Language Lab - Reading, Thinking Creatively, and Writing

Reading, Thinking Creatively, and Writing

ReadingComprehension - Facts and Inferences Table | ReadingG Strategies | Antecendents and Appositives | Reading - Understanding the Main Idea Table| Organizational Styles | Understanding Ideas - Details | Reading for Pleasure | Thinking Critically | Writing Skills - Organizational Styles | Topic sentencs and Thesis Statements | Organization Ideas Before Writing | Sentence Pattens - Simple Compound Complex | Paraphrasing and Quoting and Using Modern Language Association Format. (MLA) | Writing Introductions and Conclusions | Summarizing | The Research Paper | Writing with a Purpose and voice | Revising and Editing | Spelling | Word Order

ANTECEDENTS AND APPOSITIVESE

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_appos.html
Appositives - Nouns or Pronouns that Explain - Tutorial with Exercise

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm
Antecedents - Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement - Tutorial with 4 Quizzes

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/sensen/part2/thirteen/pronouns_finding.html
Finding a Pronoun's Antecedent - Explanation with Exercise.

ORGANIZATIONAL STYLES

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/greekroman.html
An Example of Comparison and Contrast.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/earthquakes.html
Cause and Effect Example

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ORGANIZING IDEAS BEFORE WRITING

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/prewriting.html
Pre-Writing Strategies.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/mapping.html
Map your ideas before you write.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/treediagram.html
Questioning Method with Tree Diagram.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/prewritequest.html
From Questions to Outline to Map.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/outline.html
Outline with Simple Example.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/sampleoutline.html
Complete Sample Outline.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_outlin.html
Very Detailed Outline Tutorial.

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PARAPHRASING AND QUOTING AND USING MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION FORMAT. (MLA)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
How to use MLA - All the Information Required (ENG 111 and 112).

http://iws.ccccd.edu/grooms/fcibr.htm#samp
MLA Sample Paper with Guidelines and Explanations.

http://www.umuc.edu/library/tutorials/mla_citation/index.html
MLA Tutorial - Explanations, Guidelines and Exercises.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/mla.html
MLA Citation Dos and Dont's.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
How to use MLA - All the Information Required (ENG 111 and 112).

Paraphrasing and quoting

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html
How to Paraphrase with Examples and an Exercise.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html
When to Paraphrase, Quote or Summarize.

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/usingquotes.html
Explaination on how to Quote Clearly and Thoroughly.

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READING COMPREHENSION - FACTS AND INFERENCES TABLE

http://www.english-room.com/read_6a.htm
5 Simple Paragraphs with Comprehension Questions.

http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/
50 Stories with Sound and Comprehension Questions.

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READING STRATEGIES

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/sq4r.html
Explanation of the SQ4R Method.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/queststrategy.html
Questioning Strategies that help with Reading Comprehension.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/mapping.html

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/menwomen.html
An Example of Mapping.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/readquest.html
Types of Reading Questions: Comprehension,
Detail, Following Directions, Main Ideas, Inference, Sequence.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/takecloze.html
Strategies for taking Reading Tests.

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READING - UNDERSTANDING THE MAIN IDEA TABLE

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/op/writing/student_main_idea.htm
Finding the Main Idea Tutorial.

http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/AS/308.HTM
Main Idea Explanation and Examples.

http://users.dhp.com/~laflemm/reso/mainIdea.htm
Main Idea Explanation, Examples and Practice.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/main/reading.html
Traditional Reading Practice: Main Ideas, Details and Inference.

http://vclass.mtsac.edu/amla-51/Main%20Idea/Mainidea.htm
Short Tutorial on Main Ideas and 3 Practice Readings.

http://cwabacon.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/seyler_ab/chapter2/deluxe.html
5 Exercises Focusing on Determining the Main Idea.

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THE RESEARCH PAPER

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/process.html
Tutorial.

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REVISING AND EDITING

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_commaproof.html
Editing for Commas - Writing Exercise.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverb.html
Editing Subject/Verb Agreement Errors.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_tens.html
Editing Verb Exercise.

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/tests/punct/punct.html
20 Multiple Choice Questions: Explanations if you need them.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/consistency_quiz.htm
Pronoun and Tense Consistency Quiz.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/proofread.html
Punctuation and Grammar Review.

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SENTENCE PATTERNS - SIMPLE COMPOUND COMPLEX

http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/moduleCS_FS.htm
Explanations with Links to Quizes.

http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/sentences.htm
Sentence Patterns and Punctuation.

http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/twsent.html
Eveything you need to know about a sentence.

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/sentpatt.html
Simple Explanation.

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/sntstrct.html
More detailed explanation.

http://www.manythings.org/rs/
Examples of different patterns.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/function/sentpatt.htm
Tutorial with a 5 question quiz.

http://www.eslbee.com/sentences.htm
Explanations with links to quizzes.

http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/pandg/exg10a.shtml
Five Question Quiz Beginning.

http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/pandg/exg10b.shtml
Five Question Quiz Advanced.

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SPELLING

http://www.education.tas.gov.au/english/spellstrat.htm
Spelling Strategies Including Latin and Greek Roots and the Meaining of Many Suffixes.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_caps.html
Spelling with Capital Letters - Tutorial.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelhomo.html
Spilling Words that Sound Alike and Examples of One Word vs. Two Word Spellings.

http://eslus.com/LESSONS/SPELL/SPELL.HTM
Spelling - 5 Levels - 20 Tests for Each Level - Listen to the Words and Then Spell Them.

http://www.ssdd.uce.ac.uk/learner/grammar/spellex.htm
Two Sentence Spelling Exercies with Answers.

http://www.csu.edu.au/division/studserv/learning/pdfs/strategies%20and%20apostrophes.pdf
Long PDF List of Spelling Strategies.

http://yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html
100 Most Misspelled Words with Explanations.

http://www.johnsesl.com/templates/vocab/misspelledwords.php
100 Commonly Misspelled Words with Link to Pronunciaiton and Definition.

http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html
50 Commonly Misspelled words with test and explanations.

