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ACCESS INDIANA Teaching & Learning Center Teacher. The ACCESS INDIANA Teaching & Learning Center Teacher provides a teacher and a student guide to language arts for grades K-12.

Acrostics. Acrostics from Apple Computer's K-12 Curriculum contains a variety of printable word search puzzles that can complement the elementary school language arts curriculum.

Activity Arcade. The Weekly Reader Activity Arcade, updated bimonthly, provides a variety of online fun language arts activities for grades 1 and 2 and for preK and K. Kids can color one of their favorite Weekly Reader pals as well as play matching word game 1 or game 2.

Activities by the Letter. Karen M. Potter offers practical activities from her Building Blocks to Reading for teaching preschool readers. She includes an activity for every letter in the alphabet. Another good resource for beginning readers is Alphabet Animals which has a picture page for each letter in the alphabet, with easy to use arrow links to go backwards and forwards.

Activities for the Beginner Reader. Activities for the Beginner Reader, provided by Calgary Herald newspaper (Canada), features a list of pre-reading and reading tips for using a newspaper in the primary grade classroom.

Adlib from BAB Books. Adlib is BAB Books' online version for creating your own silly stories (mad libs). To play Adlibs, fill in the blanks with words that match the parts of speech and then click on the See the Story. For a different Adlib story, click on the Reload buttom on your browser. The site, suitable for students in grades 3-7, also includes a short review of the parts of speech near the bottom of the page.

AHA!'s Haiku Hideaway. AHA!'s Haiku Hideaway automatically generates three haiku poems to describe a beautiful scene in nature. Use the Reload command in your browser to generate a new collection. The site, requiring a JavaScript-capable browser, is suitable for grades 4-12.

Aha! Poetry. Aha! Poetry provides a wide variety of online poetry resources for grades 4-12. Students can learn poetric forms such as cinquain, ghazal, tanka, renga, sijo, and tanka.. Students can also add lines or commentary to existing poems in Ann Cantelow's interactive poetry pages, and post their own poems.

Alphabet Fun! Alphabet Fun! from Billy Bear's Playground contains a collection of letter games, each with increasing levels of difficulty. The site requires Netscape 3.0 or higher and is suitable for students in grades preK-2.

Alphabet Superhighway The Alphabet Superhighway, part of the U.S. Department of Education's READ*WRITE*NOW! Initiative, provides a step-by-step guide for developing Web-based, class writing projects for upper elementary school and middle school students. The teacher's lounge section contains information on using the Web, a sample Web project, a template for teachers, and how to publish the class project in the online "Exhibit Hall". In addition, teachers can learn how to create and use electronic portfolios in their own classrooms.

Alta Vista Translation Service. Alta Vista Translation Service let's you type in an English passage and translates it into French, German, Spanish, or Portuguese. Now, try re-translating the passage back into English. The site, suitable for students in grades 4-12, provides translation tips including the 'gossip' game.

AmericaReads Challenge: Ready*Set*Read Early Childhood Learning Kit. AmericaReads Challenge: Ready*Set*Read Early Childhood Learning Kit, developed by the Department of Health and Human Services for preschool through grade 3, provides ideas to help youngsters learn about language with age appropriate games and activities. To find a variety of daily activities for promoting reading and language skills, click on an 1997-98 Early Childhood Activity Calendar. The site also contains Spanish versions of the activity guides.

Anagram Genius Server. Anagram Genius Server provides a free service of rearranging the letters of your name to create new phrases with its letters. Submit your name and email addresse to receive a list of anagrams within two hours. The site is suitable for grades 3-12.

Anagram Page. The Anagram Page, for grades 7-12, presents monthly a new anagram puzzle with a list of between 20 and 25 related items which have been rearranged to make new phrases. All you have to do is unscramble the phrases to find the correct answers. Answers to curent anagram puzzle are provided the next month. The site includes an archive of past puzzles, some of Mike Hatton's favorite anagrams in the gallery, a free email service for requesting anagrams, and the Cinema Cometh anagram game where you think of the titles of novels, plays, or films.

Anagram Puzzles. Anagram Puzzles contains a collection of word puzzles for grades 6-12 where students unscramble letters to form the name of an American novelist or the name of a character from Greek or Roman mythology. If they students Java-enabled browsers, they can also try such Scrambles puzzles as poets and Shakespeare. Whenever you can't guess the answer in the Scrambles puzzles, click on the I Give Up button, and in the Anagram Puzzles, click on the scrambled words in the display box, or to see all the answers in the Anagram Puzzles, click here .

