Library Apps for English language arts
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Academic OneFile: The premier resource for thousands of peer-reviewed articles, titles, podcasts, and transcripts from authoritative news outlets. It includes nearly 6,000 JCR peer-reviewed titles ranked on Journal Citation Reports, Areas covered: Literature, Arts/Humanities, Business/Economics, General/Consumer Interests, Law, Science, Technology, and Social Sciences.
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LitFinder: LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains literature content, including more than 140,000 full-text poems, 840,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays published in the 16th-20th centuries, 2,400 full-text speeches, and 1,250 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. Within LitFinder 's collection, patrons have access to works from over 80,000 authors from 660 nationalities.
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Literature Resource Center: Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
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LearningExpress for High Schools: Provides online access to a unique and extensive collection of academic, college preparation and career-related tutorials, practice tests, articles, e-books and flashcards. It includes tools for academic skill-building, college and career exploration, college admissions test preparation, military exploration and preparation, workplace skills development and more.
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Swank Movie Streaming: a convenient, controlled, and connected streaming platform that makes it easy for teachers to incorporate high-quality films into lesson plans AND Schoology. Teachers must email the librarian for access info. Students are given links to the assigned videos, as well as login information, by their teachers.
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TeachingBooks.net: an online database that can be used by teachers, students, librarians, and families to explore children's books and young adult literature and their authors. The database provides access to educational materials and programs (short movies, audio book readings, book discussion guides) that add a multimedia dimension to reading in the classroom, library, and home.
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