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/spe-sports.html
Quiz for Sport Related Words.

http://www.manythings.org/cts/sc939.htm
A Game for Commonly Misspelled Words for ESL Students.

http://www.manythings.org/cts/sc966.htm
A Game for Frequently Misspelled Words.

http://www.manythings.org/cts/sc977.htm
" IE " or " EI " A Spelling Game.

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SUMMARIZING

http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/summary.htm
Summarizing - A "How To" Guide to Summarizing and its Importance.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_quotprsum.html
Summarizing - Defines Paraphrasing, Quoting and Summarizing.

http://www.utoronto.ca/ucwriting/paraphrase.html
Summarizing and Paraphrasing - How and When to Use Them.

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REAING FOR PLEASURE

http://mortgages.interest.com/content/general/top100.asp?
Links to the Top 100 Newspapers

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/index.html
National Geographic News

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
Famous Books Some with sound

http://www.world-english.org/poetry.htm
Classic English Poetry

http://www.world-english.org/stories.htm
Clasic Short Stories

THINKING CRITICALLY Count & Non-Count Nouns

http://www.coping.org/write/percept/critical.htm
What Is Critical Thinking?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:Critical+Thinking
What is it? 19 definitions.

http://www.austhink.org/critical/pages/definitions.html
More Definitions.

http://www.classicweb.com/usr/jseng/trivi.htm
177 Trivial Questions with answers.

http://www.careerlab.com/99ways.htm
99 ways to say very good.

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/induc/causal-q.html
An Exercise for Critical Thinking.

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/onlyif/onlyc-q.html
Think Critically with This Exercise.

http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/condit/condit-q.html
A Difficult Critical Thinking Exercise.

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TOPIC SENTENCES AND THESIS STATEMENTS

http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/paragraph/tutorial_1/topic_tutorial.html#TOP
A Slide Show Explanation of Topic Sentences.

http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/paragraph/tutorial_1/constructing_topic1.htm
Identify the Topic Sentence in 8 paragraphs.

http://english-zone.com/writing/para-strctr.html
Paragraph and Topic Sentence Explained with a Sample.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/thesis.html
Thesis Statement: Complete Explanation.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_thesis.html
Explanation and Examples of Thesis Statements with 5 Links.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/thesishandout.html
Samples of Thesis Statements.

UNDERSTANDING IDEAS - DETAILS

http://esl-efl.webpark.pl/reading_comprehension.html
2 Short Readings with Comprehension Questions

http://www.world-english.org/english_reading.htm
Quick Test.

http://www.world-english.org/improve_reading_skills.htm
Many Readings from Beginning to Advanced with Comprehension Questions.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/main/reading.html
Many Readings with Comprehension and Vocabulary Exercises

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WRITING SKILLS - ORGANIZATIONAL STYLES

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/essay.html
All Styles Explained.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/greekroman.html
An Example of Comparison and Contrast.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/earthquakes.html
Cause and Effect Example.

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WRITING WITH A PURPOSE AND VOICE
Writing with a Purpose

http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/processes/purpose/
Purpose - Excellent Tutorial Focusing on Purpose.

voice

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/voice.html
Voice - Tips for Putting Voice into a Paper.

http://www.uwb.edu/writingcenter/HandoutVoice.pdf
Voice - PDF File that focuses on The Voice in Writing.

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WRITING INTRODUCTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Writing Introduction

http://www.dvc.edu/english/Learning_Resources/GuidetoIntroductions.htm
Introductions - 8 Simple Ideas on How to Design an Effective Introduction.

http://www.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/introductions.htm
Introductions - A Comprehensive Overview with Samples.

http://www.bristol.mass.edu

Writing conclusions

http://www.uwc.ucf.edu/Writing%20Resources/Handouts/conclusion_ideas.htm
Conclusions - Some Helpful Suggestions on how to Write an Effective Conclusions.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/conclusions.html
Conclusions - Strategies for Writing an Effective Conclusion - Strategies to Avoid and Examples to Use.

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/conclude.html
Conclusions - Examples of how a Conclusion should be Written.

http://www.ssdd.uce.ac.uk/learner/writing/conclus.htm
Conclusions - Should and Should Not Review - Then Click Sample Conclusions at the Bottom of the Page to Review 3 Sample Conclusions.

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/Conclusions.html
Conclusions - Harvard's Suggestions on How To and Not To Conclude and Essay.

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WORD ORDER
Sentence Level Word Order

http://www.eslgold.com/
Basic Sentence Structure Audio Explanations

http://www.eslgold.com/site.jsp?sk=HNho86hJXJbAnhjb&resource=pag_stu_grammar_expl_exa_exer_lb_build_sent
Building Sentences Audio Tutorial

http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/wo-01.html
Sentence Word Order Quiz with 39 Questions

http://a4esl.org/q/h/mc-ck-order.html
Sentence Word Order Quiz with 11 Questions

http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb010-lk.html
Sentences with Missing Words - 9 Examples

http://www.manythings.org/rs/
Examples of different patterns

Word Order - Adjective

http://www.world-english.org/adjectiveplacement.htm
Explanation with Exercises

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/adjorder.html
Adjective Word Order Quiz with 15 Questions

http://www.johnsesl.com/scrambledtxt/intermediate/
Unscramble Sentences with Adjectives

http://www.johnsesl.com/scrambledtxt/intermediate/adjo2.html
Unscramble Sentences with Adjectives

http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/Adjectives/Adjectives_Before_Nouns.htm
A Simple Explanation of Adjective Order

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