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Colorín
Colorado: An ELL Website from AFT
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is pleased to announce its first
instructional materials targeted especially to educators of Spanish-speaking
English language learners (ELLs). Schools around the country are struggling
to serve their ever-growing Latino ELL student population and educators need
access to more resources to help their ELLs succeed. In 1991 there
were 2.4 school-age ELLs. In 2005, ELLs account for approximately 6
million Pre-K-12 students, 80 percent of whom are Latino. Furthermore,
since Latino ELLs have some of the lowest academic achievement and
educational attainment levels in the country the need for instructional help
is even more urgent. The words "Colorín Colorado" are significant because
they are part of the popular and playful ending phrase to virtually all
children’s stories and fairy tales in Spanish-speaking countries.
There is no literal translation, but it is similar to "and they lived
happily ever after." The name brings happy memories of reading and
being read to. The website features best instructional practices for
teaching reading and content; strategies regarding the appropriate placement
and assessment of English language learners; a toolkit on effective outreach
to Hispanic families; bilingual (Spanish-English) information for parents on
how to help their child succeed in school; Plus more practical,
research-based information on how to help English language learners read and
succeed!
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Selected Directory of Free Electronic
Text Repositories
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Alex Catalogue of Electronic
Texts
“The Alex
Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a [searchable] collection of public domain
documents from American and English literature as well as Western
philosophy.”
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Bibliomania
"Bibliomania offers . . . a superb educational resource with the full text
of classic world literature and important non-fiction texts supported by an
extensive reference section. [Their] study guides provide the best in
current academic analysis and the Well Red magazine the best in contemporary
reviews, articles and interviews.”
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Blackmask Online
A private enterprise offering 12649 books online ranging in genre from
western, pulp fiction, folklore, and nautical, searchable by author and
title.
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BoondocksNet
Editions
Offers “etexts of complete books on
imperialism, literature, political cartoons, photographs, and reform
movements, by authors ranging from Jane Addams and George Ade to Robert
Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain.” Indexed by author and title as well as by
“Special Collections” like “Labor History and Literature” and “Imperialism
and War.”
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The Camelot
Project
“Hosted by the University of Rochester,
The Camelot Project is designed to make available in electronic format a
database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic
information.” Comprehensive and searchable.
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
"Classic Christian books in electronic format” from St. Augustine to John
Wesley.
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The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare
Hosted by MIT, the
site offers not only Shakespeare’s complete works but also a search engine
and discussion forums.
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Directory of Digitized Collections
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization Libraries Portal offering an extensive list of links
to online literature from all over the world.
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The English Server Drama Collection
The “site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism
and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic
and contemporary works . . .,” from Aristophanes to Ibsen, and includes a
brief criticism section.
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The English Server Fiction
Collection
The “site offers works
of and
about fiction collected from our members, contributing authors
worldwide, and texts in the public domain” and includes short fiction,
novels, poetry, magazines, and criticism.
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Folklore and
Mythology Electronic Texts
Hosted by the
University of Pittsburg, the site offers full texts of and commentary on
myths and folklore organized by both categories (animal brides, folk tales
about hairless men, mother and child, etc.) and authors (Brothers Grimm,
Hans Christian Anderson, etc.).
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Great Books Online
“The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse
providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with
unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.”
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Ibiblio: The Public’s Library and
Digital Archive
Home to one of the largest
"collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy
of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art,
history, science, politics, and cultural studies. Ibiblio.org is a
collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of
North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
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The Internet Classics Archive
Hosted by MIT, this site offers “441 [searchable] works of classical
literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and
‘reader's choice’ Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and
Persian), all in English translation.”
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The Internet Library of Early
Journals: A Digital Library of 18th and 19th Century
Journals
The site is “a joint project by the
Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under
the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to
digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century
journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with
their associated bibliographic data.”
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The Internet Public Library
Hosted by the University of Michigan, the IPL bills itself as “the first
public library of and for the Internet community.” Offers a vast array of
resources, including literature by time period, a reference center, and
reading rooms for magazines and newspapers.
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KnowledgeRush Book Directory
This repository of popular classics like 20,000 Leagues under the Sea,
Dracula, and Anna Karenina is searchable by author, title, and
genre and includes some historical documents and biographies.
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Luminarium
Extensive and glitzy, the site includes period art and music to present
literature of the Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century and
includes quotations from, information on the life and works, and additional
sources for most authors. Aesthetically appealing and scholarly.
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The Online
Books Page
Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, the site offers over 20,000 texts
searchable by author, title, or subject. Includes a “Celebration of Women
Authors” and banned books. Links to other sources, including Project
Guttenberg.
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An Online Library of Literature
Offers a limited list:
Aesop,
Bronte, Cather, Twain, and the like.
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Page by Page Books
“Most sites with online books have the whole book on one page, forcing you
to wait while the whole thing downloads. Even worse, if you don't read the
whole book in one sitting, how do you keep track of where you are? Do you
really want to have to look through thousands of lines to find where you
left off? Some sites are better in that they put one chapter per page. Even
this is hard. What if you get interrupted in the middle of the chapter? How
do you bookmark it? To fill this void, PageByPageBooks.com was created. Read
a little or a lot, sneak in a few pages over lunch then read some more after
dinner, no matter how much you read at a time, you can bookmark it and come
back to exactly the right place.”
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People with a History: An
Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans History
Hosted by Fordham University, the site “presents the history of lesbians,
gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people [=LGBT]. It includes hundreds of
original texts, discussions, and [soon] images, and addresses LGBT history
in all periods, and in all regions of the world.”
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The Perseus Digital Library
Hosted by Tufts University, “Perseus is an evolving digital library,
engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal
is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as
possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the
study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to
new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of
ideas.” The site offers some interesting coverage: Greek and Latin
classics; papyri; English Renaissance and London literature; California,
Upper Midwest, and Chesapeake literature; and the history of science.
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Project Guttenberg
"[T]he Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts),”
Project Guttenberg offers the most comprehensive
list of pre-1923 literature, from the classics (Shakespeare, Dante, Poe) to
less high-brow favorites like Carroll, Doyle, Burroughs). Volunteers select
and type the offerings.
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Questia: The Online Library
“Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 [searchable] access
to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in
the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.”
“To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking,
and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant
information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create
properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. Questia
provides a comprehensive research environment to meet students' academic
needs.”
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Representative Poetry Online
Hosted by the
University of Toronto Libraries, this indexed site offers searchable lists
of poets, titles, first lines, and keywords; a timeline, calendar, glossary
of poetic terms and forms; and poetry criticism, bibliographies, and links.
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Short Stories at
East of the Web
In addition to classic authors (Guy de
Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton), this rare site also offers
contemporary authors organized by theme: children’s, crime, fiction, horror,
humor, non-fiction, romance, sci-fi, and hyperfiction. Fully searchable.
Infrequent pop-ups.
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Sonnet Central
Sonnet Central is “an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, and
relevant web links. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be
accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors. . . . All of the
sonnets included here (as well as most of those that are linked) are
modernized texts for the general reader and are not presented for
purposes of scholarly work.”
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The Victorian Women
Writers Project
“The goal of the Victorian Women
Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by
British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard
Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance
of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political
pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and
verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and
completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of
them.” Hosted by Indiana University.
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ReadingLinks.com "started in May
2001, is a joint project of Myron Tuman and Karen H. Gardiner" and "is
dedicated to changing how college students access the general interest
reading materials that have been so widely used in freshman composition and
other lower-division courses" by "collecting at this one site the very best
readings, on a huge variety of topics, that are freely distributed on the
Web, although often in scattered and hard to find places."
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01.29.10
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