Teaching Writing: Structure & Style Online Resources (useful Internet links for writers & teachers)

Aesop’s Fables
Perfect for Unit I/II note taking and rewriting; has links to lesson plans & other Aesop miscellany. Also contains a complete collection of Anderson’s Fairy Tales (127) for reading and Unit III summarizing:
http://www.aesopfables.com


Audible Audio Books
Downloadable audio books and podcasts. Great for the road! Choose from 50,000 titles:
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Bartleby’s Great Books Online
Fiction, non-fiction, and reference source texts online. You can even download Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style and Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.
http://www.bartleby.com


BookWire
A huge web site where you can research book awards, read reviews, actually download hundreds (with links to thousands) of entire books—fiction, non-fiction, children’s, public domain, classics by Hans Christian Anderson, Mark Twain, R.L. Stevenson, etc. All free!
http://www.bookwire.com


Commas!
For a quick and easy to understand guide to using commas in American English, see the The Owl at Purdue, a writing guide for students:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02


Common Errors in English
A good source for keeping your students’ compositions error-free.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html


Institute for Excellence in Writing
Our most up-to-date seminar calendar as well as product descriptions, a order form, student samples, useful links, answers to common questions and our online store.
http://www.excellenceinwriting.com
For an explanation on what Unit 3 is used for and some tips on teaching it, Click here


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http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/ic


IEW Families email loop
Sign up for an email loop of parents and teachers discussing the products and applications of the Teaching Writing: Structure & Style syllabus . This is an independently run web loop and is not administered or moderated by IEW.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IEWfamilies/


Librivox (Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain)
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.
http://librivox.org


Project Gutenberg
The major source of etext transcriptions on the web. Everything from Dante’s Inferno (in Italian or English) to “The Miller’s Daughter” by Emile Zola. All free:
http://www.promo.net/pg/


Society for the Preservation of English Language & Literature (SPELL)
A fun organization with a humorous and informative newsletter as well as a Scholarship-Essay Competition for High School Students. Richard Lederer (author of Anguished English) is VP and contributor.
http://www.spellorg.com/


Unit 5 Helps from Laura B.
Unit 5 Helps from Laura Bettis.pdf