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Professional Development

Teaching Today
Teaching Today is Glencoe's premiere professional development site for teachers. This site offers daily teaching tips, free downloadable materials, and a wealth of other resources you can use in the classroom today.

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
At the home page for this national organization, you can learn about their journals, books, and events. You can find and share teaching ideas with other teachers. You can also register for membership in this association.

Modern Language Association (MLA)
This site is devoted to the national association dedicated to the study of language and literature. Included is information about MLA style, reports, committees, publications, and awards.

International Reading Association (IRA)
Here you will find information about the association, its conferences and conventions, councils and affiliates. Publications, research, and a directory are also included.

National Education Association
At this site you can connect to pages covering educational topics, issues, and resources. Subjects include public education, legislative action, school safety, health information, educational materials, and books and publications.

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Reading Lists

Best Books of the Year
Here you will find a roundup of annual book lists published on the Web. The lists represent several perspectives on the year's top choices. Included are links to lists sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association, Smithsonian magazine, Booklist, and Science Books & Films.

Outstanding Books for the College Bound
This is one of the lists prepared by the Young Adult Library Services Association. It is divided into five sections covering the Arts, Humanities, History, Cultures, Literature, Science, and Social Science.

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Resources for Writers

High School/Middle School Writing Centers
This International Writing Centers Association site is a social network exclusively for educators interested in middle and high school writing centers.

Thesaurus.com
At this site, you can search or browse the thesaurus, or search the dictionary or the Web for a particular word. You can also find interactive crossword puzzles, a word of the day, and a translator for Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Portuguese.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
In addition to the dictionary and thesaurus, this site includes a daily word game, a word of the day, a word for the wise, and a feature on the lighter side of language.

alphaDictionary.com
This site is a treasure-trove of links to over two hundred dictionaries of languages from Creole to Maori to Zulu. Also included are links to specialized English dictionaries, thesauri, online grammar tips, and a Web of linguistic fun.

Visual Thesaurus
This site is a good demonstration of how computer technology can present verbal information graphically. To find synonyms, all you need do is point the cursor at a word and the synonyms appear in a web surrounding the original word. You can continue the process by pointing to another word and synonyms will appear for that one and so on.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Part of the Bartleby Library, this 1901 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs from ancient and modern literature.

Britannica.com
This is an invaluable site for Internet research. Not only does it contain the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica, but it also contains listings of thousands of Web sites rated by Britannica editors, and magazines, books, and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Search by topics from arts, science, travel, and technology.

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Electronic Texts

University of Virginia's Modern English Collection
This site houses a collection of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts, and illustrations from 1500 to the present. You can browse texts by area of interest, including African Americans, Native Americans, Women, and Literature in Translation.

Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The complete comedies, tragedies, histories, and poetry of William Shakespeare can be found on this site. It includes a search engine, a glossary, and links.

Bartleby Library
In addition to the novels, poetry, plays, and speeches found on this site are the ninth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and the 1918 edition of The Elements of Style. A search engine is included.

Project Gutenberg
The goal of this enormous site is to publish as e-texts all literature that enters the public domain. Currently its over 10,000 works include light literature, such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, heavy literature, such as Moby Dick and the Bible, and reference works such as dictionaries and encyclopedias.

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Other Literary Sites

Author Guides Webliography
This site features individual author guides and other documents relating to specific writers.

Poetry Daily
This highly rated site features a new poem each day, including information about the featured poet and book. It also maintains a daily listing of reviews and articles about poetry and poets from national and international sources.

Poets' Corner
This site is devoted to creating the largest, most diverse, and user-friendly online library of poetry. Currently it contains more than 7,000 poems by more than 700 poets. In addition, it lists favorites, a bibliography, and links.

Voices & Visions
This site is dedicated to the lives and works of 13 of America's most famous modern poets, including T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens. Based on the Voices & Visions video series, which is periodically shown on PBS, these Web pages give links to photographs, biographies, exhibits, and poems by and about these poets.

Arts & Letters Daily
An abundance of links to important newspapers, magazines and journals, news services, book reviews, columnists, search engines, utilities, and amusements. The home page has lead-ins to articles of note, new book reviews, and essays and opinions that are updated daily. An invaluable source for keeping up with what is happening in the world of language, literature, the arts, criticism, and culture.

poets.org
A great source for biographies and bibliographies of American poets, particularly contemporary ones. On this site one can find a poet, visit a poetry exhibit, join a discussion, or read featured essays.

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Other Professional Resources

ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education
Here you can explore an enormous number of resources in ERIC's collection, including lesson plans, articles, research, and other resources for teachers. It also includes links to other educational resource sites.

U.S. Department of Education
This home page for the U.S. Department of Education contains a wide array of information on topics ranging from programs and services, to publications and products, to obtaining student financial assistance. Included are links to articles in the education headlines and a list of the most requested items.

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