English Language Arts and Reading on
the Internet: A Resource for K-12
Teachers
Chapter 1: Untangling the Web
Clearinghouse on Reading, English, &
Communication
http://www.indiana.edu
ISLMC Children’s Literature and Language
Arts Resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.h
tm
The English Server
http://eserver.org/
NCTE National Council of Teachers of
English
http://www.ncte.org/
The Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org/
Reading Online
http://www.readingonline.org/
Chapter 2: English Education Reform in a
Technological World
Doucette Index K-12 Literature-Based
Teaching Ideas
http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/
Sixty Years of Reading Research – But
Who’s Listening?
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kzem9903
.htm
Whole Language and Phonics: Can They
Work Together?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr029.shtml
The Big “R” – Reading
http://www.Idonline.org/Id_indepth/read
ing/tutor_tips.html
Academic Interventions for Children with
Dyslexia
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/cont
ent2/dyslexia.html
Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young
Children
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/p
rdyc/
Helping Children Overcome Reading
Difficulties
http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/dige
sts/d72.html
Reading Recovery
http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/dige
sts/d106.html
Chapter 3: Reading Research and Lessons
Learning to Read
http://toread.com/
Reading Recovery Council of North
America, 2004
http://www.readingrecovery.org/
The Reading Wars
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov
/read.htm
Adolescent Reluctant Readers
http://www.allamericareads.org/
Sensationalism, Politics, and Literacy:
What’s Going On?
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kfli9712.h
tm
Gifted Readers and Reading Instruction
http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/dige
sts/d101.html
AltaVista Translation Service
http://babel.altavista.com/tr?
Childrenstory.com
http://www.childrenstory.com/tales/inde
x.html
Heroes
http://www.mythweb.com/heroes/heroes.
html
Mayan Folktales
http://www.folkart.com/~latitude/folktal
e/folktale.htm
Native American Lore Index Page
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/loreindx.h
tml
Reading Rainbow
http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/
Bedtime Stories
http://the-office.com/bedtime-story/
Recommended Youth Reading
http://www.stcharles.lib.il.us/low/ythread.htm
Teachers.Net Reading
http://www.teachers.net/cgibin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Reading
Reading Across the Curriculum
http://teacher.scholastic.com/ilp/index.a
sp?SubjectID=1
Improving Student Understanding of
Textbook Content
http://www.Idonline.org/Id_indepth/teac
hing_techniques/understanding_textbook
s.html
Chapter4: Literature for Children and
Adolescents
The Children’s Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ind
ex.html
Great Web Sites for Kids: Favorite
Children’s Stories
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationM
enu/ALSC/Great_Web_Sites_for_Kids/G
reat_Web_Sites_Favorite_Childrens_Sto
ries.htm
Learning About the Author and
Illustrator Pages
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/A
uthorSite/
Wonderful Wizard of Oz
http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/index.ht
ml
Snow White
http://scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/snoww
hite.html
Storytime
http://pbskids.org/retired_storytime.ht
ml
Aesop’s Fables Online Collection
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
Reading Zone
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/r
zn0000/
Story Place
http://www.storyplace.org/
The World of Beverly Cleary
http://www.beverlycleary.com/
L. M. Montgomery Institute
http://www.upei.ca/~Immi/
Baby-sitters Club Author, Ann M.
Martin’s, Homepage at Scholastic
http://www.scholastic.com/annmartin/ind
ex.htm
The Official Roald Dahl Web Site
http://www.roalddahl.com/index3.htm
Patricia Polacco.com
http://www.patriciapolacco.com/
Sharon Creech
http://www.sharoncreech.com/index.html
Robert Munsch
http://www.robertmunsch.com/
Newbury Medal Homepage
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationM
enu/ALSC/Awards_and_Scholarships1/Lit
erary_and_Related_Awards/Newbery_M
edal/Newbery_Medal.htm
Gary Paulsen
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/g
arypaulsen/
Lois Lowry
http://www.loislowry.com/
Lord of the Flies
http://www.gerenser.com/lotf/
One Ring: The Complete Guide to Tolkien
Online
http://onering.virbius.com/index.php
The SF Site: The Home Page for Science
Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.sfsite.com/home.htm
Edward Lear Homepage
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/
Ray Bradbury
http://www.raybradbury.com/
Authors 4 Teens.com
http://www.authors4teens.com/default.ht
m
Author C. Clarke Unauthorized Homepage
http://www.Isi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/
The ISLMC’s Children’s and Young Adults’
Authors & Illustrators
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochild
home.htm
Canadian Young Adult Literature
http://www.publib.saskatoon.sk.ca/refere
nce.html
The Novels of Kevin Major
http://www4.newcomm.net/kmajor/
S. E. Hinton
http://www.sehinton.com/
Random House’s Teacers@Random
http://www.randomhouse.com/teacers/in
dex.html
Welcome to Jack London’s Ranch Album
http://www.jacklondons.net
Robert Heinlein: Dean of Science Fiction
Writers
