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ENGLISH - WEBSITES |
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WEBSITES - LANGUAGE ARTS |
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| K - 5 | Houghton Mifflin English Grammar practice, writing instruction, and writing graphic organizers. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/ |
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| K - 6 | Houghton Mifflin Language Arts FREE online activities to coordinate with this 2001 California edition textbook integrated Reading series. Go to Houghton Mifflin Language Arts for Students. . http://www.eduplace.com/ |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers |
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| K - 12 | Internet4Classrooms Web portal for free interactive websites for core subjects and electives. Links for K-12 teachers - Language Arts http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang.htm Grade level links to help students study their grade level language arts concepts for grades K-8, http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang.htm |
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| K - 12 | McAllen Public Library - Homework Helper (all subjects) http://www.mcallenlibrary.net/children/homeworkhelpers.aspx |
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WEBSITES - SPELLING |
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| 1 - 8 | Everyday Spelling (Scott Foresman) Free access to spelling word lists for grades K-8. http://www.everydayspelling.com/lists/listindex.html |
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| Cando's Helper Page! http://candohelperpage.com/ Fry's Spelling and Sight word lists, with coordinating flash cards. http://candohelperpage.com/sightvocab_1.html#anchor_376 |
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WEBSITES - VOCABULARY |
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| K - 12 | Oswego Vocabulary Web |
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WEBSITES - POETRY |
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| 2 - 12 | PoetryTeachers.com How to teach poetry, poetry theater, poetry activities. http://www.poetryteachers.com/ In the Poetry Class section, students are provided with easy to follow instructions that teach how to write funny poems. http://www.poetryteachers.com/poetclass/poetclass.html |
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| 6 - Adult | Poetry Magic An extensive resource website for the theory and craft of writing poetry. http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/ |
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| 6 - Adult | Poetry Archive The world's premier collection of online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. http://www.poetryarchive.org/ |
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WEBSITES - GRAMMAR |
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| K - 6 | Houghton Mifflin English Grammar practice, writing instruction, and writing graphic organizers. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/ |
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| 6 - 12 | Strunk's Elements of Style Classic reference and must-have book on the principals of composition and the rules of usage. http://www.bartleby.com/ |
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WEBSITES - WRITING |
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| K - 6 | Houghton Mifflin English Grammar practice, writing instruction, and writing graphic organizers. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/ |
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| 3 - 12 | F.I.L.M. Finding Inspiration in Literature and Movies http://www.trulymovingpictures.org/FILM/Pages/Curricula.aspx |
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| 6 - 12 | Penn State University's - Palimpsest onLine! Most excellent list of links to writing and research resources. http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/r&wlinks.htm |
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WEBSITES - LITERATURE |
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| 6 - 12 | Penn State University's Electronic Classics Site Read the classics online! Scroll to the bottom of the page for the links to this vast list of online classics. http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm |
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WEBSITES - FREE AUDIO BOOKS The charter school does not endorse all the contents on these FREE websites. Use at your own discretion. |
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| K - Adult | Kiddie Records Weekly Kiddie Records Weekly celebrates the golden age of children's records. This period roughly spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties and produced a wealth of all-time classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions and featured big time celebrities and composers. http://www.kiddierecords.com/ |
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| K - Adult | Lit2Go Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. Search by author, title, key words and reading level. http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ |
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| 4 - Adult | Talking History University at Albany, State University of New York's mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere. http://www.talkinghistory.org/ |
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| 6 - Adult | NewFixtion.com http://www.newfiction.com/ |
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| 6 - Adult | Thought Audio.com One of the most fundamental aspects of humanity is to enjoy its thoughts and its great works. This website's journey has always been one of making classic literature available to anyone willing to listen. http://www.thoughtAudio.com/ |
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| 6 - Adult | FreeClassicAudioBooks.com |
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| 6 - Adult | LibriVox Free audiobooks from the public domain. http://www.LibriVox.org/ |
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| 6 - Adult | LearnOutLoud |
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| 6 - Adult | AudioBooksForFree.com Free MP3, iPOD and DVD audiobooks (adventures, detectives, horrors, classics, children, non-fictions, philosophy, etc.) to download and enjoy. http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/ |
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| 6 - Adult | Books Should Be Free |
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| 6 - Adult | AudioBookTreasury http://www.audiobooktreasury.com/ |
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| 6 - Adult | FreeAudio.org http://www.FreeAudio.org/ |
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| 6 - Adult | AudioBooks.net http://www.audiobooks.net/ |
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| 6 - Adult | PodioBooks.com http://www.podiobooks.com/ |
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| 6 - Adult | LoudLit.org http://www.loudlit.org/ |
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WEBSITES - AUTO PAPER PROOFREADERS |
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| K - 12 | Grammarly Automatic online paper proofreader and grammar coach that does an advanced grammar check to include: dangling modifiers, subject-verb agreement, run-on sentence and sentence splices; faulty parallelism; grammar style; contextual spelling check; plagiarism check; and vocabulary enhancement. Used by UC, Davis students and many others. http://www.grammarly.com/ To take a quick tour, http://www.grammarly.com/tour.php?q=writing |
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| K - 12 | Paper Rater Automatic online paper grader website that does editing, a grammar check, a spell check and a plagiarism check. Simply go to the website, enter the title of the writing sample, the works cited, the grade level of the student-author, the genre of the paper, and agree to the terms of service. The report will cover Originality/Plagerism Detection, Spelling Suggestions, Grammar Suggestions, Word Choice Suggestions, Style Suggestions, Vocabulary Suggestions, and Writing Tips. http://www.paperrater.com/free_paper_grader# |
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