Web Resources

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Internet sites referenced here are not under the control of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill; therefore Glencoe makes no representation concerning the content of these sites, their ongoing availability, or links their hosts and/or sponsors may choose to add or delete. We encourage teachers to preview the sites before students access them.

Professional Development

Teaching Today
Teaching Today is Glencoe's premiere professional development site for teachers. This site offers daily teaching tips, free downloadable materials, and a wealth of other resources you can use in the classroom today.

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
With over 77,000 members, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and language arts. At its Web site, you can review publications, share teaching ideas with other teachers, and preview upcoming events. If you'd like to join NCTE, complete the online registration form provided here.

Modern Language Association (MLA)
For over 100 years, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has focused on the study of language and literature. The MLA guidelines on documentation style are widely used by schools, academic departments, and instructors, and this site has the only online MLA guidelines that are authorized by the MLA of America. In addition, this site offers job information, MLA reports, publications, awards, and conference information.

National Education Association
This site connects to the latest educational topics, issues, and resources. You'll find information concerning public education, legislative action, school safety, health information, educational materials, books, publications, and more.

Resources for Reading Teachers

International Reading Association
This site offers daily reading-related news, an announcement board for various literacy-related events, and an online forum for discussing literacy techniques and developments. The teaching tools include lesson plans, booklists, and parent resources. "Focus on Topics in Reading" addresses specific issues related to readers of all ages and levels.

Reading Online
Reading Online is the International Reading Association's online journal. The site focuses on literacy practice and research in classrooms from kindergarten through high school. It offers original features and peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and website recommendations, as well as articles from some of the International Reading Association's other journals. It is a great resource for current research, ideas, and general knowledge about reading.

Read Write Think
This site is a joint venture between the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. It offers various lesson plans and web resources, as well as student materials and standards for English language learners. The calendar marks important dates in literary history.

Online Writing Centers

The Writer's Garden
This site contains a comprehensive list of sites related to writing, including Writing Center Resources, Writing Centers Online, Resources for Writers, and Electronic and Print Journals.

Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Purdue's award-winning Online Writing Lab (OWL) strives to provide students with the resources they need to become better writers. The site includes online resources for teachers and writers, as well as over 130 instructional handouts indexed by topic. Handouts include exercises and instruction in spelling, punctuation, sentence construction, parts of speech, and research.

Writers' Workshop
This University of Illinois site provides teachers of writing with links to online tools. Topics covered here include Writing Across the Curriculum, ESL Resources, and General Links About Writing.

Grammar and Composition Sites

Web of On-line Dictionaries
This site is a treasure trove of links to over two hundred dictionaries of languages from Creole to Maori to Zulu. Also included are links to specialized English dictionaries, thesauri, online grammars, and a Web of linguistic fun.

Arts & Letters Daily
This site includes an abundance of links to important newspapers, magazines, journals, news services, book reviews, columnists, search engines, utilities, and amusements. Lead-ins to articles of note, new books, essays and opinions-with links to the online source page—are updated daily. This is an invaluable source for keeping up with what is happening in the world of language, literature, the arts, criticism, and culture.

Bartleby Library
Many reference works are available online at this site, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs from ancient and modern literature, and Strunk's The Elements of Style, a guide to using clear, straightforward language in writing.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
This online guide to grammar and writing provides rules and examples to help students avoid common grammatical mistakes. Users can review a log of past questions and answers or submit their own questions to Ask Grammar. When you're finished browsing the site, complete the interactive quizzes to test your knowledge.

Resources for Young Writers

MidLink Magazine
This award-winning online magazine for writers 8-18 years old features the work of young writers from around the world. The site includes a Teacher Resource room that offers advice on using the magazine in the classroom.

Britannica.com
This is an invaluable site for Internet research. Through this site, you can access the entire Encycloæpdia Britannica, read articles selected from more than seventy of the world's top magazines as well as daily news postings from the Washington Post, and link to thousands of the Web's best sites.

Other Professional Resources

ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education
Here you can explore the U.S. Education Resource Information Center's enormous collection of teacher resources. You'll find information on lesson plans, articles and research concerning education, and links to education sites. If you can't find what you need under the topics, search the ERIC database of more than one million abstracts of documents and articles in the field of education.

U.S. Department of Education
This home page for the U.S. Department of Education provides information about the department's programs and services and links to its publications and products. This page also includes links to articles in education headlines and a list of the department's most requested items. Click on Directories to find The New Teacher's Guide to the Department of Education, which will help you to research materials and library resources.