English

• Academic English (ABC Education). Short videos about paragraphs, reading strategies, and more.
• Australian Children’s Literature Cultural Diversity Database – Search for kids books by concepts (e.g. emigration, kindness)
• Australian Poetry Library – Poetic texts as well as interviews, photos and more.
• Compact Anthology of World Literature – From Middle East, Greece, China, India and Rome.
• Creative Writing resources:
  • The Writing Cooperative
  • Well-Storied (Archived content)
• Critical analysis resources:
  • Writing a critical analysis – Explanation on writing a critical analysis.
  • Guidelines for Writing a literacy Critical Analysis – Explanation on writing a critical analysis.
• Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: 17,500 free entries on all things SciFi.
• Inside a Dog – Reviews and other information about Young Adult literature.
• LibriVox – Free audiobooks – books out of copyright.
• Project Gutenberg – Free eBooks – books out of copyright.
• Seriously Social: The podcast and video content feature Australia’s top social scientists: educators and economists, lawyers and linguists, psychologists and philosophers, historians, geographers and more, making the resources thought-provoking and evidence-based.
• SPEC/SLIMS – poetry analysis
  • Using SPECS and SLIMS – A YouTube video explaining how to use SPEC/SLIMS.
  • Analysing poetry using SPEC and SLIMS – a Blogspot with an example of using SPEC/SLIMS.
• Studying Shakespeare – A list of 13 resources.

Literature

• Audible Audiobooks – Free kids and teens audiobooks (during COVID)
• Many Books – 50,000 free e-books (during COVID)
• Open Textbook Library – texts for Literature, rhetoric, and poetry