Language Arts

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Children's Literature Web Guide from the University of Calgary is a great source of information on children's literature, including book awards, discussion forums, information for teachers and storytellers and many links.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare from MIT contains text of the complete works, as well as a glossary, Bartlett’s Shakespearean quotations, a discussion area and a search function.

The Online Books Page from Project Gutenberg is a compilation of books that are available in electronic format. Over 10,000 books are can be searched by author, title or subject.

KidPub is a site where children can publish stories that they have written. A counter on each story will show how many people have read their story. The KidPub Schools page allows schools or classes to post their stories together.

The Media Literacy Online Project provides media literacy information for teachers and many links. Features include media literacy standards from different sources, conference and workshop listings, and teaching resources such as lesson plans and syllabi.

Author Pages contains a list of links to a large number of Web sites with information about authors and illustrators.

Writes of Passage is a journal and Web site designed to encourage teenage writing. It offers teens from around the world the opportunity to submit writing samples and read the words of peers. It features interviews with famous authors, tips on writing, career spotlights and interactive writing forums.

Reader's Theater Editions provides reader's theater scripts for educational use.

Michigan Electronic Library provides links to sites about popular children’s literature such as links to Judy Blume’s homepage, the Laura Ingalls Wilder homepage.

Houghton Mifflin Reading provides a place for kids to share book reviews, and read and talk about books with other kids. It features Author Spotlight which includes book summaries, articles about the author, classroom connections and interviews.

Great Writers and Poets provides links for homepages for many writers. It also features listings of Nobel Prize Winners for Literature from 1996-1901, annotated with links and books.

The Media Production Homepage provides information for teachers on teaching a nine-week middle school media production course including day-by-day lesson plans, materials needed, and sample class handouts.

The Multicultural Book Review Homepage provides a qualitative listing of multicultural literature and links for K-12 educators.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant is designed for secondary students looking for help in how to write an essay. Topics covered include deciding what to write, organizing, revising and editing.

The Center for Media Literacy provides an on-line media literacy resource catalog as well as links to several other media literacy sites.

The Text-only menu provides accessible and printer-friendly access to the Surf Report Archives.

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