http://www.wegrokit.com
Isaac Asimov Homepage
http://www.asimovonline.com/
The Official Ursula K. Le Guin Homepage
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/
The Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/
Odin’s Castle of Dreams & Legends: An
Archive of History & Historical Resources
http://www.odinscastle.org/index.html
A Haiku Homepage
http://home.clara.net/pka/haiku/haiku.ht
m
The Academy of American Poets – Online
Poetry Classroom
http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/
The WWW Virtual Liberty of Theatre
and Drama
http://vl-theatre.com
Glossary of Poetic Terms
http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.ht
ml
British and Irish Authors on the Web
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UKauthors.html
Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
http://www.lit.kobeu.ac.jp/~hishika/20c_poet.htm
The Shakespeare Resource Center
http://www.bardweb.net/
Short Stories
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
The Moonlit Road
http://www.themoonlitroad.com/
Project Gutenburg Electronic Texts
http://promo.net/pg/history.html
EducETH Reading List for Class Use
http://educeth.ethz.ch/english/readinglis
t/
A Teaching Unit for Treasure Island
http://amitylearning.com/treasure.html
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
Readers Theatre Edition
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html
Mr. William Shakespeare and the
Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
The Bronte Sisters Web
http://lang.nagoyau.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte.html
The Dickens Page
http://lang.nagoyau.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
Sherlockian.Net
http://www.sherlockian.net/
Into the Wardrobe: A Web Site Devoted
to C. S. Lewis
http://cslewis.drzeus.net/
George Orwell Homepage
http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/
The Improv Page
http://www.improvcomedy.org/index.html
American Authors on the Web
http://lang.nagoyau.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
The Dramatic Exchange Catalogue of
Plays
http://www.dramex.org/index.shtml
Literary Resources – American
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Li
t/american.html
The Puppetry Homepage
http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/
Edgar Allan Poe’s House of Usher
http://www.comnet.ca/~forrest/
The Road Not Taken: Robert Frost’s
Lesser Known Poems
http://frost.freehosting.net/index.htm
The Hemingway Resource Center
http://www.lostgeneration.com
John Steinbeck Page
http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~wsimkins/steinb
.html
The Mississippi Writers Page: Tennessee
Williams
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms
-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/
Crucible Homepage
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Cla
ssroom/3085/crucible.htm
Anniina’s Amy Tan Page
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary.
amytan/
Northwest Passages: Canadian Literature
On-Line
http://www.nwpassages.com/links.asp
Margaret Atwood Information Site
http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/atwood/
Michael Ondaatje Information
http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/ae/engml/FRIE
DMAN/ondaatje.htm
Native American Authors
http://www.ipl.org/ref/native/
The Index of Native American Electronic
Text Resources
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/i
ndices/NAetext.html
Library Resources – Other National
Literatures
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Li
t/other.html
Kazuo Ishiguro
http://www.cyberartsweb.org/post/uk/is
higuro/ishiguroov.html
Chapter 5: Language Arts Standards and
Activities
Online Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Labyrinth Library: Middle English
Bookcase
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/lib
rary/me/me.html
Renaissance Editions
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/
The Milton-L Homepage
http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton/
Luminarium: Medieval, Renaissance, and
17th-Century Literary Anthologies
http://www.luminarium.org/
Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/in
dex.htm
Roget’s Thesaurus
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
The Biography Writer’s Workshop
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/b
iograph/
The Eclectic Writer
http://www.eclectics.com/writing/writing.
html
The Write Site
http://www.writesite.org/
The Global Schoolhouse
http://www.gsn.org/
Gifts of Speech
http://www.giftsofspeech.org
Virtual Presentation Assistant
http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/
vpa/vpa.htm
Technology and Learning Website
http://www.techlearning.com/
The Internet for ESL Teachers
http://edvista.com/claire/internetesl.html
Linguistic Funland!
http://www.linguistic-funland.com/teslstudent-projects.html
Dave’s ESL Café
http://www.eslcafe.com/
Voices of Youth
http://www.unicef.org/voy
ePALS Classroom Exchange
http://www.epals.com
The Electric Postcard
http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Post
cards/Welcome.html
Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.
htm
Banksia Secondary College Homepage
http://bansec.customer.netspace.net.au/
welcome.html
International WWW School Registry
http://www.grandpajunior.com/Schoollist.shtml
The Media Literacy Online Project
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/Ho
mePage
The Globe Mail
http://www.theglobemail.com/index.html
Adbusters Online Magazine
http://adbusters.org/home/