50 Suggested Websites for English and Media
Literature – Shakespeare
1. Hamlet on the Ramparts
An extremely interesting multimedia Shakespeare site provided by MIT
2. Mr William Shakespeare and the internet
Possibly the leading resource for Shakespeare on the internet. It has a section on links to Shakespeare movie sites in its 'Other Sites' section
3. Royal Shakespeare Company
Drama production website offering interviews with actors, character analysis and video footage
4. Curriculum Online
Curriculum Online is central to the government's drive to transform teaching and learning in schools by improving access to ICT and multimedia resources for all pupils
Other literature
5. Spark Notes
Lists of study guides, literature, Shakespeare, downloadable and printable by chapter
6. Classic Reader
Provides the full texts of many classic novels, poems and plays. To use on a whiteboard, you should select 'Printer Friendly version', which removes the advertising and makes the presentation clearer. Alternatively, copy and paste the text into your whiteboard software
7. Converse: the literature Website
The Converse website is a collection of free multimedia resources, games and essays, to help teachers and students of English literature. Converse is a joint project between CambridgeUniversity and schools and colleges across Britain
8. English Literature Resources
English Literature internet resources, essays, and books, for students of Literature in English, and find books online
9. BBC Drama: Bleak House
Animated video and stories
Poetry
10. Poets
The Listening Booth section of this key poetry site contains an extensive range of audio files of poetry readings, indexed by author and title. Featured poets include W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and W.B. Yeats. The full text of the poem is also given, and biographies.
11. The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
This multimedia site is devoted to the works of the poet Wilfred Owen and required Real, Windows Media Player and QuickTime to access some of the content. Although the front page of the site is cluttered and unclear and can be quite discouraging to the casual user, in general WOMDA does in fact contain a wealth of material which can be accessed through the browse page. This includes digital copies of practically all of Owen's original manuscripts, many of his letters, audio interviews with war veterans, as well as a large number of video clips taken from the Imperial War Museum's holdings as well as material made more recently, all of which also relates to the First World war in general
12. Poetry Zone
The Poetry Zone is a web site set up primarily to enable children and teenagers to publish their own poetry and reviews
Language, writing support, grammar
13. The English Accents and Dialogues collection
The English Accents & Dialogues collection at the British Library contains nearly 700 recordings showing how we spoke and lived in the 20th century
14. BBC Voices
The BBC voices website contains a wealth of materials on the spoken word and downloadable learning materials
15. Blast
BBC Creative Writing site
16. The Poetry Express
Find 15 poems you can write right now or at least get some ideas for them. Make, share, and revise your poems here
17. Writing Fix
Interactive pages for writing skills for teachers and students includes Writing Fix for kids with writing games
18. Grammer: British Council
Go hand-in-hand with the British Council through the maze of English grammar and pit your wits against their online games
19. BBC
Spelling games
English and media
20. English and Media Centre
For teachers and learners with video and reviews of best books and links
21. The War to end all Wars
The First World War is presented here in a series of in-depth collections which seek to inform the novice as well as the more knowledgeable user. These cover a variety of features related to the period, including posters, stills, moving images, as well as some of the best known songs and poems from that time. In addition to this, there are sections devoted to individual battles, specific weapons as well as tours of the battlefields and the cemeteries, all of which are presented in a mixture of sound, vision and text. The video and audio clips can be accessed with Quick Time.
Drama
22. Shakespeare’s Globe
Information about workshops for all ages
23. The Garret
Workshops, lesson plans
24. Theatre links
Loads of links for all genres of film, theatres
25. Stageworks
Behind the scenes video of new National Theatre productions from page to stage with lesson plans, in depth knowledge into drama productions
26. London Theatre Guide
Everything you need to know about planning your school’s trips to the theatre and how students can get the most from master classes and special programmes and events
Books online: internet archive
27. C4 Book Box
Games, books sites, interactive site
28. Cool Reads
Top best books with reviews by KS3 and 4 children
29. Google Print
Search the full text of books (and discover new ones)
Student revision sites
30. BBC GCSE Bitesize
Lists of plays, literature and a chance to post queries about GCSEs
31. S-Cool
How to write essays, poetry and stories at GCSE level
32. English Biz
Guidance on how to write essays, poetry and stories
33. C4 Homework High
Type in any homework queries and get answers
34. BBC – AS Guru
Message boards to post queries, literature and language areas, prose and verse
35. GCSE.com Revision
GCSE English section of the award winning tutorials, tips and advice website, covering exams for students, parents and teachers
Teacher support – resources and CPD for English
36. Web English Teacher
At Web English Teacher educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and benefit from the work of others. New teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration. Think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale
37. English Teaching
Online resource for teachers of English and Drama at secondary level
38. Chalk Face
Downloadable worksheets and resources for English
39. Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia
Resources and products for use in English teaching
40. Initial Teacher Education
NQT or teachers in training
41. Teachit
Online community of teachers authoring and sharing a large database of classroom tested resources
42. Universal Teacher
Andrew Moore's resource site for English teachers; free access to extensive teaching resources for English at KS3/4, GCSE and Advanced Level
43. Chalk Face
From the Chalkface.net the ISP portal and educational resource centre for teachers by teachers
44. Poetry Class
Poetry Classis the solution for teachers wanting to bring poetry alive in the classroom. Our online poetry classroom and unique INSET training provides teachers with a 'nuts and bolts' insight into how poetry works. A training team of poets, all of whom are highly experienced with work in schools and have between them hundreds of tried and tested ideas, is available to work with teachers to overcome their problems and concerns with teaching poetry
Teacher support:local authority and school sites
45. English Resources
English Resources: Free resources for teaching and revising English language and literature at Key Stages 3, 4 and A' Level…..to download for teaching and revising English Language and Literature
46. eRiding
The eRiding website is both a collection of resources and a set of tools that enable a wide range of users to access high quality teaching and learning materials, targeted at specific audiences
Miscellaneous organisations
47. Film Education
Current events within film for education
48. Becta ICT for English
The internet has many useful resources to support secondary English. You can bookmark these resources and they can then be used online, or downloaded and adapted to meet the teaching and learning of specific objectives
49. National Association of Teaching English
Subject teacher association for all aspects of English from pre-school to university
50. DfES: The Standards Site
The framework for teaching English