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Gaggle. Gaggle is a fun learning game that teaches kids in grades 2-6 special words, such as flock and litter, that are used for groups of animals. In addition to basic game, the site offers the Gaggle Challenge game.

Garbl's Writing Resources Online Garbl's Writing Resources Online contains an annotated directory of sites on English language, grammar, style, writing, usage, words, reference sources, word play, and online writing experts. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Grammar Help Page. Grammar Help Page, created by Ruth Vilmi and her students at Helsinki University of Technology, contains hints, rules, and online self-correcting exercises on English grammar. The site is suitable for students in grades 6-12, and also includes other grammar sites with interactive exercises.

Grammar Now. Grammar Now answers any grammar, usage, composition, or editing question that you have via email. The site, for grades 6-12, provides a convenient form to email your questions and includes other useful grammar sites.

Grammar Safari. Grammar Safari, from the LinguaCenter, is a collection of Internet middle school lessons that students take to look for examples of grammatical terms. They also get points, write journals, and do numerous other activities.

Grammar Style Notes. Grammar and Style Notes, maintained by Jack Lynch, is a alphbetical guide for grammar rules, correct style, and tips on usage for grades 9-12. The site also provides a list of online resources for writers and writing instructors.

Granddad's Animal Book. Granddad's Animal Book, created by Thomas Wright for primary grade children, is an online interactive book that has a rhyme and an animal picture for each letter of the English alphabet. Clicking on that animal will take you to a page with an illustration, a couplet, and some information on the species shown, plus links to other pertinent sites. This book also includes an online animal alphabet quiz.. The site also offers a Spanish version, an animated and sound version, and Grandad's Animal Book for Grades 4 through 6 with an assortment of activities.

Grandpa's Tucker Rhymes and Tales. Grandpa's Tucker Rhymes and Tales, updated monthly, features a collection of short silly poems and online humous stories written in verse for elementary school kids. The site also offers tips and materials for teaching poetry in the Family Fun Rhyme Time section. Teachers can print out the poetry to use in their own classrooms.

Great Books for Girls | Great Books for Boys. Ballantine Publishing Group provides Great Books for Girls | Great Books for Boys in grades K- 8. The Great Books for Girls offers a list of 18 highly recommended books to empower girls and a variety of book activities, while the Great Books for Boys include ways toencourage a boy to read, 17 highly recommended books, book activities, and tips on reading aloud.

Guide to Grammar and Writing. A Guide to Grammar and Writing, prepared by Charles Darling, is a comprehensive grammar reference for high school students. For a complete list of grammar topics, click on index. The site also contains 76 computer-graded, cleverly animated quizzes to test a student's knowledge of grammar. Students can also click on grandma's rocker to Ask Grammar a question about punctuation, word usage, writing, or other related topics. A special form appears on which students can submit their questions. For hundreds of previous answered questions on grammar, click on Grammar Logs. You'll even find a page of hilarious grammar goofs and misspellings lifted from the work of students.

Haiku for WWW. Sunny Gleason's Haiku for WWW features computer-generated haiku on a variety of topics for grades 7-12. The site also includes web-ku, a list of other haiku computer-generated links.

Haiku Mix-n-Match. Haiku Mix-n-Match, an online haiku maker, is an amusing way to introduce haiku poetry to students in grades 4-9. Follow the haiku maker up with humorus examples from Haiku Headlines of the Day or John Cho's Spam Haiku Archive with over 8,600 poems. Students will find that this ancient Japanese poetry form (consisting of 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, respectively) can be witty as well as fun.

Hallmark Connections Electronic Greetings. Hallmark provides over 1,500 free electronic greeting cards that you can send to a friend, on holidays, and on special occasions. The site, suitable for grades 3-12, also includes cards just for kids.

Hangman. Hangman is a spelling game in which kids click on letters to find the computer's mystery word. For other online hangman games also suitable for grades 2-8, click here or here.

Harcourt Brace School Publishers: Just for Kids. Harcourt Brace School Publishers provide a variety of interactive curricular activities for elementary school students. Click here for reading/language arts activities from their Signatures series. Also, click here for more activities from their Treasury of Literature series. Some of the activities require Shockwave Plug-in, while others QuickTime VR Plug-in.

Headbone Derby. The Headbone Derby is a free service provided by Headbone Interactive for grades 4-8. It is a series of online comic-like adventures where students, using the Internet, investigate topics such as solar system, wild inventions, music from other cultures, and more. Each story has seven episodes and each episode ends with a puzzle. To solve the puzzles, students do research on the Web, submit their answers online, and are awarded points as they complete the puzzles. Each puzzle is designed to take approximately 45-50 minutes to solve. To participate, students must register online. For more information, click on the 1998 Teacher's Guide.

Headbone Zone's Elroy P.I. Headbone Zone's Elroy P.I. contains a file draw with cases to solve and an agent directory where any student in grades 2-10 can join. Each mystery case has a short comic-like story and includes an answer.

Heath Anthology of American Literature. The Heath Anthology of American Literature contains a variety of online resources for teaching American literature at the high school level. The site includes curriculum resources, related links, online student research projects, and a library for primary and secondary materials. In addition, you'll find T-AMLIT, an electronic discussion list with archives of essays, syllabi,and bibliographies for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States.

