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Note: Nowadays, most people just type a word or two into Google and see what comes up, so we were wondering about keeping this section. However, we do get several visitors, and even the occasional contact thanking us for these items, so they are still here, but mostly have not been updated for ages.
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Literacy Hour
These links are designed to give pointers to resources on the World Wide Web to support teachers getting to grips with teaching literacy in general and the National Literacy hour in particular.
- Literacy Time (at the Virtual Teachers' Centre)
http://www.vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/resource/literacy/ - Literacy Hour - a very visual site looking at the components. Lesson plans
included.
http://www.literacyhour.co.uk/ - CLPE (the Centre for Language in Primary Education)
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/clpe/ - BBC Learning Station
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/home/schools/ - BBC Guide to Home Learning Some literacy learning games
can be found here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/home/parents/ - BBC Primary English Web Guide
- National Literacy Association
- NFER Research into Literacy Hours
- Parents Guide to Reading at Home
Texts and Grammar
- A.Word.A.Day - A service that mails out a vocabulary word
and its definition to the subscribers everyday
www.wordsmith.org/awad/ - Bible Gateway
bible.gospelcom.net/bible - Classics - Links to the full text of 400 Greek and Roman
classics in translation
the-tech.mit.edu/Classics/titles.d.html - Electric Editors - Lots of interesting material on editing
www.ikingston.demon.co.uk/ee/home.htm - Elements of Style - The famous Strunk & White
www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/ - English Server - Large collection of interesting resources
english-server.hss.cmu.edu/ - Grammar notes by Jack Lynch (US rules)
www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/grammar.html - Grammar Slammer Downloadable software program (US rules)
- Guide to Grammar and Writing (from an American University)
cctc.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm - The Quotations Page - A personal collection plus a quote
of the day
www.starlingtech.com/quotes/ - Reader's & Writer's Resource Page - Reading lists and
shared enthusiasms
www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett - Roget's Thesaurus - Searchable out of copyright editions
humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html - Online Writing Community - Arts Council-funded hypertext
experiments
trace.ntu.ac.uk - Oxford Text Archive - distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages for study purposes onlyota.ahds.ac.uk/ota/public/index.shtml
- Project Gutenberg - the official sites (many mirrors all
over the world); vast library of e-texts, mostly public domain; all in plain
text format.
www.gutenberg.net/ - Shakespeare Resources - links to quantities of others
www.shakespeare.com - Virtual Teachers Centre Literacy Hour
www.vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/resource/literacy/ - Word Tips For Microsoft Word users
wordtips.vitalnews.com
Education and teaching writing
- Computers in Teaching Initiative - 24 subject-based centres
working to support the use of communication and information technologies
in UK higher education
www.cti.ac.uk/ - DeVry's Online Writing Support Center -
- for writing students
www.devry-phx.edu/ - English Composition - 'Comp' site - thoughtful educational
site for teaching skills and exploring issues
www.abacon.com/compsite/ - English Through the Internet - reading & writing skills
www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/english/writing.html - Essay Writing for Students - to encourage consistency, clarity
and precision in written and published work
www.pol.adfa.oz.au/resources/essay_writing/contents.html - Online Resource For Writers - advice on writing, research,
punctuation, et al
www.ume.maine.edu/~wcenter/resource.html - Resources for Teachers of Writing - writing across the curriculum,
writing in the disciplines
www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/ww_wac.html#tools - Rhetoric and Composition
english-www.hss.cmu.edu/rhetoric/ - Study Web - school research aid sorted by topic including
one on writers and writing
www.studyweb.com/ - Teaching Writing - links to resources on pedagogy of writing
www.bedfordstmartins.com/lunsford/everyday_writer - Tutor2000 - online tutor referral service helping tutors
and students find each other over the Internet, American (of course) but
does it matter?
www.tutor2000.com/ - Write Environment Inc. - web site for teachers of
writing; may give ideas
www.writeenvironment.com - Writing & Computers Association - research into the
effect of technology on writing
ibs.derby.ac.uk/~markt/WC11/WC_info.html
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