Myths and Legends
A site for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. You can also create your own myth or legend and submit it to the website.
Personal Demons
Help through text and video on how to write stories. Steve Alton guides you through the process.
S-Cool Revision
GCSE, A Level and AS Level revision for a range of subjects, including English.
Andrew Moore's Resource Site
Contains resources for teachers and students of English language and literature, as well as basic information about how to acquire skills in ICT and Internet technologies.
Mark Twain's Interactive Scrapbook
Discover the true Mark Twain through his writing and collection of artefacts found in his scrapbook.
Cliché Finder
Searching for just the right cliché to use? Type in any words and Cliché Finder will return any cliché using that word.
Creative
Writing for Teens
Information-packed site helping young authors
develop their writing skills and creativity.
Fret-Free
Resources for English Teachers
Resources, lesson ideas and schemes of work
for teachers of English language and literature at Secondary level.
Acronym
Finder
BTW did you know this site has one of the
biggest databases of acronyms on the WWW? Get over there ASAP. TTFN.
The
ABCs of the Writing Process
Covers the five steps of writing: pre-writing,
writing, revising, editing and publishing in a series of fun tutorials.
Write
Site
Take on the role of journalist - generating
leads, gathering facts and writing stories using the tools and techniques
of a real-life journalist.
Guide
to Grammar and Writing
Writing tips and guidelines on grammar for
those what know nuffink about speaking proper, knoworrimean?
World
Wide Words
Devoted to the English language - its quirks,
curiosities and evolution - and includes a section on words and
phrases not yet printed in dictionaries.
Pulp
Fiction Central
Pulp fiction magazines were the main sources
of everyday entertainment during the first half of the 20th century,
delivering action and heroes that were some of the most creative
in literary history.
Familiar
Quotations
Who said that...? A searchable collection
of passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient
and modern literature.
Encyclopedia
Britannica
The complete Encyclopedia Britannica, plus
related magazines, books and links to the world's best web sites.
A
Short Course on Hamlet
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio."
But how well do you know Hamlet? Here, you'll find an online edition
of Hamlet with notes, questions and answers on the text, and other
documents relevant to the play.
English
Resources
Resources for teaching and revising English
language and literature.
English
Teaching in the UK
Useful and interesting resources.
Discovering
Dickens
Examine the author behind the writing.
Just
For Kids Who Love Books
A huge collection of books and authors.
The
Electronic Encyclopedia
Find information from the Concise Columbia
Encyclopedia.
OneLook
Dictionary
Find definitions from multiple dictionaries.
The
Complete Shakespeare
All the works and resources for William Shakespeare.
Penguin
Books
Information about authors and their works.
The
English and Media Centre
Training publications for English, Drama
and Media Studies.
GCSE
Bitesize - English
Revision exercises from the BBC.
Amazon
Browse through one of the biggest bookstore
in the World.
BBCi:
Books
Browse through the world of books with the
BBC.
Children's
Literature Web Guide
Canadian site with lots of links to English
resources.
Poetry
Daily
Site devoted to poetry with a new poem every
day.
Jane
Austen
Full information on her life and works.
Roald
Dahl
Profiling the work of this unique children's
author.
The
Online Books Page
Search through over 19,000 books. |