Links


 * [|The Actor's Guild] Resources that are available online are unlimited. Here you will find a sample of those we felt were helpful. Enjoy!

International Reading Association

[] - please see me as I have a subscription to this site for current and prior years issues of __The Reading Teacher__ and the __Journal of Adolescent Literacy__. I also have the hard copies in my tank.

Reading Strategies Site**

[|**http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/index.htm**] **-** This site has a host of reading strategies and vocabulary development in addition to content area suggestions. Check it out.


 * Books Read Aloud Online**

[|**The Actor's Guild**] Bring books to life at this link - they read a variety of books aloud for students to listen to and have activities that go along with each book.


 * Books Online**

[] - One can search by title, author, or subject within this site.

[] - At Project Gutenberg you will find a comprehensive site of copyright-free books; searchable by author, title, or subject. Files are available in both .txt and .zip format.

[] - The Reading Room at the Internet Public Library offers books, magazines, and newspapers; as well as special collections that range from Native American authors to U.S. Presidents and provides links to special multimedia exhibits. Content is available as text (.txt) files.

[] The Modern English Collection offers a heterogeneous collection that contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest. Each text is encoded in either [|SGML or XML] and includes a bibliographic header with details about the creation of the electronic text and its print source.

[] - a google search engine for ebooks available online. You may search by key word or title.

**Catalogues**

 * Children's Literature
 * [|Children's Literature Web Guide] contains everything related to literature for children.
 * World History
 * [|Global Gateway: Portals to the World] offers in-depth information about nations and other parts of the world. The resources are authoritative and up-to-date, maintianed by specialists in each culture.
 * [|Global Gateway], home to "Portals of the World," includes links, databases, and resources aspects of world culture. Live and recorded webcasts from the Library of Congress are available.
 * American History
 * [|American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library], from the Librabry of Congress, offers primary sources relating to the history and culture of the United States. The collection offer 7 million digital resources from the Library of Congress.
 * Science
 * [|Nine Planets] provides the history, mythology, and science of the solar system.
 * Fine Arts
 * [|National Gallery of Art] displays many of its collections on line with commentary in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. You can view these collections on-line as well as tour special exhibits. NGAKids section offers collections that would appeal to younger students.
 * Cross-curricular
 * [|Little Red Schoolhouse Library] links to over fifty categories including biography, news, weather, history, science, poetry, world history, space exploration and math. Near the bottom of the page you will find links to sites with clip art.
 * [|Library of Congress On-Line Catalogues] offers a wealth of information about the United States and the world. In addition to print information, it houses digital archives of photography and art.
 * [|The eText Pages] is an annotated list of links to sites that offer digital text.

**Read On-Line Only**

 * [|International Digital Children’s Library] offers full-color picture books from around the world. Many are in English, some others have English translations of the native language.
 * [|Story on-line] provides familiar actors and actresses reading favorite children's books outloud. These develop fluency through listening to others read aloud.
 * Programs That Will Transcribe Texts to Audio**

Shareware text-to speech programs are available via the Internet from shareware sites such as [|Tucows]. Some examples of shareware and freeware text-to-speech tools are: The following programs convert etext into synthetic speech (audio) and save it in MP3 format:
 * [|HearIt], Macintosh freeware available from TUCOWS.
 * [|Speech10], Windows shareware available from register.com.
 * [|TextAloud].
 * [|TextToAudio].
 * [|ReadPlease Reading Bar].

**Videos for Download**

 * [|The Prelinger Archives] offer over 45,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films. Since its beginning in 1983, its goal has been to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. The collection is open to all for free downloading and reuse but not sold.
 * [|Media Channel]: Scroll down to the middle of this page to find and extensive list of links. Many, but not all, link to video clips. Some cannot be downloaded, but the items that are available cover a range of interesting current topics.
 * [|Exploration in Education] offers Electronic Tutorials form a NASA supported program.
 * [|Apple Learning Interchange]: Videos as well as the ways teachers have incorporated them into the classroom are scattered throughout this site. Lesson plans and study guides can be downloaded as well.
 * [|Perseus Project] contains a video about the ancient Olympic games; also take a look at the other collections offered on this site.
 * [|Career Videos] offers 360 captioned videos each about a different career.
 * [|edutopia online], the George Lucas Foundation site contains a Video Gallery where leaders in the field of education discuss topics relevant to today’s classrooms.