English Teacher References

The English Zone
Reproducible grammar and mechanics worksheets. 

Visual Thesaurus
Plumb design's unique thesaurus generates mind maps of words while entertaining with interesting graphics.

Glencoe
Resources for our Voices in US lit textbook.

The Pink Monkey
An online study buddy. 314 literature summaries, 1800 classic texts, online SAT prep exercises and much more.

Ask Me
One of many of the "ask the experts" sites. Under writing, look for 17 subtopics, including fiction writing, copyright law and publishing.

Knowledge Hound
One of the Web's largest directories, Knowledge Hound offers how-to instruction and tips in many areas. Search by topic or keyword.

Maps from National Geographic
Build zoomable maps of any point on the globe. Access atlas info at the interactive National Geographic site. Take a close look at anything that catches your eye.

All in a Name
This site is fun. Shows how many people share your surname and where they live. Goes back as far as 1850 and results appear in a color-coded map.

Learn to Speak Any Language
Learn how to pronounce words in 7 languages and many varieties of English. Listen to speakers pronounce the words as well.

Maporama
This is an international route finding program. Can even look up directions between points A and B and C. Supposed to be better than Map Quest.

A New Poem Every Day  
Poetry Daily, a new poem every day.  Click on this site for a poem for the day, a featured poet, and a featured journal.  A good idea for a classroom activity.    

Reading Comprehension – Free Worksheets  
Looking for lesson plans?  Click on to this site which offers free weekly reading comprehension worksheets.  Use them for teaching, reinforcement, and review.  Upper elementary through middle school.    

Browse Lesson Plans By Topic  
Hooray!  You will find lesson places for American History, current events, science, language arts, and more.  A good place to find teacher, student, and parent connections.  

Find A Grave  
Not as morbid as it might sound, this site will help you find the places where authors were born and where they are buried.  Very interesting and useful for literature teachers.   .  

Teachers Helping Teachers  
This is a terrific site for all teachers.  It provides basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers, and provides a forum for experienced teachers to share their expertise.  Lesson plans, chat line, educational links, and much, much more.  

Teachers.  Net Lesson Bank – LESSON PLANS  
User friendly site to submit or request lesson plans for a multitude of subjects.  Great variety.  

PBS
Think PBS is only for eggheads? Watch out for the killer chickens! Find out what's up on radio or TV. Good place to kill a little time and feel a little smarter at the same time.

Teacher Guide!
This site is a unique resource with a large collection of newspaper editorial cartoons.  Lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in many subjects including English at all levels.  

NCREC Index to Graphical Resources on the Internet  
A database of pictures.  Visit the Amazing Picture Machine and find lesson ideas.    

Middle Web: Exploring Middle School and Middle School Reform  
This site explores the challenges of middle school reform.  You will find it brimming with resources for educators and parents.    

Banned Books On-Line  
This site includes a special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.  A very interesting site for teachers of literature.  

NCTE Teaching Ideas
Teaching ideas from The National Council of Teachers of English.  Links to teaching ideas selected from NCTE publications or submitted directly by teachers.    

Women's History Items List
Nothing demonstrates the evolution of women's rights better than the Library of Congress archive of original documents. Read the 1692 petition for bail written by accused Salem witches or Susan B. Anthony's letter on the subject of female clergy. Good supplement for literature classes.

Tech Support Guy
Get help with all of your computer questions.

Jumbo Shareware
Free software for your computer.

Rosebud Magazine
For people who enjoy good writing. Ron Ellis is an editor here.

Plagiarism: What is it? How to Recognize and Avoid it?
Plagiarized.com: The Instructor's Guide to Internet Plagiarism
Turn It In: For a Fee term papers can be analyzed for plagiarism

Foreign Language Translations
Need a quick translation of a foreign word or passage? Babel Fish translates from Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese into English and vice versa.

Myth, Legend, Folklore

Legends

This beautiful site explores the history, literature, and lore surrounding Robin Hood, King Arthur, and other heroes.  You will have guided access to primary sources, history, literature, art, romance, and adventure.

