What the ACT Reveals about College Readiness in Reading

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Literacy Websites for Students Grades 9-12:

Absolute Shakespeare provides extensive resources for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.

Complete Works of William Shakespeare includes electronic text of many of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

American Memory includes original documents, maps, photographs, sound recordings and more from American history. Features a collection finder, search enjgine, learning activites that build on information literacy skills and "today in history."

CIA Factbook provides extensive information on all the countries around the world; wonderful for country of origin projects and for World History classes.

CNN Learning Resources offers web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories. Although the intended audience is adults, high school students can benefit from this technology supported reading aid.

Enclyclopedia Mythica is an encylopedia of mythology, folklore and legend. It contains over 6000 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.

Focusing on Words and building vocabulary with Latin and Greek roots.

High School Journalism has compiled many high school newspapers from around the United States. Chat with a journalist, take an online quiz, lean more about the most common terms used in the newspaper, and much more. There is a place for TEACHERS too.

Learn to Write a Speech walks you through the process with great tips organized in a readable fashion.

PinkMonkey Booknotes and Study Guides features more than 350 literature summaries and helpful booknotes as well as other resources.

The Digital Classroom from the National Archives and Record Administration includes a wealth of resources and instructional strategies to encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom.

Thinkquest.org engages collaborative teams of students from around the world in the process of designing educational websites for use on the Internet. You can access the Thinkquest Library, a culmination of over twelve years of online web development, or find out more about you can become a member of a Thinkquest design team.