God help us all, this is a website that makes online news stories even shorter. But it would be good for practicing beginning active reading strategies, since the articles are short.
A wealth of grammar lessons--short and simple. The good thing about this site is that it covers every type of grammar rule, and is easy to scroll through. The bad thing is that the lessons are short and perhaps a bit simple.
One of my favorite grammar bloggers--his catchphrase is "Prescriptivism must die!"--posted this about apostrophe use with possessives. Our junior PLT continues to disagree, and it sounds like the Associated Press disagrees with the MLA. WILL IT EVER END?
Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology. Inside one of the wildest experiments in film history. Bearing witness to mob violence in Johannesburg. The brave new world of privatized postal services. Unraveling a political conspiracy in Guatemala. The shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan. How two American kids became big time weapons dealers.
Eager to throw off my nerdy past and reinvent myself at college, I wrote "party animal" on my roommate application form where it asked incoming freshmen whether they wanted to bunk with a smoker or a non-smoker.