Heteronym Home Page. Heteronym Home Page contains an alphabetical list of heteronyms for grades 4-12. Heteronyms, also known as homographs, are words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently. If you like to contribute a heteronym to the site, either fill out the form on the page or send your heteronym by email. Another similar site is on Jon Vahsholtz's Homograph Page.

Homework Central. Homework Central contains an immense collection of over 400,000 sites to help students with their school assignments. The site includes language arts resources and reference sources for grades 1-6 as well as literature resources, Language resources, and reference sources for grades 7-12.

Information Please. Information Please, from the print reference database for grades 5-12, is an all-in-one encyclopedia, almanac, and dictionary offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online.

Infoseek Reference. Infoseek Reference offers three online dictionaries for grades 4-12. Sudents can use a WWWebster Dictionary to check the spelling or find the definition of words, Roget's Thesaurus to find a synonym, or use Bartlett's Quotations to find quotations from famous authors.

Interactive Finger Spelling & Braille Guide. The Interactive Finger Spelling & Braille Guide is where you can learn the hand signs for each letter of the alphabet and learn the Braille alphabet. You can also read about the history behind sign language and Braille. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, maintained by Paul Halsallat of Fordham University, contains numerous online works of literature from the Medieval and the Renaissance periods. The site includes Villehardouin's and Joinville's Chronicles of the Crusades, Geoffry Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Gordon Gerould's translation of Beowulf, Sir Thomas Malory's King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Dante's The Inferno, and Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. The site is suitable for students in AP classes.

Internet Public Library (IPL): Reading Room. The IPL Reading Room contains an enormous online collection to pubic books, magazines, newspapers, and other online book lists of interest to K-12 language arts teachers. The IPL Online Texts collection includes over 5,500 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Subject Classification. The site also offers a books reference section with various categories and a literature reference section for creative writing, prose, and poetry.

John Labovitz's E-Zine-List. John Labovitz has compiled a comprehensive list of all known e-zines (electronic magazines) on the Internet. If you know the title of the zine you're looking for, or want to get an idea of the variety in titles, you can navigate through the list by zine title. If you're casually browsing or looking for zines on a particular topic, try browsing by keyword. Like a search engine, the keyword list helps you find zines by showing a list of words and phrases that are the topics of the zines in the list. Once you're on a keyword view, you'll see a list of zines that relate to that keyword. Some of the keywords of interest to K-12 language arts teachers and students are literature, poetry, teen, education, and youth.

KidsClick. KidsClick, an excellent homework and reference resource for students in grades K-12, contains a comprehensive collection of annotated sites from current events and history to science and literature. The site also includes a keyword search engine.

Land of Quotes. David Borenstein's Land of Quotes is a searchable categorized database of quotations organized by topic and author suitable for grades 8-12. For an extensive list of quotation sites, click on Quotation Ring.

Language Sites on the Internet. Language Sites on the Internet, for grades 7-12, is a collecton of language arts-related links organized in categories such as grammar & usage, reference, word games, and vocabulary development.

Launch Point. Launch Point, an online service of the Los Angeles Times, provides a collection of sites to help students in grades K-12 with their schoolwork. To find language arts resources, click on either authors, literature, reading, or writing reports.

Lewis Carroll Home Page. Lewis Carroll Home Page is a guide to Lewis Carroll resources and documents online and in print. Click here for a list of online Carroll texts.

LibrarySpot. LibrarySpot, published by StartSpot Mediaworks, is a virtual library where you'll find information on libraries and valuable research and reference tools for grades 6-12.

Lucidcafé Library Lucidcafé Library contains profiles of influential contemporary and historical notables, plus links to hundreds of related Internet resources. You can access the information at an alphabetical index or at a categorical index including authors and poets.

Merriam-Webster Online. Merriam-Webster Online features a WWWebster Dictionary where you can look up the meanings of more than 160,000 words and a MIT Libraries: Literature. MIT Libraries provides a large collection of Internet resources for English and American literatures. The following sections: "Internet Collections by Period, Genre, Etc.", "Sites Devoted to Specific Authors or Works", and "Broad Collections of Literary Resources" are of interest to high school English classes.

Mythology. Mythology, part of Windows to the Universe site for grades 4-12, provides information on the gods and goddesses from the different cultures around the world. Students can find information about objects in the sky (e.g., sun, moon, earth) and then read about the gods from various mythologies that are associated with those objects. The site, organized by three dificulty levels, also includes information on myths, family tree, and culture.

Myths and Legends. Myths and Legends, compiled by Christopher B. Siren, is a comprehensive collection of sites to myths and legends from around the world for grades 7-12.