Heath Middle Level Literature. Heath Middle Level Literature from Houghton Mifflin offers three levels of online activites for teachers and students, the blue,the gold, and the purple levels. Each level contains a variety of topics to enrich the teaching of literature in grades 6-8. Teachers can print out the activities and students can explore specific sites

Helping Your Child Learn To Read. Helping Your Child Learn To Read, prepared the U.S. Department of Education, provides a list of activities, from infancy to 10 years of age, to help children in reading.

Helping Your Child Learn To Write Well. Helping Your Child Learn To Write Well, prepared the U.S. Department of Education, provides list of activities, from infancy to 10 years of age, to help children in writing.

Heretical Rhyme Generator. Chris Seidel's Rhyme Generator has the computer write a little poem (doggerel) for you, as long as you give it the first line. Also, try Chris' Beatnik Ramble or Sherry Nelson's RoboPoet. Students in grades 7-12, trying to create meaningful poetry, can have fun with these 'nonsense' poetry sites.

High School Theatre. High School Theatre features a collection of links to middle and high school theatre programs across the country and around the world. If you'd like to add your school to this list, just email the information to Wichita High School East.

Holidays. Holidays from Billy Bear's Playground contain a wide assortment of language-arts resources for the primary grades. Kids can play games, print and color pictures, and do online activities for our favorite American holidays. The site includes activities for New Years, Valentines, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, April Fools, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

Holidays Around the World. Holidays Around the World, included in Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources Page for grades K-12, contains an annotated list of holiday sites with information on the holidays, holiday stories and poems, and related classroom activities.

Holidays Index. Holidays Index, from There's No Page Like Home for the Holidays, contains a list of holiday poems for grades K-12. To find the list, scroll beyond the big "Holidays Table of Contents" to "Holiday Poetry Index". The site also includes a comprehensive list of favorite American holidays with thematic activites and related links for each holiday, other holiday links on the Internet, and a collection of virtual cards that you can email to your friends.

Holidays on the Net. Holidays on the Net features a wide variety of American holiday celebrations. Each holiday contains stories and fun thematic activities for grades K-8. For a list of all the holidays on the site, click here.

Homeschool Study Resources. Homeschool Central provides a wealth of selective resources for various subject areas including language arts for grades K-12. Although this site is primarily intended for homeschooling parents, it's also very useful for classroom teachers.

Homework Help. Homework Help, provided by the Star Tribune newspaper, is a collection of questions answered by teachers and discussions on a variety of subjects for students in grades K-12. It's a good reference resource for students doing research or writing papers, for answering questions, or as a source for research material. To find the secondary English and literature section, click here and to find the elementary school section with topics such as writing, grammar, books, and reading, click here. The site also provides links to related resources organized by subject area.

Home Page for Macbeth and Hamlet. Home Page for Macbeth and Hamlet, sponsored by Falcon Education Link, makes the study of Shakespeare more enjoyable and understandable for high school students. Rodger Burnich, an English teacher, wrote the guides to Macbeth and Hamlet.

Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary. Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary provides a variety of ready-to-use resources for students to further practice and review spelling words in grades 1-6. The printable resources include crossword puzzles, word searches, word games, exercises, related reading bibliographies, and other activities. To find the resources, click on a "level", choose a "cycle", and then click on "Go".

How a Book is Made. How a Book is Made from HarperCollins book publishers provides a behind-the-scenes look, guided by Aliki and her book-loving cats, on how a book is made. Primary grade children will enjoy this tour because of great drawings and large text.

How to Find a Key Pal. How to Find a Key Pal provides three excellent pen pal sources, the eMail Classroom Exchange, the Keypal Club, and the Web66: WWW School Registry for grades K-12.

Humorous Signs. Humorous Signs is a collection of amusing English translation signs from around the world. What's the following sign found in a Budapest zoo trying to convey? "Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty." The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Huzefa's Riddles and More Riddles. Huzefa's Riddles and More Riddles is a collection of word riddles arranged into easy, medium, and hard categories. To see the answer of any riddle, drag your mouse to the right of the red arrow revealing the hidden answer. The site is suitable for students in grades 4-12.

HyperGrammar. HyperGrammar, from the University of Ottawa for grades 7-12, is an extensive online guide to grammatical terms providing definitions, explanations, and interactive quizzes. Topics range from the parts of speech to spelling, and each topic includes a review tests to check your understanding of the material presented.

Hypertext. Hypertext, from Emory University's English Department, contains a collection of online projects with excellent reference materials for AP English students. Projects include Shakespeare Illustrated, Lost Poets of World War, The History of Drama, and Emory Women Writers Resource Project.

Idea Box. The Idea Box provides a wide variety of resources for early childhood education. The activity page and the seasonal page, updated weekly, contains hundreds of pre-reading activities, ideas, articles, projects, seasonal themes, coloring pages, and printable pages.

Idea Junction. Idea Junction from Rigby Education features an activity calendar and idea files for middle school English. On each date of the calendar, you'll find a special event and a classroom activity or an idea to be used with that event. There are also activity calendars from previous months including archives for 1996 and 1997 calendars. In addition, Rigby Education offers a collection of tips contributed by teachers for managing school library media centers.

