Writing/Reading Resources on the Web
Having trouble with a reading assignment? Stuck on a problem with an Essential Writing Assignment?
If you're in school, consider coming to the Student Success Center in Room 191 or the English Resource Room in 228. In either spot, you can get personalized assistance from one of the English teachers or teachers' assistants staffed in these rooms.
If you're unable to get to the SSC or ERC, these Internet resources might just give you the help you need.
Reading Resources
Did you forget your book at school? Want to read a book electronically rather than on paper? Wish you could hear a book being read to you out loud?
Loudlit.org is a free website that allows you to read texts while hearing them read aloud by professional actors.
Click on the link above for text/audio files of these PHS English titles:
Loudlit.org is a free website that allows you to read texts while hearing them read aloud by professional actors.
Click on the link above for text/audio files of these PHS English titles:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Jane Eyre
- The Scarlet Letter
- Poe's famous poems "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven"
- "The Cask of Amontillado"
- "The Pit and the Pendulum"
- "The Tell-Tale Heart"
- "To Build a Fire"
Writing Resources
ChompChomp.com is a free grammar instruction website. Although you can enroll to "win" badges for completing exercises, you can access all its tutorials and practice exercises without doing so.
Click on the link above to access great resources on all those tricky grammar matters such as run-on sentences, subject/verb agreement and dangling participles.
Click on the link above to access great resources on all those tricky grammar matters such as run-on sentences, subject/verb agreement and dangling participles.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers a wide range of writing assistance. Students use it most for the following:
- MLA format for Works Cited pages
- Mechanics rules, tips and practices
- Grammar rules, tips, and practices
- Writing process assistance