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LoudLit.org is committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. (12/29/09)

 

VocabSushi is the premier Website for anyone looking to learn vocabulary and have fun doing it. It is ideal for students studying for standardized tests, and is also perfect for anyone looking to expand his or her vocabulary to communicate more precisely. (12/22/09)

 

Classzone’s Grammar Arcade has many engaging games that reinforce grammar concepts: Sentence Fragments, Making Comparisons, Incorrect Pronoun Case and Verb Forms and Tenses are just a few. (12/10/09)

 

The Virtual Grammar Lab  is an extensive database of links to free online English grammar activities on the Internet. You can use the VGL to search for grammar practice exercises or explanations to help you learn English. You can search for activities by the grammar point you want to study, by the difficulty level, or by the type of activity. (12/10/09)

 

  Expo Writing Resource Center From Scholastic, lesson plans and resources to help students improve their writing skills, K-12 (11/18/09)

 

WritingFix: For Teachers, Students & Writers  the Northern Nevada Writing Project has proudly sponsored this free-to-use website. If you explore this website's pages, you will find prompts, lessons, and resources that were created, shared, and then posted here during workshops and in-service classes sponsored by the NNWP. (11/11/09)

 

PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. (11/11/09)

 

LitCharts a faster, downloadable alternative to SparkNotes®. LitCharts aren’t just the newest series of literature guides on the web. They’re also the fastest, smartest, and free-est series of literature guides on the web. (10/31/09)

 

Citebite  Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it. (10/28/09)

 

EnglishCentral aims to become the premier, web-based conversational English language learning destination for desktop and mobile users, focus on helping users with their spoken English, using proprietary speech recognition technology that "listens" to users' speech and then scores that speech based on their pronunciation and syntax. Users can choose content they love, from a massive database of video content covering popular subject areas. (10/21/09)

 

Do you know your similes? In this interactive game students complete similies by dragging the appropriate nouns into place. (10/6/09)

 

 

Scholastic Word Wizard Mini-Dictionary Maker allows you to generate a glossary for any theme, book, or vocabulary level. Enter up to 25 words for your glossary. When you're done, click the Next Step button to generate a PDF format mini-dictionary. (9/30/09)

 

Scholastic Word Wizard Vocab Quiz Maker will make creating vocabulary quizzes quicker and easier. It does everything for you except select the words for your quiz. Entera list of up to twenty-five words into the quiz maker, the quiz maker generates a PDF vocabulary quiz for you complete with a word bank on one side of the page and questions on the other side. (9/30/09)

 

BibMe is a free automatic bibliography generator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages databases provided by Amazon, FindArticles, Yahoo! News, and CiteULike to quickly and accurately AutoFill citation information for you. BibMe will then format the citation information according to the rules and guidelines of the style guides. (9/22/09)

 

Web English Teacher  educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others. Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration. Think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale. (9/3/09)

 

ReadWriteThink offers a wide array of standards-based lesson plans that meaningfully integrate Internet content into the teaching and/or learning experience. Each lesson is research-based, and includes a detailed instructional plan. The lessons are written for the teacher but include student-ready materials such as worksheets, interactives, and reviewed Web resources. (9/3/09)

 

My English Images  a site for English instructors and English teachers working with ESL and EFL students. Have fun exploring the site. There are lots of images and worksheets available for download. Use these images to catch your student’s attention, spice up your lessons,  illustrate your ideas and explain some great language points. (8/28/09)

 

Ninjawords is based on the principles that Ninjas are three things: they're smart, they're accurate, and they're really fast. You can compare definitions by looking up many words on the same page. Type them one by one and hit enter, or type them all at once in the search box, separated by commas. (8/22/09)

 

SpellingCity is an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun. SpellingCity.com has over 42,000 spelling words read by an actual person. After taking the online spelling test, students can print out a report, retake the entire test, or get tested only on the spelling words they missed the first time. (8/18/09)

 

English Learning Area  This website is a core resource for teachers of English in Tasmania.  It contains teaching ideas, curriculum advice, news, reviews, information on professional learning programs and multiple links. (8/12/09)

 

Daily Writing Tips  a blog where you will find simple yet effective tips to improve your writing. Writing skills are essential for your success. Considering the rise of the information age, they are even more important than ever before. (8/12/09)

 

Glencoe Literature Study Guides  Click on a Glencoe Literature Library title for a brief description of the novel or play, a list of its related readings, and a link to its individual downloadable PDF study guide. Each study guide includes background information and reproducible activity pages for students. (8/8/09)

 

Teaching Writing With Social Media  a guide to help you develop writing actvities using social networking sites such as wikis, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube (8/6/09)

 

