Language Arts Curriculum
Online Resources - Literacy
Authors
Authors
Bibliographies of biographies and autobiographies of children's book authors and illustrators.
Dav Pilkey's Author Site
Children's author, Dav Pilkey, aka Sue Denim, has a unique and amusing Web site about himself and his stories. Also included is a section on jokes, interactive activities that include printable coloring sheets and games, and a section for teachers on how to use Dav's site as a teaching tool.
Internet Public Library - Ask An Author
Completed sites with biographies, photos and frequently asked questions with answers from the authors/illustrators. Updates and links to sites for some of your favorite authors/illustrators.
Random House Author Connection
There are many ways to connect with your favorite Random House authors. Check here to learn more about sites devoted to Random House authors, media appearances, tour dates, and online events.
Genres/Book Study
Bibliomania
A search directory for all genres.
Biography.com
A&E's Biography web site includes a searchable and browsable online collection of 15,000 cross-referenced biographies from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
Search for children's literature using keyword - age or reader - format - setting - genre - historical period multicultural - ethnicity - gender - languages - publication year - awards.
Internet Classics Archive
This site features 441 works of classical literature by 59 authors, including Aesop, Aeschylus, Homer, Ovid and Plato. Visitors can read classic works in their entirety, participate in discussions of the works and bone up on the authors themselves.
Internet Public Library - Reading Zone
The Reading Zone is a little like the fiction section at a public library. You can find links to online stories and also learn more about your favorite books and authors.
KidBibs.Com
This site provides teachers and parents with strategies to help children become good readers, writers and learners. KidBibs includes learning tips updated weekly, age-appropriate book lists, links, a simple tool to create a personalized bookmark, and more.
Nancy Keane's Book Talks
This site has over 500 ready to use 'book talks', organized by authors, subject, interest, etc. A great site for Librarians and teachers alike.
Poetry
The purpose of this Web page is to give you a sampling of some of the aspects of poetry. Each of the activities asks you to make a personal commitment to what you like, believe, or feel. Really try to find things that you can connect with. Good luck and have fun!
Project Bartleby (Columbia University)
Great books online - home of great literary Web sites on such people as Emily Dickinson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Frost, John Keats, Herman Melville, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Gertrude Stein. This site includes full text writings for these authors. The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
Search the Children's Picture Book Database
Search the Children's Picture Book Database. You may use three different options when searching the database.
Webtime Stories
Webtime Stories is an annotated list of online stories, book and author resources, and online activities for young people who love children's literature.
K-12
California Technology Assistance Project
An educational technology leadership initiative, providing assistance to schools and districts in integrating technology into teaching and learning
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This is 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.
Children's Literature Web Guide
The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world.
CNN Interactive Learning Resources
A major purpose of this Web site is to provide current news stories to students with reading levels that are not high enough to read and understand standard newspaper articles. A variety of learning activities help reinforce and provide greater understanding of what is presented on the screen.
CyberBee
CyberBee has articles, past conference notes, including FETC, curriculum ideas, a Library Toolbox, Workshops, and FAQs about the Internet. A great site for integrating curriculum.
CyberGuides K-12
CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, Web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one online computer. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards.
EdSitement
Subject-based access to top humanities sites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities.
Information Literacy Projects
Collaboration, Information Literacy, and
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment at the Maine Association of School Libraries
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections
IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.
Reading Village
The Reading Village Project envisions an environment whereby K-12 educators with a focus on reading join together to create a community of like minded educators who want to share and/or train others with similar interests in the teaching of reading. The Reading Village provides resources and information on the latest research, standards, conferences, children's books, professional books, and more. The discussion forums offer lively conversations, questions, answers, and the sharing of ideas and practices on vital topics related to reading adult literature.
Scholastic's Harry Potter Page
This site shares author information, discussion guides and a reading circle.
Secondary
Complete Works of Shakespeare
This comprehensive resource for English teachers, students and Shakespeare enthusiasts includes a Shakespeare discussion area, Shakespeare Internet resources, chronological and alphabetical listings of plays, familiar quotations and glossary.
English and American Literature
This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Shakespeare has been dead nearly 400 years, but thanks (in part) to Web sites like this, his popularity has never been greater.
Teenlit.com
TeenLit.com is a private not-for-profit Web site currently funded and administered by two secondary teachers in southeast Michigan. The sole purpose of TeenLit.com is to promote teen literacy by providing a forum for teen writers to publish and discuss their writing, review and discuss books they read, and to provide a resource for their teachers. TeenLit.com is also a research site for these teachers to investigate the efficacy of the World Wide Web in facilitating teen literacy in the above-mentioned ways by examining the interchanges that occur through this venue.
Treasure Island Jolly Roger Books for Teens
Avast! Here're some children's classics to browse through! It's tough to take the computer to bed so check 'em out at yer library. Arghrgrhr me young maties! Turn off that MTV and read the words that'll deepen yer soul and exalt yer spirit! Then come on by Abby's campfire to chat about yer favorites and participate in a shared contemporary context where the romance of reading prevails.
Vocabulary/Word Play
Vocabulary.com
Participate in these free vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery. Earn your diploma at VOCAB U. Teachers have endorsed this site which enriches classroom curriculum. These exercises help prepare for SSAT®, PSAT®, GED®, SAT® and ACT® tests, and they supplement personal vocabulary acquisition, are used in home-schooling and ESL programs.
One Look Dictionary
Dictionary word count equals 2262030 words in 475 dictionaries now indexed... a searchable database.
Visual Thesaurus
The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning.
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