British Council
British Council Go4 English for Arabic Speakers: Stories
A collection of 20-25 animated stories designed to teach children English. Children can read as they watch and listen, then play a game to see how much they understood. Includes original stories on topics of interest to students...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Hound of the Baskervilles 2: The Mysterious Moor
Students examine the importance of setting in this excerpt about the moors, from Masterpiece's 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. The legend of the hound that haunts the mysterious landscape of Dartmoor captured Arthur Conan...
Other
Book Page Interview: Pete Hautman
National Book Award winner Hautman discusses his YA novel "Invisible" and his other writing in this interview.
BBC
Bbc Nature: African Fish Eagle
African fish eagles are familiar birds of prey on the waterways of sub-Saharan Africa, noted for their distinctive and haunting call. These eagles perch on branches overlooking the water, swooping down to catch fish which are then...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Halloween Hop
Happy Halloween! Test your reflexes and your knowledge of Halloween trivia by hopping from platform to platform while collecting different costumes and candy! How far up can you get in this hopping haunted house?
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim
This is the full text of the novel The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a mystery novel. German Leopold von Ragastein meets Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, and plans to murder him and steal his identity to spy on...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Daguerre, Paris Boulevard
The haunting empty, yet evocative, image of "Paris Boulevard" by Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre shows both how far photography had come in a short time and how much farther the technology still had to advance. Read about the techniques he...
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: The Beaded Bag
Kentucky-based storyteller Mary Hamilton tells a haunting tale set in Victorian times, about a man who gives a young lady a ride across the Ohio River to her home in Louisville. When she disappears, he learns that he has become part of a...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: To Morrow
Read this gripping story of lives haunted by the sea in the short story "To-morrow" by Joseph Conrad.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Weird Tales From Northern Seas by Jonas Lie
Read tales of ghosts and sea demons that haunt the coast of Norway in "Weird Tales from the Northern Seas" by Jonas Lie.
EL Education
El Education: Diseased
This fictionalized journal was created by a high school student in Denver, Colorado. It tells the haunting story, through a combination of text and images, of a young woman who is stricken with tuberculosis (and later HIV). This...
Curated OER
Wood Thrush
Listen to the hauntingly beautiful sound of the Wood Thrush on this comprehensive site. In addition, you will find a wealth of factual information about this bird species ranging from habit to reproduction and more.
Curated OER
Wood Thrush
Listen to the hauntingly beautiful sound of the Wood Thrush on this comprehensive site. In addition, you will find a wealth of factual information about this bird species ranging from habit to reproduction and more.
Curated OER
Famous Sculpture From Cathedral of Notre Dame
A tour of the sculpture in the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 brought to you by the Paul V. Galvin Library from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Black and white images show the artwork in a hauntingly beautiful way.