The Hero Machine!
Have you been frustrated by an inability to see a character? Thanks to Hero Machine, you can dynamically create your own customized character portrait. Kids will have fun with this and after inventing their own heroes, maybe they'd talk or write about them. 

Mythography
This site provides information about Greek, Roman, and Celtic gods and goddesses, books, an on-line encyclopedia, and a lexicon for those hard to find words and phrases.  Includes a mythology message forum if you have a specific question about mythology.

 Myth and Legend from Ancient Time to Space Age
Visit pibburns.com for excellent information about the literary universe and see how scholars of mythology define myth differently.  You’ll find the differences between myths, legends, and folklore.  You will also find information about astrology, psychic phenomena, and other related material.

 Classical Myth, The Ancient Sources
 Classical Myth, The Ancient Sources, is designed to draw together ancient texts and images available on the Web.  You’ll find a time line of history and literature, some bibliography, and other useful sites.

   The Robin Hood Project  
Look into this site for texts, bibliographies, and basic information.  The site is a work in progress with the constant addition of new information.

 King Arthur & the Early British Kingdoms
Intelligently designed site provides a plethora of Arthurian information.  Includes links to other Arthurian sites.

Knighthoods, Chivalry & Tournaments
Very interesting site selected as a valuable resource by the Britannica Internet Guide.  You will find Charlemagne’s biography, Crispen speech from Henry V, and other interesting information and resources.    

Poets and Poetry

Poetic Voices
A virtual handbook for poets, with info about and promotion of poets and poetry.

Periodic Table Haikus

A Poem a Day
The Library of Congress' site which provides a poem a day for American high schools. Great source for introducing contemporary American poets.

Ploughshares
Emerson College's literary magazine. Thousands of poems, short stories, essays, reviews and more on the new website.

English Language Haiku on the Web
Web site is dedicated tot he growth and development of English-language haiku. Featuring poets, editors, publishers and organizations sharing in this same commitment.

An Index of Poets
This site is a well-rounded guide to poets and their poetry.  Dozens and dozens of poets and their works.

A Haiku Home Page
This small but valuable site offers help in writing Haiku.  A work in progress, it includes links to other sites.

 Lost Poets of the Great War
Harry Rusche is the author of Lost Poets of the Great War, a hypertext document on the poetry of World War I.  You’ll find the poets, a chronology of the war, the human cost, and a bibliography.  This is a quiet site that speaks to the human side of the experience of war.  Excellent to use as part of a unit with the literature of World War I.

HTI American Verse Project  
Electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.  Find what you need with a single word or phrase, or use a combination of two or three words in a given line of verse or single paragraph.

A New Poem Every Day  
Poetry Daily, a new poem every day.  Click on this site for a poem for the day, a featured poet, and a featured journal.  A good idea for a classroom activity.    

Outta Ray’s Head Poetry Page
Writing, literature, links, and lessons at this poetry page.  Find the meaningful assignment, sample poems from catch-all units, reader’s theatre, and much, much more.    

The Irish Poetry Page  
Even if you aren’t Irish you will enjoy this Irish Poetry Page.  Includes favorite poems, Irish poets, Irish poems set to music, and much, much more.  

 The Academy of American Poets  
This site features 20^th century poetry, biographical information, commentary and bulletin boards, and other resources for poets and their audiences.  You will find photos, poems, a listening booth and more.  

Ogden Nash  
The largest online collection of poetry by Ogden Nash!  Plus, links to other Nash sites.  

The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia   Everything you want to know about the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, from weddings to the School Outreach Program.  

Edgar Allan Poe’s House of Usher  
This site is fun to visit.  Look for the Ravin’ of the Week and visit the decrepit mansion of Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline.  An award winning site.    

The National Park Service  
Visit the Longfellow National Historic Site representing the themes of arts and literature.  Very interesting information about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the Longfellow house.

Authors and Prose

For Whom the Bell Tolls Resources 
A list of links and a personal review by Noah Johnson.

Online Literary Criticism Collection
The Internet Public Library Criticism Collection contains 4745 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.

Teen Hoopla
An ALA site  where your students  read reviews of their favorite books written by other students. Your students may submit reviews of the books that they've enjoyed here as well.

On-line Literature Library – Classics at the On-line Literature Library  
Aesop, Baum, the Brontes, Cather, Crane, Poe, Shelley: these are only a few of the authors and their works that you will find at this site.  

Romantic Circles  
This Website is devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.  It has been designated as one of the 21 best sites on the Internet for education in the humanities.    

American Literature Index Page  
Early American authors by category, Post Civil War authors, quotations, and comments.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson  
A guide to resources about Ralph Waldon Emerson.  You will find a biography, portraits and graphics, essays, poetry, Transcendentalists, and a plethora of pertinent information.  

Willa Cather Page  
Information for students seeking help with researching and writing papers.  You will find events, publications, quotations, and her biography.    

The Mark Twain Papers and Project  
Wonderful information about Mark Twain.  Pictures, letters, notebooks, literary manuscripts, and more.  

The Jack London Collection (DL SunSITE)  
A wonderful Jack London site.  You will find a biography, documents, images, and a growing archive of his writings.    

Early Modern Literary Studies: Home Page  
Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Reader’s Forum.    

The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia   Everything you want to know about the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, from weddings to the School Outreach Program.  

Edgar Allan Poe’s House of Usher  
This site is fun to visit.  Look for the Ravin’ of the Week and visit the decrepit mansion of Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline.  An award winning site.    

References

More African Names

Your Dictionary
a quick look up dictionary and thesaurus

See the World
Looking for news from all over the world? The WorldNews Network is an online portal to international news. 

Britannica.com
Looking things up on the web is fast and efficient with this very handy search engine for quick, pointed problem solving.

Ye Olde English Sayings  
You will find a great collection of words and English sayings on this site.  You can even join a “Words” discussion group.    

The Quotations Page  
Have fun with this quotations page.  Quotes of the day, quotes of the week, motivational quotes of the day, and random quotes.  Additional links.    This is an interesting site.  One of the many projects include quotations from famous people on their birthdays linked to five components of creativity.  Check out this site and have fun!  

Biographical Dictionary  
This site is a valuable classroom resource for biographical information for more than 27,000 men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present.  Students and teachers use it for English, social studies, history, and other programs.  Many awards and citations.

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet  
This site is a part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, the American Indians index.  One of the Top 100 Educational Resources on the Web.  Many other awards.  

Project Bartleby Archive
You will find just about everything literary at this site.  Novels, short stories, poetry, inaugural addresses of the Presidents of the United States . . .  

Creative Quotations  

Librarians Choice
Put your own library on your desktop. The Best Free Reference Web Sites recognized as outstanding by the nation's librarians.

Shakespeare

 Shakespeare’s Globe
At last!  Shakespeare site even students will want to click onto.  The site offers guided tours, cast lists for past and upcoming productions as well as what’s coming up in the new theatre season.  A fun site for students and teachers alike!

The Shakespeare Insult Source
Ol' Will could get nervy.  Here you will find some of his classic barbs. 

Teaching Shakespeare
The Folgers Shakespeare Library is the world’s most significant repository of Shakespearean material.  Check out this site for actual lessons plans, tested and proven already for you by teachers in the classroom.

Welcome to Shakey’s Place!  
This website is a place for all types of Shakespeare people to interact and work together.  Students and teachers alike will be able to research and comprehend Shakespeare to a fine point using the tools, study questions, guides, and collections from all over the internet.  

Bardquest  
This site offers a terrific lesson plan for researching Shakespeare.  You won’t be disappointed.  

Ren Faire: Elizabethan Accent  
Good morrow!  Bring some fun into your classroom!  Learn to speak passable Elizabethan English.  Pronunciation, drills, vocabulary, grammar, forms of address, insults and cursing, and songs of the times.    

Knighthoods, Chivalry & Tournaments
Very interesting site selected as a valuable resource by the Britannica Internet Guide.  You will find Charlemagne’s biography, Crispen speech from Henry V, and other interesting information and resources.    