21st Century Skills Map - English This 21st Century Skills Map is the result of hundreds of hours of research, development and feedback from educators and business leaders across the nation. The Partnership has issued this map for the core subject of English. (7/17/09)

 

Mentor Text Lessons: Literature & Classic Poetry based on classical works of literature including Lord of the Flies, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Time Machine, The Adventures of Ulysses, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Some contain various forms of random idea generators. Presented by WritingFix and the Northern Nevada Writing Project. Plans are based on the Six Writing Traits. (7/7/09)

 

WMnet Whiteboard Resources for Secondary English More than 25 IWB activities from Birmingham (UK) City Council (7/3/09)

 

The 15-Sentence Portrait, developed by Wendy Bishop, is a guided writing exercise. Each of the 15 sentences in the writing assignment has an instruction on what to include in that sentence. It could be a color, a wish, a body part, a specific number of words, etc. (6/29/09)

 

 Lexipedia is a site for learning about words and word relationships. Just type in a word to look it up on Lexipedia and in seconds you will have a web of words complete with definitions. Lexipedia gives all nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, fuzzynyms, synonyms, and antonyms for the word. (6/19/09)

 

 Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. (6/19/09)

 

iWrite Grammar Handbook Have questions about the mechanics, usage, grammar, and spelling rules while you're editing? View these quick videos for help with a variety of writing rules. (5/27/09)

 

WritingDEN is designed for students Grades 6-12 seeking to improve their English reading, comprehension, and writing skills. There is a word-of-the-day, tips on grammar rules, and tips on sentence and paragraph construction. WritingDEN is divided into three levels of difficulty: Words, Sentences and Paragraphs. (5/26/09)

 

 

Novelinks is maintained by the Education section of the English Department at Brigham Young University. Our goal is to provide educators with quality teaching materials that will enhance classroom instruction for a wide variety of commonly taught novels in middle through secondary schools. (5/23/09)

 

language arts at pppst.com Free language arts presentations in PowerPoint format (5/8/09)

  

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. (5/7/09)

 

MLA Secondary Citation Maker a middle and high school MLA citation making tool from the Oregon School Library Information System (5/5/09)

 

The Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) offers over 200 free resources including Writing and Teaching Writing,Research,Grammar and Mechanics,Style Guides, and Job Search and Professional Writing (5/5/09)

 

 

NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment The NCTE definition of 21st century literacies makes it clear that further evolution of curriculum, assessment, and teaching practice itself is necessary. (4/23/09)

 

The Mirriam-Webster Visual Dictionary  is divided into fifteen thematic categories containing more than 6,000 words defined and accompanied by images. You can find words and definitions by browsing through the categorized images or by using the text search bar. (4/15/09)

 

Teach Collaborative Revision Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens

magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. (4/7/09)

 

 

Confusing Words is an index of 3210 words that are commonly confused or misused. If you're not sure if you should use the word "affect" or "effect" type either word into the Confusing Words search box and find your answer. (4/3/09)

 

Word Ahead

offers more than 500 videos designed to help students learn SAT and ACT vocabulary words. Each video features a narrator pronouncing the word, reading the definition, and then reading a sentence or two using the vocabulary word.Colorful drawings illustrate the meanings of the words. (4/1/09)

 

Essay Map  Students can use this tool to map out an informational essay. Enter a name and a topic for your map, and click OK to get started. (3/31/09)

 

Shahi

is a mashup of Wiktionary and Flickr. This visual dictionary is a great way for students to look up definitions and get a visual representation of the word. (3/25/09)

 

Teaching English with Technology is dedicated to helping English & Language Arts teachers incorporate technology effectively into their classrooms (3/1/09)

 

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. (2/7/09)

 

AdLit.org multimedia project offering information and resources to educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers (1/30/09)

 

Grammar Ninja is a fun game for students to play as they develop a working knowledge of the parts of speech (1/29/09)

 

Plinky is a good place to find writing prompt ideas, provides users with a new writing prompt everyday(1/24/09)

  

 Shmoop Literature

make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age (1/13/09) 

 

Lightning Bug

your writing partner, helping you write a story from the beginning to the end (1/11/09)

 

 Grammar Bytes

Terms, exercises, handouts, presentations, tips & rules, more about grammar (1/6/09)

 

VerbaLearn  Flashcards meets Web 2.0! VerbaLearn is jam-packed with great features to help you study more efficiently, track your progress, score higher and simply save you time! (1/5/09)

 

English Companion  where English teachers meet to help each other. A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work. (1/1/09)

 

Google Librarian Central - Tools  tools to help teach your students how to use Google more effectively (12/30/2008)

  

Utah Education Network  Language Arts interactives for grades 7-12

 

Wordle  a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

 Related - Ways to UseWordle, Wordle in the Classroom

 

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