25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers. 25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers, reprinted by Education World, contains a list of ideas and activities contributed by elementary school reading teachers. To find them, scroll to NOW, 25 IDEAS FROM 25 TERRIFIC TEACHERS.

I'm A Little Teapot! I'm A Little Teapot!, published by Black Sheep Press, provides a variety of online language arts activities for preschool and primary grade teachers. The site includes stories to read aloud, related nonfiction and fingerplays, songs, and nursery rhymes to link read-aloud stories together. Teachers will also find presentation ideas for tellable tales, felt board stories, and stories adaptable to puppetry, cut and tell, and draw and tell.

Improvisational Theatre Structures. Improvisational Theatre Structures, created by Hugh MacLeod for grades 4-12, features an extensive collection of improv games including warm-ups, exercises, long-forms, and ask-fors for practicing improvisational comedy theatre. For another large collection of improv games, click on The Living Playbook.

Index of Shakespeare Plays. Index of Shakespeare Plays contains Matthew Monroe's summaries of the basic plots of all 37 Shakespeare's plays for grades 7-12. Each summary covers the major developments and most of the important characters in the play.

Integrated Resource Packages (IRP's). The Integrated Resource Packages (IRP's), developed by British Columbia Ministry of Education, feature teaching guidelines for the various K-12 curriculum areas. The language arts IRP's for grades K-7, 8-10, and for 11-12 include prescribed learning outcomes, suggested instructional and assessment strategies, and recommended learning materials. The grade12 IRP contains strategies and skills for Professional Communications and English Literature.

Interactive Crossword. Interactive Crossword Web site, provided by the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News newspapers, is a collection of online, easy-to-use crossword puzzles for grades 6-12. The site also offers daily an online word match concentration game where you match each word with itself or each word with its meaning.

Interactive English Language Exercises. The International Language Centres Group (ILC) provides online interactive English language self-correcting exercises to improve your knowledge of grammar, vocabulary and idioms. The site is suitable for students in grades 6-12.

Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections (IECC). The IECC mailing lists since 1992 are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help K-12 teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for email classroom penpal and project exchanges. For instructions to subscribe a mailing list, scroll to "Subscribing to the IECC Mailing Lists".

Internet Anagram Server. Internet Anagram Server provides word play fun spicing up a language arts classroom for students in grades 5-12. Anagrams are words made from the rearranged letters of other words. For a list of clever examples, click on Anagram Hall of Fame.

Internet Card Central. Internet Card Central is a one-stop meta-site for virtual postcards and greeting cards on the Web. The site, suitable for grades 5-12, includes links to over 700 card sites, indexed by occasion, subject, function, as well as alphabetically with annotations.

Internet Public Library Youth Division: Reading Zone. The Reading Zone of the Internet Public Library Youth Division is a little like the fiction section at your neigborhood public library. You can read make-believe stories on your computer screen instead of in a book. There are stories and poems for new or experienced readers. If you already have some favorite authors, you can find out more about them in the "Authors & Books" section. The site is suitable for students in grades K-8.

Interactive Quiz on Meter. Interactive Quiz on Meter tests online your grasp of terms and your ability to identify meters by name. The site is suitable for high school English students.

Jan Brett's Home Page. Jan Brett's Home Page, the well-known picture book author and illustrator, provides a wealth of printable activites for primary grade children. They can make animal masks, color pages, work on fun projects, and read the "all abouts" and view lovely her drawings in the newsnotes section. Students can also send an electronic postcard from her collection of over 40 cards.

JavaScript Vocabulary Stretchers. JavaScript Vocabulary Stretchers is a word game for grades 7-12 that features ten new words every Sunday in the form of multiple choice questions. Click on the definition you think is correct, and the game will tell you instantly if you're right or wrong. Also, try the second word game by clicking on Play. For directions on how to play this second game, click on Instructions.

Jesse's Word of the Day. Jesse's Word of the Day is where students can find easy-to-understand explanations to questions about words, grammar, or usage from Jesse Sheidlower, a Random House Senior Editor. For example, he explained how to make compound nouns plural (father-in-law becomes fathers-in law). Students can email their questions to Jessie at jester@randomhouse.com, or they can also browse an archive of past words, alphabetically indexed. The site is suitable for grades 6-12.

Joan Irvine. Joan Irvine Web site provides illustrated instructions for making a pop-up card in the primary grades. Students can also enter a pop-up card contest.

John's Word Search Puzzles. John's Word Search Puzzles, updated monthly with four new puzzles, is a collection of over 125 printable word searches for grades 3-8. Puzzle categories consist of Kids, Cities and States, Holidays, Sports, and TV and Movies.

Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection. Judi Harris' Network-Based Educational Activity Collection contains a variety of collaborative and network activities that encourage communication through the use of email for grades K-12. For Internet-based language arts activities, click here. For Judi's 1996 collection of Web-based activities, click here, and for Judi's 1997 collection of curriculum-based Internet projects, click here. In addition, Judi provides a search engine to help you find activities from her collections.

Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar is a paraphrase of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar and is intended as a supplement to the original work. Read it along with the original as an aid to comprehension, not as a replacement, since no paraphrase can ever match the richness of Shakespeare's original text. The site also include an annotated list of other Julius Caesar links.

Jumble & Crossword Solver. Jumble & Crossword Solver is a handy tool for unscrambling words and making crossword puzzles easier to do. It checks the results against Webster's dictionary for the crossword puzzle solver and returns only real words that can result from the scrambled word. This interactive site is suitable for grades 5-12.

Jumbalaya. Jumbalaya is an online version of Parker Brothers' popular board game Boggle where you search for all the words you can find in a grid of letters. You can vary the grid size, the game duration, and the scoring method. For instuctions on how to play, click here. The site is suitable for students in grades 4-12.

Kate Gladstone - The Handwriting Repairwoman. Kate Gladstone - The Handwriting Repairwoman contains everything you want to know about handwriting. For an overview of the site, click on table of contents.The site is suitable for grades K-12.

Keypals Club International. Keypals Club International, created by ten-year old Lauren, is a keypal club at World Kids Network whose goalis to promote greater understanding of kids around the world through the use of email. To take participate in the email and other club activities, you must join. The services are free! The site is suitable for students in grades 3-10.

Kid Crossword and Other Puzzles. Brian Goss' Kid Crossword and Other Puzzles, updated monthly for grades 3-12, features a collection of over 25 printable pages of crosswords and other puzzles for various curricular areas. Its current offerings for language arts (January 1998) include punctuation and nouns/adjectives puzzles. To find previous month's offerings for English, literature and holidays, click on Puzzle Catolog.

KidReach: Anticipation Guides. KidReach Anticipation Guides, sorted by grade level, is a collection of questionnaires in which you answer online ten true/false questions about a novel or a play before you read it. The questions, written by the State University of West Georgia students, are designed to stimulate your thinking and are not intended to test your comprehension. To receive a response to your answers, you must fill in your email address, name, school, and your teacher's name. The site is suitable for students in grades K-12.

Kids@Random.Kids@Random, from Random House Online, provides a variety of online resources for children in preK-3. Kids can play games at Seussville and win prizes by entering a trivia contest, enjoy rainy colored day activities, and learn about new books at more fun and at the editors'hot picks. For another Dr. Suess site for kids featuring an online storybook, click on How The Grinch Stole Christmas .

KidsConnect. KidsConnect is an Internet question and answer service for students in grades K-12 operated by the America Association of School Librarians. If you're looking for information for a report or project to do for school, send your question to KidsConnect or complete this short form. A volunteer school librarian, usually within two school days, will provide you with Web sites and other resources for your project.

Kids Domain. Kids Domain, suitable for grades K-8, contains a collection of holiday pages, each with background information, pictures to print and color, craft projects, word puzzles (for some holidays), related links, and other activities of interest to elementary school language arts teachers and students. The site also includes a Winter Fun page for Valentines Day, Christmas, and Chanukah.

Kid's Games. Longman Dictionaries' Kids' page for grades 2-6 features word puzzles and games to help students build their English vocabulary and improve their spelling.

Kids Resume Maker. ParentSoup provides an online kids resume maker for grades 4-8. For sample resumes, click here.

KidsSource Online: Early Learning. KidsSource Online offers a collection of articles providing activities, suggestions,and background information to help children learn during the preschool years and to help them develop a lifelong love of learning.

Kids' Space Connection: Penpal Box. Kids' Space Connection provides a collection of penpal boxes that list kids who are looking for penpals by age group. There's a penpal box for ages 6 and younger, ages 7 and 8, ages 9 and 10, ages 11 and12, and for ages 13 through 16. For each child, you'll find their name, nickname, email address, age, country, and a short bio. There's also a class box for schools and an archive of the most recent penpal members.

KidWorld by Tandem House. KidWorld by Tandem House provides a variety of language arts resources for students and by students in grades 3-10. Students can leave a note for a friend at the message board, make a keypal friend, or enjoy or enjoy other activities. To find a collection of fun activities, click on Kids Cornfield Magazine with sections on jokes, quizzes, and word puzzles.

Kids Domain Downloads. Kids Domain provides a wide variety of shareware/freeware PC language arts programs and Maclanguage arts programs that preK-12 teachers can download to their computers. In addition, you'll find other software to download including worksheet makers, keyboard bangers, and thinking games at this site.

KidzPage. KidzPage contains a collection of humorous poetry and limericks written by adults and kids and selections from Odgen Nash and Lewis Carroll. The site is suitable for grades K-5.

Kidz Paper Puzzles & Paper Games. Kidz Paper Puzzles & Paper Games from Billy Bear's Playground, updated monthly, contains a variety of printable, holiday activities for the primary grades. The activities include crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, mazes, and coloring pages.

Kidz Post Office. Kidz Post Office, from Billy Bear's Playground for grades K-6, provides three ways for kids to send Internet email cards to their friends. Kids can color a picture from one of the online holiday books, and then email it, or send an animated digital card, or mail a Purp Bean card. A JavaApplet browser is required to make the cards. The site also includes a collection of links to other Internet email cards for kids.

Kill Devil Hill. Kill Devil Hill delivers online daily poems including a Shakespeare's Sonnet, a Drake's Sonnet, and a poem written by a variety of poets. You can also read weekly a seafaring poem and send an electronic Shakespearean Sonnet greeting card. The site is suitable for grades 8-12.

