This page contains many, many off-site links that may be of interest to the Garfield/Language Arts learning community.  They may change frequently!  Opinions expressed on those resources and links are solely the responsibility of their host site and not the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Be sure to check the Writing Resources section of the Writing page for particular help with composition, including links to online reference books, writing formats and grammar/style guides.

We appreciate your help in keeping us informed of any dead links, and to suggest new ones.  Please notify our webmaster.
 

Resources for Students
 

• LAUSD net - Homework Help
• Young Adults @ Los Angeles Public Library
• Teens Writing (TeenLit.com)
• Teenreads.com
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (User's Guide for Students)
• America's Library (Library of Congress: Kids & Families)

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S.C.O.R.E.

• S.C.O.R.E. (Schools of California Online Resources for Education)
• S.C.O.R.E. Language Arts

• The Reading Village (Project of TEAMS Distance Learning, Pepperdine University & Loyola Marymount University)
• El Alma de la Raza (Colorado Dept. of Education)

• National Council of Teachers of English
• California Association of Teachers of English
• Council of the Great City Schools
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)

• Folger Shakespeare Library - Resources for Teachers
• The Learning Page (Library of Congress: Especially for Teachers)
• Smithsonian: Teachers

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There are several organizations and online resources for parents to help their children succeed in school.  Here are some we feel may be of interest!

1. Literature and literacy for parents
2. Support organizations for parents
3. Projects and miscellaneous resource sites
4. Resources for Latino communities
5. Resources for parents of children with special needs

• Horn Book Parents' Page

• National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education (Be sure to check out their excellent Resources page!)
• National Community Education Association
• Academy for Educational Development
• Family Education Network
• National Center for Family Literacy
• National PTA (Parent-Teacher Association)
• Parents for Public Schools
• The Parent Institute

• NEA: Help for Parents (National Education Association)
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (User's Guide for Parents)
• Family & Community Resources (California Dept. of Education)
• Information for Parents & Families (U.S. Dept. of Education)

• National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
• NCLR: Hispanic Education
• Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
• ASPIRA (Mostly active on the East Coast, but some good national resources for Latino youth)

• Families and Advocates Partnership for Education

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Periodical literature offers great opportunities for further learning, and several will publish work from "new writers!"

1. Student publications and literary e-zines
2. Literary interest periodicals
3. Periodicals for teachers and learners
4. Academic publications for students and schools
5. Newspapers and national publications
6. Significant articles

• e-muse (Lawrence North High School, Indiana)
• Electric Soup (Hunterdon Central Regional High School, New Jersey)
• Litzine World
• WAVE: promotinge expression from "generation y"
• XENITH.net

• Shakespeare Magazine
• Poetry Daily

• Education Week
• Scholastic News
• Calliope
• The Horn Book Magazine
• Merlyn's Pen

• Words Work Network (WoW Net)
• Web del Sol
• The Concord Review (Varsity Academics project published quarterly by the National Writing Board)

• Hispanic Magazine
• Los Angeles Times

• Transforming Education for Hispanic Youth (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can: Latinas in School (Amerian Association of University Women)
• Educating Latinos (NPR)

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• WWW Virtual Library
• Internet Public Library
• LAUSD Digital Library
• California Digital Library
• SparkNotes
• Project Gutenberg
• Bartleby - Great Books Online, with Bartlett's Quotations, Roget's Thesaurus, Columbia Encyclopedia & more!
• The Online Books Page
• How Things Work (University of Virginia)
• Ask Jeeves
• How Stuff Works
• Perseus Digital Library (Humanities database at Tufts University)
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Dictionary.com
• Virtual Reference Desk
• AskERIC

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The world of literacy includes countless resources that don't easily fit into any category!  Here are a few - just a few! - of the best.

1. ERIC
2. East LA
3. California treasures
4. Reading and literacy
5. Media
6. Resources for literature
7. Resources for diverse learners
8. Miscellaneous national resources

At the top of the list is ERIC.  College-bound students, and their teachers, know ERIC well and all the things he can do!

• ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center (maintained by the U.S. Dept. of Education)

• California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA)
• CSULA John F. Kennedy Memorial Library
• East Los Angeles Community College (ELAC)
• ELAC Helen Miller Bailey Library
• Self Help Graphics & Art
• TELACU: The East Los Angeles Community Union
• East Los Angeles Library (Los Angeles County Public Library)
• Los Angeles County Public Library
• Los Angeles Public Library (City of Los Angeles)
• ELAnet: East Los Angeles Info (Los Angeles County)
• East Los Angeles Net
• East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio (Book by Ricardo Romo)
• Art in East Los Angeles (Corona Ave. School web project, Bell, LAUSD)
• Murals in Silverlake & Boyle Heights/East LA (USC)

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• The Huntington
• The Getty Center
• Museum of Latin American Art
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
• California Science Center
• California African American Museum
• Japanese American National Museum
• Museum of Tolerance
• Aquarium of the Pacific

• Reading is Fundamental (RIF)
• Literature Circles
• TeenLit.com

• PBS
• KLCS-TV Online (LAUSD)

• Shakespeare High
• Surfing With the Bard
• Early American Literature 1600-1900, Resources for K-12
• Chicano Resource Center (East Los Angeles Library)
• San Antonio College LitWeb
• SAC LitWeb Chicano Literature Index
• English Literature - UCLA Library Collections & Internet Resources
• Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures (Georgetown University)
• CEPACS: Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (Georgetown University)
• Jolly Roger/WWW Renaissance
• Horn Book Children's Classics

• papertigers.org (A Pacific Rim Voices Project)
• Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States
• African American Literature & History
• About: Contemporary Literature
• Asian-American Literature (James Madison University)
• Teaching Asian American Literature (A.Ling, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Asian-Americana Links (ARCHES, University of Georgia)
• Buscando California (Latino, Native American, & Asian American literary resources from Amy Avila & author Alfred Avila)
• Chicanas.com: A Chicana Feminist Website
• American Association of University Women
• NCELA: National Clearninghouse for English Language Acquisition (U.S. Dept. of Education)
• Teaching Diverse Learners (Education Alliance at Brown University)

• Library of Congress
• Smithsonian Institution
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
• American Musum of Natural History
• Facing History and Ourselves

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