Andy's Anagram Solver. Andy's Anagram Solver is an interactive word game for grades 4-12. Enter a word, and the computer rearranges all of its letters to create as many new words as possible.

An Apple a Day. An Apple a Day contains a collection of kids' poems about apples from 32 participating classrooms in Susan Silverman's 1997 telecollaborating second grade Internet project. For a sample of each poetry form, click here.

Animal Farm by George Orwell. Animal Farm, based on the George Orwell's allegorical satire for grades 8-12, features a plot and anaylsis of the novel as well as character morphs which show a connection between the animals and past Russian historical figures.

A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students. A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students, prepared by the Internet Public Library, is an online step-by-step guide to writing a research paper with special help on finding information on the Internet. The site also provides links to additional resources for doing research and writing papers.

Ask an Expert Sources. Ask an Expert Sources, from Canada's Community Learning Network, is a collection of experts who will answer your questions on various K-12 curricular topics. For language arts, literature, writing, and grammar experts, scroll to Ask an Expert: English, Language Arts, Literature, Writing or Ask an Expert: English Grammar and choose one of the experts.

Ask Miss Grammar. Ask Miss Grammar provides a variety of online resources to help middle school and high school students write and edit. You can read her articles and answers to questions, use a search engine to navigate her site, find what you need in Miss Grammar's links, and ask Miss Grammar a question by email.

Autumn's Free Activity Page for Kids. Autumn's Free Activity Page for Kids features a collection of printable worksheets for various subject areas that include language arts. To find these activities, scroll to "Language Arts".

Awesome Cyber Greeting Cards. Awesome Cyber Greeting Cards provides a large catalog of online free greeting cards you can personalize and send via email in a matter of seconds. Card categories include for all occasions, holiday, award, birthday, thank you, kids, baby, graduation, and others. The instructions are a snap for any fourth grader to follow.

Awesome Library: Language Arts and English. The Awesome Library, for grades K-12, contains a collection of language arts and English resources for a variety of categories including reading and writing, literature, and poetry.

A.Word.A.Day. (AWAD).A.Word.A.Day. (AWAD) can improve your vocabulary by providing daily online a new word and its meaning(s), as well as its pronounciation. You can choose today's word, yesterday's word, or a word from the archives dating back to 1994. You too can subscribe to the list to receive it daily in your electronic mailbox. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Barr's English Class. Barr's English Class, created by Nantucket High School teacher Robert P. Barsanti for his students, contains his own class handouts and student worksheets as well as related sites to accompany the teaching of over 36 works of literature in grades 9-12. The works include of J.D Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caeser, Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet, Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse., Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Mark Twain's Huck Finn.

Bell Labs Text-to-Speech Synthesis. The Bell Labs offers online free samples of their multilingual text-to-speech systems (TTS) where you can hear a computer-synthesized voice say the words you type. The sample TTS include an American English application as well as a English/Pig Latin translator. The site is suitable for grades 6-12.

Big Busy House. The Big Busy House from HarperCollins Children's Books provides links to authors and illustrators home pages as well as variety of online activities for elementary school students. Students can make their own Noodles Pop-Up Book, print out the Noodles Activity Pack, play interactive games such as Quote Quiz by answering whether a quote is fiction or non-fiction or whether it's prose or poetry, Switcheroos by designing mixed-up creatures, and Wacky Words by thinking up words to create a crazy story. In addition, students can find out about the latest collection of Anastasia books, sample and read online the first chapters of some of HarperCollins' new novels, and learn about the traditions of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

Bill's Hangman. Bill Kendrick's Hangman, is an online version of this classic spelling game with over 6,000 words. You try to spell the missing word by guessing a letter on each turn. You can choose game type (level), hanging speed (number of guesses), and locale (background). The game is suitable for students in grades 3-12.

Bill Kendrick's Online Games. Bill Kendrick provides a variety of online interactive word games that can be played on the Web. To find these games, scroll to "Word Games". (None of Bill's free games require Java, frames, or plug-ins.) The site site is suitable for students in grades 3-12.

BlackStump Puzzle Page. BlackStump Puzzle Page contains a wide variety of puzzle sites for students in grades 5-12. Word puzzle types include printable and online crosswords, word finds, word games, and vocabulary. For another collection of word puzzle sites, click here.

