Language Arts Resource Page

Literacy

Audio Stories.
Digital Stories in English and Spanish (Audio):
http://www.storyplace.org/

Starfall
http://www.starfall.com/

For Reading Help- audio stories and phonics lessons:
http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories/

Word to Image, Image to Word:
http://t3.preservice.org/T0211900

Purdue University 's Online Writing Lab:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu

Wacky Web Tales (interactive for parts of speech):
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

Aesop's Fables:
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/

Author Page from Internet Public Library with FAQ's:
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/askauthor/

Professor Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page (References):
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/%7ekvander/ChildrenLit/index.html

Professor Vandergrift's Children's Author Page (References):
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/%7ekvander/authorbios.html

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Ancient Scripts of the World
This site contains symbols of the ancient world alphabets, a pronunciation guide, a bibliography and links to other related web sites.

AskERIC Lesson Plans : Language Arts
Excellent language arts lesson plans from our friends at AskERIC.

Bibliomania : The Network Library
Site has full text of many classic works of fiction.

Bullfinch's Mythology
An online version of this classic work.

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Reviews, curriculum integration, and themes of how to use children's literature in the classroom.

Children's Literature Web Guide
An excellent guide to resources for teachers, parents, authors & storytellers.

English Literature : Early 17th Century (1603-1660)
An excellent site containing essays, works, and information about six famous writers.

Aesop's Fables Online Exhibit
A fun collection of over 600 of the fables, with RealAudio files.

American Verse Project
A searchable index of American poetry prior to 1920.

Elements of Style
The writer's bible has met HTML. Covers elementary rules of usage, elementary principles of composition, a few matters of form, and misspellings. A handy index helps you out.

Grammar and Style Guide
A good guide to English grammar rules.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
An excellent source for secondary students and educators which includes many handouts about proper grammar usage, online quizzes, and more.

E-ZINE-LIST
In more than a decade the Internet has become printing press and home to several hundred electronic magazines, called "ezines" or "zines" for short. This site contains a list of how to obtain/subscribe to every zine in existence.

Galaxy's Index of English Literature
This site is useful for students who are researching for a paper on literature or English. It features more than 1,000 links to English and literature-related material.

Indigenous People's Literature
A good archive of Native American literature.

Internet Classics Archive
This site allows students to search, read, and browse over 400 works of classic literature.

Internet School Library Media Center : Elementary Language Arts Resources
An excellent list of language arts links for the elementary and middle school teacher.

Language Arts Cyberguides
Excellent units based on works of literature, designed for students to use with the Internet

McREL : Language Arts Resources and Standards
An excellent list of links with educational standards in Language arts.

Multicultural Book Review
A rated list of multicultural book reviews for students with links to related sites.

Myths & Legends
A well developed site for secondary students providing links to myths, legends, folklore.

Online Literary Criticism Collection
A collection of online evaluative and explanatory writings about works of British and American literature.

Project Gutenberg
An extensive archive of on-line books.

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
Contains links to resources, essays, articles, biographies of authors, and bibliographies.

Story Arts Online
An excellent resource with ideas and lessons for using storytelling in the classroom. Check it out.

Wacky Web Tales
Remember Mad Libs, the fill-in-the-blank word game where you chose the nouns or verbs to create silly stories? Use this site as an online version of that game. Geared to students in grades 4 and above-a fun way to teach grammar.