Novelinks is maintained by the Education section of the English Department at Brigham Young University. Our goal is to provide educators with quality teaching materials that will enhance classroom instruction for a wide variety of commonly taught novels in middle through secondary schools. Novelinks includes online as well as printed references to biographical, historical and critical insights on authors and their works. We also offer reading strategies and units for specific novels under the heading reading resources.

Online dictionary of new words and phrases with example citations for each term. You can search for new words by using the WordSpy's search engine or browse by category such as business, culture or technology. Read definitions and view the context those new words were commonly used in the media.

Fantastic list of great resoruces, not only for communication tools, but language resources as well

Creates visual pictures of selected text with explanations

These reproducible items for school and classroom use are to be used in conjunction with Teaching Reading Comprehension.

This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. The British Isles is rich in myths, folktales and legends.

BookGlutton is a free resource that lets you read books on the web, digitally annotate them and interact with other readers in real-time. You can chat with users on different chapters, leave and reply to comments within the text and bookmark your place in the book.

I wonder if we could use this tool to turn shakepeare into text format? LOL From a learning point of view, we could do it and then give it to the learners to write over into proper english... (evil grin)

Free Dictionary is an online English Dictionary that gives you English definitions, synonyms, pronunciation, spelling and more. Free dictionary has Auto Suggestion and Auto Spell Check technology.

italki.com is where you can find everything you need to learn a language. italki is a social network and an online resource for learning foreign languages.

The Partnership advocates for the integration of 21st Century Skills into K-12 education so that students can advance their learning in core academic subjects.

NewFiction brings you new generation audio books. Here you can freely subscribe to a variety of cool iSoaps (new type of audio books similar to old-time serial radio dramas) and listen to them online. The site takes original stories and dramatizes them with voices of dedicated actors and actresses.

I need this.....