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• General in Language Arts (42)

• Dictionaries on-line (9)

• Grammar Guides (7)

• Lesson Plans (5)

• Style Guides (5)

• Words (Vocabulary) (10)

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General in Language Arts
AdLit.org--website for educators designed to help teach children from fourth through12th grades read and write better

APA Style--Helps you with citing electronic media, spelling, URL's and more

Ask Oxford--offers helpful tips for better writing, information on the origin of words and the creation of dictionaries, and diversions like word games, crossword puzzles, and a jargon buster
Bibliomania--on-line works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and even a few reference titles
Bloomsbury Research Center--Site is a free on-line database of reference books of over 17,000 entries, cross-referenced and indexed. A search engine is available to search on a wide range of subjects including literature, art, myth, human thought, quotations and a thesaurus or browse through each book at your leisure.
Book Spot
Books On-Line: The On-line Books Page--directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet
Carla Beard's Resources for Secondary English Teachers

Cinema--explores the creative process of filmmaking from the screenwriter's words to the editor's final cut
Citation Styles--Here you'll find detailed advice for citing online sources, along with links to all the URL's in the next text
Citing Online Sources
Education World--Education World explores a variety of bibliographic styles for citing those resources
English teaching resources--for teachers and parents of students age 11 to 17. Units on novels, poetry, drama, genre and skills.  Units available as copy masters and interactive computer units.  Will fit most curricula.  Free sample unit.  Also a free opt-in monthly English resources newsletter with free puzzles and units. Exploring Nonverbal Communication.
"How to" guide--helps you cite internet sources, gives you ways to avoid plagiarism, and more
How to Recognize Plagiarism--excellent tutorial from the School of Education, Indiana University at Bloomington
Journal of Research and Technology
Language Arts Education Community--Mr. Baldwin's Education Community--an on-line education community with language arts resources for parents, teachers and students.  Links to myriad academic sites, research tools, ESL tools, news, forums, financial aid, web-based e-mail, fun stuff and more!
Language Arts Links
Latin Language and Literature--links to Latin-English and multilingual dictionaries, study aides, and literature resources
Lexical FreeNet--search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. It is a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator
Links to Newspaper and Magazine Sites Around the World
literature on-line--the home of English and American literature on the world wide web
MLA documentation of online sources
MLA handbook for writers of research papers (high school and undergrad)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Plagiarism--find articles, rules, resources, sites, ethics, policies for teachers, including Law, with recommendations on how to combat plagiarism.
Owl--The web site contains hypertext workshops and subject tutorials on writing various types of papers, and offers teacher resources, a huge collections of links on related resources, PowerPoint presentations about writing that can be downloaded, and web pages that cover all aspects of writing.
Reading programs for both youth and adult
Rhyme Zone--this site will find rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, definitions, or words that match a pattern
SCORE's Teacher Guides and Student Activities
SpellingCity - It's fun, free, useful, unique. And, most of the best features are yet to come

Reading Corner-- a place to find good books to read; everything from award winners to young adult books
Virginia Department of Education K-12 English Resources
VisualThesaurus--amazing online thesaurus that will intrigue and amuse and engage while extending your word power.  Check it out!
Vocabulary Builder--adapts to user's needs.  Harder questions as more are answered correctly, easier as they are wrong.  Also, great tutorials for SAT's and GRE's.
Web English Teacher--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.
Writing Tales--This site gives you directions on how to write a wacky tale.
You Can Read!--a learn-to-read phonics program on videotapes. The program was written and produced by teachers and has been highly recommended by both parents and educators. It includes 12 easy-to-follow lessons on four videotapes and is accompanied by over 150 corresponding worksheets. "You Can Read!" is effective for the young child who is ready to read and for the older child or adult who has experienced some difficulty in reading.
YourDictionary.com--language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages
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Dictionaries On-line
Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words
Lexical FreeNet--search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. It is a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator
Rhyme Zone--this site will find rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, definitions, or words that match a pattern
Rhyming Dictionary
ROGET's Thesaurus Search Form
The Wordsmith English Dictionary - Thesaurus
TheVisualThesaurus--amazing online thesaurus that will intrigue and amuse and engage while extending your word power.  Cherk it out!
WWWebster Dictionary
YourDictinoary.com--language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages
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Grammar Guides
AdLit.org--website for educators designed to help teach children from fourth through12th grades read and write better

Common Errors in English
Darling's Guide to Grammar
Lexical FreeNet--search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. It is a combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator
Online English Grammar
Web Grammar
Writing-This site is a guide for grammar and writing.
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