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Quia. Quia provides a directory of hundreds online learning games that students can play over the Internet. There are flashcard, matching, concentration, and word search games. The English topic includes contraction, rhyming word, prefix, parts of speech, and irregular verb games. The Early Learning topic includes alphabet, coloring, and rhyming word games. The site also offers free-of-charge, an easy-to-use form for creating your own games and quizzes which can be added to the site. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.

Quiz Lab. The Quiz Lab, designed by FunBrain for grades K-12, allows teachers to put their own quiz materials on the Internet. When the students complete the quiz, the results are emailed to the teacher along with the most frequently missed questions. To sign up for this free service, click here.

QuizSite: Literature. The QuizSite features a variety of online interactive quizzes for literature including Ray Bradbury's The Flying Machine and The Other Foot, Morley Callaghan's All the Years of Her Life, Cynthia Ozick's The Pagan Rabbi, Edgar Allen Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and a quiz on his life. Each quiz offers various difficulty levels and answers. The site is suitable for high school students.

QuizStar. Mickey G. Settle's QuizStar provides online illustrated quizzes for Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar , Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo Quiz, and Greek Mythology.

Quizzes. Quizzes from Drs. KItao's page of classroom materials contains a collection of self-correcting quizzes with over 550 online questions for reviewing and improving English in grades 5-12. Categories of quizzes include vocabulary, grammar, and reading.

Quizzes by Vera Mello. Quizzes by Vera Mello, although intended for ESL students, are self-correcting interactive quizzes that are useful for all students learning English in grades 4-8. Topics include grammar, scrambled words, spelling, and vocabulary.

Quizzes by Letitia Bradley. Quizzes by Letitia Bradley, although intended for ESL students, are self-correcting interactive quizzes that are useful for all students learning English in grades 4-8. Topics include grammar, holidays, homographs, vocabulary, idioms, and slang.

Quotation Guide. Quotation Guide provides an extensive collection of quotes arranged in various topics useful for teaching creative writing and public speaking in grades 5-12. For list of other quotation sites, scroll to Links at the bottom of the page, or click here for good quotes by famous people, or go here for a new quote displayed about every 25 seconds.

Readers Theatre Online Canada. Readers Theatre Online Canada involves K-9 students in oral reading through reading parts in scripts. Lois Walker, a Canadian writer and performer, offers free teachers' guides and sample plays for duplication and classroom use, as well as links to other the Readers Theatre sites.

Reader's Theater Editions. Reader's Theater Editions, suitable for grades 4-9, is a collection of over 20 short scripts adapted from stories by Aaron Shepard and others--mostly humor, fantasy, and retold tales from a variety of cultures. Teachers are encouraged to copy, share, and perform the scripts in their classrooms. The site also provides tips on using the scripts in the About Reader's Theater Editions section, printable color posters of the heroes and villains in the scripts, and other materials for use with the scripts.

Reading Better and Faster. Reading Better and Faster, created by Dennis Doyle of Glendale Community College in California, provides self-pacing methods for improving your reading speed and comprehension. The site is suitable for students in grades 7-12.

Reading Dimension. The Reading Dimension, from Houghton Mifflin Company, is an online reading club where students in grades 3-8 read and talk about books with other students. Click on the book you want to read to find information about the author, a printable crossword puzzle with story words, and links to other cool sites. Then read the book. You should be able to find all of these books in your school or local library. After you've read one of the books, click on Kids to Kids Discussion to join in online discussions with kids from all over. The site also includes an archive of previous books and teacher tips for each book.

Reading/Language Arts Center. Reading/Language Arts Center, from Houghton Mifflin Company, contains a collection of online activities and resources for teaching language arts in K-6. To find book summaries, bigraphical information, and classroom connections for various authors, click on author spotlight, and for reading activities in Spanish, click on Invitaciones.

Reading List for Class Use. Reading List for Class Use, provided by EducETH, is an alphabetical list of over 50 famous authors and their works (novels, plays, and poems) for high school English classes. Click on any author's name to find a photo and biograhical information, related Web sites, a synposis of the work, discussion material, and students' and teachers' comments about reading the work.

Read to Write Project. The Read to Write Project, sponsored by the San Bernando County School's Instructional Technology Development Consortium, offers a variety of online interactive projects for middle school English classrooms. The lyric poetry, historical fiction, and historical biographies projects contain useful ideas for teaching and students activities.

