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19th Century Schoolbooks
Site examines digital editions of 66 schoolbooks and two surveys of historic schoolbooks by John Nietz, the founder of the Nietz Old Textbook Collection. The online collection contains page images as well as searchable text.
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A Web of On-line Dictionaries
Comprehensive reference tools on commercial site. Quick look up tools, translation tools and more. (Note: This site contains banner and/or pop-up ads)
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AOL @ School Statewide
A series of six online learning portals designed for grades K-2, 3-5, middle school, high school, teachers and administrators. Includes internet links, encyclopedias, dictionaries, lesson plans and more.
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Ask Jeeves For Kids
Search engine for kids with news resources, dictionaries, thesauri, atlases and other research tools. Also games and puzzles.
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Bartleby.com
Unlimited, free access to fiction and non-fiction books and information online. Includes links to the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and more. Named “Best Literary Resource” for 2002 by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.
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Book Adventure
Features book quizzes kids can do online after they read a book offline, with free prize incentives. Also features a personalized "book selector," which recommends book titles based on grade level, reading level, and subject preferences. Teachers can build their own class website for free.
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BookHive: Your guide to children's literature & books
Site designed for children ages birth through twelve, their parents, teachers or anyone interested in reading about children's books. Includes reviews and parent notes. Users can search for books by author, title, reading level, interest area, number of pages, and even favorite illustrator
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British Poetry 1780-1910
Electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of British poetry produced between 1780-1910. Includes photos of manuscripts, plates or other illustrations.
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Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
A collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
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Children's Literature Web Page
Organized lists of nternet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Includes updated "What's New" section, commentary of children's literature and extensive web resource list.
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Columbia Guide to Online Style
"A guide to citing and producing academic documents and resources that are stored electronically. ""Basic"" version available online for no charge includes: ""The Elements of Citation"",
""Documenting Sources in the Text"", and ""Preparing the Bibliographic Material"". Complete publication is also available for purchase."
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Dyslexia.org
Free resources include articles on the nature and treatment of dyslexia, as well as literacy, reading, and spelling. Also includes classroom tips for teachers and parents.
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Early Childhood Literacy Center
The LiteracyCenter.Net provides safe learning activities for parents and teachers to share with young children. Curricula are offered in English, Spanish, French and German. The interactive, animated lessons include Uppercase/Lowercase Letters, Shapes, Writing, Words, Numbers, Colors, and the Keyboard.
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edhelper.com
Hundreds of free worksheets available in all subject areas. Also features comprehension stories sorted by grade level. Build your own spelling and vocabulary activities and more.
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EDSITEment
Variety of humanities resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.
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Educational Web Design
Cathy Chamberlain, a teacher a technology specialist for the Oswego City Schools District in New York, put together and maintains this site with excellent reading and educational technology resources and links.
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EduHound
Directory of more than 20,000 links in over 50 categories.
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Enchanted Learning.com
Children's educational web sites and games that are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment.
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English-Zone.com
Entertaining yet educational language lessons and interactive language exercises. English-Zone.Com also provides teachers of English easy-to-use printable materials, handouts, quizzes, and language lessons.
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FamilyEducation.com
Information tailored to parents of "little kids," "kids," and "teens," including homework help, parenting tips, advice from experts, and a wealth of informational articles.
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Favorite Poem Project
The popular, award-winning website of the Favorite Poem Project features an interactive gallery for viewing poetry on videos and a growing forum for teachers and students, including poetry lesson plans.
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FunBrain
Games and quizzes for kids, a curriculum guide, standards finder, quiz builder, web-based gradebook and newsletter for teachers, and a homework relief center and parent-kid challenge games for parents.
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Giggle Fish
A kid-friendly site featuring crafts, games, jokes, recipes, links and more.
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Great American Speeches
Produced by PBS, this site contains an extensive archive of the complete texts of many notable American speeches, many of which are accompanied by audio and/or video clips.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing
Comprehensive guide to writing and grammar. Includes rules, definitions, quizzes, and an "Ask Grammar" place to submit a question about English usage or grammar.
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Homework Central
Free homework and research tools, resources for teachers, librarians, media specialists, students and parents.
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Homework Help on the Web
Homework help on such subjects as Art, History, Language, Music, Math, Writing, Science and Reference.
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Houghton Mifflin Education Place
K-8 resources for teachers, students, and parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Intervention, Professional Development, activities, games, and textbook support.
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How to Write a Basic Paragraph
Takes users through the steps of writing a basic paragraph by having them develop an idea and write their own topic sentence, body, and a conclusion. The web site provides questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing. Completed paragraphs may be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application.
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How to Write a Short Essay
Users develop an idea and write their own short essay, consisting of an introduction, a two- to three-paragraph body, and a conclusion. The web site provides questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing. Completed essays may be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application.
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Humanities Links
Resources for Language arts, literature, poetry, writer’s resources, theater, art, music, etc.
