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Language Arts
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ProTeacher Language Arts: Pick from specific subcategories to access a list of K-6 Language Arts and Reading lesson plans and ideas.
Education Place - Reading/Language Arts Center: Houghton Mifflin offers these resources that include textbook support, Professional Development, Intervention, Author Spotlight, Wacky Web Tales, and Bilingual Resources. (3-8)
News Snapshot: Every Monday through Friday, News Snapshot features a newsworthy and provocative photo from The New York Times, along with the basic set of questions answered by journalists when relaying the news-- who, what, where, when, why and how. (Usually includes a teachers guide and printable student worksheet.)(3-12)
K-12 Resources: An extensive list of links to quality Language Arts Resources.
Breakthroughs in Teaching Reading: Do you find it difficult to teach reading to some students? This website explores the different reading styles students have and what you can do to reach them. (1-4) Centers: "How to do Centers without being a ditto queen." 50 different things you can have your students do with their spelling words. Also has an abundance of centers relating to Language Arts. (K-2) Word Walls: A list of activities to use in conjunction with your word wall. All activities were written by classroom teachers. (K-2) 100 Remedial Reading and Phonics Worksheets: This web site offers lots more than just really good worksheets. Tampareads.com is full of reading support activities and worksheets designed for beginning readers (K-4) and older students who never quite mastered the reading basics. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. (PK-9)
Teacher Views: This site is written by K-8 teachers who describe favorite books and related classroom activities. Charlotte's Web: This website was created by a second grade class. Includes students' work, Charlotte's Web links, and teacher resources for Charlotte's Web. (1-3) Kids Korner and Toddler Tales: This site has online books and tales for kids. It has been endorsed as a safe place for kids on the Internet. (PK-6) Spatial Concepts: Geared toward Kindergarten and First Grade, this site helps teach children spatial concepts (such as: beside, over, under, big, bigger, biggest, etc.) using pictures on the computer. (K-1) Big Dog's Grammar: Have a grammar question? This is the place to go. This bare bones approach to English grammar is designed as a quick review with interactive online exercises that actually make grammar fun. (6-12) Fun With Words: This site deals with plays-on-words such as anagrams, palindromes, spoonerisms, pangrams, oxymorons, mnemonics, word etymology, tongue- twisters, and cockney rhyming slang. Each term is defined and illustrated with many examples. It's fun for any classroom. (3-12) Greek Mythology: Greek mythology just doesn't get any better than at this colorful, interactive site! Read about the feats of Jason and Hercules or follow the adventures of Odysseus. An encyclopedia provides information about Greek mythology. There are also lesson plans and teaching tips. (6-9+) Sounds of English: Do you have any ESL students that would benefit from extra help in making the actual sounds that spoken English requires? This website focuses on the actual sounds and on making the distinctions between similar sounds. There are many examples, activities and exercises, many of which illustrate the use of technology to aid non-native English language students. (1-12) Phonological awareness, reading: A list of articles about teaching phonics to LD students in order to make them more effective learners. PBS Teacher Source - Arts and Literature: Access a wealth of PBS television and Web resources, including hundreds of ready-to-use lesson plans correlated to state and national standards. (PK-12)
Language Arts Lesson Plan Ideas: Search a collection of language arts lesson ideas geared for upper elementary grades including spelling and vocabulary.(4-6)
Story Arts/Storytelling Activities and Lesson Plans: Storytelling is a great way to encourage speaking skills. Here is a site that provides many great activity ideas. (K-6+)
SCORE CyberGuides: CyberGuides are web-based guides designed to supplement instruction in core works of literature, and are intended for the one computer classroom. Each guide has 4-5 student activities that require the use of the WWW and lead to a product related to the study of a work of literature, an author or a literature-based theme. (K-12)
Reading Workshop: Online tutorials in reading comprehension strategies and free practice sheets for use with your students. (PK-6)
Book Raps: This Australian website offers students an excellent opportunity to discuss books with other children around the world via email. Books for future Book Raps are listed. (1-12)
Absolutely Whootie - Stories to Grow By: A collection of multicultural folktales from around the world that teach specific values. A set of questions after each story prompt the reader to think about the deeper meanings of the story. A lesson plan outline is available and the site includes games, new stories each month, and student illustration submissions. (K-6)
Clifford Interactive Storybooks: Clifford stories read aloud in a natural voice. Students choose a word to complete a sentence and the word is used in the story. Each story reflects a specific phonemic awareness or phonics concept and is accompanied by a fun activity that helps students develop and practice skills. (K-2)
English Grammar 101: Highly interactive grammar site designed for students, teachers, or anyone who wants to learn. Online tests provide "immediate feedback" and can be set up to send results to both student and teacher. Use this site to reinforce lessons or as the primary vehicle to propel your students forward. (6+)
Vocabulary.com: This site is designed for teachers and students who want to enhance vocabulary mastery. Visitors can earn a diploma at VOCAB U. Teachers can use these exercises to enrich classroom curriculum and to help prepare for the SSAT, PSAT, GED, SAT and ACT. (4-12)
Spelling Test: Participate in an online spelling test. The test is based on the 50 most commonly misspelled words in the English language. (3-9)
Netsurflearning English Course: A great resource for EFL and ESL teachers. Ten levels of difficulty, each level featuring 100 interactive work sheets that provide a variety of materials from the Web that reinforce grammar, comprehension, reading for pleasure, and writing. (K-12)
Fluency Through Fables: Fables accompanied by comprehension questions, discussion ideas and more. This is useful as a teacher centered activity in front of the class, especially for teaching ESL to adults. (3-4+) Daily Buzzword: A new word and definition is presented each day. A sentence with the word used in context is also offered. Readers can take a multiple-choice quiz to find out if they really understand the meaning of the word, and readers can click the "hear it!" button to hear the word pronounced. (6-12) Quotation A Day: Famous quotations that can be used to develop students' writing and critical thinking skills. (5-12) Children's Authors & Illustrators: An extensive directory of children's books author's and illustrator's websites. (PK-8) Book Adventure: A free, kid oriented, on-line reading program where students (K-8) create personalized
book lists from 4,000 recommended titles, read the books at home or school,
then return to Book Adventure to take quizzes and earn prizes for reading
success. Includes built-in reporting tools that follow children's reading progress.
