600 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle, and Other Devices
Download 600 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce. Also please see our collection of Free Audio Books, where you can download more great books to your computer or mp3 player.
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HOW A BOOK IS MADE
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver presents How a Book Is Made: THE SPINDLERS.
Go behind the scenes and follow the book publishing process from start to finish in a seven-video series for book lovers, students, and aspiring writers. Click on the image to see the eight (8) part video series or click here. |
Word Dynamo
Play games to build your vocabulary. Choose by age group, subject, language, and test prep!
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NYTimes Blackout Poetry
Popularized in recent years by writer and artist Austin Kleon, blackout poetry encourages readers to create poems by redacting words from ordinary texts. During the last week of National Poetry Month, we will feature snippets of Times articles you can use to create and share your own short poems. To begin, select an article and click on up to 15 words to compose your poem.
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12 Absolutely Terrifying Two Sentence Horror Stories
Reddit users were asked for the best horror story they could come up in two sentences [or less]. The results, appropriately, are terrifying. Click here to see all of them.
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Magnetic Poetry
Six different magnetic poetry kits you can play online.
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Library of Congress: Poetry 180
Poetry 180 is designed to make it easy for students to hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year. These poems were selected by Billy Collins.
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Haiku Hero
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The Case Against "Good" and "Bad"
Don't take the easy route! Instead, use this little trick to improve your writing -- let go of the words "good" and "bad," and push yourself to illustrate, elucidate and illuminate your world with language.
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Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game
Prompted by the Encyclopaedia Britannica ending its print publication, performance poet Rives resurrects a game from his childhood. Take a look and play the game!
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Word BubblesFun word game. In each round, you'll be given a three letter stem. Guess words that begin with those letters. The word length determines which bubbles move up.
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You've likely heard the term quiver of arrows or host of angels, but how about a kindle of kittens or fusillade of bullets? Click on the image below to see 50 collective nouns that can help bolster your vocabulary.
A Quiver of Arrows
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Mad Lib ResourcesTeach parts of speech with Mad Libs. Click below to find a list of Mad Lib types on online resources.
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Salt Cast - What IfRadio producer Joe Richman says when producing a radio story you “cast” for characters. It’s like “trying” people out. You look for people who know the subject matter and who are “radiophonic” — they sound good on the radio.
Here’s another thing to look for when “casting” your story: a character going through transition, someone who is progressing from one place to another. Could be an emotional place, a physical place — something where the character evolves or is at a point of change. Salt radio student Katie Freddoso found all three of these character elements when she met teenage brothers Kevin and James Hatch in 2005. They knew the subject matter, the were animated and spoke well, and they were in transition — Kevin and James were going deaf. Katie spent several weeks with the boys, documenting part of their journey from the hearing world to the non-hearing world. Take a listen. |
Language Bites‘Language Bites’ is a series of 1 minute programmes exploring the origins of popular phrases in the English language. It is presented by Colette Kinsella and funded through the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound and Vision scheme. It can be heard weekdays on RTE Choice at 09.57 and again at 14.57.
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WSJ - The New Science of the Birth and Death of WordsBy CHRISTOPHER SHEA - Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on Google's massive collection of scanned books. They claim to have identified universal laws governing the birth, life course and death of words. Click on the image below to access the entire article:
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My 6,128 Favorite BooksIn the Saturday essay, Joe Queenan tells how a harmless juvenile pastime turned into a lifelong personality disorder. He explains why he likes books better than ebooks.
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11 Common Words You're Probably Mispronouncing
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