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Indispensable Writing Resources: Writing Related Internet Sites
List of links for general and subject-specific writing-related resources, including on-line college writing labs, sites offering "how-to's" on poetry, and guides to scientific writing to business writing. (Note: This site contains banner and/or pop-up ads)
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Isolating Sounds
This site provides assessments that can be used to identify a student's strengths and needs in the areas of identifying beginning and final sounds, and rhyming.
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KidPub WWW Publishing
Over 42,000 stories and growing, this site features stories written by children. Includes a place for classrooms to display their creative works.
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Kids' Bookshelf
Features book reviews, e-books, games, kids websites, and "today in history." Kids can also write to their favorite authors and submit their own book reviews, poems and short stories to be published on the site. Articles for kids, parents, and teachers are also included.
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Kids Read (AOL: Bookworm)
Site designed for kids featuring info about books, series and authors. Includes reviews of the newest titles, interviews with authors and other special features and word games.
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KidsClick
"Web search for kids by librarians," with links to sites dealing with math, the arts, sports, history, religion, etc.
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Kidspace at the Internet Public Library
Links to information on science fairs, sports, math the world, health and nutrition, arts, the U.S. and other sites, maintained by University of Michigan School of Information.
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Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America -- Exhibit
examines the "sense of place" evoked by landscapes described in the works of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, and other American writers. Literary passages are accompanied by maps and photos, and they are organized by region -- the Northeast, South, Midwest, and West.
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Learning to Read Resources
An extensive list of links to literacy development web sites. Also contains relevant research, lessons, literature, and more.
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Learning to Read, Reading to Learn
Summary of a program from Hopkins using the latest research for reading acquisition to improve the reading skills of students at all levels throughout Maryland.
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Let's Go Learn
Free resources include articles on literacy and parent involvement in learning, a parent Q&A on literacy development, and e-seminars.
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Library Spot
A reference desk with encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, maps, phone books and statistics.
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Literary Kicks
Discussion boards devoted to literature from "The Beat Generation", "Transcendental America", "La Boheim", and "Hippie Writers"
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Literary Traveler
Features articles about writers, creative artists, and the places that they lived and traveled. Indexed by author or place.
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Literature & Reading Resources
Comprehensive resource from the Waterboro Public Library in Maine. Includes web catelogs and lists by nationality, time period and genre.
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Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style
Online guide to grammar and style includes grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage from author Jack Lynch. Links to other resources also featured.
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Maggie's Earth Adventures
Features free lesson plans and weekly activity packets for teachers and games, cartoons, galleries and a bookstore for kids. A Spanish version is also available.
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Major Components of the Study of Grammar and Syntax
Descriptions and activities for teaching grammar and incorporating grammar with literacy. Lesson ideas on syntax and grammar, the components of grammar, and a structured grammar lesson are included, as well as lesson ideas for ESL students.
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Maryland Public Television
A comprehensive site covering news and public affairs, arts and culture, kids and family, prgrams, and education.
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MIKIDS.com
This site features teacher resources, especially those pertaining to literature. Written and maintained by a teacher and library/media specialist in Michigan.
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Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet; contains information on the author's life and work along with related documentary evidence.
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National Reading Panel
Provides free videos and booklets based on research assessment of reading instruction approaches.
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On-Line Literary Resources
A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature. Limited to collections of information useful to academics
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Oral Presentation
This page explains some of the basics of effective oral presentation. It also covers use of notes, visual aids and computer presentation software.
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Outline of American Literature
Complete text of the original USIA 's "Key Internet Sites on American Literature" enriched with relevant links. American Literature grouped chronologically.
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PAL: Table of Contents
Carefully organized and knowledgeable site includes sources, definitions, and key topics for use in connection with undergraduate courses in American Literature
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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Site is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook. Includes helpful activities and diagrams for the writing process.
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PIZZAZ! Creative Writing and Storytelling Ideas
Site dedicated to providing creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable handouts for use with students of all ages. Also includes resource links for poetry and fiction.
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Poetry Daily, a new poem every day.
Online anthology of contemporary poetry features poems from books, magazines and journals currently in print. Poets and journals are highlighted and there is an online newsletter available.
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Poetry.com
Poems, poetry contests, etc. Appropriate for gifted students or adults.
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PROJECT GUTENBERG INDEX
Primary site for "Project Guttenberg", includes index and search engine for over 6,000 "E Texts" available online.
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Punctuation Points & Mechanics
Short lessons on topics such as apostrophes, brackets, colons, ellipses, italics, quotations, and more. Includes 7 excercises to practice skills.
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Purdue Online Writing Lab
Site offers extensive list free printable handouts for teachers and students. Handouts cover general principles of writing, research skills, grammar, and ESL and writing exercises.
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Read Write Think
An excellent website offering lesson plans, web resources, and interactive student activities to promote literacy skills.
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Reading is Fundamental
Contains articles, web resources, advice and tips, activities, videos and workshops related to reading.
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Shakespeare
Complete text of the works of William Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare Web
Complete, searchable text of works of William Shakespeare. Also features Q & A section and reviews. (Note: This site contains banner and/or pop-up ads)
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SparkNotes
Site features access to free study guides and full text to many literary classics. Also includes reference tools, discussion board. (Note: This site contains banner and/or pop-up ads)
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StarFall.com
Interactive books and games aimed at emergent and advanced readers in grades K-2. Free books for teachers (up to 400 copies) are offered.
