K-12 Resources

International Reading Association
The Association seeks to promote high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction through studying the reading processes and teaching techniques. The site provides information on conferences, journals, and other Association materials.

International Society of Technology in Education
ISTE promotes suitable uses of technology to support and improve teaching and learning. Find information about how to join the great conferences, grants, and publications aimed at K-12 teachers!

National Council of Teachers of English
This site, developed by the professional organization representing English teachers in the US, features teaching resources, professional development activities, publications, news, and Internet resources for K-12 classroom teachers.

A & E Biography Find
This site presents the database of more that 20,000 biographies of the great people in history and present. Appropriate for Grades 5-12.

Author Pages on the WWW
This site provides links to author sites for poets, essayists, fiction writers, women authors, young adult authors, individual authors, women authors, and authors from Mexico. Appropriate for Grades 6-12.

Baker Street Connection
Sherlock Holmes fans will find a collection 56 stories and 4 novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1925 and other materials related to this character. Appropriate for Grades 8-12.

Great Writers and Poets
The site has a collection of links to sites about prize-winning and other successful authors that are relevant for high school English. The authors' sites provide short bibliographies, reviews of major works, sample writings, and related links.

Jane Austen Information Page
The site provides full text and materials related to Jane Austen novels and other works. Appropriate for high school English classes.

Luminarium
A selection of major English authors and their works from the Medieval, Renaissance, and early 17th-Century periods. Appropriate for high school AP English classes.

Books On-Line

Children's Story Books Online
T his site has original stories with color illustrations for young children as well as older children and young adults. Also included are riddles, mazes, coloring book pages and a page with children's links that have won Children's Storybooks Online Award for excellence.

The Children's Literature Web Guide
This site includes numerous Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Among them are such features as "Best Books," "Web-Traveler's Toolkit: Essential Kid Lit Web sites," and "What We're Reading: Commentary on Children's Books." Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world.

Elementary Literature
Interactive reading and writing lesson plans for elementary students.

Magazines for Children & Young Adults
Welcome to the ISLMC online reading materials for kids. This site includes links to magazines and ezines for children and young adults. Sites which publish children's writings are also included. The ISLMC is a meta-site devoted to educational materials for teachers, librarians, parents and students.

The On-Line Books Page
This page contains a directory of more than 6,000 books that can be freely read right on the Internet. Appropriate for Grades 7-12.

TampaRead's Grade 1 Books Online
The reading books above are specially designed to match exactly with our Grade 1 Reading Vocabulary Lists on TampaReads.com.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Merriam-Webster Online
A collection of on-line English language resources including on-line dictionary with definitions, spellings, pronunciations, synonyms, vocabulary exercises, and other key facts about words and language. Appropriate for Grades 4-12.

Human Language Page
Links to a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. More than 1800 links for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, and other information on different languages.

The Wordsmyth English Dictionary --Thesaurus
Educational dictionary for writers, educators, and students who seek various kinds of linguistic assistance or English language illumination. Appropriate for Grades 6-12.

Fables

Aesop's Fables
The page contains a collection of Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. Many of them are presented on RealAudio. Appropriate for Grades 4-12.

Fluency Through Fables
The site for students, teachers and speakers of English presents fables with relevant exercises helping to improve reading comprehension and broaden English vocabulary. Appropriate for Grades 5-12.

Grammar Sites

edHelper
edHelper provides lesson plans, WebQuest, worksheet generators, critical thinking problems, cross-curricular reading comprehension activities, as well as a plethora of other educational resources for K-12 educators.

CuriousCanuck
Although listed as Grade 5-Language, this site provides highly interactive language related games and activities for grades 2-8.

Grammar Gorillas
Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech.

Grammar Now!
This is the site where you can get answers to specific grammar, composition, research or formatting questions by e-mail. Appropriate for Grades 6-12.

Guide to Grammar and Good Writing
This site provides resources on improving your writing at different levels -- sentence through essay. The site also includes such sections as "Interactive Quizzes," "Ask Grammar!" and "Grammar Log" with answers to various questions. Finally, the site includes humorous "Anomalous Anonymies."

The Parts of Speech
The Parts of Speech sites classifies words based on the eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.

Purdue Online Writing Lab
A tutorial center for writers who want to work one-to-one with a tutor. In addition to handouts for students, the site also contains information about other on-line resources for writers and teachers. Appropriate for Grades 8-12.

