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Aesop's Fables - Short reading
passages with a moral to analyze.
American English Pronunciation
- Fantastic site! Lessons are available on quite a few topics. Each lesson
provides the pattern, gives examples, provided practice (a lot of practice),
and ends with a quiz. Each word in the quiz can be pronounced for the student
by clicking on the speaker icon. This site would be good for Language Arts
or ESL classes.
Bibme - fully automatic bibliography
maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page.
Citation Machine - an interactive
Web tool designed to assist teachers in modeling the proper use of information
property (Students are welcome to use this as well)
MLA-Style
Bibliography Builder - Choose a form, fill it out, and push the button...
you will get an individual entry for a "Works Cited" page, which
you may then copy and paste into your word processor.
Catalogue of Electronic texts,
a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English
literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. Searchable by author
or title.
Character
Cards - helpful cards to collect data while researching
Comic Strips
- Create your own comics and your own characters also!
Common Errors
in English Usage - Do you "shutter to think" of horrible misusage
of the language? Find that and more at this site.
Diagramming
Sentences - "Understanding the functions of parts of the speech in
a sentence and their relationship to one another can be very helpful in learning
to construct good sentences"
Drama - The Mercury Theatre on
the Air, Audio Radio Shows - "The finest radio drama of the 1930’s
was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York
drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run,
it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard
Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of
the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown.
This site has many of the surviving shows, and will eventually have all of
them."
Every-Day-Edit
- provides daily practice in a wide variety of basic language skills with
a daily paragraph having ten built-in errors of basic spelling, grammar, punctuation,
or capitalization
The Electronic
Text Center - The Modern English Collection contains fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500
to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category
of interest.
English Grammar The Easy
Way - This site has a very comprehensive collection of brief grammar explanations
for students. A great site if you want some concise support.
Etymologic: The Toughest Word Game
on the Web - In this game you'll be presented with 10 randomly selected
word origin or word definition puzzles to solve; in each case the word or
phrase is highlighted in bold, and a number of possible answers will be presented.
You need to choose the correct answer to score a point for that question.
Fake-Out - A definition guessing
game for 3 levels of students; K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. Students guess the definition
of a chosen word. Tthe real fun comes from submitting their own fake definition
for the next quiz.
Fluency
through Fables - These Fables will help you to improve your reading comprehension
of English. Various sets of questions follow each fable.
Grammar
Games - Many different grammar games to select; articles, common errors,
parts of speech, adverbs, participles and more.
Grammar and Style
notes from Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania. Example entry on
the subject of Boldface; "There's no reason to use boldface in an academic
paper; spend your time writing, not fiddling with the word processor."
Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Maintained in memory of Professor of English Charles Darling for English
courses at Capital Community College in Connecticut. (for use by the college's
students and staff and for the general online community)
Idioms and collocations
- exercises practice collocations - words that 'sound good together' (rush
hour/catch a cold/soft drinks), phrasal verbs - two-or-three word combinations
(consisting of a verb and particle) that make sense only if looked at together
as one single unit (take off/drop out/get over) and idioms - expressions consisting
of words that can’t be understood literally. from EnglishGateway site
KeyNews Paper - "The objectives
of The Key New Readers Newspaper Project are two-fold: to provide people with
limited reading skills access to the main flow of information in the community
and to provide teachers in adult basic education programs with quality materials
which are relevant to the adult learner."
LawBuzz - stories online
about famous trials from the past. No questions for the stories are given,
just reading material for reluctant readers.
Nursery Rhyme Expansion
- practice with the aspects of purpose, voice, and audience in their writing.
New ideas for old material. Here is a site with stories inspired by nursery
rhymes that students can see to help them write their own versions.14
Funny Stories based on Mother Goose Rhymes
Literature Quizzes
- online quizzes in poetry, essays, comprehension, and story elements
Navigating
the Newspaper - Learn how newspapers package words and pictures. Learn
correct terminology for the different parts of the newspaper.
Novels On-Line found at
the Carnegie Mellon University English server.
Novel Guides
- from Classzone; activities and suggestions for novels.
Novel Guide-Novel Analysis - literary
analysis on the web; an educational supplement for better understanding of
classic and contemporary Literature Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses,
and Author Biographies.
Novels
- Teaching Guides - from Harperchildren; " include general discussion
questions and suggestions for reaching across the curriculum: math, science,
language arts, music, and social studies."
Parlo is a language and
culture site that wants to sell language courses to you. Wait!
Don't go away. They offer some fantastic free resources. In their index
along the left side you will find a free Diagnostic Test. At the end they
suggest which course you might want to buy, but use this test to evaluate
where your students are. In the Teachers portion of Parlo's index, select
Teacher's Corner Materials and then select the English
archive. There you will find beginner, intermediate and advanced lesson
plans. Not enough for you? OK, visit Spanish
World, French World,
Italian World or German
World.
Prefixes
Prefix
Mix - working with "Pre" and "Post," prefixes
with opposite meanings
Poe, Edgar
Allen, Quote the Raven - Welcome to TeachersFirst's "Interactive Raven,"
a look at the vocabulary and literary devices in Edgar Allen Poe's famous
poem, The Raven. This unit lets users view each stanza of the poem, pointing
out Poe's use of some common literary devices.
Poetry 180 - Welcome to Poetry
180. A Poem a day for American High School students. Poetry can and should
be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think
about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few
minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.
Poetry Interpretation
- High School Level - Interpret poems online with an online quiz about each
poem.
