READ’s Great Authors:

A digital multimedia adventure from Weekly Reader Publishing

Teach the works of Shakespeare and more!

What would it be like to interview William Shakespeare…online? Awesome! Could Edgar Allan Poe’s works be any creepier in an Internet environment? Yes! Is it possible to bring Geoffrey Chaucer’s 600-year-old Canterbury Tales to life on a Web site? But of course!

The brilliant editors of READ magazine (a Weekly Reader publication) have produced several digital literary adventures and bundled them together into one fantastic classroom package. The best part is—you can use the Edgar Allan Poe resource for free.

Using these innovative mini-sites, middle-school and high-school students will gain a deeper understanding and knowledge of the complex storylines of Macbeth and The Tell-Tale Heart, discover the customs and lifestyles of medieval England as they go on a pilgrimage with Chaucer’s characters, and travel down the Mississippi guided by that former riverboat captain, Mark Twain.

These sites include (but are not limited to) hip-hop video adaptations of classic stories, interactive timelines of authors’ lives, original short films, in-depth literary analyses, student writing and video contributions, and much more!

You’ll never find a literature resource as detailed and engaging as this. Kids love the interactivity and teachers love that it makes incorporating technology that much easier. So what are you waiting for?

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Learn more at weeklyreader.com/GreatAuthors