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 * NEW!!!! Here is where I will post the newest "finds": **

Writing in Slow Motion...A TED-Ed video explaining how to slow down time when writing. Really cool, media rich Romeo and Juliet Fun way to learn about irregular verbs

Test your vocabulary....how many words do you know?

TeachingBooks.netBringing authors and books to life Free Trial Here is a free sample.... Adam Fortunate Eagle, 2012 Young Adult Winner of the American Indian Youth Literature Award,

60 second recaps....Good stuff shared by Paul Video Spark Notes...23 videos and counting. Worth checking out. Reader's Theatre Scripts Teaching English with Technology....site offers many links and is well organized. Check it out! Vocal Sushi Interesting site organizes educational videos by age range as well as subject matter. Check it out here.

Art of teaching
National Writing Project has a helpful site dealing with writing, from teaching to student showcase at Digital IS

Audio/Ebooks/Books
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Audio Books/E

ShortStoriesOnline

booksOnline Audio Stories – Free Audio Books to Download.Great Classic Books as Comics...full content Pay per book audio....hundreds to choose from. Decent prices Book search engine Free audio books at Books Should Be Free Hundreds of free audio books.[|Librivox.org]  Hundreds of free books to download to a PDA/Phone/Kindle:[|Manybooks.net]  Another long list of links for free or almost free books....from [|children's books to textbooks.]  Free ebooks to download in various formats, including Kindle-munseys  242,000 free ebooks and counting at ebooksread  Create [|Ebooks] online  Free online books:[|ReadPrint.com]  [|Free audio books] Over 250 books! Free books to download to an IPod or MP3 player at AudioOwl Free online books:[|Tons of links] Free online [|books, poems and stories] in audio or printable formats Audio books at AudioOwl.com Actors reading popular children's books. What fun!

Download and read current books free at onRead.com

Free audio books and much more at OpenCulture

Authors/Specific works (See also Literary Guides)
Links to many books, including introductions read by authors Anne Bradstreet: Information and links Emily Dickinson:[|Dickinson] Chaucer: Chaucer MetaPage Canterbury Cathedral virtual tour Chaucer at Infoplease.com

Virtual Macbeth Edutopia's article on Shaking Up Shakespeare with links!

The Crucible with the New York Times Walking in Holden's Shoes in Manhattan at this NYTimes site [|Edgar Allen Poe] Mark Twain:[|Twain]

More Twain...teaching Twain with the New York Times Mark Twain's autobiography full text Twain lessons an many links at the NY Times Teaching Shakespeare...Many helpful links from the Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare Retold. Site has an abundance of information with links, games, lessons, quizzes..... Romeo and Juliet in a media rich format Authors Webliography at LSU //Night//

Bibliography Generators
Bibliography maker using [|ISBN] Citation machine Bibme/online bib. creator:[|Bib Me]

Citation builders
Updated site on documenting sources. Bedford Cite this for me-The Harvard Referencing Generator Easy Bib Bib Me Citation machine

Curriculum Ideas For English/Language Arts
Hundreds of links for various subtopics, including educational English games. Worth checking out!

Best of the Web for English: Slideshare of suggestions English links by sub-topic:[|WebEnglishTeacher] Using "The Simpsons" to study satire. //New York Times// lesson with links to video [|Digital Librarian]....hundreds of literature links [|Lit trips....]use Google Earth to create map links dealing with literature. See literature in a new way.

Many, many links Elizabethanproject

Holocaust survivors video: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/18706-voices-from-the-holocaust-part-2-video.htm Frontline...Memory of the camps Database of award winning Children's Literature. Wonderful tool!

Scribbling Women-Teaching about American women in literature WebEnglishTeacher: Many links Free online whiteboard at Groupboard

Dictionaries/Thesaurus
Visual dictionary: [|Visuwords] Visual Thesaurus:[|visual] Big HUGE Thesaurus Save the words....fun site from the //Oxford English Dictionary//

FILM
Film making lesson plans. Well documented with numerous resource links. The Grammar of TV and Film Excellent resource for basic information regarding camera angles, etc. MovieClips....great resource Slapstick in movies....clips to show Best movie clipsto teach language....also concepts in film Watch and download black and white movies at bnwmovies Film curriculum program The Story of Movies