King Lear's PalaceNET. King Lear's PalaceNET, created by Kevin Richards, a student at Cabrillo High School, contains his scene-by-scene notes of King Lear to help other high school students enjoy and better understand Shakespeare's play.

Kino's Storytime.Kino's Storytime, a PBS show for children in grades preK-4, provides an online concentration-type game with different levels of difficulty, printable coloring pages, and an alphabetical list of books including a brief description of each story.

Kristine O'Connell George.Kristine O'Connell George, the author of The Great Frog Race and Other Poems, provides a collection of tips and ideas for teaching poetry in grades K-5. The site also contains information about author and her books, a kids section, and related poetry links.

Language Arts Department. The Language Arts Department, from Terrie L. Bittner's Homeschool Teacher's Lounge for preschool and the elementary school teachers, features articles with tips and activities for teaching reading, writing, grammar, and spelling. Articles include Getting Preschoolers Ready to Read, The Alphabet, Writing Reports, and Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs.

Language Instititute. The Language Instititute of the City University of Hong Kong provides 18 online self-correcting quizzes for reading and grammar and 11 short self-correcting quizzes for listening created by John Wong. The site is suitable for students in grades 7-12.

Learn English and Teach English with JoELC. Learn English and Teach English with JoELC contains a variety of interactive language activites for students in grades 6-12. including a tests library of online quizzes, a stories box, and a tricks box with riddles. For an interactive synonym quiz, click here.

Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day. The Learning Kingdom presents a new word daily for students in grades 5-12. Each word includes a definition, its derivation, related word forms, and usage in a sentence. The site also provides an archive of past words. To receive Cool Word of the Day by email, click here.

Learning Strategies Database. Learning Strategies Database is an online version of learning strategies compiled by Muskingum College (Ohio) over a ten-year period. Topics for general-purpose strategies include attention and concentration, notetaking, test preparation and taking, time management, and writing and proofing, while topics for English include composition and literature. There are also learning strategies for library research. Although this database is intended for college students, it's also invaluable resource for high school students.

Learning Train. Learning Train contains a Building Blocks to Reading program as well as other reading readiness activities for children in grades preK-2.

Lee and Evan's Notes: A Definitive Guide to Othello. Lee Hiromoto and Evan Kumasaki, two Punahou students in Honolulu, provide an online guide to William Shakespeare's Othello to help high school students better understand this Shakespearean tragedy. The site contains a description of characters, scene-by-scene synopses and commentaries, research questions about the play, and related Othello links. For a teacher's guide to Othello, click here.

Literary Cryptograms. Literary Cryptograms contains a collection of word puzzles to challenge AP English students. Each puzzle is a quotation from a famous literary work that has been encrypted using a simple letter substitution code.The site includes instructions for solving the literary cryptograms.

Literacy Place. Literacy Place features a collection of over 80 Web-based activities related to Scholastic's reading series for grades K-6. To find an activity, scroll to Extend all 42 Literacy Place units using the Web, select a grade level, click on a unit, scroll to EXPLORE, and then click on a site. These activities can be used with any K-6 reading program.

Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story? Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story?, from The Annenberg/CPB Project for the middle school, presents an interactive exhibit where you can learn about the elements of a good short story and can take part in activities related to A Jury of Her Peers.

Literary Trivia. Literary Trivia presents four online quizzes where high school English students can test their knowledge of books and literature. Answers are provided.

Little Explorers. Little Explorers, created by Enchanted Learning Software, is an online picture dictionary containing over 1,100 entries and related Web sites for preschoolers. (Many of the Web sites are of interest to elementary school students, too). Click on a letter in the alphabet at the top of the window and you'll see a page of words that start with that letter. You can can also listen to the letter names. Little Explorers is available in Spanish and French versions.

Little House in the Big Woods Activities. Little House in the Big Woods Activities features chapter-by-chapter online learning activitess for grades 3-6 to accompany Laura Ingalls Wilder's book, Little House in the Big Woods. To find additional activities, scroll to "Content: On my Web site". For fans of the 'Little House' series, click on Laura Ingalls Wilder Ring.

Live And Learn: Online Colors And Reading Game. Live And Learn provides an online colors and reading game to help preschhoolers learn to read the basic color words and associate them with the proper color. The site also includes hints about teaching color recognition and color names, and an Animated Picture Book of opposites for beginner readers.

Lois Walker's Take Part Home Page. Lois Walker's Take Part Home Page provides an assortment of fun-filled activities for elementary school children. The language arts activites include tongue twisters, silly jokes, tell-a-tale town, coloring, and puppets.

Macbeth Plugged. Macbeth Plugged is an annotated, online version containing summaries, notes, definitions, and related links to aid high students gain a better understanding of Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth.

Mama's Romance Guide. Mama's Romance Guide says "I Love You" in 14 different languages including Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic.

Making Riddle-Poems. Making Riddle-Poems provides background information, instructions, an examples for creating riddle-poems in grades 5-12. An example of a riddle-poem follows: Three eyes have I, all in a row; when the red one opens, all freeze. The answer is: A traffic light.

Mark Twain. Mark Twain, maintained by JIm Zwick for the Mining Company, provides a wide-ranging compilation of material by Twain and about Twain. The site also includes teaching resources for grades 8-12. For a list of all the site's Mark Twain resources, here.

