Orange Public Schools

 Portal of English Language Arts 

General English

Sight Words
Well designed website for all things sight words. Includes sight word lists, sight word games and sight word flash cards.

My Virtual Desk Reference – Books and Literature on the Net
Great Site by Bob Drudge

Glossary of Literary Terms
All kinds of literary terms are defined here

Debate Central
Everything you ever wanted to know about debating — Make sure you check outtheir youtube channel as well.

General Resources and Homework Helpers

World Wide Web Virtual Library
Just plain unbelievable!

The Virtual Reference Desk
Don’t miss this one

My Virtual Reference Desk Facts Page
If you have plenty of time and want to learn a ton, try visiting this site

Tutorialguide
A really cool site that lists all kinds of neat online tutorials

Purdue University Reference Desk
Another great place to visit

Martindale’s Reference Desk
A very exciting site to find science and math information

American Fact Finder
Census statistics galore from the U.S. Census Bureau

Fact Monster
This site is really great…it is a must see site for students with homework assignments

Searchable Newspaper and Magazine Archive
Search through past articles

FindArticles.com
Search for information from magazine article archives

MagPortal.com
Another nice place to search for magazine articles

World Literature

The Literature Network

More than 7,000 books and short stories from more than 250 authors…Just great!

Books On-line

Shakespeare On-line
A really cool Shakespeare resource

Shakespeare Bookshelf
Another one of Bill’s sites…all of his works

Shakespeare Resource Center
Nicely done

Absolute Shakespeare
Very comprehensive Shakespeare site

The On-line Books Page
Over 1 Million Books online for free! WOW! When we first listed this site they only had 1,500. You could say they’ve grown a bit 

The Great Books Homepage
Shame on you if you don’t try this one (Malaspina University)

The Internet Public Library
Yup, even more books on-line

Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet

The English Server
Terrific site to find books

Classics on Line
Works by Homer, Aristotle, Plato and others

Starfall.com
Great resource for helping children learn the alphabet and learn to read

Grammar

Jack Lynch’s Grammar and Style Notes
Problems with grammar? Check it out

Purdue On-line Writing Lab
Need to know what punctuation to use where? Great site!

Elements of Style by William Strunk
Great grammar site

Darling’s Guide to Grammar and Good Writing
Excellent grammar site

On-line English Grammar

Big Dog’s Grammar
On line Grammar from a dog?

EasyBib
Create a bibliography and citation on-line

Index for Guide to Grammar and Writing and Principles of Composition
I’m really not into English grammar, but this site is definitely cool

Citation Builder
Another good citation builder from North Carolina State University

Principles of Composition
How to be an expert writer

A Basic Guide to Writing an Essay
Good information on essay writing

Mythology

Theoi Greek Mythology
A comprehensive website on Greek Mythology by the Theoi Project

Columbia University Bartleby Library
Many poems and quotations from famous authors; “You might prefer to check this site out.” 

The Poetry Archives
Find poems written by all kinds of poets

World Literature

The Literature Network
More than 7,000 books and short stories from more than 250 authors…Just great!

18th Century Literary and Cultural Studies↑ Scroll to Top

Vocabulary

WordCentral.Com
An incredibly fun grammar and word site for elementary and middle school students

World Wide Words
Meaning of words and phrases…quite interesting

Puzzlemaker
Make your own word puzzles…an incredibly fun site by Discoveryschool.com

Word Plays
Many fun word games on this site…try it!