Blue Mountain Arts. Blue Mountain Arts contains a collection of online animated, musical, electronic greeting cards for holidays and special occasions that you can personalize and send via email. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.

Blue Web'N. Blue Web'N, provided by Pacific Bell, contains a library of learning sites that includes nearly 50 language arts Web based activities and projects for students to complete online. Scroll to "Browse the Content Table" and find "English".

Boggle: You v. Me. Boggle, patterned after the popular board game by Parker Brothers, is an online version of the word game where you search for all the words you can find in a grid of letters competing against a computer. You have three minutes to enter all your words. To play, click here. The game is suitable for students in grades 5-12.

Book Plans. Book Plans, created by students in Dr. Karl A. Matz's graduate reading course at Mankato State University, consist of plans for teaching ten popular trade books in the elementary school. Each plan includes a short book review, discussion topics, and class activities.

Books.com's Contents. Books.com's table of contents offers the Author's Pen with biographical information, author photos, and home pages for over 930 authors. You'll also find there the Hall of Fame for the various book awards and an Electronic Library with thousands of copyright-free books online. In the The "Specialty Bookstores" section, you'll find monthly book reviews including Books Every Child Should Read. Books Every Child Should Read, from the Hearst Corporation's HomeArts Web site for K-12 teachers, is an excellent article in which noted writers and critics choose the books every child should read. The article provides a list of children's books and ways to encourage reading. For another excellent list of 38 books for children, ages 3 to 12, click here.

Brain Candy. Brain Candy offers hours of fun stuff for high school English students. The site contains unusual collections of sarcastic insults, stupid questions, word play, riddles, malapropisms, and other word diversions.

Brendan's Online Anagram Generator. Brendan's Online Anagram Generator is an interactive word game for grades 4-12. Enter a word, and the computer rearranges all of its letters to create as many new words as possible.

British Theatre. British Theatre is the Mining Company's guide to the whole spectrum of British theatre, from musicals to Shakespeare, from the amateur group in the village hall to the West End. The site looks at the performers and the writers, the stars and the wannabes. For a collection of British Theatre sites organized by category, click on library. The site is suitable for high school English and drama classes.

Bry-Back Manor. Bry-Back Manor provides a variety language arts activities found in an Attic filled with over 150 printable activity pages for preschoolers and children in grades K-2. The ocean, colors, dinosaurs, Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine, and Columbus day activities are especially helpful for developing language skills. The site also offers printable fun coloring pages and Judith A. Lindberg poems found near the bottom of the page.

Busy World of Richard Scarry. The Busy World of Richard Scarry presents two interactive word games for preschoolers. In alphabet strip, kids match the first letter of a word with its picture and in story writer, kids fill in blanks and write their own silly story.

CANOE Daily Crossword. Canada Online Explorer (CANOE) provides daily a crossword puzzle you can do online or print out to do offline. To find the current crossword and puzzles from the past two weeks, click on Go to Today's Crossword. You'll also find on the bottom of each puzzle page a printable version and a solution. The site is suitable for students in grades 8-12.

Cardboard Cognition. Cardboard Cognition is an online source book of over 200 board and card games covering a wide range of subject areas designed by teachers for use in grades K-12. You'll find English/language arts games in the Content and Age Group Chart. Teachers can modify or replicate these learning games for their own classrooms.

Case.com. The Case.com features three challenging mysteries every week for students in grades 8-12 including a Solve-it mini-mystery, a Twist surprise ending, and a Mysterious Photo mystery. Students can also receive a free mystery and solutions via email weekly, view previous mysterious with their solutions, and read online short Christmas Mystery Classics by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), O. Henry, and Damon Runyon.

Cathy's Picnic. Cathy's Picnic provides a variety of activities for our favorite games American holidays. The activities include email cards, riddles and puzzles, online quizzes, coloring pages, and illustrated stories of Cupid for grades K-6.

CBC Publications. The Children's Book Council (CBC) offers online a list of its publications of interest to K-8 teachers. The free publications include How to Celebrate National Children's Book Week, 75 Authors and Illustrators Everyone Should Know, 13 Exciting Reading Activities for Children, Children's Choices for 1997, and Tips for Parents, Primary Caregivers, and Educators.

Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare. Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare is an online version of a book originally published in 1806 by Mary and Charles Lamb in which 20 of Shakespeare's plays are transformed into short stories for children. Stories include Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Taming of the Shrew. The site is suitable for grades 3-8.

Chateau Meddybemps. Chateau Meddybemps, suitable for preschoolers, offers online illustrated Beantime Stories and a variety of interactive learning games to accompany these stories.

Chicky Mama's Page. Chicky Mama's Page contains a collection of over 450 printable activity pages divided by topic for preschool teachers. Many of the topics are useful for language development.

Child Care Connection: Preschool. Child Care Connection provides a variety of fun developmental learning activities for preschoolers. The language arts resources include alphabet games, dramatic play, dramatic play, birthday party theme, writing corner, and story time.

Children's Book Author: Elaine Moore. Elaine Moore's Web site, for grades K-6, offers free study guides for many of the author's books including Grandma's House, Deep River, Mixed Up Sam, and the Substitute Teacher from Mars . The site also features an Ask the Author section where the author answers many of the children's questions about her childhood, books, writing, and Elaine's life as an author.

Childrens' Book Reviews. Childrens' Book Reviews from Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Web site provides a list of featured booksby author, by title, or by type of book such as picture, novels, and no-fiction.

Circle of Friends Fun Pages. Circle of Friends Fun Pages contains coloring pages, word finds, and mazes to print featuring cartoon kids from different countries. You can also take a quiz by clicking on each figure to learn more about where each lives.

Classroom Connect's Teacher Contact Database. Classroom Connect provides a searchable database of over 4,000 K-12 teacher email buddies who use the Internet in their classrooms. You can search by the teacher's name, school's name, age of the students, and by the subject area.

ClueMaster: Guest Area. ClueMaster, for grades 5-12, offers a collection of free crossword puzzles and other word games that can be printed from your browser. The 50 quick crosswords and word searches are suitable for the younger students, while the more challenging cryptic crosswords are suitable for high school students. Each word puzzle also includes a printable answer sheet.

CNN Newsroom & WorldView for ESL. CNN Newsroom & WorldView for ESL provides online shortened versions of CNN news stories with interactive grammar and vocabulary exercises dating back to 1996 for students in grades 7-12. Teachers can also print and duplicate any exercise for classroom use.

Cobuild Definitions Game. Cobuild Definitions Game contains a database of 60,000 definitions from the Cobuild dictionary. To play, click on Try It to get a randomly selected definition and try to guess which word is being defined. If you're stumped, there's an answer. For new definition, click on Play Again. This online fun word game can help a student in grades 6-12 to improve his/her vocabulary.

Cobuild Idiom of the Day. Cobuild Idiom of the Day displays daily a common idiom from the Cobuild Dictionary of Idioms for students in grades 5-12. The site also provides a dictionary guide to idioms.

Common Errors in English. Common Errors in English, created by English Professor Paul Brians, is an online guide to correct usage for common redundancies , misnomers, misspellings, and mistakes. The site also includes Paul's big list of commonly misspelled words and an Usenet list of misspelled words, all correctly spelled. The site is suitable for grades 6-12.

Computer-Generated Haiku. Computer-Generated Haiku automatically creates a new haiku poem every 60 seconds. To learn how to create your own haiku, here or here. These sites are suitable for students in grades 4-12.

Coloring Book Pals. Coloring Book Pals features a collection of over 45 pages of your favorite Weekly Reader characters that you can color online or print out and color offline. The site is suitable for students in grades preK-3.

Cool Word of the Day. Cool Word of the Day, presented by York University College of Education, is a good way for students in grades 5-12 to build their English vocabularies. The site provides online a new word daily, its definition, and also an archive of past words.

Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction. Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction, prepared by Paul Brians of Washington State University, contains online science fiction study guides that can be used in high school English classes. The guides include H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds , Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles , and William Gibson's Neuromancer. The site also includes notes on selected stories from The Norton Book of Science Fiction.

Crayola Family Play. Crayola Family Play provides hundreds of activities that require minimum teacher preparation for use in preschool and K-12 classrooms. To find language arts activities, choose from the pull-down menus an age level, language for skill, indoor for location, and click on go!.

Create Your Own Newspaper (CRAYON). Create Your Own Newspaper (CRAYON) lets you customize an online news page with the daily information that you are most interested in. The site is suitable for students in grades 6-12.