Reader's Digest Word Power. Reader's Digest Word Power is an online vocabulary-building activity where you try to choose the correct definition for each word. You must have the new Macromedia Shockwave plug-in installed to play Word Power. The site is suitable for students in grades 7-12.

Reading Room Activities. The Reading Room, produced by a weekly TV Show in the Silicon Valley, provides pre-reading activities for preschoolers and kindergarteners. Kids can pick a letter to find out how it sounds and to see a word that starts with that letter. The site also recommends a nice of list of books for these beginning readers.

Rebus Rhymes. Rebus Rhymes from Enchanted Learning Software contains online a collection of familiar stories (Mother Goose and others) where preschoolers and kindergartners can have fun picking out the words they can read in their favorite nursery rhymes.

Read by Grade 3. Read by Grade 3 provides current research information, about reading, reading disabilities, and assessement for K-12 teachers. The site also offers Grammar Packets with explanations and practice exercises for students in grades 6-12. This printable material includes over 100 pages covering topics such as prepositions, verbs, nouns, and other parts of speech.

Regards.Com. Regards.Com provides an assortment of electronic greeting cards including holiday, any occasion, and famous painting cards. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.

Rensselaer Writing Center. Rensselaer Writing Center provides a collection of online handouts to help students improve their written communication skills in grades 7-12. Topics include a guide to basic prose style and mechanics, writing abstracts, critiques, laboratory reports, and memos, and preparing a resume and cover letters.

Researchpaper.com.Researchpaper.com, created by Infonautics Corporation for students in grades 7-12, offers hundreds of possible research paper topics and links to a quick search of Infoseek to see what's available on the Net. The site contains many useful areas that can help you write a paper. Some of these areas are an Idea Center, Writing Center, Discussion Area, and many Web resources.

Resources for English Language & Culture. Resources for English Language & Culture, prepared by Ohio University, contains a comprehensive collection of sites for learning and studying English on the Web. Categories include other directories, grammar, reading, vocabulary, writing, listening and speaking.

Reviews of Shakespeare's Best Plays. Reviews of Shakespeare's Best Plays, written by Anthony J. Wirth, a student at the UC Berkeley, contains plot summaries, character lists, and useful evaluations of the following Shakespeare's plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Tragedy of Richard II, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Othello, King Lear, The First Part of King Henry IV, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, and The Tragedy of Macbeth. The site is suitable for grades 9-12.

Riddle. The Fae of Lavendise, created by Chris Kringle, provides an interactive page of clever word riddles where you enter your answer and click on Submit to see if you got it right. For more riddles, click on Try Another Riddle. The site is suitable for students in grades 5-12.

Room 108 Hangman. Room 108 features a variety of online hangman games with sound prompts for primary grade children to practice their spelling words. Each game includes a list of the spelling words which you can view before the hangman game. The site also provides a phonics game.

Rug Rats Preschool Animal Alphabet Stories Page. Rug Rats presents a page of picture animal stories that provide a fun way for preschoolers and kindergarteners to learn their letter names of the alphabet.

Samantha's Riddle Page. Samantha's Riddle Page contains a collection of word riddles with answers for elementary school students. Another word riddle page for older students is Andrew's Riddles. You can email your answers to him at apaterso@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca.

Say Hello to the World. Say Hello to the World lets students hear the greeting "hello" in hundreds of languages from all over the world. Click on a language to hear "hello" spoken in that language. The site is suitable for grades K-8.

Scenario Creator. Scenario Creator, for the primary grades, makes a complete story by having you pick animal characters and write the words you want them to say. Kids can print out their stories they've created.

Scenes for High School Drama Students. Scenes for High School Drama Students, maintained by Cathy Clarke, contains a collection of scripts, scenes, and monologues that can be printed and copied for use in the high school. The site also includes an extensive list of related links.

Scholastic's Kids. Scholastic's Kids Web site, for elementary students, contains the complete lists of the books for the Baby-Sitters Club, the Goosebumps collection, and the Magic School Bus series. Each book includes a short description of the story.

