Ziptales is an online literacy “library” designed for school and home use. Ziptales has been a leader in the field of online literacy for more than 12 years. It is based on the latest research about how children develop and sustain a love of reading. The Ziptales “library” was built by trained teachers with the express purpose of making reading a pleasurable and lifelong experience.

The company is known world wide for the development of multimedia material, in particular animated digital content, which link with a range of printed activity books and little books. Offices and partnerships with Wendy Pye Publishing can be found in key countries around the world.

A constantly growing collection of games, activities and resources that support teaching and learning in nurseries and primary schools. Busy Things is an award-winning subscription service used by over 5000 schools in the UK and abroad. The activities encourage children to work creatively with colours, shapes and sounds and help them develop their literacy, numeracy, computer and problem-solving skills.

The preeminent Internet publsiher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. Included are: Emily Dickinson, Quotations, Lives of the Saints,Poetry Anthologies, Strunk’s Style, Walt Whitman, Bartlett’s Quotations, Robert Frost, Proverbs and Maxims, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud and more

Artist biographies, timelines, movements and schools, museums, and galleries.

A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. Published in 1911. Contains 11,000 quotations.

Discover, rate, and discuss books. Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers. Shelfari is a gathering place for authors, aspiring authors, publishers, and readers, and has many tools and features to help these groups connect with each other in a fun and engaging way.

Share book lists and receive recommendations from other book lovers. LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.

Receive recommendations. Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Our mission is to help people find and share books they love.

Full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. What the Church teaches and has taught; what she has done and is still doing for the highest welfare of mankind; her methods, past and present; her struggles, her triumphs, and the achievements of her members and her effect on science, literature and art.

More than a dictionary. It’s a comprehensive reference site with synonyms, sentence examples, quotes, biographies, and an amazing collection of grammar-related articles and education resources for students, teachers, parents and homeschoolers.

The world’s biggest online English dictionary, by number of words. Wordnik shows definitions from multiple sources, so you can see as many different takes on a word’s meaning as possible.

Blog tracking new words and phrases in popular use. The Word Lover’s Guide to New Words. Word Spy features new terms that have some traction in the language, meaning that they’ve appeared at least three times in print or online, ideally in significant sources such as newspapers, magazines, and books.

An online tech dictionary for IT professionals, educators and students. We provide definitions to words, phrases and abbreviations related to computing and information technology. Our goal is to provide easy-to-understand definitions, avoiding the use of heavy jargon when possible so that the site is accessible to users with a wide range of computer knowledge.

Combines the world’s smartest dictionary with an adaptive learning capability. Ditch the flash cards and stop memorizing definitions. It teaches you words by systematically exposing you to a wide array of question types and activities that will help you understand all the meanings of every word you’re learning.

Displays a unique visualization of connections between words. Uses ThinkMap technology to visually illustrate linkage between words and ideas.

General and subject dictionaries for financial, legal, and medical terms. Includes a Dictionary, Thesaurus, Dictionaries covering, Legal, Financial Acronyms and Idioms, Encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, The Free Library, More Languages include: Spanish, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Hebrew.

Over 17,000 entries. Find synonyms, antonyms, and brief definitions.

At Oxford Dictionaries, we have just one thing in mind: improving communication through an understanding and passion for language. That explains why we’ve been making dictionaries for more than 150 years and why we continue to innovate and develop new tools and services to suit your language needs as technology and the world around us change.

Meta search tool indexing 13 million words from 1,000 dictionaries. Includes a reverse dictionary that lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. In most cases you’ll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first.