Creative Writing For Kids. The Mining CompanyÕs Creative Writing Web site offers an impressive assortment of activities, advice, and sites of interest to budding writers in grades K-12. To find a collection of sites organized by age level, click on net links; to find the current week's guide to winter holiday activites, click on new feature; and to find activities for writing Haiku and other kinds of poetry, click on previous weekly features. Teachers can also find creative writing activities by scrolling to the "Parents/Teachers" section in the net links index.

Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students. Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students features a collection of online crossword puzzles providing students with a fun way of learning vocabulary in grades 5-12..Each puzzle includes answers and hints.

Crossword Links. Crossword Links, from the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament home page, contains an enormous collection of crossword puzzle sites for grades 4-12.

Crossword Puzzles. Crossword Puzzles, maintained by Ray Hamel, contains an extensive collection of crossword puzzle sites covering various topics for the enthusiast in grades 8-12.

CrosSynergy Syndicate. CrosSynergy Syndicate provides premium puzzles daily to publications on the Web. The site contains a Puzzle Gallery including a Beginner's Corner with over 50 crossword puzzles for students in grades 5-12. You'll need to download a free copy of Across Lite to be able to solve/print these puzzles.

Cupcake Alphabet. Cynthia Caldwell's Cupcake Alphabet, from Disney's FamilyFun magazine, provides 26 easy-to-follow alphabet cupcake recipes for grades preK-1.

Curious George Rides the Bus. Curious George Rides the Bus from Houghton Mifflin Interactive features an online game where you click on the person you want George to either take or give a hat. The game is suitable for kids from preschool to grade two.

Curriculum Connections. Curriculum Connections from the Park Maitland School contains a variety of online language arts games and activities for grades 1-6. You'll find hangman games and madlib stories as well as interactive spelling quizzes in the Spell-O-Matic section.

CyberEnglish. CyberEnglish, created by John A. Nesbit, provides a wealth of online activities for teaching high school English. The site includes Internet scavenger hunts such as the Poe Hunt as well as diverse literature resources such as Native American Literature and American Transcendentalists: Emerson and Thoreau.

Cyber Essays. Cyber Essays, updated daily for high school students, is their one-stop source for free, high-quality term papers, essays, and reports on all subjects. Students can browse the various categories or use the searchable database to find the paper they need. The purpose of this free service is to provide model essays to help students prepare their own reports.

Daily Activity Calendar. Daily Activity Calendars from Frank Schaffer Publications contain online daily teaching tips every month for grades preK-1, 2-5, and 6-9.

Daily Fix. The Daily Fix provides a new set of words, wisdom, and wit every time you click on Fresh Edition of The Daily Fix. The site, suitable for grades 8-12, offers teaching suggestions in the section, many uses of THD.

Daily Globe: "J" World Dates Archive. The Daily Globe: "J" World Dates Archive is searchable database featuring a comprehensive monthly calendar of birthdays, holidays, historical events, and fun dates. Middle school and high school English students can use this site to turn facts into story ideas.

Daily Puzzle. Daily Puzzle, for grades 6-12, is an online word game published every day from one of Dell's print puzzle magazines. A solution appears the next day. You'll need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader to play these games.

Dave and Brad's Bravenet Greeting Cards. Dave and Brad's Bravenet provides a service for creating and designing your own greeting card as well as sending it to a friend on the Net. You'll be shown step-by-step instructions how to construct a card. Once it is finished, you can preview it and decide if it needs any changes. After editing it, click on SEND and your friend will receive notification by email that there is a greeting card waiting to be picked up. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

David de Vitry Madwebs Site. David de Vitry Madwebs Site is like the madlibs of the Internet. Press the button to go create some hillarious times on the Web. All you have to do is fill in a form with silly nouns, adjectives, and more. You can even transform your own your own poems, stories, song, or anything else into madwebs with Dave's Madlib-O-Matic. The site is suitable for students in grades 7-12.

Daycare Provider's Home Page. Daycare Provider's Home Page contains an assortment of theme-related activities and ideas for grades preK -1. To find them, scroll to "Cindy's Cardfile - Circle, Craft and Activity Ideas".

Debbie's Unit Factory. Debbie's Unit Factory contains a collection of cross-curricular units and online resources for enriching language arts teaching in the elementary school. Click on table of contents to find a list of the theme units including free sample materials and online quizzes. To find topical and monthly links, click on Sneak Peeks. The site also includes its own keyword search engine.

