Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning

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Reading

Decording/word identification | Literary genres | Interactive resources for kids

Writing

Media production | Writing conventions/mechanics | Writing process | Writing research papers

ESL/ELL

General Language Arts Resources

Reading

Decoding/word identification

• MyVocabulary.com—Vocabulary University
• English Vocabulary Building Games—Vocabulary.co.il; Vkidz

Literary genres

• Cap O'Rushes: A Folkloric and Literature Resource—Carole Slattery; Newton, Massachusetts
• Classics Archive—Daniel C. Stevenson; Web Atomics
• Classics at the Online Literature Library—literature.org
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare—Jeremy Hylton; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
• Encyclopedia Mythica—Encyclopedia Mythica
• Folklore and Mythology—D. L. Ashliman; University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Haiku for People!—Kei Grieg Toyomasu
• The Jack London Collection—Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE; University of California, Berkeley
• Mark Twain and Technology—Carla Beard; Connersville High School; Connersville, IN
• The Milton-L Home Page—Kevin Creamer; University of Richmond, Virginia

Interactive resources for kids

• Stories from the Web—Birmingham Libraries; Birmingham, UK

Writing

Media production

• The Atlantic Online—The Atlantic Monthly Group; Boston, MA
• Journalism Education Association—Kansas State University, Manhattan
• Studentpress.org—National Scholastic Press Association & Associated Collegiate Press

Writing conventions/mechanics

• OneLook® Dictionary Search—OneLook®
• Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee—E.W. Scripps Company

Writing process

• Online Writing Lab—Purdue University; West Lafayette, IN
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant—Chuck Guilford

Writing research papers

• A+ Research and Writing Guide for High School Students—School of Information; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Writing Research Papers—Purdue University; West Lafayette, IN
  

ESL/ELL

• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)—Alexandria, VA

General language arts resources

• Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts—Eric Lease Morgan; South Bend, IN
• Bibliomania Fiction Library—Bibliomania.com Ltd.
• Common Core State Standards—Common Core State Standards Initiative
• The Big Six™—Big 6 Associates, LLC
• National Council of Teachers of English—Urbana, IL
• The Learning Network: Teaching & Learning With The New York Times; New York, NY
• The On-line Books Page—University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia
• PARCC Model Content Frameworks—Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers; Achieve
• Project Gutenberg—Michael Hart
• The Scriptorium: Special Collections Library—Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library; Durham, NC
  
• Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning to Read—U.S. Dept. of Education; Washington, D.C.
• Voice of the Shuttle—Alan Liu; University of California, Santa Barbara