The following are WEBSITES FOR TEACHERS recommended
in the Fall 2000 Ohio Journal of the
English Language Arts:
Mystery of the Day
www.mysteries.com
All kinds of information about
mysteries including Mystery of the Day, Mystery Book Club, Mystery site
of the Week, and information on over 10,000 Mysteries.
Includes a total of 665 fables
indexed in table format with morals listed. Also includes real audio
narrations, images, and a message forum.
This site is an “index to
indexes” listing guides and documents that deal with specific authors.
Authors listed are geared toward the upper intermediate and high school
student.
A classic books and reference
website. Bibliomania.com offers you access to the full text of classic
world literature, and important reference texts that help to bring
language alive. All the text is fully searchable. This means you can
easily find specific authors, passages, themes of words. You can browse
through the books or read them online.
Wide collection of children’s
books listed by categories. Information includes a photo of the book
jacket, a summary, a listing of similar books, and parental notes.
A site dedicated to booktalks, a
wide collection of books are reviewed in the format. Books are indexed
by author, titles, subjects, interest levels, and award winners. Also
included on the site are tips for giving booktalks, reading lists, and
book review sources.
This site was created by a teacher
to support elementary classroom teachers as they work to find literature
activities on the internet. Books are indexed by grade level, genres,
and interest level. A vast collection.
A huge site that covers all the
elements of a literature classroom. Links include tutorial information
for students on topics such as grammar, word games, publishing, and
vocabulary activities. Also available are guides for a wide range of
literature. A special section, “In the Spotlight” includes features
such as “an invitation to write a historical short story,” and other
tutorial lessons. Pull these lessons off the web today, use them
tomorrow.
User enters information to achieve a
search for award winning literature complete with title, author, and a
summary. Easy to use and comprehensive.
This site features lesson plans for
a wide range of high school literature. They are indexed by the title,
and are comprehensively completed. Another take-it, use-it website.
This site is an encyclopedia on
mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains over 5700
definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, and legendary
creatures and monsters from all over the world.
Cyber Guides
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us
Follow links to language arts. A
comprehensive site that offers web-delivered units of instruction
centered on core works of literature. Each guide contains students and
teacher edition, standards, a task, related websites, and a rubric.
A site for finding or submitting
multi-cultural books.
This site features Native American
themes in Children’s books, Native American authors, and illustrators
links.
The main screen may ask if you want
to install Flash 5.0. It is not necessary to do so to get to the
WebEnglish site. Scroll to page bottom and click on Gold Star Resource
WebEnglishTeacher.com. Tutorials on a wide range of writing styles
including informal essays, thesis, argumentative, exploratory, and
documenting sources. Very user-friendly.
Poetry site includes lessons,
activities, and assessment ideas for teaching poetry.
Reported to be the web’s largest
collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research
projects. Site shows students how to make the best use of their on-line
time.