SchoolHouse Rock. The unofficial site of SchoolHouse Rock contains a collection of Grammar Rock songs that elementary school teachers can print out and use to complement their language arts programs. In addition, students can listen to them online. Song titles include "Unpack Your Adjectives", "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here", "Conjunction Junction", and "Verb: That's What's Happening".

School Show Page. The School Show Page contains a variety of online resources for school and youth theatre in grades K-12. You'll find articles on playwriting in the archive section, a list of plays and guides for the classroom in the download section, and you'll also find new plays in the what's new section. To contact a U.S. school about its theater arts program, click here.

Scoop. The Scoop contains reviews of children's books and related resources for students in grades K-7.

Scope Systems. Scope Systems presents a "Today in History" feature where you can look up and find out who was born, who died, and what historical events happened on that day. Middle school and high school English students can have fun turning facts into story ideas.

SCORE Activity Bank. SCORE Activity Bank provides a wide variety of language arts strategies for K-12 teachers and students. The activity bank includes directions for graphic organizers, journal writing, teaching literature, and evaluating projects (rubrics).

Scriptito's Place. Scriptito's Place, provided by Vangar Publishers for grades 2-10, contains classroom tips on story starters, writing and editing a story, illustrating a story, and being a creative writer.

Secret Code Center. Secret Code Center, from Headbone Interactive for grades 4-8, acts as a encoding machine where a student types in a message for the machine to rearrange as a scrambled message. The machine then can unsramble your message so that it's readable original form.

Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students. Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students contains a collection of over 450 interactive English quizzes for a variety topics. Although these quizzes are intended for students who are beginning to learn English, they are useful for all students in grades 5-12.

Sesame Street Central. Sesame Street Central from Children's Television Workshop (CTW) provides the following online storybooks for preschoolers that feature your favorite Sesame Street characters: Elmo Minds the Farm, High Noon, and Thanks for the Memories. In addition the site offers printable coloring and activity pages for the alphabet and Valentine's Day. For more online fun with hidden letters and other puzzles from CTW, click here.

Shakespeare Classroom. The Shakespeare Classroom, maintainted by Professor J.M. Massi, features a variety of online resources for teaching Shakespeare in high school. Her materials include study questions for over 30 Shakespeare's plays, answers to frequently asked questions about Shakespeare and his plays, the filmed versions of Shakespeare's plays, and other Shakespearean sites.

Shakespearean Homework Helper. The Shakespearean Homework Helper is where students can ask questions about Shakespeare, his plays, and the history of England while he was alive. The author of the site helps students complete their homework by pointing students to resources where they can find the answers for themselves. He will NOT furnish students with answers to their homework assignments!

Shakespearean Insulter by Chris Seidel. Chris Seidel's Shakespearean Insulter delivers randomly a verbal abuse from one the Bard's plays every time you click on Insult me again. The name of the play from which the insult is taken is usually given, too. Three other online Shakespearen insult generators are Jason Myre's, InterLinks', and Planetary's. These sites are suitable for high school English classes.

Shakespeare Mystery. Shakespeare Mystery presents an objective exploration of the history of the debate about Shakespearean authorship. The site, for AP English classes, includes transcripts, a reading list, feedback, excerpts on RealAudio, and related links. For two other sites with opposing positions on the authorship of Shakespeare plays, click here and click here.

Shakespearean Poetry Search. Shakespearean Poetry Search provides searchable database where you can search through Shakespeare's sonnets using single words, words in a sequence, or combinations of two words. The search pulls up the stanza(s) with the indicated word(s), and from there the entire work can be shown with the search term(s) clearly indicated. The site is suitable for AP English classes.

Shakespeare Sonnet Quiz. Michael Hildebrandt's Sonnet Quiz, for Shakespearian aficionados, tests your knowledge of all the Bard's 154 sonnets by your completing the "heroic couplet". You will get the text of the couplet with the last word missing. Write the correct word into the text area and check your answer by pressing the button. Then click on Next to get another puzzle or read the sonnet in full. To retrieve a Shakespeare sonnet, click here and enter the sonnet number.

Shakespeare Web. The Shakespeare Web site supplies historical tidbits on Shakespeare's life and times in the interactive feature, Today in Shakespeare History and its companion Yesterday in Shakespeare History. Keep clicking on Yesterday in Shakespeare History returns more historical facts. The site, suitable students in grades 8-12, includes Shakespeare Web Poetry Applet similar to refrigerator poetry.