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StoryArts Online
Based on the work of Heather Forest, a storyteller, this site shares lesson plans, ideas, and activities for storytelling in the classroom. All stories used are international folktales and fables.
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Study Guides and Strategies
Articles on learning, studying, class participation, project skills, reading skills, preparing for and taking tests, writing basics, and math and science skills from the University of St. Thomas.
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Teacher View
Features a teacher's toolbox, lesson plans, theme units, a resource library, teacher forum, classroom extras, a writing center, activity pages and more!
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Teachers & Writers - WriteNet
Site for writers and teachers of "imaginative writing". Includes adaptable writing exercises for students and discussion forum where teachers advise each other on methods for teaching writing to students in grades K-12
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TeacherVision.com
Resources for teachers, including a lesson planning center, current research and techniques to enhance your classroom atmosphere, collections of materials in different subject areas, and professional development information.
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The Academy of American Poets
Extensive site about American poetry includes poet directory and a "listening booth" with audio clips of poetry. Also includes a link to the Online Poetry Classroom, complete with lesson plans.
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The Cultural Heritage of Iraq
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's cultural briefing on the past, present, and future of archaeology in the "cradle of civilization." Contains a Photo Gallery of artifacts known to have been in the Iraq National Museum's collection, archival photos of UPM excavations in Iraq, and access to online news clips, links, and updates on the issues surrounding Iraq's antiquities.
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The Learning Site
Great multimedia resources for Grades 1-5 in Reading, Language Arts, Spelling, Math, Social Studies, Science, Health and Art.
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The New York Times Learning Network
News summaries, news quizzes, word of the day, science Q&A and more for students; lesson plans, crossword puzzles, education news and more for teachers.
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 16th Century
The Norton Topics Online collection of 16th Century literature presents information about the Renaissance, exploration, the world outside of Europe, and Christopher Marlowe. There is a review section including an online multiple choice quiz and summary.
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The On-line Books Page
A site dedicated to the access of books that are freely readable online. Includes index of online books, directories, and special exhibits.
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The Virtual Presentation Assistant
The Virtual Presentation Assistant is an online tutorial for improving public speaking skills. The site is designed to help target specific needs as a speaker with sections on determining purpose, selecting and researching a topic, analyzing an audience, using visual aids, presenting the speech, and more.
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The Writing Process Web Site
Using the image of a pizza, the different slices of the writing process are explained: prewriting, draft, revise, edit and publish. Each slice provides a short description, some examples and a brief video to help explain the concept.
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The Young Writer's Club
This club aims to encourage children of all ages to enjoy writing as a creative pastime by getting them to share their work and help each other improve their writing abilities.
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Thomas Hardy Society of North America
Official site of the The Thomas Hardy Association. Links to evaluated sites for Hardy enthusiasts. Includes material on Hardy's life and work as well as discussion forum.
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Tiger Aki Online Stories
Free, animated stories featuring Tiger Aki. Children can choose to read the text themselves or follow along with audio. Games are also included that help develop computer skills at an early age. The Tiger Aki Books require the Macromedia Flash Plug-In (version 4 or later)
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TIME for Kids
News, polls, entertainment, games and research tools from Time Magazine.
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Toon University
Online math,language arts, social studies and science games as well as discount teacher supplies.
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Virtual Field Trips
A site that makes abstract concepts become more concrete. Useful for children who are visual learners.
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Vocabulary.com
Self-paced, interactive activities that build vocabulary. Content features on the site are grouped by difficulty level and months from September to June to assist students and teachers. Also includes vocabulary lesson plans and "challenging word lists" from more than 70 books used in middle school, high school and/or college classrooms.
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Web English Teacher
Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.
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Webbing into Literacy
Designed for headstart programs, this site provides a "Rhyme a Week," and "Book a Week" programs, as well as family reading activities.
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Webquest.org
Lessons on the web that students can complete using the Internet. The lessons are very detailed and give step-by-step instructions to the students. All grade levels and subject areas are covered.
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Word Central.com
A fun, interactive site developed with input from teachers around the country using a language arts curriculum framework. Includes lesson plans, daily "buzzwords," build-your-own dictionary, games, resources, and a "brief history of the english language." Winner of a 2000 Webby award and a Parent's Choice Approved Winner.
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Word Traps and Grammar Quirks
Full of the many word traps and grammar quirks found in the English Language in three categories: American, Canadian and British.
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WordNet
WordNet is an online dictionary that you can explore in different directions, finding words that mean the same, are more general, more specific - as well as getting a brief description.
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World of Reading
Site features book reviews by kids, for kids. Reviews categorized by subject and location. Also includes links to reading and writing web sites.
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Write Design Online
Great resource for graphic organizers and activities to go along with them.
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YALSA - Booklists
Site from Young Adult Library Services Association includes lists of award-winning books.
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Young Writer's Clubhouse
Resource site for young writers with information on how to get published, a place to share and critique stories, and links to writing contests.
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