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Literary Sites

Here are some of the genuinely useful literary sites on the Web. We're always looking for more. If you have a suggestion, send it to us!

The High School Hub English Page has grammar and writing guides, vocabulary help, links for literature, poetry, and public speaking sites, and some good literature study guides.

Novelguide is a decent site that can help you work through a pretty sizable collection of literature. They provide literary analysis, character profiles, summaries and more.

Rillingale's Rooms. Here's a wonderful resource for you: Ms. Lisa Rillingale is a teacher friend of Classroom Matters. Check out her web site for study guides and other useful tips!

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is an easy-to-use online reference guide with exercises and quizzes.

Children's Literature Web Guide gathers together and categorizes the growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

Dialectic Journal (PDF). This one-page handout helps you achieve close textual reading of literature and history by recording your thoughts and reactions to the text as you go. When the time comes to write that essay or take a big exam, you'll have all your evidence and thoughts about it right there. This document is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Before you can read and print them, you'll need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.