English Language Arts
ATN - Book Lists (Suggested Reading)
There are over 1000 lists of books from specific genre, age, themes, and read alikes.
http://nancykeane.com/rl/#Genres
Bartleby's -
It has LOTS of literature online. (It is not just for elementary, I found lots for the higher levels.) It has fiction and nonfiction. Also it has all kinds of reference tools like dictionaries, and thesaurus.
http://www.bartleby.com/
Blue Web'n Content Categories
This website, provided by Pacific Bell Education First, links to exceptional educational websites they have rated. The websites are categorized by subject area and type.
www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn
BookSpot.com
Reading Lists, by grade level, genre, by theme, If you liked... you will like
http://bookspot.com/readinglists/
The Children's Literature Web Guide
This is a great web site for students to use to find their favorite authors on the web. It also has great information about new children's literature and resources for teachers in order to use that literature.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/ ~ dkbrown/index.html
High School English
Don't let the title fool you! This site has multple grammer help sites, lessons, spelling, literature and composition sites. There are multiple power points on many English topics.
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html
International Reading Association
The International Reading Association is the world's leading organization of literacy professionals. There are professional development resources to teach the world to read.
http://www.reading.org/
TeacherSource -PBS
provides nearly 3000 free lesson plans and activities for
educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Writing Fix - Interactive Writing Prompts
Lessons for better writing skills found on our interactive pages. WritingFix was designed by writers, teachers, and students...to spark the imaginations of writers, teachers and students...of all ages.
http://www.writingfix.com/
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Readability
The Lexile Framework for Reading
This website will allow you to type in any book for it's Lexile reading level.
http://www.lexile.com/EntrancePageFlash.html
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Elementary English/Language Arts Sites
Wordsmith.Org
Did you know that parliament is an anagram of partial men? Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action? Someone once said, "All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie." Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams.
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/
PBS Kids
A popular destination for the under 5 set, PBS Kids offers educational games, videos, music and activities featuring familiar PBS show characters. It's a fun, colorful site that will have kids learning and playing at the same time. Ages 4 and up.
http://pbskids.org/
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Middle/High School English/Language Arts Sites
Citation Machine
Correctly Cite Works for Research Papers
This free website will help writers correctly cite works for papers, etc.
It features both APA and MLA styles and is kid friendly too.
www.citationmachine.net
Easybib.com
When helping my son with his junior year research project (with the required 20 resources) he was having a problem with the bibliography. I found this cool FREE website that will automatically format the bibliography in MLA format, but you can choose to put it in APA style. It is a must for any research project. (I used it this summer for papers I wrote for UD too.) After everything is formatted, you can print it out, copy it or send it to an e-mail address.
http://www.easybib.com
Ohio Reading Road Trip
This website was developed by Dayton's public television. This site has lessons, activities and information on most of Ohio's writers.
http://www.orrt.org/
OWL at Purdue - Online writing Lab
Practice Exercises Index - writing exercised that can be done online and a place to check answers. More exercises will be added as we develop them.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/index.html