30
days of Poetry - Each lesson gives you a format to follow and student
examples. In many cases your teacher will direct you to write more than one
poem in a lesson. This gives you an opportunity to use the form and, most
often, create an even better poem in doing so. Enjoy your lessons!
Poet's
Pantry Tour - Virtual fieldtrip of the many types of poetry. Within the
tour there is a list of at least 40 types of poetry and examples of each form!
Power
Proofreading from Houghton Mifflin - Help! The power has gone out at HME-TV,
and proofreaders are needed to fix TV scripts, memos and other writing at
the station. HM has provided a special power screen so your students
can help them.
Pre-Reading
notes - help students prepare for information obtained in reading
Reading Comprehension
- free Reading Comprehension worksheets for Middle and High School students
to reinforce skills such as context clues and word meanings
Reading for
Thinking - online passages and questions for many concepts- middle and
high school
Reading Keys
- online passages and questions for many concepts - middle/high school
Reading Passages
- vocab, word selection, sequencing and conclusion activities.
Reading
Passages - vocab, word selection, what did you learn, spelling and more.
ReadPrint - free online library,
thousands of free books.
Reading Skill
Stories - written for adult ESL learners, these stories can be a timed
reading; there is audio for each story so it can be used for a read-along,
and there are questions at the end of the stories.
Root Words
Putting
Down Roots - Drag and drop the roots into the blanks to complete the
words.
Putting
Down Roots (2) - Drag and drop the roots into the blanks to complete
the words.
What's
a Root? - In this lesson, you'll work with five roots. Once you know
a few roots, you'll see them everywhere.
What's
a Root? (2) - In this lesson, you'll work with five more roots. .
Schoolhouse:
English and Language Arts - Lesson plans and Internet resources in the
areas of Poetry, Reading, and Writing. The site also includes Internet resources
in the areas of Literature, Philosophy, and Plays. Schoolhouse also includes
links to Standards sites.
Skimming and Scanning -
links that contain lessons and activities to practice these skills.
SparkNotes - Study Guides, Message
Boards, Complete Texts of an enormous amount of various types of literature
taught in High Schools. You must register to get to the guides, but registration
is free.
Speak
Up - Speak Up is an opportunity for students to create a cartoon dialogue
featuring two or more characters in a range of settings on a variety of topics.
Exploring these topics allows students to consider problems and issues that
they might encounter in their own lives. Students can also create their own
topics.
Spelling
Test - Take this online spelling test; TCAP format
The Teacher's Desk
- A literacy resource designed for teachers of grades five and six. This site
is a collection of lesson plan ideas and classroom activities.
Think
About it cards - excellent task cards to place beside students
while reading for information
Timed Reading - Read this
passage and time yourself!
Tools
for Reading -"These tools should be used to help students engage
in rigorous thinking, organize complex ideas, and scaffold their interactions
with texts."
Visual Thesaurus - Really
cool way to look up synonyms. It is just a trial version but you can look
up a few words at a time without paying.
Vocabulary Enrichment
Analogy
Quiz1 - Determine which choice has a relationship similar to the original
words or phrases. (HS Level)
Analogy
Quiz2 - Determine which choice has a relationship similar to the original
words or phrases. (HS Level)
Sentence
Completion - Fill in the missing vocabulary words. (Middle/High
School level)
Vocabulary
Enrichment - Each Quiz picks 10 questions from
a fifty word list and you can hear the word spoken, allowing you to not
only learn its definition, but how its pronounced.
Vocabulary University - Vocabulary
puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery. These exercises help prepare for
SSAT, PSAT, GED, SAT and ACT tests, they supplement personal vocabulary
acquisition, and are being used in home-schooling and ESL programs
Vocaboly - Vocabulary
test - Multiple choice, different formats
The Word Detective on the Web
is the online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering
readers' questions about words and language.
World Wide Words - Each week
you will find at least one short article or extended definition of a word
which is too new to appear in most dictionaries
Words Count
- Vocabulary exercises - self checking
Writing
Tests - ( Scroll down to the bottom of the page to get to this section
)These tests cover vocabulary, writing style, mechanics, focus, and understanding
of the topic. Answer key given.
For
Teachers
Children's
Literature and Language Arts Resources - This page focuses on children's literature
in education. Teachers, library media professionals, parents and students will
find information on children's literature and associated language arts here.
Professional
Resources
The Compact
for Reading Guide is a user-friendly handbook designed to walk your family-school
compact team through the steps of building and implementing a Compact for Reading.
It provides information, strategies, examples, and checklists to help parents,
educators, and community members develop effective, workable compacts that can
improve your school, increase family involvement, and increase student skills
and achievement in reading.
Preventing
Reading Difficulties in Young Children - The focus of this report is
prevention. The report sketches a picture of the conditions under which reading
is most likely to develop easily - conditions that include stimulating preschool
environments, excellent reading instruction, and the absence of any of a wide
array of risk factors.
Starting
Out Right (A guide for promoting children's reading success) - Parents want
to provide their preschool children with a good start in literacy. A school district
tells its teachers to change the way they teach reading. Preschool caregivers
want to be sure that the children they care for are ready for school. A mother
attending a school meeting hears confusing messages about the best way to teach
beginning reading. A corporate executive wants the company to support an after-school
tutoring program, but is not sure where to start. This book is for all these people.
It is written particularly for parents and others who can influence the education
and development of young children, especially policy makers, caregivers, and teachers.
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