Netdictionary. Netdictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to over 400 technical, cultural, and humorous terms related to the Internet. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

NetLingo. NetLingo is an online dictionary containing clear, easy to understand definitions and explanations of Internet terms. The site is suitable for grades 8-12.

New Jour. New Jour contains an exhaustive archive of over 5,000 electronic journals and newsletters available on the Internet for grades 7-12.

News Index. News Index performs key word searches on hundreds of online news sources from the Washington Post to the Jerusalem Post. The site, suitable for grades 7-12, is an invaluable reference resource for today's news stories, just a click away.

Of Gods and Men: The A to Z Guide to Mythology and Legend. Of Gods and Men is an online searchable and browsable mythology database prepared by Lestat that is suitable for grades 7-12. To view the various categories, click here.

Online Books Page. Online Books Page from Carnegie Mellon is a searchable and browsable database to over 7,000 online books and links to repositories of books. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Online Literature Library. Online Literature Library features the complete text versions of such children's classics as Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz , Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol , Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days , and Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables . For the classics works by author, click here.

Origin of Phrases. Chuck Moreland's Origin of Phrases gives you the meanings and examples of popular American English phrases such as "It's a Doozy", "Pass the buck", "Toe the line". The phrases with origins section provides a list of phrases with their origins given, while the phrases seeking origins section invites you to submit via email the origin to a phrase from an existing list. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Pegasus Paradise. Pegasus Paradise, created by students for the ThinkQuest Junior contest, is a online reference where students in grades 3-8 can learn about Greek Gods, heroes, and heroines and hear how those difficult Greek names are pronounced. The site also provides an online game in which students try to match the Greek gods to the their Roman names.

Poetry Daily. Poetry Daily provides an online anthology offering a new poem daily, plus an archive of their selections, from more than 50 poetry book and journal publishers. The site is suitable for grades 9-12.

Poet's Bookshelf. The Poet's Bookshelf contains the biographies of twelve famous American poets written by Mrs. Sundra's students from the Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary School in Chandler, Arizona. The site also provides a brief glossary of poetic terms.

Phrase Finder. Phrase Finder, for grades 4-12, does for phrases what a thesaurus does for words. Give it a word and it will give you a list of phrases that are related to it in some way.

Project Bartleby Archive. The Project Bartleby Archive from Columbia University features an electronic library of the major British and American authors for grades 8-12. The site includes biographical information, illustrations, and online versions including the Romantic poems of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. You can also listen to Robert Frost's earlier poems (1913-1920) or read Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg, publishing texts on the Internet since 1992, provides an extensive collection of electronic texts for grades K-12. You can download books from the alphabetical lists of titles or authors.

For a collection of over 180 quotation sites, click on Quotation Ring. These sites are suitable for grades 7-12.

Quotations Home Page. Quotations Home Page, maintained by Steve Spanoudis, contains over 18,500 quotations, old and new, familiar and obscure, humorous and pompous, ironic and maybe even a little profound. The quotations are organized into 30 collections including quote-a-day calendar, selection from William Shakespeare, and an index of topics. The site, suitable for grades 7-12, also provides other quotation pages including Alan L. Pope's page.

Quotations Page. Michael Moncur's Quotations Page provides a collection of sites where you can search for a quote, read the quote of the day, or read the quote of the week. The site, suitable for grades 7-12, also includes other quotation links.

Renascence Editions. Renascence Editions, compiled by Richard Bear at the University of Oregon, is a collection of online works by authors such as Francis Bacon, John Milton, and William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads printed in English between the years1477 and 1799. The site is suitable for honors students in English.

Research Zone. The Research Zone provides an online library to help middle and high school students find information in various subject areas.

Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases provides the closest synonym for the word or a phrase that you've entered in the dictionary. For example, enter "similarity" or "sly as fox" to find their closest synonyms. The dictionary is suitable for grades 8-12.

Schoolwork.ugh. Schoolwork.ugh, created by Library Association of Rockland County in New York, contains a handy collection of homework sites with topics ranging from art to science. The site is suitable for students in grades 6-12.

School Libraries on the Web: A Directory. School Libraries on the Web, maintained by librarian Linda Bertland of Stetson Middle School in Philadelphia, is a directory of Web pages of K-12 school libraries in the United States and countries around the world. The site also includes online resources for school librarians.

Search ERIC Database. Search ERIC Database, from AskERIC, contains thousands of educational studies and reports dating back to 1989 for grades K-12. If you need assistance finding what you are looking for, send your question to the AskERIC Q&A Service. You query will be answered within two business days.

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary. The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary, useful for grades 4-12, can help students write poetry, song lyrics, greeting cards, witticisms, and lots more. You can find words that rhyme with, almost rhyme with, or sound exactly the same as a certain target word.

