guides for grades 1-12 with ideas about ways to teach award-winning books published by BDD.
Teacher Talk Forum. Teacher Talk Forum, sponsored by the Center for Adolescent Studies at the Indiana University School of Education
Teacher's Edition On-line. Teacher's Edition On-line, sponsored by Gradekeeper, is designed by teachers for teachers, and provides lesson plans and activities in language arts and other subject areas.
Teachers Helping Teachers. Teachers Helping Teachers, updated weekly, is a forum where teachers can share lesson plans/activities in language arts and other subject areas.
Teaching Resources. Teaching Resources, sponsored by Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, features lessons that linked to educational sites on the Web.
TEAMS Distance Learning. Telecommunication Education Advance for Mathematics & Science (TEAMS) distance learning, maintained by the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE), features a variety of lesson, on-line classroom projects, and resources for K-12.
Theodore Tugboat - an on-line activity center for the Canadian TV series about a cheerful tugboat. The site provides an interactive story, an on-line coloring book and the ability to receive a postcard from Theodore.
Theodore Tugboat - an on-line activity center for the Canadian TV series about a cheerful tugboat. The site provides an interactive story, an on-line coloring book and the ability to receive a postcard from Theodore.
Theodore Tugboat. Theodore Tugboat is an interactive on-line story for the younger child about a friendly tugboat where the reader decides what happens next.
Things I've Written. Things I've Written is a collection of stories and poems written by a ten-year old girl, Susan.
Tomorrow's Morning. Tomorrow's Morning is an on-line weekly newspaper with photos for kids in grades 4-8 that encourages reading, critical thinking, and creative writing. It covers national and international news, as well as entertaining features on science, movietalk, the environment, nature, the stock market and sports.
TRMS Teacher Developed Lessons & Curriculum Resources. Taylor Road Middle School (TRMS) in Fulton County, Georgia provides a collection of Internet-based lessons and curriculum resources for a variety of subject areas.
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University of Arizona Library - provides access to the UA Library with links to SABIO for doing on-line searches.
University of Arizona Library - provides access to the UA Library with links to SABIO for doing on-line searches.
Virtual Library. Virtual Library contains a variety of useful on-line resources including dictionaries, maps, phone books, zip-code directories, and much more.
Vocabulary Lesson Puzzles.
VoseKidopedia. VoseKidopedia is an encyclopedia written and illustrated by a fifth grade class.
Wacky Web Tales. Wacky Web Tales is an interactive site from Houghton Mifflin that allows students in grades 3-6 to generate madlibs by supplying the required part of speech.
Web Resources for English Teachers. Web Resources for English Teachers contains links to a variety of sources, primarily dealing with American Literature. It includes on-line texts of The Call of the Wild, The Invisible Man, The Red Badge of Courage, The Pit and the Pendulum, and many others. The site also provides links to a variety of poetry sources such as CMU Poetry Archive, which features texts of poems from Angelou to Wordsworth.
Webcards. Webcards is a free on-line service provided by Adgrafix that allows students in grades 3-12 to customize their own greeting card and then post it on the Web. Students can choose from a variety of on-line cards including holidays and special occasions. Card recipients get a note in their email box telling them they received a card and the Web address where they can find their greeting.
WebJotto. WebJotto, created by John Chaung, is a weekly word game where you try to guess the computer's five-letter word. Each round the computer will tell you how many letters are in common between your guess and its secret word. After a series of guesses, you will be able to deduce the computer's word. The game is suitable for kids in grades 4-12.
Webster's On-line Dictionary. Webster's On-line Dictionary is an easy-to-use tool where the user enters a word to find its definitions and synonyms.
Weekly Idiom. Weekly Idiom from the Comenius Group provides students of English with a new idiom every week. Students can listen to its pronunciation and see examples of its correct usage.
Winnie the Pooh and an Expotition to a wonderful place, which features an interactive map where kids can have fun visiting with the critters at 100-Aker Wood.
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too home page is a large collection of links devoted to A. A. Milne's books written for primary grade children. The site includes pictures, stories, and illustrations produced by Ernest Shepherd for the original "Pooh". Travel to Katie Prunka's award-winning site,
Word Play. Word Play contains a collection of sites that feature fun with words. Among the sites are Alan Cooper's Homonym List, Burma Shave Signs, Not So Correct Dictionary, Where's THAT From?, and Scott Pakin's Automatic Complaint Letter Generator.
Word Puzzler's Corner. Word Puzzler's Corner offers weekly crosswords, word find, and word fit puzzles in PDF format for students in grades 6-12.
WordLadders. WordLadders is an on-line word game where you try to get from the starting word to the destination word by clicking on word links under the current word.
Words and Language. Words and Language from the on-line book 365 TV-Free Activities You Can Do With Your Child features a large collection of language ideas and activities for grades K-6. Among the activities are backwards spelling bee, family historian, letter exchange, rhyming game, and wordgrams.
Words-R-Us. Words-R-Us builds your English vocabulary day-by-day. This site presents a new word daily, organized around a weekly theme, with its meaning and example sentences. You can also listen to its pronunciation on RealAudio and join the daily power email list, and get a new word in your mail box every day.
WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server. WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server lets you search an extensive list of "coined" words to find out what each of the individual letters stand for in the word.
Writers' Club. The Writers' Club offers a place on the Web where young authors in grades 4-6 can display their work for the world to see. The "club" includes a variety of categories for students to submit their creative efforts.
Writing Resources - provides writing guides, resources and links to other good locations for writing.
Writing Resources - provides writing guides, resources and links to other good locations for writing.
WritingDEN is divided into three levels accompanied by RealAudio, and provides on-line lessons for reading, comprehension, and writing skills, each with student quizzes.
X-Word. X-Word is a collection of crossword puzzles dealing with modern culture for students in grades 9-12. Solutions are provided.
Your Personalized Book. Your Personalized Book enables kids in grades 3-8 to enter their names and the names of their friends and read an on-line story in which they become the heroes and heroines.