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The Online Style Guide Word Template

Our Online Style Guide Word template aids in the electronic markup of electronically submitted work. Programmed macros will help you to markup the text with 30 Common errors. The inserted comments are hyperlinked for the student to an Online Style Guide with helpful examples and solutions.

Avocabo Vocabulary Series

Avocabo is a challenging vocabulary series for grades 11-12 with over forty weekly word lists. It is produced by Bookhooks' creator Adrian Hoad-Reddick and his Grade 11/12 English students. Units are available in convenient PDFs.

Crossword Puzzles

Harry Potter Crosswords (hosted on the Raincoast Books website)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Crossword

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Crossword (2-page pdf) |
Also on
the Raincoast Books website

Kenneth Oppel Airborn/Skybreaker Crossword Puzzles

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel - A Crossword
Also on Ken Oppel's website, www.airborn.ca

Kenneth Oppel's Skybreaker Crossword (2-page pdf)
Also on Ken Oppel's Skybreaker website.

Death of a Salesman Crossword - by Andrea Snider and Adrian Hoad-Reddick
Tom Finder by Martine Leavitt - A Crossword
Children's Authors Crossword Do you know your Children's Authors? We give you the book title - you supply the author's name!
A Crossword with Great Character
Created to celebrate What If? magazine's first birthday party

The Great Gatsby Crossword Puzzle
A Wizard of Earthsea Crossword by Devin Howard
Run Across and Run Down Themed Crossword

SPOILER Alert! Do not attempt crosswords until you have read the book!

Word Search Puzzles

Kenneth Oppel's Skybreaker - Word Search
Interactive Bookish Word Search Puzzles by some of Bookhooks' faves

Word Games

Fourthought - practice your anagramming in this challenging word game

Web-based Citation

The Citation Machine - enter details about your information source, and the Citation Machine will produce your citation automatically (APA or MLS!) Simply cut and paste the citation into your report or essay.

The OSLIS Citation Maker uses session management to allow you to enter more than one citation and produce a Bibliography with ease (MLS only)

A Web Research Log by Bookhooks. A manual website logsheet.

Write Angles Articles by Heather Wright

Hello School! Goodbye Writing?
Read About Writing, But Don't Forget the Writing
Beat Writer's Block by Playing Your Cards Right
Seven Editing Questions -- and Why You Need to Ask Them
Postcards: Story Starters from the Past

Write Angles is a series of articles for the aspiring (or veteran) writer, published in What If? Canada's Fiction Magazine for Teens. Educator and writer Heather Wright offers great hints and tips for living writing in her compelling Write Angle series. The Write Away articles are 2-page PDF documents ready to print and use in your classroom.

LitQuizzes (Timed Quizzes - require the Free Shockwave Plug-in)

A Wizard of Earthsea LitQuiz by Devin Howard
The Golden Compass LitQuiz by Caroline Garrod
Artemis Fowl LitQuiz by Marcus Seegmiller
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix LitQuiz by Heather Hall
Inkheart LitQuiz by Jenn Hartley
The Thief Lord by Sarah Siddiqui
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Trella White

Know your Phobias? Try the Phobia Quiz by Andrew Seidl
Weird Words I by Ella Goldberg

Bookhooks Guides

Preparing Images for Submission to Bookhooks

Writing Tutorials by Mike Leslie, publisher of What If? magazine

Grappling with Grammar: Appropriate Apostrophes
Grappling with Grammar: Verb Tenses
Grappling with Grammar: Active Verbs
Grappling with Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
Grappling with Grammar: Pronoun Problems?

Writing Techniques: Writing Realistic Dialogue
5 Steps to a Successful Contest Entry
Writing in Pictures - Using the 'Show and Don't Tell Rule'
Writing Techniques: Cutting the Fat and Making Every Word Count

Literary Resources for Students

A Guide to Genres
My Reading Record - blackline master ( Word | PDF )
A Glossary of Literary Terms
Get the Most Out of Your Library
How to Write a Book Report—First Steps

Reading Strategies for Parents & Kids on a handy printable bookmark

Literacy Activity Inventory (Photocopy Masters and Activities)
courtesy of our Educational Partner, Bookmates Publishing!

For more activities and time saving ideas, please visit www.bookmates.com

Write Away!

Write Away is a series of writing exercises for Middle School students. The series was prepared by Jean Mills, a Guelph, Ontario writer and teacher. Jean is the author of two novels for middle readers, "Wild Dog Summer" and "The Legacy." The Write Away exercises are PDF documents ready to print and use in your classroom.

1. Write a poem
2. Write a sentence
3. Write a paragraph
4. Write a story: beginning, middle, end
5. Developing character
6. Write a story