This site is run by the charity International Children's Digital Library Foundation. Their aim is to prepare children for life in an ethnically and culturally diverse world by building the world's largest online multicultural repository of children's literature.

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Each month there is a New Writing theme on the British Council Arts website focusing on a wide selection of short stories, poems, novel extracts and essays.

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Available on the Arts area of the British Council Website. You can listen to a selection of streamed contemporary poems featured on Poems on the Underground read by the authors and editors.

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The aim of BritLit is to help teachers from around the world to exploit English literature in the ELT classroom. There is a range of materials based around the works of various authors and there are lots of resources for use with young learners as well as adults.

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This site has over 36,000 poems which can be searched by title, author or text. The site also contains a large selection of free, downloadable e-books.

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This is a really useful site with lots of Shakespeare related materials. Students can watch video clips of Royal Shakespeare Company performances and read biographies.

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A collection of fun poetry for children. There is a whole section dedicated to school poems including 'The Dog chewed up my Homework', also funny poems, fill in the blanks, competitions and a section for teachers on both poetry and fiction.

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Poems and short biographies of over 450 well-known poets, both classic and modern. The site features discussion forums and a listening booth where you here many poems read by their authors.

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An online library of around 2000 classic texts, including Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, the Grimm brothers' fairy tales, and Aesop's fables,and a comprehensive range of early 20th and 19th century authors.

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The web site for the popular fridge magnet poetry kits features five or six online kits for creating poems on the screen. There is also a downloadable In the Classroom guide in pdf format for teachers wanting to exploit the real or online versions.

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