Mark Twain in His Times. Mark Twain in His Times, created by Stephen Railton for students and teachers in grades 7-12, contains dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and newspaper articles, hundreds of graphic images, and many different kinds of interactive exhibits. For a quick overview, you can go to Sample This Site. If you'd like help navigating the site, start with Piloting Lessons.

Mark Twain's Memory-Builder. Mark Twain's Memory-Builder, devised by Stephen Railton, is an interactive illustrated quiz game focusing on Mark Twain and his times. The game is divided into four sections, each with eight questions. At the end of each section, there's a landing where you can stop and see the dates you've found arranged chronologically. You can also see the timelines by clicking here. The game is suitable for students in grades 7-12.

Merriam-Webster Online. Merriam- Webster Online provides authoritative information about the English language on the Internet including a treasury of interactive activities for students in grades 6-12. Among its various activites are the Word of the Day and Vocabulary Builder in the Language Info Zone, the Word for the Wise, quizzes from Webster's Third New International Dictionary, and Words from the Lighter Side. To view a list of all the site's resources, click here.

Merriam-Webster Word Game of the Day. Merriam-Webster Online provides a new word puzzle daily for you to play online. You can also visit the puzzle archive to play games you missed during the past month. The word puzzles come in five formats: Definition Demolition, Flip Flop, Transform Brainstorm, Slang Slinger, Match Maker. You must use Java-enabled browser such as Netscape Navigator 3.01 or Internet Explorer 3.0. The site is suitable for students in grades 5-12.

Midsummer Night's Dream. J. B. Siedlecki's online annotated version of A Midsummer Night's Dream makes William Shakespeare's play more comprehensibe and enjoyabe for high school Engish students. The site provides the full text, along with links offering explanations of unfamiliar Elizabethian words and phrases.

Midsummer Night's Dream Study Guide. A study guide to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, created by the Moscow Alternative School in Idaho contains simplified version of the play, full text of the play, biography, photos, student study questions and much more.

Mousers. Mousers from Kids.com features a variety of online language arts games for kids in grades preK-1.

Mountain Lake Software, Inc. Mountain Lake Software, Inc. provides the online magazines, CyberKidsand Cyberteens, as well as a serial novel The Chosen Ones. Both CyberKids and Cyberteens feature stories, poems, and fun interactive activities for students in grades 3-10.

Mr. Heffner's Web Page. Steven D. Heffner Web Page contains a variety of online resources for teaching high school English. The site includes an I-Search technique for writing research paper, along with student samples, winning compositions by his ninth grade students in the Golden Pen Award section, and related links organized by topic.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet. Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet is an annotated guide to Shakespeare resources compiled by Terry A. Gray. Sections include his works, life and times, theatre, criticism, and Renaissance sources. In addition, the section, Shakespeare in Education provides a collection of teaching aids for the middle and high school classroom.

Ms. Smith's English Page. Ms. Smith 's English Page contains a collection sites for teaching middle school English. The resource includes information about authors and poets, background information about novels such as To Kill A Mockingbird and Across Five Aprils, writing help, a biography/autobiography section, word fun links, and other home pages by English teachers.

Multicultural Pavilion Teacher's Corner. Multicultural Pavilion Teachers Corner provides a variety of online muticultural resources for the K-12 language arts curriculum. Resources include teaching activities, reading lists, archives of ehtnic literature, and related sites.

Multicultural Resources. Multicultural Resources, compiled by Inez Ramsey of James Madison University, is an extensive collection of sites providing multicultural reading sources and information for the elementary school. To browse resources for older students on African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics, click Young Adult Literature.

My Word's Worth. My Word's Worth is an online weekly column written by reference librarian Marylaine Block. To find Marylaine's past columns, click on archive.

National Council of La Raza Alma Awards. The National Council of La Raza Alma Awards offers a K-12 curriculum guide with language arts teaching activities to analyze media portrayals of minority communities and to encourage their positive and accurate portrayal in American film and television.

National Puzzlers' League. The National Puzzlers' League, established in 1883, publishes ENIGMA, a monthly newsletter featuring a variety of word play puzzles. From issues of the newsletter, you'll find online minisample puzzles and representative verse puzzles for students in grades 9-12.

NCTE: Teaching Ideas and Topics. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) provides a variety of teaching ideas and topics for elementary, middle, and secondary schools. Among the topics are class activities, composition, literature, and critical thinking.

NEA's Works4Me . The National Education Association (NEA) provides a service where a K-12 teacher can sign up to receive weekly an email message containing a practical classroom tip contributed by fellow NEA members. The site also contains the top ten Works4Me tips, an online threaded discussion for subscribers' to exchange classroom ideas, as well as a library with over 400 tips organized by topic that includes many language arts tips in the content section.

Neil/Fred's Gigantic List of Palindromes. Neil/Fred's Gigantic List of Palindromes offers palindrome word play for students in grades 4-12. A palindrome is a word or sentence that reads the same forwards as it does backwards. To find their list, click here. For another online source, click on Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection.

Newsword Crossword Crosswords. Newsword Crossword Crosswords is a collection of printable thematic and holiday crossword puzzles for students in grades 5-12. Each puzzle contains the solution and many of the clues include links with information about the clues.

