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large range of free english lessons and resources

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These teaching materials are based upon Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. They are provided for educational purposes. Commercial use of these materials is prohibited. These materials are aligned with Indiana Standards 2000 and were prepared as part of a grant from the Indiana Department of Education. These materials are either links to Web sites or PDF files. PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download free here.

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"The Romantic poets This week, in the Guardian and the Observer, every day's paper comes with a free pamphlet on one of the great Romantics poets, from John Keats through to William Blake. As well as a selection of the poets' finest works, each pamphlet contains excerpts from their personal correspondence and a foreword from a modern-day admirer, with Christopher Hitchens championing Percy Bysshe Shelley, Margaret Drabble on William Wordsworth and Don Paterson writing in praise of Robert Burns. On the website, you can listen to readings of the featured poet's poems, join our daily discussions of their seminal works with the books blog's poet-in-residence, Carol Rumens, and download this week's books podcast, in which literary editor Claire Armitstead talks to Andrew Motion and the series editor, Nicholas Wroe, about the Romantics' legacy. If you missed out on any of the booklets, click here to buy copies from the readers offers department "

Fantastic free tool that requires no download or registration. Copy and paste text into the window and this service will highlight questionable spelling and grammar. An explanation is given as well as ways to fix the problem. This tool supports over 15 different languages including 3 variants of English.

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a PowerPoint of what our students will be doing in writing for the next fortnight to explore poetry. This presentation contains explanations and examples of each of the 18 major styles of poetry and also Poetry assessment rubric for your students to use to assist them in writing their own poetry. You can either download the entire presentation or just use the slideshare presentation below. Enjoy

Writing Fix (online resource) Here's an interesting free resource for anyone involved in teaching or learning writing skills. This site has been put together by the writers, teachers and students of the Northern Nevada Writing Project to support the development of writing skills with the Six Trait Model. The site hosts an extensive collection of lessons, activities and other resources. (The Writing Fix is one of 190 web sites sponsored by the National Writing Project in the US.) Featured prominently at the Writing Fix are two separate "prompt generators". One is called the "Interactive Instant Plot Creator". You press separate buttons to bring up random suggestions for setting, character, and conflict. To go along with this idea generator, there is a downloadable "pre-writing worksheet" as well as a "rough draft worksheet". The other generator is called the "Random Prompt Generator for Writers". This second prompt generator consists of 470 prompts, each of which begins with a question that is followed by a suggested writing task.

Top stories short story collection audio downloads available here