Digital Postcards A-Z. Digital Postcards A-Z is a comprehensive list of over 2,000 links to electronic and virtual postcard sites for grades 5-12.

Digital Postcards. Digital Postcards from the Mining Company's Creative Writing for Kids Web site features a collection of electronic postcards that you can personalize and send to your friends. Click on create your free digital postcard to email a card. The site is suitable for grades 4-12.

Disney Family.com's D-cards. Disney's D-cards provides a collection of free electronic greeting cards that you can send via email on any occasion. Categories of cards include valentine's day, birthday, thank you, get well, congratulations, and I'm sorry. The site, suitable for grades 2-12, offers step-by-step instructions for sending and retrieving a card. For another large collection of electronic greeting cards, click here.

Diversions. Diversions from Penquin Putman home page is a collection of interactive quizzes based various literature themes for high school English students.

Doublets. Doublets is the popular word puzzle invented by Lewis Carroll. The site provides a collection of doublets, also known as word ladders, for students in grades 6-12. For example, a student can change the word "more" into the word "less" in three steps as follows: more, lore, lose, loss, less. At each step, remove and replace letter from the preceding word, so that you always leave a valid word in the chain. To find the answer for each doublet, click on the phrase in the white box.

Doctor Nerve's Markov Page. Doctor Nerve's Markov Page features an interactive word calculator that allows you to type or paste in prose or poetry, sorts the writer's text, and produces another similar version. The site is suitable for students in grades 7-12.

Dramatic Exchange. The Dramatic Exchange, maintained by Rob Knop and Mike Dederian, is a Web resource dedicated to the public distribution of dramatic works by playwrights both amateur and professional. To find a catalog of plays indexed by author and by a number of different categories, click here. Each play includes a summary information file (SIF) providing a synopsis, data about the play, and information about contacting the playwright. The site is suitable for high school classes.

Dr. Thaler's Method of Madness. Dr. Thaler's Method of Madness contains a variety of online resources for teaching high school English. In the "Sophomore English" section, you'll find study guides and assignments for preparing a research report, reading a novel, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and Chaim Potok's The Chosen. The site also includes a summer reading list, multicultural links, Shakespeare links, and how to dissect a story.

Early Childhood Today Online. Scholastic's Early Childhood Today magazine offers online storytelling tips, activities, and curriculum suggestions for grades preK-2.

EdCreate. The website that allows users to create and store fun interactive learning activities for their students, children or friends to retrieve! Whether you are looking for easy-to-create activities to enforce your students' learning or a place to easily create a test to evaluate your students' learning, EdCreate is the place for you! .

Ed Tech Tools. Ed Tech Tools provides a service for creating interactive quizzes on the Web. No knowledge of HTML is necessary. For more information about this free online service, click here and to apply for a QuizCenter account, click here. The site also includes a list of sample quizzes created by their quiz maker including a Dr. Seuss Trivia Quiz.

Education by Design - Learning Resource. Education by Design, an educational software publisher, provides practical language arts ideas and strategies along with printable workshheets for grades 2-6.

Education Center. The Education Center provides online a collection of classroom activities from selected pages of their magazines for grades K-6. To find more activities, click on a magazine's cover. You'll need to download Adobe's free Acrobat Reader to view and print these sample pages. In addition, the holiday section offers seasonal activities as well as arts-and-crafts projects that can be coordinated with your language arts program. The site also includes a pen pals service and postcard exchange.

Educating Our Children. Educating Our Children from ParentsPlace.com provides many language arts activities and ideas adapted from a variety of US Dept. of Ed. Brochures for grades K-12. Publications include in Summer Home Learning Recipes, Read*Write*Now, Learning Partners, and Helping Your Child Learn to Read.

EFL and ESL Lessons, Games, Songs ! EFL and ESL Lessons, Games, Songs ! provides a collection of useful language arts activities for grades 3-12 from Ian Hewitt's Edutainment: How to Teach Language with Fun and Games. These games, lessons, and ideas can easily be adapted to supplement a wide variety of English speaking classes.

Electric Postcard. The Electric Postcard, for grades 6-12, contains a postcard rack with a wide variety of postcards for you to to choose from. You pick the card you like, write your message, and send it off. The recipient will be notified by email that a card has been sent and to claim it at the Pick-Up Window within two weeks. There is no charge to send or receive these cards.

Electro Magnetic Poetry. Electro Magnetic Poetry, inspired by Dave Kapell's Magnetic Poetry, is an online Java-based version of the game you've played wth little magnets on filing cabinets and refrigerators. If you're not Java-capable, use the original CGI version. You can make impromptu poems out of all those fun words by clicking and dragging them on your screen. For good ideas using magnetic poetry in the classroom, click here. The site is suitable for students in grades 6-12.

Electronic Postcards from Around the World. Electronic Postcards from Around the World is a collection of electronic and virtual postcard sites organized by category. The site is suitable for students in grades 5-12.

English and Language Arts Department. English and Language Arts Department, part of David's Levin's Learning@Web.Sites, is an exemplary, educational resource for K-12 teachers of language arts. The site contains an alphabetical, annotated list of sites covering topics such as poetry, research writing, vocabulary development, and literature.

English Language Practice Pages. English Language Practice Pages from the Digital Education Network provide online English language exercises written by published language specialists and contributing teachers. The Hypertext English Language Practice page, grammar and vocabulary exercises, and the Test Your English page, an 80 question test with results emailed to you, are of interest to teachers and students in grades 7-12.

Englishteacher's Homepage. The Englishteacher's Homepage offers hints on punctuation, misuse of apostrophes, spelling, and words often confused. for students in grades 7-12.

English Zone. Steve Perry's English Zone features a variety of online resources for teaching high school English. In the novel section, you'll find study guides for The Stone Angel, the Lord of the Flies, Shoeless Joe, Wuthering Heights, and To Kill A Mockingbird, and in the drama section, you'll find study guides for Shakespeare's Hamlet, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth as well as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Enigma Device. The Enigma Device is an online word decoding game where you swap letter pairs to unscramble a well-known or humorous quotation. There is a choice of an easy or hard new puzzle every day and their solutions appear the following day. The site is suitable for high school students.

E-Pals.Paul Fuller's E-Pals, the electronic equivalent of pen pals is a free service designed for people to find email pals grouped by age.

ePals Classroom Exchange. ePals Classroom Exchange provides a searchable database of over 11,000 classrooms online from 96 countries worldwide and speaking 93 different languages. There are more than 850,000 students registered with ePals. You can search the database by the school name, the classroom's first language, grade, the city/town, state/province, or the country. You can then send an email or visit their home page to find out if they would like to become your classroom's pen pals. K-12 students and teachers alike could have online pen pals all over the world through this site.

ESL Quiz Center. Dave Sperling's ESL Quiz Center provides a collection of interactive, self-correcting quizzes for a variety of language arts topics for students in grades 7-12. Online quizzes provide a good way for all students to improve their grammar, reading comprehension, and their writing skills. In addition, students can also take idioms and slang quizzes.

EssayMan's Web Site. The EssayMan's Web Site contains over 700 essays on a variety of topics which high school can use to get ideas for their own papers. Other similar places on the Net are freepapers.com, English papers, looking for essays, and the Webring's Essays 4 Free list of sites.

Everyday Spelling. Everyday Spelling, Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley's Web site for its spelling series, Everyday Spelling, provides a wealth of activities and printable materials that can be used in any K-8 spelling program. The Workout Room contains weekly a new spelling puzzle and an archive of past puzzles, words in the news, and facts about spelling words, as well as, ideas for spelling and writing. The Reference Room offers 25 frequently misspelled words for each grade, spelling strategies for learning new words, Internet connections, a cross-curricular lesson, review tests, and research reports from spelling experts. You can also subscribe via email to a free update service for the latest spelling materials.

Evergreen Curriculum. The Evergreen Curriculum, prepared by Saskatchewan Education Curriculum and Instruction Branch, provides English language arts curriculum guides for grades 1-5, grades 6-9, grade 10, grade 11, secondary creative writing, secondary journalism studies, secondary media studies, and for secondary communication studies. Each guide contains daily routines, instructional ideas, evaluation techniques, and sample units.

Exam Writer. Exam Writer, developed by L. Joshua Leon of the Institut de génie biomédical at the Université de Montréal, is a tool that allows you to create an exam on the Web consisting of a variety of short answer, true/false, and multiple choice questions. All you do is fill out the forms provided with your questions, correct answers, comments, and any image files you want included. This Web quiz creation tool checks the answers for you and can even email you the results.