New Windmills: Literature Alive. New Windmills: Literature Alive, from Heinemann Educational Publishers, features Author Profiles and Interviews and printable Activity Worksheets to selected novels for middle school and high school English teachers. The Author Profiles and Interviews section contains information about authors and their works such as John Steinbeck and Jean Ure, and includes interviews with Jamila Gavin, Robert Westall, and Ian Strachan.

New Ghostwriter Mysteries. New Ghostwriter Mysteries, from the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), features a collection of online Cool Word-Search Puzzles and printable Solve This word games for students in grades 5-10.

New York Times Trivia Quiz. New York Times Trivia Quiz Web site, maintained by Ray Hamel, offers two new online trivia quizzes, every Tuesday and Friday, with different themes. Select a circle to enter an answer and click on "Submit" to get your score with brief comments on each question. For over 175 past quizzes dating back to 1996, click here.

NFB Kids: The Prince and I. The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) designed The Prince and I Web site especially for elementary school children. The site promotes reading, writing, and problem-solving through a variety of interactive activities that kids can engage in after becoming a "friend of the Prince".

Northern Links Fun Stuff. Northern Links Fun Stuff provides a page of jokes, a hangman game, a calender maker, and madlibs for students in grades 8-12..

Not Just for Kids: Holiday Pages. Not Just for Kids contains a collection of America's favorite holidays sites that can enrich any K-6 language arts program. Each category of holiday sites includes online activities and information to help students learn more about these holidays.

Nueva Research. Nueva Research provides online guidelines from the Modern Language Association of America for citing bibliographies for high school students. You''ll find these guidelines in the "MLA Bibliographic Interactive Forms". For more information on MLA documentation style, click here.

Official Brian Jacques Home Page. Official Brian Jacques Home Page, created for fans and friends of the Redwall books in grades 4 -7, contains a biography of this well-known storyteller, classroom activities for Redwall, and an annotated list of Redwall series. Students can read previous ask Brian questions from other students or enter an online crossword puzzle contest.

Official Eric Carle Web Site. Official Eric Carle Web Site contains an annotated list of the books written by the famous author/illustrator for primary grade children. Titles of his books include The Very Hungry Catepillar , Do You Want To Be My Friend and Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, Little Cloud, and Flora and Tiger. Teachers can participate in the Caterpillar Exchange bulletin board and share ideas on how to use Eric Carle's books. You can also learn more about Eric Carle's books in the online newsletter, Caterpillar Express.

Oink, Oink, Oink. Oink, Oink, Oink features Web activity pages created by Loogootee Elementary West's third grade and inspired by Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy site Oink, Oink, Oink. The Web activity pages include a variety of themes including pigs, wolves, desert, Hawaii, and sharks. All the online activities are suitable for students in grades 2-5.

Omnibus. Omnibus contains a collection of online interactive word puzzles and games to challenge middle and high school students.

Online Connection. The Writing Center at Ball State University provides a collection of online handouts that offer tips and pointers on different aspects of writing as well as tips for researching online. The site is suitable for students in grades 7-12.

Online Crosswords. Online Crosswords offer a variety of interactive word puzzles that students can do online. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.

Online English Grammar. Online English Grammar, created by Anthony Hughes, offers a complete treatment of the mechanics of English grammar for grades 5-12 including practice pages. To find items of interest to you, visit the main table of contents.

Other People's Papers. Other People's Papers currentlty contains over 1,000 reports for a variety of subject areas. For a vast list of book reports, from the plays of Shakespeare to Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye , click here. These papers can serve as reference material for students in grades 6-12 and are not intended as a substitute for individual writing.

Palindrome Page. Palindrome Page provides all the information you could possibly want about those words and phrases that read the same backwards and forwards. The site is suitable for grades 6-12.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant. The Paradigm Online Writing Assistant is a great site for secondary school students looking for help in how to write an essay, editing their drafts, and documenting their sources. The site contains information about how to write various types of essays, how to organize ideas, and how to edit and revise your work. The material is presented in a very clear and easily understood manner, even though it was designed for college students.

Parentpals.com. Parentpals.com provides tip of the week and teaching ideas which contain many interactive activities and ideas for language arts teachers and students in grades K-12.

PBS Kids. PBS Kids provides a collection of printable coloring pages featuring the letters of the alphabet and your favorite characters from Sesame Street. In the Preschool section, you'll find a variety of language arts activities and games. You'll also find in the Fun & Games section a coloring book with over 100 printable pages of your favorite PBS characters and online coloring pages. The site also includes a list of links to the PBS stations and schedules to watch them on more than 300 local PBS stations. The site is suitable for preschool and elementary school children.

PBS TeacherSource Arts and Literature: Inventory. PBS TeacherSource provides a wide variety of online arts-and-literature-related resources organized by grade level for grades preK-12. The site also includes other activities from PBS TV shows that teachers can use in their existing language arts programs.

Pencil Pete. Pencil Pete's Learn to Print and Cursive Writing flash animation programs make learning to write easier and more fun. Great for the classroom, home schoolers, or extra handwriting practice at home!

Pen Pal Exchange. Pen Pal Exchange contains email addresses of K-12 students and teachers who want to share their interests with each other. The site provides alphabetical lists from United States, worldwide, and individual schools.