Shiki Internet Haiku Salon. The Shiki Internet Haiku Salon introduces a new style of haiku poetry which is popular in American schools. The site includes biographical information about Shiki Masaoka, anthologies of haiku, lessons on how to write haiku, and related links. The site is suitable for grades 6-12.

Shoebox Online. Shoebox Online, a division of Hallmark, provides resources to stimulate creative writing in grades 6-12. Toon in Here features an archive of weekly wacky, kooky, and zany cartoons, while Funny But No... contains a motley assortment of weird unacceptable greeting card suggestions.

Short Course on Hamlet. A Short Course on Hamlet, prepared by Ian Delaney, is an online version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, together with brief scene-by-scene commentaries and questions for you to think about for all five acts. Sample answers are available for each of the questions. Just click on Course to the left to go to the course contents page. To further your study of Hamlet, the site also includes other documents written by some of Shakespeare's contemporaries and famous critics, a collection of related links, and a discussion board. The site is suitable for AP English students.

Silly Storybook. Silly Storybook, provided by the Sacramento Bee newspaper, let's students in grades 4-8 make online silly stories. Students choose words and phrases from the pull-down menus, pick the story they want to use, and then click on the picture of the disappearing book. Students can read, print out, and share their stories with your friends.

SJR English Department. St. John's-Ravenscourt School (SJR) English Department in Winnipeg, Canada provides a variety of resources for teaching literature in grades 8-12. Scroll to "Resource links to individual plays" and click on a grade level to find study materials for Shakespeare's play and other literary works.

Social Studies School Service's Shakespeare Page. The Social Studies School Service provides a variety of online resources including activites from their booklets for teaching Shakespeare's plays in high school.

Spelling Test. A spelling test is an interactive online quiz of 50 commonly misspelled words devised by Mindy McAdams. After you take the test, check out the tips to help improve your spelling. The site is suitable for students in grades 6-12.

SpellWeb. Clear Ink's SpellWeb, suitable for grades 5-12, serves as an online judge for the coorect spelling of a word. For example, enter the pair of words "receive" and "recieve", or "seperate" and "separate" into one of four different search engines to find the number of hits returned for each. While SpellWeb may not always provide you with the correct spelling, it's more fun to use than a dictionary.

Spizzerinctum. Spizzerinctum, suitable for grades 8-12, lets you test your wits by guessing the meanings of obscure words. Listen to the pronunciation, see the word used in the context of a current news story, then choose from three possible definitions. You can also augment your Daily Jumble habit with the site's News Anagrams.

Stage Hand Puppets' Activity Page. Stage Hand Puppets' Activity Page contains tips and patterns for making paper and scrap hand puppets to complement the elementary school language arts curriculum. The site also includes short puppet plays written by kids.

Storybooks. Storybooks from Planet Zoom contains a collection of original illustrated stories for primary grade children.

Story Creations. Story Creations, provided by Sears Portrait Studio, is a collection of online, holiday theme stories that elementary school students can personalize by answering a few, short personal questions. Each story requires only few minutes to answer the questions. Students can also print out their stories to share with their classmates.

StoryFun. StoryFun contains a collection of online madlibs with a variety of topics for students in grades 6-12. To create an hilarious story, choose your topic and type in funny verbs, nouns and modifiers.

Storytelling with the Flannelboard. Storytelling with the Flannelboard, compiled by Inez Ramsey, provides information on how to prepare stories and materials for making flannelboards for primary grade teachers.

Storytelling Kit. Storytelling Kit contains a variety of printable bear masks in the story props section and ideas for making masks. These materials can help primary school children enhance their oral language skills.

Storytelling, Drama, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry & Readers Theater for Children & Young Adults. Storytelling, Drama, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry & Readers Theater for Children & Young Adults, compiled by Inez Ramsey, contains a wealth of online resources for promoting enjoyment of literature, developing oral expression, and increasing reading comprehension.

Student Essay Network. Erin Carlson's Student Essay Network provides absolutely free online papers written and submitted by high school students for high school students to review and to get ideas for their own reports. The site includes links to other downloadable essays.

Study Exercises from Longman Dictionaries Web Site. Longman Dictionaries Web Site provides online study exercises for students learning English in grades 4-12. The site also includes a new British or American idiom every week.

