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Acronymfinder.com - The web's most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. 337,000+ definitions!

The Awesome Library for teachers, parents and students. This site contains links to over 12,000 TOP educational sites. They are grouped by subjects (art, English, etc.), grouped by support groups (nurses, counselors, family, etc.) and grouped by resources (titles, authors, lessons, etc.).

Bartleby.com - Columbia Encyclopedia containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.

Biography.com - search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.

The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

The Merriam Webster Dictionary

The Merriam Webster Thesaurus

The National Library of Education - the federal government's main resource center for education information.

Quotations Page.com - searchable data base of over 15,000 quotations, Quotes of the Day, Motivational Quotes of the Day, collections of quotations by Author and by Subject, and much more.

Reference Materials - Selected Resources on Teaching and Learning

RhymeZone - A searchable archive of user poetry and quotation submissions. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works, famous documents, mother goose, and more.

Roget's Thesaurus

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