Ryton Students - Departments – English – Web Links

 

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Year 13

 

Reference

 

Ryton Reads

Ryton Reads

Oxford English Dictionary: word of the day

http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd

Online Dictionary

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/   -

Rhyming Dictionary

http://www.rhymer.com/   -

The Geordie Dictionary

http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/GeordieDictionary.htm

A Dictionary of slang

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/m.htm

Dictionary, encyclopaedia, thesaurus, glossaries

http://www.encyberpedia.com/glossary.htm

American versus English - Standard English

http://www.hps.com/~tpg/ukdict

World wide words

http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm

Useful search site for famous quotations

http://www.bartleby.com/100

Site for book reviews and study guides

http://www.bibliomania.com/1/-/frameset.html

Yahoo listing of linguistic links

http://dir.yahoo.com/social_science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages

Dialectizer - fun site that plays around with dialects

http://rinkworks.com/dialect

Martin Luther King

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday

 

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/king.html

 

Skills

 

BBC Revision Site – link to Bitesize

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revision/ -

BBC AS English Guru

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/asguru/english/

GCSE revision site

http://www.gcse.com

USA Study site – notes on texts

http://www.sparknotes.com

On-line help with texts

http://www.novelguide.com/

User friendly guide to the English language

http://www.manythings.org/rs

Test your grammar knowledge

http://www.edufind.com

Common errors in English

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

Step-by-step spelling units

http://www.spellzone.com

Site that produces randomly-generated sentences!

http://www.manythings.org/rs/

 

Year 7

 

Poetry

 

Poetry Society Home Page

http://www.poetrysoc.com

 

Year  8

 

Shakespeare

 

Information about each of Shakespeare’s plays – summaries & sample essays

http://www.field-of-themes.com/shakespeare/shakework.html

Official site of Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust

http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/homepage

 

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/theatre.htm#Globe

 

http://www.shakespeare.eb.com/shakespeare/index2.html

 

http://www.shakespeare.eb.com/shakespeare/ind_globe.html

 

http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html

 

http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/index.asp

Exploring Language

 

The Geordie Dictionary

http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/GeordieDictionary.htm

Dialectizer - fun site that plays around with dialects

http://rinkworks.com/dialect

 

 

 

Year 9

 

Martin Luther King             

 

Martin Luther King Biog.

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/king.html

BBC On This Day Site – Martin Luther King

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2656000/2656805.stm

Access to a recording of the I have a Dream speech and transcript (as well as other speeches)

www.americanrhetoric.com

Identity Cards

 

Site opposing the introduction of Identity Cards in the UK

http://www.no2id.net/news/index.php

 

Year 10 & 11

 

Power points and interactive resources for teachers and pupils

http://geoffbarton.co.uk/student-resources.php

 

Andrew Moore’s pages for Lang & Lit

http://www.eriding.net/amoore/

 

 

Great links to interactive resources for English

http://www.educeth.ch/english/

 

Shakespeare’s life and times

http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/introsubj.html

 

BBC’s online help

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml

 

Help for Language and Literature

www.englishbiz.co.uk

Helpful tips for original writing coursework

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/howtowrite

Revision materials for GCSE

www.s-cool.co.uk

English Language and Literature resources for GCSE

www.newi.ac.uk/englishresources/KS4

GCSE English revision notes

http://revisioncentre.co.uk/gcse/english/index.html

UK film review site

www.filmreview.co.uk

Materials to aid GCSE revision

www.english1.org.uk

Revision tips

www.aplustutors.co.uk/students/english.php

Tips for improving spelling and grammar at GCSE

www.gcse.com

Notes on set literature texts for GCSE coursework and revision

www.sparknotes.com/lit

 

 

Year 12 & 13

 

Files relevant to GCSE, A Level Lang. and Lit.  In loving memory of Andrew Moore who died in 2006

http://www.eriding.net/amoore/

 

Interactive resources for A level

http://geoffbarton.co.uk/student-resources.php

 

Accent and dialect

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/

 

An excellent blog run by an A level language teacher

http://languagelegend.blogspot.com/

 

A good start to any study of grammar

http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/literacy/prof_dev/self_study_archive/571599/

 

The BBC’s on-line help- links to on-line writing sites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml

 

Colchester College’s Language and Literature pages

http://www.colchsfc.ac.uk/english/

 

A really attractive site of moving synonyms set in linked semantic fields

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

 

 

 

The British Library – an absolutely fantastic resource

http://www.bl.uk/welcome/everyone.html

 

 

Newspaper archive

http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/

 

Free mindmap software

http://freemind.surceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

 

Grammar – a Flash presentation

http://wwwstandards.dfes.gov.uk/literacy/prof_dev/self_study/archive/571599/

 

BBC’s online help – various links including online writing sites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml

 

Lang & Lit. activities created by Cambridge University

http://apirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/alevel.acds

 

A level English Literature notes

www.revision/notes.co.uk/A_Level/English/index.html