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Using ICT to teach reading
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This is one of four sections containing useful web links for you to explore. This module is literature based and includes many links to set texts. Some of the links provide biographical information on authors and ideas for lesson plans. There are also links to non-literary texts and professional advice on using the Internet in education / English teaching.
There are a lot of resources in these sections! Can you share out the research amongst your departmental colleagues? Don't forget the suggestions in the Task at the end.
| Ariadne (Teachers/Librarians Magazine) | Hyperlinks and resources. Online issue of articles, about using the Internet in education and school libraries. Articles themselves contain hyperlinks to some of the best sites on the Web. | http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ |
| Roald Dahl Student Resources | List of themes and suggestions for tasks to compare all, or study some, of Dahl's books. | http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/dahl.htm |
| Ask the Author | Interviews with authors, brief biographies, plus children's questions answered. Generally allows pupils to post questions for the next 7 authors due to be interviewed. Previous authors include: Katherine Paterson, Robert Cormier. | http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/askauthor/ |
| Katharine Paterson Website | Children interview Katharine Paterson online on her own website (author of 'The Great Gilly Hopkins' and 'Bridge to Terabithia'). Click on the questions to see her answer. | http://www.terabithia.com/ |
| Judy Blume Website | Interesting and encouraging. | www.judyblume.com/index.html |
| Betsy Byars Website | Interesting site, encouraging children to write. By the author of 'The Eighteenth Emergency', 'The Midnight Fox', etc. | w3.iac.net/~feguy/betsybyars/index.html |
| Mythical Quest: Myths and Legends | British Library site - provides text, storyline, sources and an original illustrated page. Covers 6 different Quest myths. Excellent for comparative work. Includes: Rama and Sita, Monkey, Jason and the Fleece, Alex the Great, Sindbad, Cupid and Psyche. | http://www.bl.uk/education/ projects/cbooks/section16.html |
| Alan Garner | Study guide | http://members.ozemail.com.au/~xenophon/ |
| Children's Literature Web Hyperlinks | http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html |
| Pre-20th Century Text sources | ||
| Project Gutenberg Index | This site contains the full text of a massive range of out-of-copyright books. It's especially interested in issues of censorship, and has much discussion of this. | http://promo.net/pg/ |
| E-Text Hyperlinks pages (Project Gutenberg) | Fairly excellent and esoteric hyperlinks to e-text sites: i.e., sites which have out-of-copyright books on screen, and sometimes teaching resources, too. This is a sub-page of the Project Gutenberg site. | http://promo.net/pg/other_gen.html (This link has been removed, but clicking here will give you an interesting choice of options) |
| Luminarium | Mediaeval resources | http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Vast range of hyperlinks on Poe's works, life and influence. Excellent standard of material. | http://dcls.org/x/archive/poe.html |
| Labyrinth Library: Middle English | A good selection of sites relating to medieval studies and Middle English in particular. Includes such classics as ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ as well as fascinating archive material. | http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html |
| The Yellow Wallpaper Site | Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 'The Yellow Wallpaper'. Excellent hyperlinks page constructed by high school students, including Gilman's piece 'Why I Wrote TYW'. Text of story also included. Online message board allows students to post replies to questions about the story - used successfully with Year 10. |
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/ NB. This site contains some references to adult content - you may wish to visit the following as an alternative: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/ywdiscuss.html |
| The Canterbury Tales Project | Study guide | http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/ctp/index.html |
| Gulliver's Travels | Visually appealing - high quality. | http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/ |
| Pride and Prejudice | Study guide | http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/ |
| Pride and Prejudice | Study guide | http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html |
| The Dickens Page | Big, thorough, and useful | http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html |
| Charles Dickens | Mostly biographical | http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/ |
| Hardy in Dorset | Quality site, and very attractive. | http://www.prestigeweb.com/hardy/hardy.html |
| Thomas Hardy Resource Library | Reliable site. | http://pages.ripco.com/~mws/hardy.html |
| Online Classics | Useful for pre-C20 | http://www.literature.org/authors/ |
| H.G.Wells | Link not working? | www.clarndon.demon.co.uk/wells.htm |
| Contemporary Text Resources | ||
| Museum of African American History (Detroit) | Research resource (e.g., for use with texts such as 'Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry', or 'To Kill A Mockingbird'). Currently incomplete, but may be developed properly in the future. | www.maah-detroit.org |
| British and Irish Authors on the Web | http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/ | |
| The Celebration of Women Writers | http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ | |
| The English Server Comprehensive Literary Resource | Easy to search | http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | http://mockingbird.chebucto.org | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Link not working? | http://www.fairhavenuhs.k12.vt.us/links/English/mockingbird.html |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Study guide | http://www.globalserve.net/~glamont/tkambbn.htm |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Student Survival Guide | http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/index.html |
| To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now | In honour of the 35th anniversary of the film | http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/index.html |
| Of Mice and Men | Background and links. More for teachers than for students. | http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/mice.html |
| Of Mice and Men | Student Survival Guide | http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/index.html |
| Steinbeck Links Page | Useful Steinbeck links |
http://home.hit.net/~mhenry/Steinbeck/Links_Page_1.html (Broken Link?) |
| Lord of the Flies | Study guide | http://www.bell.k12.ca.us/BellHS/ Departments/english/engdept.html |
| Lord of the Flies | Study guide. | http://www.globalserve.net/~glamont/lordbbn.htm |
| George Orwell - Animal Farm | Materials and assignment | http://www.globalserve.net/~glamont/frames.htm |
| Sport England | Information about Sport England, the brand name of the English Sports Council. Its key activities, policies, services, publications and funding. | www.sportengland.org |
| The Puffin House | Excellent homepage of Puffin. Includes: a quiz on Roald Dahl, 'complete a story' by a new author, reviews of new titles, plus links to Paul Jennings' homepage (author of the Unbelievable!' series). Can be used successfully with KS3. | http://www.puffin.co.uk/ |
| Amazon: Earth's Biggest Bookstore | You can buy books, find similar authors to your favourites (The US site has a button for "if you like this, you'll like ..."), and post online reviews. Great resource for teachers, and kids can review, too. Largest bookshop on the Web. | http://www.amazon.com/ |
| http://www.amazon.co.uk/ | ||
| The Publishers Association | Includes details of World Book Day. | http://www.publishers.org.uk/ |
| Penguin | The World of Penguin, Study Aids (including Penguin Critical Studies) |
http://www.futurenet.co.uk/Penguin/Browse/1_90_Title.html Link broken: use a search engine to find the Penguin Critical Study you need. |
| The Internet Public Library | Books, information, lifestyle, helpful study hints - absolutely everything. Best page is 'Ask the Author'. | http://www.ipl.org/ |
| Living Library Demo | This is a demonstration page only, of an educational reference library on the net. This demo is valid for one month only. | http://www.livinglibrary.co.uk/demo/demohome.html |
| Treasure hunts | ||
| Treasure Island Web Site | EXCELLENT site with many things to do and research on Stevenson, the novel, and lots on pirates as a general research topic. Used very successfully with Years 7 and 8, and combined with existing CD-ROM research on ToolWorks and World Book CD-ROMs. |
NB. The map for Captain Dave's Treasure Hunt tells students how many letters fit each answer.l
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| The Egyptians | Excellent scavenger hunt with many themed activities. Suitable for KS3. |
http://www.crcssb.edu.on.ca/~red/htm/scaven.htm Link broken: try a search engine for other scavenger hunts. Here is one on Egypt to try, and here is another. |
| Black History | Scavenger hunt, aiming to work towards an opinion essay from students. Suitable for KS4. | http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/hunt.html |
| Web Quest Page | Fun quest | http://webquest.sdsu.edu/ |
| Online Extension activities | ||
| IPL Teen Division | Internet Public Library's teenager's resources page: very interesting site - contains more than just a book list. Useful general site to use with KS4 as a back-up site for extension work. | http://www.ipl.org/div/teen/ |
Task 17
- Review some of the sites above and note down the ones you feel your department may find most useful in terms of current schemes of work.
- Download some of the information from the authors and use it as a preliminary to discussing a text or to reinforce thematic emphasis.
- Order some texts over the Internet - you may be surprised at some of the savings you can make!
- Set some of your students a library task on the Internet. For example, researching what a Narwhal is for a presentation in relation to ' When the Whales Came'.
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