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A useful online dictionary - Stuck for a definition? Want to know how to spell a word? Try this website

AQA - The awarding body for your GCSE English and English Literature examinations. Look at the syllabuses for English (Syllabus A) and English Literature (Syllabus A). These are your courses of study.

AQA Anthology Different cultures poetry - Useful for revision purposes!

AQA Anthology Poems from other Cultures Revision notes - Useful revision site for Poems from Other Cultures AQA Anthology

AQA English/Eng.Lit revision site - Good revision notes for AQA examinations

BBC Bitesize (11-16 - A good, all-round site to support the development of your skills in English!

BBC GCSE BITESIZE - An excellent GCSE English Revision site!

BBC SkillsWise - More activities to help you to improve your basic spelling, punctuation and grammar skills

EnglishBiz links to other useful revision sites - Surf away! Here is the cream of the crop of English revision web sites. A hand-picked selection of the most useful web sites that will help you when you need it most.

GCSE English - Study support for GCSE. An excellent site with tips on getting a good grade, including required jargon, poetry appreciation, syllabuses, orals, course-work, quick spelling and grammar fixes.

Gillian Clarkes Website - Find out more about this featured poet from the AQA Anthology

Newspapers online - British English Papers - National and Local press in Great Britain: England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland - the British Isles. UK Media - Links to the online sites of every UK newspaper, national and regional.

Shakespeare revision site - Study guides for most Shakespeare plays

Shakespeare-The Complete Works - The complete works of Shakespeare online.

Shakespeares Theatre - A collection of links, including those about the Globe Theatre.

Sheerpoetry is an innovative and constantly changing new UK poetry site. - Resources on poetry by the poets themselves.

Surfing with the Bard - Suggested to be the best of the Shakespeare sites. Set up by an English and drama teacher, this site offers brief, friendly guides to the plays; links to the full texts and other dedicated sites; and a discussion room. Probably most useful for KS4.

The Online Books page - Texts Online A remarkably extensive range of links to online texts, arranged alphabetically by author.

The Shakespeare Centre - The Shakespeare Centre Stratford -upon-Avon

The Writers Speak - This literature site has poetry, fiction and non fiction. You can listen to works read by the author. Featured writers include Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Bill Bryson and Nick Cave.

Word Detective - Word detective An enjoyable and informative site which gives the origin and etymology of words and phrases. If the word you are looking for is not in the archive you can e-mail your query.