Resources

California Department of Education
The following website offers parents and students an easy way to find a reading list that has been recommended by the California Board of Education. On this page you can find books by author, subject, title, grade level, genre, culture and more.

Project Gutenberg
The following site has thousands of books available to read online or download.

Bartleby.com
This site allows the user to find anything from Shakespeare. Type in any word from Shakespeare and it will list all works in which he used that word.

Literature Links
Interested in another author besides the Bard? Go to http://www.bartleby.com and you will find an abundance of literature.

Idiom Links
Idioms are figures of speech that don’t make literal sense but are nevertheless a part of the language. Idioms are particularly troublesome for students growing up in a home where English is not the first language.

The Princeton Review
This site is a wealth of information on colleges. One of its finest features allows a student to enter his or her information (test scores, grades, talents, areas of interest) and the site will produce recommended lists of colleges that include match, safety, and reach schools.



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Word A Day

Learning a word a day is a simple yet effective way to increase vocabulary. Following are links to several sites that can help students in this area. Learning a new word can be productive and fun for the family as each member finds a way to use the new word or listen and look for it to arise in conversation or reading.

 

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