WEB SITES

Dictionary
The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary and thesaurus.

Translator
AltaVista's Babel Fish translates up to 150 words quickly from/to English from/to Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Also will translate Russian to English.

English Practice
Interactive online self-study quizzes from the TESL Journal to help with grammar, vocabulary, and American culture.

Activities for Students Learning English as a Second Language
Activities that make learning fun, plus bilingual quizzes in many languages.

Interesting Things
A fun study site for students of English as a Second Language which includes word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, proverbs and much more.

Power Proofreading
The power has gone out at WHME-TV, and they need proofreading technicians to fix TV scripts, memos, and other writings. Can you help? Just type your first name, choose your grade (from 2 to 8) and choose a story.

Word Central
Word Central offers kids vocabulary-building resources, dictionary, and "Daily Buzzword" plus eight interactive word games to help with spelling, reading, writing, and grammar.

Big Dog's Grammar
A "bare bones" guide with self-tests.

The Five Paragraph Essay
Everything you need to know about how to write one.

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA

Grolier Online
A complete reference library: The New Book of Knowledge, Popular Science, Amazing Animals, Lands and Peoples, and America the Beautiful.
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SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

Visual Thesaurus
Try this amazing interactive dictionary and thesaurus that creates word maps exploring the meaning and relationship of words.
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Gale Student Resources in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. It combines Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to quality websites.
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Use this Gale database for award-winning biographies of famous people past and present.
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updated 07/08/2011