Printable ABC Activities: Printable ABC color worksheets, Dolch word cards (flash cards), Dolch word search puzzles, A-Z flash cards (with picture illustrations), easy worksheets, word searches and puzzles, and phonics coloring pages (with illustrations). (PK-1) D'Nealian Style Handwriting: Printable flashcards, dotted practice letters and words, D'Nealian print chart with arrows, cursive flashcards, and D'Nealian letters to color. (K-1) Phonics Cards to Print: To help students learn 3 and 4 letter words, quickly - simply click on any of the sets of words, print and laminate - you have a set of Flashcards ready to use. Graphic Organizers: Printable graphic organizers (comparison chart, KWL, research web, spider map, and venn diagram sheets). (K-12) Writing: Printable writing activities including letter forms (parts of a friendly letter, how to address an envelope, invitations), poetry forms, book report forms, and writing forms. (1-5) Language Arts Worksheet Generator: Use teacher-created Language Arts worksheets, or create your own from ready-made templates with the "create a worksheet" button at the top of the page. (K-12) Languages Worksheet Generator: Use teacher-created foreign language worksheets, or create your own from ready-made templates with the "Create a Worksheet" button at the top of the page. (K-12) English Teachers File: Tests, quizzes, chapter reviews, critical notes and other teaching aids. (2-12) AltaVista Translations: Babel Fish is a free, automatic translation service that removes language barriers. It can translate English to Spanish, French, German, Italian or Portuguese. It also translates French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Portuguese to English. It'll translate anything you type instantly! (K-12) Dictionary of Difficult Words: Challenge your students to enrich their vocabulary with this fun and useful site: An A-Z index of difficult words, nearly 14,000 in all. Use this site as a vocabulary builder or for quick definitions of unusual words. (3-12) Animated American Sign Language Dictionary: ASL is designed to help people learn more about American Sign Language and the Deaf community. (PK-12)
Leveled Picture Books: The Leveled Books database is a list of over 1100 picture books commonly found in schools. Enter a specific title, author, or grade level. The computer will provide the reading level and reading recovery level of that book. (K-8) The Book Hive: A guide to children's books for kids through 12 years old provided by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, this site has hundreds of book reviews in different reading levels and interest areas. Users can search for books by author, title, reading level, interest area, number of pages, and illustrator. (K-6)
An Animated History of Books: Learn about books and communication from early cave paintings to the books of the future through this narrated, animated history. Be sure to read the notes for each section or visit the low-tech section to see the overall timeline and the information in text format. (3+) FunBrain.com - Grammar Gorillas: An interactive game in which students must identify parts of speech in sentences. There is a beginner level (nouns and verbs only) and an advanced level (all parts of speech). (4-8) FunBrain.com - Word Detective Word Search Game: A custom seek-and-find word search game. Students give FunBrain a list of words that it then hides in the puzzle. Students can select a level and whether they want to play against FunBrain or if they want the puzzle to be printed out so they can play it away from the computer. Students can also choose to play FunBrain created puzzles focused around popular books.(Site includes a worksheet) (K-6) FunBrain.com - SpellaRoo: An interactive game in which the students must click on the word that is spelled wrong. There is a beginner and an advanced level. (K-6) FunBrain.com - Spelling: An interactive game in which the computer will give twenty sets of four words. Students must place a check next to the word that is spelled wrong and spell the word they checked correctly. There is an easy and a hard level. (4-8) FunBrain.com - Vocabulary: An interactive game in which FunBrain will show students a picture and students must click on the word that best describes the picture. Students can choose from topics such as Alphabet (Easy), Animals, Fruit, and Tools. (PK-3) Funschool.com Preschool Activities: Games that require children, ages preschool and up, to test their memory and expand on the thought process. (PK-K) Dositey Language Arts K-2: A collection of dynamic and challenging online games and exercises. Content may also be utilized in the form of printable worksheets. (K-2) Dositey Language Arts 3-4: A collection of dynamic and challenging online games and exercises. Content may also be utilized in the form of printable worksheets. (3-4) Dositey Language Arts 5-8: A collection of dynamic and challenging online games and exercises. Content may also be utilized in the form of printable worksheets. (5-8) iKnowthat.com Reading: iKnowthat.com offers free, web-based, kids educational software that enable personalized learning in reading. Educational phonics games include: Word Search, Word Builder, and Word Match. (PK-2) Spywatch: A reading comprehension activity in the form of a story about suspects in a case of international espionage in 1942 wartime Britain. Activities range from descriptive words, observational skills and dialogue format. (3-6) Sign the Alphabet: Students are shown a sign and asked to identify its correct meaning. (3-6) For technical support please contact Shaunda Guthrie Technical Program Assistant, Project E-Teach, Education Service Center, Region XIII. |
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