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Websites about language, linguisitics, literature, literary movements and criticism
Updated on Dec 16, 14
Created on Dec 18, 09
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Jean Luddy's List: Language and Literature
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Dec 18, 09
A compendium of world wide writing systems from prehistory to today covering historical linguistics, alphabets and writing systems.
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Dec 18, 09
Details of alphabet, writing systems and languages, useful foriegn phrases with recordings for many of them, tips on learning languages, links to online language resources, multilingual texts, and much more.
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Dec 21, 09
Online dictionary/thesaurus that shows the parts of speech and related meaning of a word in a visual format
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Dec 21, 09
Dictionary that provides the meaning of a word with related photographs
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Feb 02, 10
The acclaimed interactive graph of baby name popularity. Watch name trends rise and fall over time!
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May 03, 10
Site designed to help students learn SAT and ACT vocabulary words.
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May 07, 10
Dictionary.com site has word games that your students can play independently.
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May 25, 10
Site with anecdotes about language or based on language
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Jun 10, 10
Visual dictionary showing relationships between words and concepts
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Jul 24, 10
The word games range from simple word searches and crosswords to games that require players to complete sentences and phrases. The typing games are a mix of simple sentence typing for speed and games that require accuracy to "defend" a character or move a character through a scene.
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Aug 09, 10
This site offers a large collection of games, puzzles, and riddles for students of all ages. The content of the collection ranges from simple drilling-style games to challenging word puzzles. The categories of most interest to educators are probably the math puzzles and word puzzles categories.\n\n
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Aug 17, 10
The Idiom Dictionarywas created to help people understand the meanings of more than five thousand English idioms. To use the Idiom Dictionary just enter a phrase or part of a phrase into the search box and the Idiom Dictionary will offer an explanation of that idiom.
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Sep 22, 10
StoryCorps is a nonprofit organization that records and gathers the stories of Americans from all walks of life
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Sep 23, 10
Wordia is a free visual, video dictionary. Wordia features a selection of user-submitted and professionally created videos explaining the meaning of a word. The videos focus on the everyday use of words while the text accompanying each video provides the dictionary definition of the word.
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Sep 23, 10
Snappy Words is a free visual dictionary and thesaurus. Enter any word or phrase into the Snappy Words search box and it will create a web of related words, phrases, and definitions.
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Sep 29, 10
Google Map representing the places where books have been banned or challenged in the United States since 2007. Each placemark on the map contains the name of the book and a brief explanation of why it was challenged or banned
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Oct 07, 10
Word Stash is a dictionary that provides contextual examples to support the definitions offered. For many words, Word Stash provides an audio pronunciation.
The vocabulary builder aspect of Word Stash lies in the fact that users can create accounts in which they create and save lists of words to study. Users can create as many lists as they like and expand existing lists as they go. Word Stash provides short quizzes based on the words a user puts into a list. -
Oct 08, 10
Read Print is a free online book library for students, teachers and readers of classics with over 8,000 classic titles by 3,500 authors.Clicking on the Reading Mode" provides a dark frame around a soft toned page.
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