Subjects Language Arts Literature
Literature
The Official Roald Dahl Website
The official site of the well known children’s author, Roald Dahl, contains everything you ever wanted to know about Dahl and much more including biographical information and photos, lesson plans, and games. This highly interactive site is sure to eng ...
Read Aloud Registry
Created by a Ann Letain, a teacher-librarian, this site helps K-8 teachers find and select book titles that are appropriate to read aloud in their classrooms. Each book description includes the title, author, grade level and information on why it is a g ...
Database of Award Winning Children's Lit...
Create a tailored list of quality children's books based on your criteria such as ethnicity, gender, period, location, and others, or view lists of seventy-two (72) English-language children's literature awards and their winners.
International Childrens Digital Library
The International Children's Digital Library was created as a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world. In fact, users from over 160 countries around the world have accessed the collection. The collection features materials ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Created by the Maine Historical Society, this website is an excellent source for teaching about Longfellow. The site includes several different sections including a biography, a searchable database of his poems, as well as information about his life and ...
Mark Twain's Mississippi
Mark Twain's Mississippi provides interpretive essays, primary documents, images, audio and video which illustrate what life was like in the Mississippi River Valley in the 19th century. Uses Mark Twain's writings as a focal point for investigating this t ...
Outta Ray's Head
Ray Saitz, a teacher-librarian created to site to share classroom tested lesson plans (complete with handouts). Lesson plans are divided into three areas: poetry, writing, and literature. Although this is not the fanciest looking site, the lessons are ...
Carol Hurst's Chrildren's Literature Sit...
A collection of reviews of great books for students as well as classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein's children's books, stories, poetry, illustrations, fun activities for students, as well as teacher resources.
Bartleby's Reference Sources
Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of reference, verse, fiction and nonfiction. Examples of titles available include Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Roget' ...
Shakespreare Subject to Change
In this engaging multi-media site students can see how Shakespeare’s words changed as they went from pen to printing press to stage, and finally to screen. Students can explore how Shakespeare's texts have come to be, from his own pen to the printing pro ...
Wired for Books
Wired for Books: poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for students. This site contains a collection of audio recordings featuring authors reading their own works, videos of selected plays, as well as classics from the past (Dickens' cl ...
Knowing Poe
Created by and for teachers this site will introduce students to the literature, life, and times of one of America's foremost writers. On the site, students can: explore Poe's worlds — both fictional and real — from a number of perspectives exami ...
Play Shakespeare
Most online public domain versions of Shakespeare's texts are based on the Globe Edition of 1866, the Gutenberg Edition, or the MIT/Moby Edition (a revised version of the Globe Edition). There are many inconsistencies and errors in these editions so they ...