Express Yourself. Express Yourself published by Calgary Herald newspaper (Canada) features informal drama activities for grades 4-10.

Faces. Faces let's you mix and match celebrities facial features to form a sort of caricature of someone elses face. This fun interactive activity can be used in grades 5-12 to improve students' oral and written communication skills.

Fairy Tale Trivia Quiz. Fairy Tale Trivia Quiz from AHA! Sofware is an interactive illustrated quiz of 24 questions with answers for grades 5-12. Students can learn such facts as Red Riding Hood's name and Goldilocks' original character. For other quizzes to your literary knowledge, click here or click here.

Family.com: Education. Family.com provides a collection of articles loaded with activities for grades preK-8. To find language arts activities, click on reading or writing. You can also choose the age and the topic you want from the pull-down menus in the education bank.

FamilyEducation Network. The FamilyEducation Network provides a wide variety of curricular resources of interest to K-12 teachers and students. To find language arts activities and online quizzes, click on an age group, and for an overview of the site, click here.

Famous Americans Biography Book Reports. Famous Americans Biography Book Reports, produced by Mrs. O'Haver's fifth-grade students, contains illustrated biographies of famous Americans.

Find A KeyPal. Find A KeyPal, from KidsCom for ages 4-15, helps you make new friends (email buddies) anywhere in the world. To participate, you first must complete an online registration form. Also, students in classrooms everywhere can join in this KidsCom's service. It's free!

Film Page. The Film Page from John Nesbit's CyberEnglish provides a variety of online film resources to enrich the teaching of high school English. The site includes film reviews as well as Jane Nesbit's reproducible movie worksheets for over 30 films.

Find What's in a Name. Find What's in a Name from the Parents Soup Web site lets you enter your first name or a friend's to learn about their cultural origins. The site is suitable for grades 6-12.

Five Paragraph Essay. The Five Paragraph Essay, an online writing tutorial for high school students, provides the following sections: Getting Started; How to Write the Essay; Editing, Revising, and Evaluating; and Writing Prompts.

Flash Cards. Kaplan Mind Games contains a variety of online flash cards that provide self-correcting vocabulary practice for students in grades 7-12. Phrasal Verbs Flash Cards tests their understanding of common verb phrases, Vocabulary Flash Cards prepares students for the SAT Verbal test, and Vocab-U-Link Flash Cards are for the advanced English students. Each site includes answers, definitions, and an archive. In addition, Kaplan Interactive offers sound files where students can listen to the pronounciation of these words, a list of the 100 most common SAT words, and a language arts study skills section.

Focusing on Words. Focusing on Words provides a variety of online resources that can enhance English-language skills for high school students. The site includes a collection of interactive word activities based on Latin and Greek elements that exist in English, the etymological meanings and histories of thousands of words that have merged with our vast English vocabulary, and lists of oxymorons and redundancies. To view what's available at this site, click on its table of contents .

For Young Writers. For Young Writers, part of the Inkspot Web site, provides resources and ideas for students in grades K-12 to publish their own work.

Freedom's Nest. Freedom's Nest features a searchable database of a collection of over 1,500 quotes for grades 7-12. You can search for quotes from over 350 noted authors, or you can search by general subects or by specific subject.

FreeZone's Cyber Postcards. FreeZone's Cyber Postcards contains a collection of fun and free electronic postcards designed for middle school students.

Fun and Games. Fun and Games from Billy Bear's Playground contains a wonderful collection of early childhood games for reading readiness and beginning language arts instruction. You'll find coloring and email activities, puzzles and paper games, online games, jigsaw puzzles, lite bright, making faces and dressing teddy bear games, and much more. The site also includes links to other game sites.

FunBrain.com: Games. FunBrain provides a wide variety of interactive learning games for students in grades 3-7. To find language arts games, scroll to Subject.

Funschool.com. Funschool.com provides an extensive collection of preschool through sixth grade games and activities. Included are alphabet and number games, connect the letters, concentration games, opposite challenges, jigsaw puzzles, and much, much more. For a list of all the site's activities arranged by grade level, click here.

Funster Lobby. The Funster Lobby challenges you to come up with in three minutes as many words you can in a given word or phrase. To enter the lobby, you must register. It's free! The site is suitable for students in grades 6-12.

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