Perpetual Preschool. Perpetual Preschool offers loads of early childhood education activities contributed by preschool teachers. The site includes activities for language arts, dramatic play, as well as for the holidays.

PhoneSpell. PhoneSpell is an online searchable database of phone numbers which can be translated into words and phrases. You can also translate letters into the corresponding phone numbers. Another phone converter is PhoNETic. Students in grades 6-12 can have fun making words and secret codes with these online phone converters.

Poetry Daily. Poetry Daily features a new poem online every day for grades 9-12. The site includes poetry news, selections from the past week, and an one year's poetry archive indexed by poet and title.

Poetry For Kids. Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry For Kids contains his collection of over 40 wonderfully funny original poems for elementary school children. The site also includes links to other fun poetry pages.

Positive Saying of the Day. Positive Saying of the Day presents daily a famous quote which middle and high school language arts teachers can use in their critical thinking instruction. The site also includes last week's sayings and a free email subscription to positive sayings.

Postcards from the Web. Postcards from the Web contains a collection of animated postcards students can send to their friends and family on holidays, birthdays, valentine's day, and special occasions. The site is suitable for grades 6-12.

Power Bear Word Find Puzzles. Syndicate.com provides directions to a monthly Power Bear Word Find Puzzle as well the answers for each puzzle found at the bottom of this page. The site, suitable for students in grades 7-12, highlights a word, gives the definition and use in context, and offers a challenge for the word find. For example, scroll to the May 1996 word find puzzle and try it: Is your brain obtunded? Use the letters from the word "obtunded" to spell 30 new words. You must use four or more letters with no proper nouns, no adding "s" to three letter nouns, and only one form of a word is acceptable.

Practice Reading Test for Level 2. Practice Reading Test for Level 2 is an interactive, self-correcting reading comrehension exercise about the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas for students in grades 5-9. The exercise includes 20 multiple choice questions.

Prentice Hall School: Language Arts. Prentice Hall School provides a list of online projects and activities for incorporating the rain forest theme into language arts curriculum in grades 6-12.

Preschool Fun Zone. Preschool Fun Zone offers hundeds of activities organized by topic for preschool teachers.

Proper Elizabethan Accents. Proper Elizabethan Accents provides a variety of online resources to help high school students studying Shakespeare better understand Elizabethan language. Topics include pronunciation and drills, vocabulary, grammar, forms of address, and insults and cursing.

Pun of the Day. The Pun of the Day, maintained by Mike Bull, provides word humor in the form of a pun (play on words) every weekday for grades 7-12. For other wordplay/pun sites, click here or click on Yahoo's List.

Purdue Online Writing Laboratory (OWL). Purdue Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) features a collection of 130 instructional handouts for students in grades 8-12 to improve their writing skills. Topics include punctuation, parts of speech, correct sentence structure, spelling, and research papers. For a complete list of topics, click on summaries. OWL also provides an extensive list of other online writing resources.

Puzzle Connection. Puzzle Connection, maintained by Insight Software Solutions, provides weekly a new printable crossword and a word search puzzle centered around a theme. To find the five-week puzzle collection, scroll to the "Weekly Puzzle Section" and click on the puzzle you want. The site also includes a list of other puzzle resources.

Puzzle Depot. Puzzle Depot, managed by Pinnacle Solutions, contains online language arts puzzles and games for students and teachers in grades 6-12. To find a variety of crossword puzzles (and solutions), click on Crosswords which include General Topic Puzzles and Vocabulary Lesson Puzzles. For other puzzles and word trivia games, click on Puzzle Library where you'll find Weekly Crosswords in printable GIF format and Trivia Teasers which feature word games.

Puzzlemaker. Puzzlemaker, sponsored by Ferguson Consulting for grades 4-12, allows you to set-up online and print on your computer different word puzzles and games for your classroom assignments. Among the language arts puzzlemakers are a Word Search maker where you type in a list of words, choose the size, set a few options, and the computer will hide them in a grid of letters. Another is the Hidden Message Word Searchmaker which reveals a secret message from the leftover letters. Other language arts puzzlemakers include Double Puzzle., Letter Tiles, and Fallen Phrase.

Puzzler. The Puzzler from Actual Entertainment for grades 5-12, provides a collection of 60 picture word puzzles with answers in which students can have fun translating arrangements of letters, numbers, and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché. To find these picture riddles, click on previous puzzles.

Puzzles. The Chicago Tribune's Puzzle Page presents daily online word games, Jumble Plus and TumbleWords, for students in grades 5-12. Both puzzles provide simple playing rules and archives of past games.

Puzzles by Puzzability. Puzzles by Puzzability offers weekly a collection of teasers and clever word puzzles to challenge the more adventurous high school student.

Puzzles & Games. Puzzles & Games from Mountain Lake's Cyberkids Web site features a variety of printable crossword puzzles, word searches, and word jumbles created by students for grades 3-7. Each puzzle has an answer sheet.

Puzzle Thang. Puzzle Thang from Planet Girl features an online puzzle generator that lets you create your own personalized word finds. You can solve the puzzle online or you can print it out and solve offline. The site is suitable for students in grades 4-12.

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