Random House
Focus On: Censorship & Banned Books
Billy Collins' "Rain" introduces the Random House 104-page magazine for educators that focuses on censorship and banned books. The resource is packed with teaching guides, articles by noted authors, and links to...
Urban Education Exchange
Lessons and Units: The Watsons go to Birmingham—1963 5TH GRADE UNIT
Get ready to read The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 with a lesson about historical fiction. Spanning several centuries, the resource prompts learners to guess the historical era of a story based on a word or phrase...
IPDAE
Themes in Short Stories
"What is the theme of this story?" The very question can spark fear in the minds of readers and incinerate confidence. Here you will discover an exercise that shows how writers use the tools of setting, plot, conflict, and...
Other
Elemadrid: English Spanish Dictionary
A very effective resource tool in helping both the teacher and the student define unfamiliar words. This online dictionary translates a word from one language to another, in a wide range of languages. Can easily change the languages by...
Other
Lib.ru: Russian & World Poetry in Russian
Large online collection of Russian and world poetry, in Russian. Includes classics by English language poets like Dante, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Frost, Eliot, Ginsburg and a few by Russian-American poets. Helpful support for the upper...
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Alpha Dictionary: Online Russian Reference Grammar
Most questions about Russian grammar can be answered at this website. Intended for native speakers of English who are interested in learning Russian. Background on Russian grammar might also be useful by ELL students and their teachers,...