Study Guide for Summer of My German Soldier. Study Guide for Bette Greene's Summer of My German Soldier is an unit of study for the novel containing chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions, vocabulary, essay/discussion questions, story stretchers, and recipes. The site is suitable for grades 6-8.

Student Guides Page. Student Guides Page, provided by the Lakewood Public Library in Ohio for grades 7-12, features online student guides to help them prepare research paper, a science far project, and a book report. You can print out these guides for classroom use.

Student Study Notes to Macbeth. Student Study Notes to Macbeth, prepared by Ravi Shah, to help high school students better understand Shakespeare's tradegy, Macbeth. The site contains biographical information, act-by-act synopsis and commentary, printable mutiple choice and short answer quizzes, and a dicussion of the major themes in Macbeth.

Summer Time Mooselibs. Summer Time Mooselibs, created by CurioCity's FreeZone for middle school students, are funny stories similar to madlibs that students complete online by supplying different parts of speech. Other mooselibs are bed time stories, dolphin stories, and chipmunk stories..

Sunshine Online: Kids in Action. Sunshine Online provides a collection of printable activity worksheets for grades K-3. There are activity sheets for reading & writing, mathematics, social studies, and science.

Superteach. Superteach offers monthly a collection of printable, self-correcting, English exercises for students in grades 6-12. Among these are the current grammar lesson with an archive of past grammar lessons and the current proof-reading lessons with an archive of past proof-reading lessons. The site also includes exercises for improving a student's knowledge of idiom and slang and exercises for correcting writing mistakes (fixing bloopers).

Surfing with the Bard. Amy Ulen's Surfing with the Bard features a variety of online Shakespeare resources for teachers and students in grades 8-12. The site includes a guide to A Midsummer Night's Dream, a Shakespeare 101 classroom guide, summaries and analyses of many Shakespeare's plays, a discussion forum, and other resources.

Syndicate The Syndicate Web site provides a variety of online vocabulary building activities for students in grades 4-8. Activities include crossword puzzles, comic strips puzzles, word finds, and word games. Students can compete for prizes or just play for fun.

Teachers@Random. Teachers@Random features a resource center with curriculum materials and an online teacher's lounge where teachers can share ideas with other colleagues around the world. In the resource center, you'll find teacher's guides, reading group guides, and children author biographies, and in the teacher's lounge, you'll find monthly teaching tips on topics such as Black History Month. The site is suitable for grades K-8.

TeacherViews. TeacherViews, organized by grade level, contains a collection of reviews and activities based upon popular children's books for grades K-8. These teacher-developed activities are organized by grade level. The site also offers prizes for sharing your book reviews and activities with other teachers around the world.

TEAMS Classroom Projects. TEAMS Classroom Projects is a collection of cooperative projects in various subject areas for grades K-12. Some are open for enrollment, while others have been completed; however, all the projects offer valuable information for planning your own project as well as provide teaching ideas.

Test Your SAT Word Savvy. Test Your SAT Word Savvy, for high school students, provides daily new words from previous SAT exams to help you improve your vocabulary and test scores.

Theme Cycles and Literature Focus Units. Theme Cycles and Literature Focus Units, developed by language arts students at Washington State University for grades K-8, include materials for Fall '96., Spring '96, and Spring '98... Each unit contains strategies for teaching literature.

Theodore Tugboat Online Activity Centre. Theodore Tugboat Online Activity Centre features two online illustrated, interactive stories for the younger child about a friendly tugboat where the reader decides what happens next, an online coloring book to color pictures of Theodore and his friends, and a Theodore story which children can listen to online with RealAudio.

Today's Cartoon by Randy Glasbergen. Today's Cartoon by Randy Glasbergen features a wonderful collection of cartoons on the Web. The site provides a cartoon of the day plus many more organized by categories including education and Randy's 50 favorites. Language arts teachers can especially use cartoons to show their students a simple, effective, and entertaining way of communciating.

Today's Word-of-the-Day. Today's Word-of-the-Day features online a new word each weekday and a free email edition. The site, making it an excellent vocabulary resource for students in grades 9-12, offers more than just definitions; it also offers anecdotes, origins, quotes, and current events. All previous words are available in the alphabetic archive.

Together We're Better Family Calendars. Together We're Better Family Calendars contains a month's calendar full of fun activities for preschoolers.

