Language+Links!!!

toc On this page you will find links to websites useful for practicing a variety of English Skills, ranging from the use of slang, to editing grammar!

Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices!
Learning how to avoid run-on sentences, or how to fix them while you edit your work, can be difficult. Fortunately, there are more than a few websites that can help you! Here is the easiest to understand of them. Here is another website that has some more complicated examples. Although this website is likely the most difficult to understand, it is the best one, and it links to other useful sentence structure resources at the bottom! Here is an online quiz that you can take to make sure you know how to fix them!

Writing Dialogue
On these two pages you will find both advice for using dialogue to advance the plot of your story, as well as how to properly punctuate dialogue as you write.

New Grammer Webpage!
//EnglishClub.com// has an excellent selection of grammar activities and is designed for ESL/EFL. Try this link to find a great set of grammar lessons you can work through!

Amazing Online Grammar Website! Students!
This website is a great place to practice all sorts of English writing skills. It has online quizzes that instantly test your understanding or topics including, colons, comma splices, tense shifts, commonly misspelled words, pronoun agreement AND MORE! Check this out!

Tense Shifts
Here is a great link for reading about, and then practicing editing for tense shifts.

Map-Making Websites!
Try this link here to look at a list of different websites that might help you out!

Vocabulary, Grammar and other learning games: www.Freerice.com
While you practice your English skills on this website, you will actually be helping send rice to parts of the world without enough food!

To go to the website, click here:[| Free Rice]

Expressions, Idioms, Slang and some more Vocabulary
The first website is an expression database, and has over 800 English explanations and definitions! This website features several educational games. Most appear to be vocabulary based, but I haven't tried them out yet! If you do, please let me know what you think of them!

Grammar Resources
Do you think you are "good to go" with grammar? This [|website] has over 150 quizzes (and answer keys!) you can take to test your skills!

Dave's Esl cafe (student resources)
http://www.eslcafe.com/students/

English Language Arts Resources
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek1/larts.htm

Read, Write, Think!
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/ Although this is a teacher website, it has many online lessons that you can select from! (and they go up to grade 12 content!)

Your Dictionary (.com!)
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Easy to find definitions of words and GREAT "words of the day." (e.g. esurient = hungry or voratios) There are also some awesome word-usage games under the link in the upper right-hand corner.

Glossary of Literary Terms On this website you can find almost all of the Literary Terms that you care responsible for in English 10, 11 AND 12!

Poetry Resources!
Here are several sites that students researched and found that you can use to explore your understanding of poetry.
 * The BBC bytesize website has some explanations of Shakespeare AS WELL AS grammar, listening and reading strategies. Thanks to Katherine for finding it! There are several different levels - including GSCE Bitesizewhich has more difficult content!
 * Annie found this website with information about different poetry terms . Just click on "poetry terms" near the top of the page. Beware, that you don't need to know all of the terms on this website!
 * Here is a link to a webpage about metaphors.
 * Here is another link to a list of terms and types of poetry. And here is another one from Miranda!
 * Here is a link to an online poetry quiz, that is only recommended for advanced students.
 * This is a list of the different types of poetry. Some you don't need to know for grade 11, but learning about them certainly won't hurt! Thanks Nancy!
 * [|Poetry Quizzes!] I haven't tried these yet because you have to become a member of the website first. If you do, please let me know how it turns out!