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Reading/Literature	Poetry	Mythology
Writing	Foreign Language/ESL	General

Reading/Literature

ALEX
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of digital documents. The scope of the documents in this collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The title of this web site says it all. It may not have the bells and whistles of many other web sites, but what it does have is the complete works of Shakespeare:)
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/

New Literary Resources
A professor of literature has compiled this list of links to quality new sites on the web that focus on particular authors or texts that can be grouped. The site is certainly on the esoteric side.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/new.html

Classics at the Online Literature Library
This site contains complete texts of many of the classics available online. Authors include Lewis Carroll, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and more.
http://www.literature.org/authors/

Links to Places Literary
An all around excellent literary link page.
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/favelink.htm

Alphabet Superhighway
This site contains many resources, games, and activities for students. Including an ask the expert section, a gallery of student work and much more.
http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/index.html

The Children's Literature Web Guide
Online resources for teachers, parents, and storytellers related to books for children and young adults.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/

Electric Soup
Online ten volume literary magazine that uses Web-based multimedia technology to add impact to words. Students may submit their own work.
http://www.hcrhs.hunterdon.k12.nj.us/esoup/welcome.html

Writing

Common Errors in English
An incredibly useful web page that goes over the most common grammatical and usage errors made in the English language. Everyone has something to learn here.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html

Poetry

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
Are you writing a poem and can't find any words that rhyme with purple? This is the place to go, just type in a word and get a bevy of rhyming words and phrases.
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html

Foreign Language/ESL

Dave's ESL Café
A site dedicated to ESL/EFL students.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/eslcafe.html

Mythology

Aesop's Fables
An online version of all of Aesop's Fables including illustrations.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/

Legends
Legends explores the history, literature, and lore surrounding Robin Hood, King Arthur, Pirates & Privateers, and other swashbuckling characters of balladry, fiction, and film, from The Queen of Elfland to Zorro.
http://www.legends.dm.net/

General

The Oracle of Ioxias
This website will answer email questions about classical literature (Ask about any Latin or Greek author: recent questions answered on Sophocles, Euripides, Homer, Virgil, Horace, Aeschylus, Theocritus - also comparisons with Shakespeare, Miller. Ask about plots, characters, interpretation - anything!) all usually within 48 hours.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/

Words and Pictures
This site uses shockwave and contains games and activities from the BBC that are bound to make learning phonics more fun! Try out the poem pack or test how well you know your vowel sounds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/wordsandpictures/phonics.shtml

Education Place
Resources for students, teachers and parents in curriculum content areas, with activities for school as well as home. Site's "reading room" features author spotlights, forum for students to discuss books with each other and an online book review.
http://www.eduplace.com/