To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now. To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now provides a variety of resources useful for the teaching of Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird in the high school. The site contains preparation and instructional activities, film resources, primary source documents, a student center with interactive activities, and related links.

Tom Eastland's Theatrical Resource Home Page. Tom Eastland's Theatrical Resource Home Page contains his Readers Theatre and radio scripts as well as a list of humorous poems written by Tom's grandfather.

Tongue Twister Database. The Tongue Twister Database is collection of over 125 English-language tongue twisters like "Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick." How fast can you say it without slurring and making any mistakes? Need another 160 tongue twisters that you can also print out and share with your class? How about tongue twisting poems? ... too long? ... too difficult? These sites are suitable for grades 4-12.

Tracking Creativity. Tracking Creativity provides a variety of creative writing activities for students in grades 3-6 including tips for writing an ode and an idiom quiz.

TrackStar. TrackStar, provided by the South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SCR*TEC), designs Web pages (tracks) for K-12 teachers to use with their students. You can browse a list of the tracks for all subject areas or just for language arts. The site helps you make your own track and includes a discussion forum for sharing your ideas.

Travlang's Word of the Day. Travlang provides a new word or phrase every weekday that you can hear spoken on your computer. For example, you hear "good evening" spoken in nearly 100 languages. The site is suitable for grades 4-12.

Treasure Island. Treasure Island offers you information on everything you could possibly want to know about Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Treasure Island. Find out about the author, the characters of the book, tropical islands, pirates, buried treasure and lots more! You can also contribute by sending in your reviews of the book and descriptions of dastardly pirates. The site is suitable for students in grades 5-8.

Twelfth Night Study Guide. Fine Line Features provides an interactive multimedia study guide to be used by high school students for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. For information about Trevor Nunn's film adaptation of this classical comedy, click here.

Twisted Tales. Twisted Tales are partial online zany stories similar to madlibs that students in grades 4-9 can help to write. To complete a story, students must fill in the blanks next to noun, verb, number, celebrity, or any other required word. To find more twisted tales, click here, and for instructions and a short English lesson on parts of speech, click on here. The site requires a browser that supports Java, such as Netscape Navigator 3.01 or Internet Explorer 3.0.

Unofficial Beverly Cleary Home Page. The Unofficial Beverly Cleary Home Page, created by Karen Pederson, is a comprehensive source of information about the award-winning children's author and her books.

Virginia Standards of Learning Assessments. The Virginia Standards of Learning Assessments contain a variety of 1998 sample test items that can help teachers plan their instruction. Included are tests for English, reading, and writing in grades 3, 5, 8, and high school. To read and print the tests, you must download Adobe's free Acrobat Reader.

Virtual Cards. Virtual Cards from Yahoo is a collection email postcard sites for grades K-12. These electronic greetings include famous paintings, fowers, contemporary scenes, birthday cards, and holiday cards.

Virtual English. Virtual English showcases over 90 essays written by high school students at Ronald McNair Academic High in New Jersey. The site also includes biographical sketches with passport-size photos of the 42 famous writers featured in the essays.

Virtual Presentation Assistant. The Virtual Presentation Assistant is an online step-by-step tutorial for improving public speaking skills at the high school level. The site provides help and resources for determining the purpose of a speech, selecting and researching a topic, analyzing the audience, and presenting the material with or without visual aids.

Virtual Verse. Virtual Verse, created by CurioCity's FreeZone for grades 4-8, is an electronic version of a magnetic poetry kit where you click and drag words on the computer screen instead of a refrigerator door. Students can write simple verses, make sentences, or find words and arrange them according to their parts of speech.

Vocabulary University. Vocabulary University provides interactive vocabulary exercises including graphic word puzzles and games. These puzzles can enrich the language arts curriculum and help prepare high school students for the SSAT, GED, SAT, and ACT tests. The site also offers an archive of past puzzles.

VCCS Litonline Introduction to Literature. The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) provides a variety of online study guides for poetry, fiction, and drama useful at the the high school level.

Wacky Web Tales. Houghton Mifflin's Wacky Web Tales is an interactive site where students fill in parts of speech to create wacky tales (madlibs) online from pre-designed topics. For a collection of more tales, click here, here, or click on Special Monster Edition of Wacky Web Tales. Students can also get ideas for writing their own stories by scrolling to "or choose one of your tales" and submitting them for publication. The site is suitable for grades 4-8.

Wade Holst's Riddles. Wade Holst's Riddles Web site contains 80 riddles with answers for students in grades 5-12.

Warner Bros. WeB Cards. Warner Bros. provides racks of electronic cards from where kids can select a WeB Card to send via email to a friend. The site is suitable for grades 4-12.

Webber's Anagram Crosswords. Webber's Anagram Crosswords, designed by Michael Curl, is a collection of crossword puzzles where every clue is an anagram. To print and solve each puzzle offline, choose the HTML format. Each crossword includes the solution. The site is suitable for grades 9-12.

Webcards. Adgrafix provides a variety of online greeting cards for holidays and special occasions (Webcards) which you can customize and then post on the Web. Card recipients get a note in their email box telling them they received a card and the Web address where they can find their greeting. The site is suitable for grades 4-12.

Web Word Finds. Houghton Mifflin's Web Word Finds is a collection of over 21 printable word puzzle in which students try to find specific words hidden in a puzzle. Each word find has 20 hidden words and a solution is provided for each puzzle. The site is suitable for grades 4-8.

Web Word Search. Web Word Search page contains a collection of printable word searches and mazes for students in grades 8-12. These puzzlers can make good vocabulary builders.

We're Making Macbeth. We're Making Macbeth is a multimedia journal of teaching Shakespeare to ten year olds developed through a course at the University of Sheffield. To read the journal, click on on the book's cover and to turn the pages, click on the edges of the book. For information about this project, click on research report.

What's the Meaning of This? What's the Meaning of This is where you can learn about the origins of many common phrases such as "dressed to the nines" and "saved by the bell". To find the meanings of old English sayings, click here and to find the meanings of American expressions organized by category, click here. Another place to find the meanings of familiar words and phrases is Curious Words. These sites are suitable for grades 7-12.

Wide World of Verbs. The Wide World of Verbs is an online grammar tutorial on verbs prepared by Mrs. Sundra's students from the Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary School in Chandler, Arizona.

Wild World of Words Challenges. Wild World of Words Challenges provides a variety of interactive word games for middle school students to improve their vocabulary, spelling, and grammar skills. Students can do online word scrambles, anagrams, and other word puzzles. They can also figure out crazy word combinations, learn new puns, and correct misspellings.

William Shakespeare Filmography. William Shakespeare Filmography, an Internet Movie Database (IMDB) page, offers links to more than 250 movie versions of Shakespeare plays and related dramatic films. The site also includes extensive biographical information on Shakespeare and a searchable guide for this week's Shakespeare movies on TV. The site is suitable for grades 8-12.

Word Detective. The Word Detective, written by master word sleuth Evan Morris, is a bimonthly online version of his newspaper column where he answers readers' questions by tracking down word and phrase origins. For the current issue, click here and for hundreds of words and phrases covered in previous columns indexed alphabetically, click here. The site is suitable for grades 8-12.

Word for Word. Word for Word features Terry O'Connor's answers to reader's questions about the origins of unusual words and phrases. The site also provides an online forum where you can dispute his answers or read others' responses in the forum archive. The site is suitable for grades 8-12.

Word Hunt Puzzles. Good News Internet Sevices provides a simple word search generator for teachers and students in grades 3-12 to create their own seek n' find puzzles. These word searches can be printed and copied for classroom use.

WordLadders. WordLadders is an online word game where you try to get from the starting word to the destination word by clicking on word links under the current word. For example, try "round" as your starting word and "count" as your destination word. The site is suitable for students in grades 5-12.

Wordplay. Judi Wolinsky's Wordplay contains an annotated list of "fun with word" sites. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Words & Stuff. Words & Stuff is Jed Hartman's weekly online column featuring an extensive list of topics relating to words and word play. The site, suitable for high school English classes, contains word games, light verse, etymological tidbits, occasional puzzles, and anything else having to do with words. For an index to topics, click here.

Words & Tools. Interactive exercises for language learners, Words & Tools are developing low-cost CD-ROMs for language learners. Nice demos with lots of free exercises. Diagnostic vocabulary tests and grammar exercises for ESOL. Interactive grammar exercises for Spanish learners. Crosswords and drag-and-drop exercises.

