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Elementary
The
Arts, Grades 1-8
French As a Second Language
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French, Grades 4-8
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Immersion, Grades 1-8 559K
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Grades 1-8
Native
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Grades 9 & 10
The
Arts
Classical
and International Languages
English
French
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Native
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Grades 10 & 11
The
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Classical
Studies and International Languages
English
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Native
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BOOKS AND AUTHORS
GENERAL
- About.com/Homework
Help Select from Contemporary or Classical
literature, Review sources, Poetry, Quotations, Shakespeare and so on.
- Bibliographic
Society Canada
- Books
LJ's Hot Picks
- BookBrowser The Guide
for Avid Readers A good starting point for book
lovers of every stripe. Many features and resources
- Book
Bytes Marylaine Block's columns about books, plus
her annotated reading lists of books "too good to put down"
- Book Wire
- Booklist Home Page
- Canadian Book
Review Annual
- Canadian
Information By Subject-- Literature Authors, publishers,
associations
- CM: Canadian Review
of Materials
- CanLit
Links from Northwest Passages Bookstore
- A
Celebration of Women Writers
- GlobeandMail
Books section
- goodreport.net
Independent book site featuring news and reviews
- Great
Books Matrix from Malaspina.com Search the site or search the web for
great books.
- Great
Canadian Story Engine - Read A Story Developed by
Norman Jewison's renowned training facility, the Canadian Film Centre, the
Great Canadian Story Engine is a bilingual website that serves as an
interactive storytelling community.
- Lit-O-Box
Literature and Creative Writing
- PICK
National
Library of Canada
Canadian
Children's Literature Service
National
Library of Canada Electronic Collection
Read
up on It
Literature
Links
- PICK
Northwest
Passages - Canadian Literature Online! Virtual
bookstore of Canadian literature, with excellent articles and extensive
links to all things CanLit
- Storytellers of Canada
PUBLISHERS
KIDS
Reading Programs
e-BOOKS
- Canada's Digital Collections
- Directory of Electronic Text Centers
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) at Rutgers University
- UNB Electronic Text Centre
Primary and literary texts relating chiefly to New Brunswick and Maritimes
- Digital
Librarian Electronic Texts and Primary Sources Extensive and
up-to-date listing of electronic literature.
- PICK
Electronic Text
Center -- University of Virginia Rich resource of electronic
texts. Several different collections. Also includes E-Library...1,200
publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext
Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors,
children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American
documents, the Bible, and much more.
- Internet Archive Vast
and growing repository of digital artifacts. Web (Wayback
Machine),Text, moving images and audio files are freely available for
viewing and downloading. Text collections include Canadian
Libraries (U of T.) and Children's
Library.
- Universal
Library aka Million Books project. Some great resources but catalogue is
poorly designed.
- The
On-Line Books Page University of Pennsylvania
digital library
- Netlibrary
Free, browsable and readable collection of 3500 literature titles.
- Project Gutenberg
The original and seminal collection of electronic texts now with over 2400
titles. Primarily pre-1923 material.
- Salon.com
Audio Talking books in MP3
format
- UCL
eJournals List of lists of
e-journals on the Internet
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LANGUAGE &
LITERACY
See also Information Literacy pathfinder for style
guides
ENGLISH
- Between the
Lions Parents and Teachers Elementary.
- English Grammar 101
Free English grammar tutorials for language arts classes, alternative
education settings, home schooling, adult study, and ESL courses.
- English Language Arts
Network (Ontario)
- English
Language topics at LII
- englishcompanion.com
Tools, links for English teachers by Jim Burke
- English
Teachers' Web Page
- English
Zone Resources for High School students and teachers: novels, writing,
plays, poetry, homework
- Guide to
Grammar and Writing Comprehensive guide for
secondary and post-secondary students
- Link
to learning Language activities for elementary students
- Lynch's
Guide to Grammar and Style Aimed at secondary and post-secondary
students
- Outta
Ray's Head Extensive collection of language related lesson plans and
links contributed by Ray and others
- S.C.O.R.E.
CyberGuides CyberGuides are supplementary,
standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works
of literature for K-12
- SparkNotes- Today's
Most Popular Study Guides Free online study guides for high school and
college students. Advertising.
FRENCH
POETRY
- Canadian
poetry at University of Toronto
- Canadian
Poetry Archive National Library of Canada digital
archive
- everypoet.com
- for poets and poetry lovers - archive of classic poems,
poetry links, poetry discussions, poetry forums, poetry search and the
fabulous random haiku generator
- League of Canadian
Poets The League of Canadian poets is a non-profit association that has
been promoting Canadian poetry since 1966. The association also organizes
reading programs including Poets
in Schools, runs Poetry
Spoken Here --an online book store which includes samples and reviews--
and helps members get published. The website also publishes news and
reviews, links to other sites, teacher resources, and Young
Poets ezine for students and teachers.
- Online
Poetry Classroom
- poets.org US
association of poets
ART
(see HISTORY for
other Museums)
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- @rt
Room Activity-centred site includes ideas, teaching resources, gallery
of kids' art, quizzes, links, and a library.
- Arts EdNet
- artwave
@rogers Surf coast to coast through the galleries of eleven
of Canada's leading museums
- CMC
- Canadian Children's Museum
- Canartscene.com
Essentially a database of artists and their work
- Citzine
The web magazine for Canadians and Canadian culture
- Culturenet.ca A
series of interconnected databases listing artists, events and
activities.
- FAMSF-Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco
- iCulture CBC's
online Arts and Entertainment magazine Excellent coverage of arts and
culture news in Canada. Features include news, clips, interviews,
images, reports, contests, links and more.
- Metropolitan
Museum of Art - For Kids
- National Gallery of
Canada - Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada
- Web Museum
MUSIC
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updated: January 13, 2006