Shakespeare. Shakespeare, maintained by Edward Malone of Missouri Western State College, contains online texts of all of Shakespeare plays and related Web resources. Every time you reload the page you get a new Shakespeare quote, along with the name of the play and act & scene. The site is suitable for high school English classes.

Shakey's Place. Shakey's Place, a 3D Globe theatre research and collaboration site for high school English teachers and students, contains online summaries, texts, quotations, study questions, guides to the works of William Shakespeare. The site provides 37 full length plays, 157 sonnets, and dozens of poems. For a list of all the topics, click on the site map.

Shakespeare on the Internet: Sites of Interest. Shakespeare on the Internet: Sites of Interest, compiled Professor Michael Best at the University of Victoria, contains a compehensive collection of Shakespeare resources as well as general resources on Renaissance literature. The site is suitable for honors English classes.

Shakespeare's Monologues. Shakespeare's Monologues are organized by gender first and then by play/act/scene. The site is suitable for AP English classes.

Some of The Classics. Some of The Classics, for honors Enlish students, contains online texts to Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler, Virgil's Aeneid translated by John Dryden, and online texts of classics found at other sites.

Student's History of American Literature. A Student's History of American Literature by Edward Simonds features an online text of American literature divided into historical periods for grades 9-12. The historical periods cover early Colonial literature, 1607-1700; the eighteenth century; the beginning of the nineteenth century; philosophy and romance (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other authors); the New England ports (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and others); general literary development; and recent years.

Study Web. The Study Web, created by American Computer Resources (ACR) for grades K-12, provides a searchable collection of over 73,000 reviewed sites. Language arts categories include grammar & composition, literature, early childhood reading & writing, and writing & writers. In addition, the site includes teaching resources for English, drama, and early childhood.

Surnames: What's in a Name? Surnames: What's in a Name contains an alphabetical index of surnames where you can learn about the genealogical origins of your last name. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Top 100 Newspapers! Top 100 Newspapers contains links to online editions of 100 major U.S. newspapers. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Twentieth Century Poetry in English. Twentieth Century Poetry in English, for grades 9-12, contains a collection of over 160 sites to contemporary poets including W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and William Butler Yeats. The site also offers an alphabetical index to more than140 other English poets and links to general poetry resources.

University of Victoria's Hypertext Writer's Guide. The University of Victoria's Hypertext Writer's Guide is a comprehensive resource describing the many aspects of writing, with everything from the different types of essays to proofreading and common problems. For a short list of topics, click here, and for the complete table of contents, click here. The site is suitable for grades 8-12.

Virtual Library. Virtual Refernce Desk, from Purdue University, is an online library containing a variety of resources including dictionaries, thesauri, acronyms, time and date calendars, maps, phone books, zip-code directories, and much more. The site is suitable for grades 8-12.

Web of Online Dictionaries. A Web of Online Dictionaries contains a collection of links to more than 400 dictionaries of over 130 different languages. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Web-O-Pedia. Web-O-Pedia, an online searchable computer encyclopedia from Mecklermedia Corporation, provides accurate, up-to-date information about personal computers. The site, suitable for grades 7-12, also include the features, the Term of the Day and the Top 15 Terms.

Webster's Online Dictionary. Webster's Online Dictionary (Hypertext Webster Gateway), for grades 3-12, connects you to an an easy-to-use, online dictionary to look up the meanings of words, and a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings.

WordNet 1.6. WordNet 1.6, created by Princeton University's Cognitive Science Laboratory, is a lexical English database containing a powerful search tool. For example, enter "intelligent" to find the different meanings of this adjective and at the same time, you can also search for its synonyms, its antonnyms, and its related phrases. The dictionary is suitable for grades 6-12.

Wordsmyth English Dictionary - Thesaurus. The Wordsmyth, developed at the University of Chicago, is an online English dictionary with a list of over 50,000 words and an integrated, built-in thesaurus. The site is suitable for grades 7-12.

Writer's Links. Writer's Links, collected by Bonnie Bruno, contains hundreds of helpful sites for writers of all ages and levels including categories of interest to K-12 teachers and students.

Your Mining Co. Guide To Homework Help. Your Mining Co. provides a collection of homework resources organized by topic for students in grades 6-12.

Your Quotation Center. Your Quotation Center, created by Cyber Nation International, features a searchable database of over 13,000 quotes made by famous people. You can view alphabetical lists of quotes by author or by subject. The site, suitable for grades 6-12, offers to send via email a quote daily.

Zelo Family. Zelo Family provides an A to Z index to first name origins as well as A to Z index to popular nursery rhymes. The site is suitable for grades K-12.

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