Literary and historical topics. "Shmoop will make a handy starting point for developing background knowledge, for topic, question, and thesis development, and for test prep. Some teachers will appreciate its value for preparing lessons."
A website with book reviews, author biographies, quizzes and polls to engage kids in reading. Unfortunately, no search engine, so you need to explore a bit to know if there are resources specific to the book you are teaching.
Provides character analysis, historical background, themes, famous quotes, pictures, FAQs, modern connections, essays, bibliography, and further readings on hundreds of books. Although you must pay to have access to all the support materials, you can see useful excerpts. You can choose to buy the support materials for a single book, or have a site-wide subscription.
This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
These short booktalks are intended to be used primarily by school library media specialists and teachers to hook students on books. There are also links to a blog, podcasts, and audio excerpts of books K-12.
Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts - Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books - Study Guides to the most read books and Help for Teachers.
Free book reviews by children for children. For a membership fee, your school can join the club. Teachers receive online lessons and kids become part of the online reading community.
Links to interactive online language arts activities. Categories are Alphabet, Grammar, Fables, Languages, Learn How to Read, Poems and Rhymes, Spelling, Stories, Tall Tales and Folk Tales, and Writing.
Has poems that kids can read and rate. Also has links to poetry lessons on how to write different kinds of poems. Material is copyrighted and not for copying or distribution. Poetry theater selections are also included with permission to copy for classroom use.
This website has lots of online mysteries to read and solve. They provide many examples of short mysteries written by students. If you read more about the mysterynet website, you can find links to classic mystery authors and even purchase digital copies of their books. This website supports the MCPS grade 4, quarter 4 writing mysteries lesson 1.
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