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Several methods to help students read and understand nonfiction material.

Martin Burrett 05 Aug 11 11:03:11The Poetry Archive, as the name suggests, is a bank of poetry and information about poets. A great resource for teachers and students alike

Welcome to Great global reads for kids...Are you interested in books written by good authors from other countries?This wiki offers booklists of great reads for students aged 12 to 16 + suggested by school librarians around the world.Enjoy reading across the globe!

"Simmons presents a series of creative activities that have advanced her high school students' vocabularies and impressed on them the power of words."

I was just watching a ted talk by Alan November http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJHzpEy4bE&t=11m10s where he talks about a student who uses the site, as many do to write in the style of an author. Apparently there are a lot of kids who do it, motivation is intrinsic, their writing improves but most importantly they choose to do it and it is because they are published authors writing for the world, they have an audience, who reads there stuff and interacts with it.

Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. "