Detailed explanation of **//Psycho//** on this blog

James Dean Tribute with many links

Best Extended Takes in movies Find quotes from movies or series using this search engine Watch Indie films online at Openfilm Find movie [|reviews]  Film map-[|Interesting]  Watch [|horror movies]on-line  Film information by the [|film makers]  [|Tons of links] for everything film  [|Rhyming dictionary]--lets you chose where the rhyme goes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Read scripts online[| here] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Journalism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Online journalism]...blog with online lectures and demonstrations <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Where was it filmed? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Free [|screenplays] See which movies are being rented using a map to illustrate. Interesting! Best documentaries at MUST WATCH

Fun Stuff
Create character trading cards at Read/Write/Think

Games for learning
Collection of games for many content areas, including English Knoword...an online game of vocabulary and spelling. Fun. No downloads needed.

Grammar
See writing/grammar/plagiarism below

Literacy/Reading Strategies
Website with MANY links:[|Great list of helpful links] Reading strategies for all content areas**. [|Great set of links]**

Literary/Study Guides
Shmoop literary guides and much more **One of the best sites I've foound** Free online literary study guides-can also print or use as an iphone app at LitCharts.com links, etc.

[|Angela's As][|hes Wiki] [|Catcher in the Rye]

Teacher's Guide with interactive links at Score Shmoop's Guide to //The Crucible// enotes study guide A research guide with MANY links Web English Teacher links for The Crucible
 * //The Crucible//:**

Frankenstein Great Expectations Interactive Of Mice and Men....for slate or smartboard //Night// Night [|The Great Gatsby] To Kill A Mockingbird //New York Times// collections of To Kill A Mockingbird sites

[|The Lord of the Flies]

[|The Odyssey]: //New York Times// lessons and resources The Odyssey photo slide show on Shmoop

[|Literary Hoaxes]

Teaching Shakespeare...Many helpful links from the Folger Shakespeare Library

Music and Literature
Great website with links to songs to coordinate with literature From the above website, a database of songs

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Greek gods]
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Myths and Legends story maker-AWESOME

**Poetry**
[|Classic poetry] read out loud Authors" reading" their own poems on YouTube:[|Interesting animation] More authors reading [|poetry] Fun site: [|http://www.writerhymes.com] Representative Poetry On Line Poets.org Great site!

The Poetry Society site

American Life in Poetry

//**Howl**// in film Lessons from the NewYorkTimes

Quotations
Looking for inspiration? Check this site Random quotes

Reading
ReadingReading groups resources

Speech Communications
WebEnglish Teacher list of lesson links for Speech EducationWorld list of lessons for Speech Communications Speech topics, PowerPoint backgrounds, etc.:[|Presentation Helper]

Stopwatch:[|on-linestopwatch] = = Origami videos:[|how to] [|How stuff works] [|Instructables]

Wonder How to: [|thousands of videos] Enotes...great for research

Free sound effects using Songle search engine

Textbooks
California k12 textbooks...free to download/includes IPad app. at ck12.org

Theatre
Reader's Theatre scripts here. Free sound effects [|SoundJay] Links for everything [|Theatre]

Vocabulary/Word Games
Test your vocabulary....how many words do you know? Vocab Sushi Create visual word clouds:[|Wordle] Vocabulary tool that's cool: [|Vocabgrabber] Free on-line word games. Fun and challenging, too:[|Word game] Lemons for Literacy=Vocab. game that donates to reading programs. If you like Free Rice, you'll like this, too! Vocab. builder and food provider! Free Rice [|vocab] Word sift: Visualize your text.

Wiki Information
Great site offering instructions and examples for creating and using a wiki at teachersfirst.com

Writing and Grammar and Plagiarism Checkers
NEW!

Fun way to learn about irregular verbs Essay grader Huge list of interactive grammar quizzes

Better English quizzes

BBC Skillswise word grammar Grammar Gremlins Interactive for slate or online. Cute Interactive proofreading activity.
 * Writing prompts** at oneword.com gives you a single word. You write for 60 seconds and can share your work. Fun!

Another plagiarism checker Letter writer Generate letters with this ReadWriteThink site

BigDog Grammar MLA Quick Guide Many links to help with writing and grammar Grammar Songs:[|Check the tune links] Plagiarism checker Great collection of information and links about plagiarism at Spelling City.com Conjugation helper...very helpful website Instantly check a paper for errors and/or plagiarism at PaperRater.com

Chompchomp.com offers games, worksheets and other great things for grammar

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