http://www.mindtools.com/rdstratg.html Goes over key reading strategies http://www.bookadventure.com/ Gives quizzes over a huge range of books http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/ List of literary terms Literature Links Reading Skills http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm List of literary terms, many of which are types of storylines http://www.instructables.com Great site with lots of step-by-step instructions with pictures on how to do strange things. Web Quests http://webquest.org/ A ton of web quests that are very easy to sort http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/webquest/webquest.html List of several web quest sites http://www.up140.jacksn.k12.il.us/webquests/webquests/ More web quests http://eduscapes.com/sessions/travel/mhswebquests.htm Quests organized by subject Book Lists http://www.bookadventure.org/qt/top10list.asp An interactive book list, this site allows you to put in difficulty/ topic and it spits out a ton of books that might apply. Very useful.
http://readon.wi.gov/ This Wisconsin site contains a lot of book reviews. http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/detlinks5.html This collection of links includes a large list organized by time period of mystery writer, several hyper-fiction mystery and clue decoding sites. Interesting idea for a final project having students create web mysteries (hyper- fictions). http://www.kids-space.org/story/story.html Stories written by students from around the world http://www.americanfolklore.net/ A huge archive of American folklore and myths http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/guides/voices/ Essays from different Peace Core members http://www.addventure.com/ Collection of hyper fictions (branching, on-line, choose your own adventure stories) written for kids http://www.themodernword.com/themodword.cfm Collection of modern essays http://www.teachersfirst.com/100books.htm Huge list of books http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/books.html Book lists http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bestbooksyoung.htm This site run by Young Adult Library Service is a great way to sort through huge lists of books. http://www.toread.com/ A ton of links dealing with reading theory is just the beginning of the resources available on this site. Scroll down and find more great links to book sites. Writing Formats http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/formatsheet.html This site reinvents the term paper, through a technique called I-search. Excellent. http://eduscapes.com/info/isearch.html More about I-search http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/teacherlinks/sixtraits/sixtraits.html This site has easy tutorials for the 6 Writing Traits.
http://internal.vusd.solanocoe.k12.ca.us/cooper/prog/6tlist.htm Six Writing Traits check list http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading39/paragraph_unit/graphic_organizer1.htm This cute graphic explains the Hamburger Writing Model. http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ Editing/ Writing Sites http://inventionatplay.org/ Some activities are a little young, but there is one very interesting section (Word Play) which gives students a set of words. Then the site has them build silly sentences, which they can edit. They, as a group, then slowly build a story. Very Cool. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html Great grammar source http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/ Gives tips on how to write different types articles http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html Grammar games http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/quizzes/index.html Grammar games http://www.wildlifeart.org/arttales/ Seems like an interesting site, which has you write journal entries to go with provided nature images, however, I couldn t get it to work. Places to Get Published http://www.merlynspen.org/ Great place to try and get your students work published http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/stapleless/index.html At this interactive site, students follow the prompts to produce their own books. Students can work with bulleted lists, headlines, and text; they can leave space to add pictures after printing. Everything prints out on one piece of paper. Follow the instructions to fold and cut. http://www.diaryproject.com/ Very interesting site. It encourages students to write as is in a dairy then organizing the entries by themes. Could be some issues with topics presented, but could also be a very interesting way to think about themes in real people s lives.
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ Great place to try and get your students work published http://www.writing.com/?rfrc=inkspot.com Another place to get published http://www.memoryarchive.org/en/memoryarchive This is a big database of memories and stories http://www.candlelightstories.com/ Teenage-based online magazine http://library.advanced.org/2626/write_story.html This site gives students a place to submitted their work, but also has a large selection of students work that could be good for lessons that look at what good and bad writing is. http://www.sitesforteachers.com/resources_sharp/language_arts/la_pub.html This is a Random House site that publishes book reviews by kids. http://www.stonesoup.com/ Publishes articles and fiction http://writekids.tripod.com/ Publishing student work Interviewing http://www.archivesofamericanart.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/ Collection of oral history transcripts http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/caption.html Collection of oral history transcripts http://www.memoryarchive.org/en/memoryarchive This is a big database of memories and stories. Media and Advertising http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/ Excellent visuals looking at media propaganda http://www.zillions.org/ Consumer reports for kids http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html 50 years of Coca cola ads Poetry
http://www.magneticpoetry.com/magnet/index.html Gives you magnetic words to create poems with online. Some of the kits on the site are not for young people, but the high school kit and some other ones are good for our age group. http://www.magneticpoetry.com/kidspoetry/playonline.cfm This magnetic poetry site is gear completely for kids. http://www.poetry4kids.com/rhymes Has an interesting rhyming dictionary. http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmid/2 General poetry site http://www.favoritepoem.org/theproject/index.html Collection of reading (with audio) and essays about poets and poems http://www.ahapoetry.com/pom2shar.htm A place to publish poems Twisted Protagonist http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/olivers_london.html Interactive look at Oliver Twist s London http://charlesdickenspage.com/awards.html Lots of information on Dickens Persuasion http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson304b.shtml Links to debate rubrics, guidelines, resources, ect http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ A list of Fallacies http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/venn/index.html On-line Venn diagram http://oxygen.vancouver.wsu.edu/amsrev/theory/images/holbrook06-2003/figure01.gif Diagram which depicts the dialectic process
Fantasy http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/rings/teachers/lotre%20export/index.html This site allows the viewer to face the difficulties of directing The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php This page allows you to create your own historical looking story. Using medieval clip art, you can design your own parchments. Very cool. Mysteries http://kids.mysterynet.com// Online hyper fiction (choose your own adventure) mysteries http://www.mysterynet.com/ More on-line mysteries http://www.accessexcellence.org/ae/mspot/ More on-line mysteries, but these are more geared towards kids http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/a5.html This hyper-fiction, mystery uses art as its teaching objective. http://www.ncwiseowl.org/webquest/poe/wqpoe.htm Edgar Allen Poe web quest http://library.thinkquest.org/j002344/ This site gives both the history of mysteries and more mystery examples. http://stealthboy.dyndns.org/~msherman/holmes.html#stories Sherlock Holmes stories on the web http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html Dictionary of common mystery slang Myths and Fairytales http://www.artsmia.org/world-myths/ A very interactive site, it contains a bunch of world myths and legends. It also allows you to compare and contrast the different essays.
http://www.pantheon.org/ A huge resource of different myths http://www.mythinglinks.org/ct~creation.html A collection of creation myths http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/ List of fairy tales that are available on-line http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/ Full books and short fairytales on-line http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/ Fairytales from around the world http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/storycircle/fairystories/ Animated fairytales a little young, but still good Music http://www.philtulga.com/language.html This site uses music to teach all of the other subjects. http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/home Examples of music from around the world http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/xtremes/nso/artsedge.html This site goes into music theory and contains several interactive lessons. http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1 Named the symphony for kids, this site also contained several lessons on music theory and interactive simulations. Odds and Ends http://www.playingwithtime.org/index.html Working with time, these condensed-time videos might make for an interesting freewrite. http://www.wordcentral.com/hallway.html #3-D designed vocabulary site
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp The Guinness Book of World Records site is well built and could be used for comparison data in Math or for a character study in English http://www.liveatc.net/topfeeds.php On this sight you can listen to the flight conversations from several airports http://www.sfpg.com/animation/instruc.html A virtual lightbright http://www.rpg.net/larp/scenario.html This is a list of role playing characters and might be good when looking at character development.