Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online - This is a dictionary, a Spanish-Englsh dictionary, and a thesaurus There is also a word of the day and word games.
Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online - A dictionary of images. This is a great help if you need to know what something like a mango or a tectonic plate looks like.
NetLingo - An online dictionary of internet terms. There are also lists of smileys and text messaging abbreviations.
Quotations - Look here if you need to search
for quotations.
A Beastly Garden of Wordy Delights - Look here if you need to
know what a group of animals is called such as a pride of lions, or a quiver of cobras. There are also names for
animal infants, animal adjectives, and snake jokes.
Spark Notes - Online study guides for
literary classics. Like Cliff Notes, but free.
English Grammar - There are the rules of grammar and online exercises is you need to improve your grammar.
Quiz Tree - There are quizzes here for ESL students and for those
who are studying a foreign language, and for students preparing for the SAT's and GRE's.
Free Rice - Define words and send free rice to the hungry people of the world.
Authors and Books
Sites for Readers To Find New Books and Share What They Read
How to Read a Book - There is more to it than you may think. This is information form WikiHow.
AP Reading List, 127 Books for Your Prep - the nice thing about this list is that it lists books by the date when they were written. Some times the really old books are hard to understand without some guide.
P. L. Travers - The author of the Mary Poppins books. If you have seen the movie Saving Mr. Banks, you may want to know more about this author.
Mythology and Folktales
Greek Mythology - Lots of information about the Greek gods here.
Norse Mythology - This site has a lot of information about Norse gods and goddesses, and about the Vikings.
Poetry
Representative Poetry Online - this site
is great if you need anything relating to poetry. It has biographies of poets, a timeline, and lots of poems which
you can search by title or by keyword.
EasyBib - This site will do your bibliography for you. All you need to do is to type in the necessary information.
Citing Medicine - this is a style guide for writing citations in your bibliography. It includes instuctions for books, magazine, CD's and internet sites.
Information Please Almanac - Online almanac with
information on countries, states, people, sports and many other things.
Spark Notes - This ia a great help for difficult books.
Cliff Notes - These are not a substitute for doing your own work, but they can offer a great deal of help with subjects or books that you do not understand.
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