Words and WordPlay. Words and WordPlay, from Michael Curl's Web site, Think.com, features a collection of word puzzles for high school students. The author also includes other word puzzle and game sites.

WordWhirlWind. WordWhirlWind, an online version of magnetic poetry, let's you create poetry by clicking on the words and moving them around on the screen, as you would do on your refrigerator. To blow the words around, click on the WhirlWind button. The site, suitable for students in grades 3-12, requires Netscape Navigator 3.01 or Internet Explorer 3.0.

Word Wizard. The Word Wizard provides a variety of free online resources for those high school students and teachers who enjoy reading and love the English language. Among these services are Ask The Word Wizard, What Are Words Worth? where you try to name the author and the title of the book given the first lines or given the last sentences of celebrated novels, Says Who, a section with a dictionary of famous quotations, and Says Who, another section with famous insults. Once you register via emai and are a member of The Word Wizard Club, you can subscribe to other services.

World of Kindergartens. A World of Kindergartens contains a collection of tips for teaching a letter a week using a thematic approach. These tips are alphabetically indexed and are suitable for use in any kindergarten language arts curriculum. For other ideas contributed by teachers for teaching the alphabet in kindergarten, click on Things That Work.

World Wide Words. A World Wide Words, maintained by Michael B Quinion, is a resource about words for teachers and students in high school. You can learn about the history of certain words or the evolution of new ones. In addition, there are general articles about the English language, shorter articles on points of dispute or difficulty regarding usage, definitions of new words appearing in newspapers and magazines, and related links.

WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server. WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server contains a searchable database of created words (acronyms). For example, to find what the letters mean in the acronym "modem", click on search for an acronym, type "modem" as your keyword, and press the return or the enter key. The site is suitable for grades 8-12.

Write a Real Book. Write a Real Book, a creative writing project by Bill Dallas Lewis for the elementary school, provides step-by-step directions for completing a 32-page, illustrated children's picture book in color. The directions show you how to write, illustrate, market, publish, and have fun creating this book.

Writing a Basic Essay. Writing a Basic Essay is an online guide for learning how to write essays in grades 9-12.

Writers' Center. The Writers' Center provides creative writing ideas for primary grade students. For similar writing activities, click on Me Poems.

Writing and Grammar Resources. Writing and Grammar Resources provides a collection of sites to help students in grades 7-12 to improve their writing skills.

Writing Resources for English Language Learners Writing Resources for English Language Learners, compiled by John McVicker at Ohio University, contains a collection of annotated sites to help middle and high students improve their composition skills. Topics include online writing resources tips for writers, mechanics, the writing process, and research and writing.

WWW 4 Kidz. WWW 4 Kidz provides a wide variety of word puzzles, hands-on activity pages and thematic coloring pages that teachers can print out to complement their primary grade language arts curriculum. The site is updated weekly.

X-Word. X-Word is a collection of printable crossword puzzles with answers dealing with modern culture for students in grades 8-12. Another site with crossword vocabulary exercises is Words & Tools.

Yahoo's List of Riddles. Yahoo provides an extensive list of riddle sites for grades 6-12. For more word fun, visit Don Myrick's as well as the music group Oxymorons' pages of oxymorons (combinations of contradictory words).

Yahoo's List of Words and Wordplay. Yahoo provides a collection of wordplay sites organized by category for grades 6-12. Some of the categories are anagrams, interactive Web games, random sentences, word of the day, and Pig Latin.

Yak's Corner. Yak's Corner, sponsored by the Detroit Free Press, is an online kids news magazine for grades K-6. It features global, animal, and news stories of interest to kids as well as an email Yaktivites section where kids can send in short chapter to a never-ending story, 'yak' back to the Yak, or participate in the "Stars of the Week" contest. In addition, kids can enjoy the Fun and Games section with six interactive activities including printable word seach and crossword puzzles.

Young Readers. Young Readers, part of the Penguin/Putnam publishers Web site, offers a variety of language arts resources for grades K-8. Teachers will find printable teacher's guides with discussion questions and classroom in the educational section, a list of books for the holiday seasons, excerpts from some of their books, and printable puzzles in the Winnie-the-Pooh section. Students will find a toy box with printable coloring pages and other fun-filled activities.

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