Speech and Media

Movie Mistakes
This is fun for students analyzing movies. 

History and Politics Out Loud
Interesting site where you can listen to famous speeches in English. 

1^st Intern.  Collection of Tongue Twisters – English  
“Tie twine to three tree twigs”.  Click on to this site just for fun, and dazzle your students with a collection of tongue twisters.    

Top 100 Newspapers  
Links to the top 100 Newspapers!  If you are a news hound, this is the place for you.  Check it out.    

NewsDirectory.com  
This is a guide to English-Language media online.  Browse newspapers by country, browse magazines by subject, television, additional resources, and new links every week.    

Words: useage, puzzles, vocab and games

FUN-WITH-WORDS
Includes anagrams, palindromes, spoonerisms, pangrams, oxymora, etymology, tongue twisters and more.

Oxymoronica
A fun website sponsored by Word-a-day. A good teacher/student resource.

The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
Ready to take a break? Doing this puzzle you'll move at lightning speed. Type over your mistakes. If you need a bit of "help" with the answers, the web is at your fingertips! And it's free!

Spelling Test  
Try this spelling test of fifty commonly misspelled words.  Fun for teachers and students.  

Vocabulary Quizzes (Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students) Vocabulary quizzes rated easy to difficult.  Part of The Internet TESL Journal’s Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students.  

English Word Games
Your place for many useful and unique word games for kids, students and adults.  In English and Japanese, also ESL.  

Brain Food  
Give your mind a work out on this devious collection of puzzles.  Logic puzzles, word puzzles, lateral thinking puzzles, and some tricky puzzles to razzle-dazzle the brain.     

English Plus+--English Grammar, Spelling, SAT  
An online grammar teacher designed to vanquish your anguish!  Spelling help as well as college entrance exam help.  

English Basics – Free Grammar and Writing Worksheets
Weekly grammar worksheets provided free for teachers and parent-teachers to copy for their kids.  Appropriate for upper elementary through middle school.  

The Grammar Lady Online  
The purpose of this site is to be helpful, to raise consciousness about correct language use, and to remind everyone of the ways to have fun with language.  Pose a question and you will get an answer.  

Vocabulary.com
Participate in FREE vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery.  These exercises help prepare for SAT, ACT and other tests.  Teacher endorsed.  

Susan Jones’ Verb List
Everything you want to know about verbs!  Rules, irregular verbs, verb tenses, and much more.  (And you thought “they” didn’t teach grammar anymore).  

Common Errors in English
Visit this site to help your students avoid low grades and titters of amusement when they write or speak.  A good guide to standard English language usage.  

A.Word.A.Day Home Page: vocabulary, words, definitions
This is a good site to use for a classroom activity.  A new word and definition is sent to the list every day.  If you are a linguaphile, this is the place for you.  FUN!    

Writing References

Zyzzyva
Many writer's tools and references. On-line publishing links. Rhyming dictionaries, first name lists, almanacs, etc.

River of Words
Ties the environment to poetry and artwork. A place for your students to submit their poems. Writing ideas for teachers.

Quantum Muse
Posts fantasy and sci fi literature to provide aspiring writers ample opportunity for creative expression.

All in a Name
You may be interested in how many people share your last name and where they live. You can search dates back as far as 1850 and the results appear in a color-coded map.

codr.com
Fun!  This is a choose-your-own-path adventure story just like you would read in a book.  You can add to the tale wherever you like.  Whatever you add becomes part of the story.  

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections  
This is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.  7650 teachers in 82 countries participate.    

Bienvenido a ePALS Classroom Exchange
A global classroom exchange in English, Spanish, and French.  Connect with classrooms from 103 countries speaking over 100 languages.    

Writing Center  
This site is designed to help improve the style and presentation of your reports.  Useful information on everything from taking good notes to choosing the best adjectives.  

An Inquirer’s Guide To The Universe  
If you’re a classroom teacher, consult Inquiry Tips for one possible strategy for using the guide in a classroom setting.  Great to start a lesson on Science Fiction writing.