This website explains ways to improve your student's reading ability from infancy to third grade.  It addresses ways to stimulate your child's interest in reading. 

Need to brush up or strengthen your grammar skills?  Then this link is ideal.

This is another website to assist the reader in finding appropriate reading material based on their current reading ability.  It emphasizes texts for Kindergarten through 6th grade reading materials.

This link helps you understand reading levels called lexile.  In addition, it lets you find books that are appropriate for your reader at their lexile challenging rating.  This aides your reader in developing stronger reading skills.

What's the difference between a metaphor and a similie? How are antithesis and oxymorons different?  This website explains the different literary devices.  Literary devices are always tested on the STAAR. 

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Visitors of PoemHunter.Com are comprised of well educated people from all age groups, they have interest in cultures and arts, read books and have come to certain positions within the society. Results of surveys and the general trend we observe in the activities of the site show that visitors of PoemHunter.Com regard it not as an entertainment site but as a site of knowledge, culture and art and that they wish it to stay that way.

Poetry.com welcomes all amateur poets and invites you to participate in the world’s largest and most vibrant poetry community.

Our community is built on the belief that poetry is a powerful form of creative self expression and that each person deserves to share their own personal message with the world.

It will be exciting for you to receive comments and feedback from the millions of people who will read your poetry on this site. In this regard, we hope that you will honor a simple pledge: For each poem you post to the community, please review two poems that have been written by your fellow poets.

By taking this pledge, you will be insuring that all of us receive the valuable feedback and comments that we find so rewarding. Please note that you will also be rewarded with twice as many points for reviewing a poem as you will be for writing one. These bonus points reflect how valuable your personal feedback is to the members of our community!

he Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.

The Poetry Foundation works to raise poetry to a more visible and influential position in our culture. Rather than celebrating the status quo, the Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging new kinds of poetry. 

Established in 2003 upon receipt of a major gift from philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the Poetry Foundation evolved from the Modern Poetry Association, which was founded in 1941 to support the publication of Poetry magazine. The gift from Ruth Lilly allowed the Poetry Foundation to expand and enhance the presence of poetry in the United States and established an endowment that will fund Poetry magazine in perpetuity.

Welcome to Poetry 180. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revealed.

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. I have selected the poems you will find here with high school students in mind. They are intended to be listened to, and I suggest that all members of the school community be included as readers. A great time for the readings would be following the end of daily announcements over the public address system.

Listening to poetry can encourage students and other learners to become members of the circle of readers for whom poetry is a vital source of pleasure. I hope Poetry 180 becomes an important and enriching part of the school day.

Billy Collins
Former Poet Laureate of the United States

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Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

Our goal is to provide a page on the web for every book ever published.

At its heart, Open Library is a catalog. The project began in November 2007 and has been inhaling catalog records from some of the biggest libraries in the world ever since. We have well over 20 million edition records online, provide access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books, and link to external sources like WorldCat and Amazon when we can. The secondary goal is to get you as close to the actual document you're looking for as we can, whether that is a scanned version courtesy of the Internet Archive, or a link to Powell's where you can purchase your own copy.

Project Gutenberg offers over 54,000 free eBooks: Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, especially older works for which copyright has expired. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.

No fee or registration is required, but if you find Project Gutenberg useful, we kindly ask you to donate a small amount so we can digitize more books, maintain our online presence, and improve Project Gutenberg programs and offerings. Other ways to help include digitizing more books, recording audio books, or reporting errors.

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