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Good lord, Beth O'Marr demo'd this site and I had a language-gasm! Check this out!!

Drop in a relatively small text (800 words or less), and this little wonder creates graphic organizers, finds vocabulary, builds questions, does pronounciation, prefixes, suffixes.

Shmoop wants to make you a better lover (of literature, history, poetry and writing). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time. Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

Summary, notes, guides, and analysis of themes and characters for English Literature homework.

Summary, notes, guides, and analysis of themes and characters for English Literature homework.

We're trying to help kids prepare for the SAT by offering fun and free videos about SAT vocabulary, made by YOU! We're offering $600 in prize money to the video that receives the most number of votes. $200 of the payout will go to the maker(s) of the video and $400 to the class or school club of his/her choice.

from @mmkrill

Lots of primary level interactive flash activities perfect for an IWB.

MixedInk takes a fresh approach to collaborative writing. It's a fun, democratic and elegant way for people to weave their best ideas together. (Plus, it's free!)

Audio Recordings and Texts of Robert Frost Poetry

Creating your own interpretation of Shakespeare in one minute - make a film or audio, take a scene or whole play, keep it classic or make it modern, it's up to you.

Hip Hop Music in the Classroom!!!

A TextArc is a visual represention of a text-the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning.

Unique usage of javascript to help students brainstorm persuasive essay topics. Also has a thesis builder and outliner. Simple and works well. Not a complete guide to essay writing, but definitely helpful.

Please enjoy our adaptation from the Old English version by Dr. David Breeden.

AdLit.org All about adolescent literacy, multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers

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An online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections. * It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus! * Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists. * The online dictionary is available wherever there's an internet connection. * No membership required. Visuwords™ uses Princeton University's WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: