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The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. Enjoy listening to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and poets from the past.

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Words Like is handy little website for those times when you need a thesaurus.

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Vocab Sushi: The better way to build your vocabulary with Contextual Examples From the Daily News

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Shape Poems is a simple poem generation template hosted by Read Write Think. Shape Poems provides a template for writing poems in the shape of an object, about that object.

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LitCharts is a service that provides condensed outlines and summaries of classic literature. Most of the outlines and summaries are ten pages, give or take a page or two. LitCharts color codes the themes addressed and symbolism within a particular work.

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Read Children's Picture Books Online (or create your own) at BigUniverse. Big Universe has both fiction and nonfiction picture books to read. Books are easy to search by category, grade, reading level, interest age, and language. The free version of Big Universe offers a limited look at the premium publisher books. With the free version you can only create one ebook per user account.

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The twitter-based Word of the Day competition that helps clever people look clever and helps the rest of us learn new words.

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WordNet, a database of 138,000 words developed at Princeton University, is like no dictionary or even thesaurus. It gives definitions and exhaustive lists of synonyms, but also links words by a web of semantic relations.

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For the Great Works of World Literature. Tutorials With Plot Summaries, Themes, Imagery, Analysis, and Background Information

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Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers (much like a wiki for word pronunciations).

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Created by Murray McGillivray at the University of Calgary, the site presents a wide range of Old English poems and poetic lines in a very simplified and easy to use fashion. The purpose of this project is "to make useable and reliable texts of Old English poems available in convenient form for students and scholars."

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Five Card Flickr Story lets you pick five photos from a group of pre-selected images from Flickr and then write a story about them. It saves your selection and story, and provides you with a link to it. No registration is required.

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VocabuSushi: : The better way to build your vocabulary | Contextual Examples From the Daily News. The site includes assessments, audio, learning words in context, and games. VocabSushi helps you prepare for the ISEE, SAT, ACT, GRE or other standardized test by teaching you vocab words with real-world, contextual examples found in the daily news.

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The Brainstormer is a random story idea generator. The Brainstormer has three wheels of words. Each click of the "random" button spins all three wheels. If you're struggling to develop an idea to start a fiction story simply click the "random" button to spin the wheels of the Brainstormer.

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Wordnik gives you word meaning and context, but it also shows you all the conversations, pictures, and other talk about your word.

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Selection of free English-language grammar lessons and interactive exercises for beginner to advanced students.

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Great Source iWrite from the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt company features an awesome animated and narrated glossary of grammar terms. In this glossary you will find animated, narrated videos explaining the use of punctuation. You will find the same type of video explaining the parts of speech and mechanics of writing.

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Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents.

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This unique thesaurus allows you to type in one or two words, concepts, or famous names to find numerous relationships, such as synonyms, antonyms, words that rhyme, anagrams that can be made from the word, etc.

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