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Resource Center

Looking for more information? Check out these reference sites.

Language Arts
BBC's Arts-Books
ReadWriteThink

Literature and Reading
The Academy of American Poets
American Verse Project
Clickable Poems
Encyclopedia Mythica
Favorite Poem Project
Glossary of Literary Terms
Project Gutenberg
Today in Literature
U.S. Literary Map at the American Collection
Voices From the Gaps
Wired for Books
World Wide School

Dictionaries and Word Guides
Merriam-Webster OnLine
Merriam-Webster Word Games
Sheppard Software's Word Games
Vocabulary University
The Word Detective
Wordsmith's A Word A Day

Style and Your Writing
How to Write a Term Paper from Thomson Gale
The University of Victoria Writer's Guide
Write It from Scholastic
Writing with Writers from Scholastic

Citation Guides
APA Format
Chicago Style
MLA Style
The Slate Citation Machine

Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Daily Grammar
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Standard Deviants
The Writers' Workshop Grammar Handbook

Speech, Debate, Media Literacy, and Journalism
American Rhetoric
Debate Central at the University of Vermont
High School Journalism from the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Media Literacy at PBS's TeacherSource
National Public Radio
The Newseum
Public Speaking from Standard Deviants TV
Write Site from ThinkTVNetwork

Research Guides
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
CNN Student News
Holt Researcher
Library of Congress
National Archives
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Research Starters from Scholastic
Smithsonian

Study Skills and Homework Help
Study Skills Topic Pages

ELL and Spanish Resources
Gramática y ortografía from the Spanish CALL Project at Indiana University
Real Academia Española
TOPICS Magazine for Learners of English

Teacher and Parent Resources
The National Education Association
NCTE
No Child Left Behind
Online Directory of ESL Resources PBS TeacherSource: Arts & Literature
Reading Online from the International Reading Association
StateStandards.com