Language Arts
Here are online language arts resources the Newpapers in Education department has discovered. They are listed below – however, some sites may cover more than one area. If you know a site we don’t, feel free to contact us!
Reader’s Theater
Web site goes through the process of Reader’s Theater, including how to start, practice and perform. There are also tips on writing your own scripts. Hosted by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Reader’s Theater Scripts
Reader’s Theater Editions are free scripts for reader’s theater (or readers theatre) adapted from stories written by Aaron Shepard and others—mostly humor, fantasy, and world tales from a variety of cultures. A full range of reading levels is included, with scripts aimed mostly at ages 8–15. The scripts may be freely copied, shared, and performed for any noncommercial purpose, except they may not be posted online without permission.
Blanton Guide: Art + Poetry
The site is titled “If These Walls Could Speak.” It includes commentary and poetry from UT professors, literary figures and others – this is all paired with pieces from the Blanton’s collection.
The Big Read
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. Includes guides on books such as Bless Me, Ultima, Fahrenheit 451, My Antonia, The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, The Great Gatsby, The Maltese Falcon, A Farewell to Arms, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Washington Square, The Grapes of Wrath, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and many more!
Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
This I Believe
This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. More than 60,000 of these essays, written by people from all walks of life, are archived on the Web site. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow.
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