Rensseler Writing Center
This site provides a variety of handouts that will help you in writing abstracts, cover letters, memos, critiques, presentations, graduate school application essays and resumes. In addition, you will find suggestions on revising prose and writing using gender-fair language.

RichlandOne Interactive
Pondering the Parts of Speech: Analyze sentences: to combine, expand, or rewrite to vary length, type, structure; for clarity and style; to distinguishing between clearly written sentences and sentences containing errors.

SentencesBuilder
Sentence Builder provides definitions, examples, and detailed explanations of the parts of speech, punctuation, and commonly confused words. This site is an excellent resource for teachers and students.

Teachers.Net Lesson Exchange
Parts of Speech Poetry. Like the RichlandOne site, this site has grammar lessons and is part of a general lesson plan sharing site.

Poetry and Short Stories

Aha! Poetry
This site presents you with opportunities of on-line poetry resources. You can post your own poetry, find your favorite poetry, learn how to read and critique poetry and many other interactive features. Appropriate for Grades 4-12.

Kid Pub
This site is for young people who are interested in writing stories or poems. It contains more than 11,000 stories and poems written by young writers. Young writers can publish their own writing`. In KidPub you can chat and invent stories with others. In KeyPals you can find young people around the world to e-mail.

StoryFun!
This page creates a hilarious story when you select a topic and type in funny verbs, nouns, and modifiers. Appropriate for Grades 6-12.

Shakespeare Sites

Index of Shakespeare Plays
Detail summaries/synopses of all of Shakespeare's plays and links to full texts of Shakespeare's plays. Appropriate for Grades 7-12.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
The guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet and material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet, such as a Shakespeare genealogy, time line, or biography quiz.

Writing Skills

ParentsCenter.com
You can help your child understand that writing isn't just a dull skill reserved for book reports. It can be a fun way for her to discover things about herself and to communicate with others. The goal of the following activities is to boost your child's creativity and to immerse her in the experience of translating her thoughts and feelings into words. Don't worry about spelling or handwriting, she'll learn these skills at school.

ABC's of Writing Process
The purpose of this site is to provide a user friendly online resource, for students or teachers, no matter what they are being challenged to write.

Paragraphpunch.com
This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic paragraph.

Words and Word Games

Word Play
This site includes links to sites that help find acronyms, homonyms, expressions of our American ancestors, ambigrams, anagrams, antagonyms, computer related abbreviations and acronyms, fun word games and many other related resources.

Other Resources

Awesome Cyber Greetings Cards
Send a cyber greeting card via e-mail for your friend on any occasion. Appropriate for Grades 4-12.

E-mail Classroom Exchange
This page allows you to set up a profile of your classroom for other teachers to find out about you through ePALS Webmail. You can also contact other classrooms from over 130 countries. The criteria for locating other classrooms include age, grade, geography, curriculum, 124 languages and more. Appropriate for Grades K-12.

The English Server
This site includes two collections that might be of interest for language arts teachers. Sparks publishes fiction, poetry, essays, experimental,and other artistic miscellaneous. The second collections contains reviews, essays, articles, images and so forth in art and architecture studies. Appropriate for Grades K-12.

ERIC/REC Clearinghouse
The site provides educational materials, services, and course work to everyone interested in reading, English, communication, and the language arts in general. The site has been successfully used by both teachers and parents. Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Literary calendar
Calendar of important literary events. You can search the site for additional information by names, short phrases, or dates. Some of the events may be linked to other sites with additional resources. Appropriate for Grades 8-12.

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
A research and reference guide organized by author names, literary periods, themes, topics, motifs, dates, places, and titles. Appropriate for AP English students.

Teachers and Writers Collaborative
This is nonprofit organization that brings writers and educators together in collaborations that explore the connections between writing and reading literature and that generate new ideas and materials. This site includes links to T&W publications and related Internet resources.

TEAMS Distance Learning
Resources about authors, book lists, literary genre and modes, writing and many more. Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Your Quotation Center
Searchable database of quotes from famous people. Appropriate for Grades K-12.

Reading Planet
Designed to help families & children explore the world of books. It features an annotated list of 1,000 children's books that can be browsed by age group, author, or category (e.g., popular, classic, award winning). Children can post reviews of their favorite books & read reviews by others. The site, offered by Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., also provides learning activities, articles for adults, & interviews with authors. (ED)

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