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Reference Roots, Prefixes & Suffixes Spelling Spelling Words Synonyms, Antonyms, & Analogies Stories & Texts Vocabulary Writing |
Authors
Authors to Go The Cybils Great Scavenger Hunt Middle Grade Authors Kidlitosphere Kids Read Too Teens Read Too Texas Sweethearts and Scoundrels Skype an Author Author Sites Fairrosa Children's Literacy Web Guide Personal Author Sites Great Writers Betsy Byars Robert Munsch Gary Paulsen Eric Carle Jan Brett Katherine Patterson Tomie de Paola Robert Louis Stevenson Zilpha Keatley Snyder J K Rowling C S Lewis Hans Christian Andersen HCA site 2 Judy Blume Henry David Thoreau Jean Craighead George The Brothers Grimm Brothers Grimm folk tales Louisa May Alcott Marc Brown Hemingway Armstrong Sperry Mem Fox Susan Cooper Aesop Paul Goble Patricia Polacco PP Webquest Authors Teaching Books - author interviews, links to booksellers, author web sites, curriculum guides etc. To sign up, click HERE Blogs Guidelines Reading Rants Story Time Blogs Reading to the T Kidblogs Book Reviews Book Hooks Amazon Barnes & Noble World of Reading Middle School book reviews - read theirs and write your own Genre Book Review Interactive Read Reviews by others Writing with Writers - book reviews Steps to Writing a Review How to Write a Book Review Email & Web Communities Students can send an email card to a friend. Other fun things at this site include making chocolate mousse, knock-knock jokes, and traveling to Hong Kong. Gaggle Net allows students to email and blog. Foreign & Sign Language Try the English-Spanish word matching game. Sign Language - over 300 words. Watch the sign being made. Spanish Steps Learn Spanish Free Grammar English Grammar 101 is for grades 3-12. Online learning of English topics with immediate feedback! Word games to strengthen English skills Sing Along Lyrics Run on and Fragment Practice Online Fragment instruction Online Run-On Instruction Free Rice - grammar check Funbrain site Ocean Cat Madlibs Gorilla Grammar Grammar Blast Grammar Games Clean Up Your Grammar Fish Up the Ends of Words Grammar Ninja Language Games - hover over each one for a description The Monkey Business of creating sentences Singing Zebra Sentences MORE Sentence Structure Games Interactive English Games Crickweb Literacy activities The Many Things of Words Verb Viper To Be or Not to Bee Rules for -endings Learning Games Lazy Editor - students read authentic news articles, then examine them for grammar and parts of speech. HOMOPHONES & MULTI-MEANING WORDS Homophones video Homophones with pictures Homophone Memory Match Readquarium - Homophones and Homonyms. Many games Rocket Land - decide if the words are antonyms, synonyms, or homonyms Learning Homophones Guess the Homonym Word Confusion Homographs - match meanings to the word given Word Frog or Furious Frogs - antonyms, synonyms, or homonyms Speedword 1 - type the homophone. Speedword 2, Speedword 3 Cool Multi-meanings video IDIOMS Interactive Idioms - write the real meaning Idiom and Slang Games Themed idioms to paint PHONICS Phonics, Word finds, and Stories Kindergarten Phonics BBC School TV Series Phonics Game Show Alphabet Organizer - just letters or letter with description Two C sounds video Poetry New forms of Poetry! Try writing a Maheecoozookey! Then look for a publisher! Giggle Poetry Blast to the past and check out the archive of 19th century poetry. Read Carl Sandburg and Emily Dickinson for starters. It's Bear Time. John and El Bear have songs and poems to share with you. Have fun with their coloring pages. Poetry every day for a month. Create a chapbook for mother's day! Poems to see and share at: Potato Hill Over 50 subjects worth of poems Rhyme Zone - find rhyming words, synonyms, and like sounding words Poetry Zone - reviews, poets, submit poems Giggle Poetry - Hundreds of poems to read and rate. Poetry analysis. How to break a line, author purpose Type your Haiku poem on a leaf and print out. Propaganda Thinkquest - info Advertising Tricks - PBS Slogans CoCo Cereal Create your own ad Admongo - interactive video game Propaganda Video Publishing Sites ChixLit - online magazine by and for girls ages 7-17 Potluck Children's Magazine. Published poems, stories, essays and artwork from children 8-16. Anthology of Poetry, Inc Write & Illustrate Your Own Book PBS Kids for K-3 Time For Kids - Articles about a school or community event, complete with a headline and interview subjects, are written by students 13 years old or younger. Contest opens in March. Kids are Authors - Scholastic: Three students work collaboratively to create a piece of illustrated work in the form of a children’s book.ChixLit - online magazine by and for girls ages 7-17 Potluck Children's Magazine. Links to several contests. Young Author's Workshop Cyberkid Stone Soup Diary Project New Moon - edited by girls ages 8-14 for girls ages 8-14. Animal Diaries |
Reading
Children's Book Council Into the Book! - comprehension strategies interactive Literary Trips - follow plot and setting Interactives from Read Write Think BioCube Book Cover Creator - draw your own. Character Cards Interactive - MANY questions to learn about a char. Compare Contrast map Graphic Map - can show sequence of chapter events, time, settings, etc. Includes title, discription, rating, and picture. Persuasion / Propaganda information ppt Plot Map Story Map - based on Characters (look, act, others react;) Conflict (what, why, how solve;) Resolution (how, after, affect char;) Setting (where, when, describe.) Timeline tool Webbing Tool - circles, boxes or tree. Venn Diagram Reference Infoplease has an almanac, encyclopedia, and a dictionary all rolled into one. Bartleby - searchable resource of reference works, verse, fiction and nonfiction. Character lists, links to works, and searchable texts Need a good quote on a topic? Try Brainy Quote It's a Picture Dictionary for younger children. 1,176 entries include the word, picture, and the word in a sentence. Fun with a Visual Thesaurus! Virtual School House World Book Badgerlink Shakespeare and Bartlett Quotations: text, quotes, commentary, and essays Portage Public Library Britannica Encyclopedia Need a Rhyming word? Antonym? Synonym. Try the RhymeZone Dictionary & Thesaurus LEXILE checks for books Internet 4 Classrooms - math & language arts activities Citation Maker Bibliography Generator Myths on Copyright Fact Monster Little Explorer's Dictionary - Primary dictionary with photos. Choose a letter or topic to get started. ROOTS, PREFIXES, SUFFIXES Gamequarium - Roots, prefixes and suffix games Jelly Fish - type the prefix, base or suffix Rooting out Words with Remainder the Dog Link Prefixes and suffixes to their meanings Un and Re video Spelling Want to play a game to study ALL your spelling skills? Choose an activity on the left menu. Working with Words - all and any kinds of games and activities related to Words Word Work games with strategy PuzzleMaker creates whatever you need and will make it fit any space. Mazes, word searches, crisscross puzzles, number blocks, cryptograms, and letter tiles. Word Keys - perfect for crossword puzzles, code words, Scrabble, Boggle, Upwords, and Words with Friends. Spelling games like scrabble, boggle, and hangman! SPELLING WORDS Look, Cover, Write, Check! Work on your spelling words Can you find a misspelled word in the game Spell Check? Sight Words with Dragon Practicing Spelling Skills Which word is spelled right? Spelling beyond the core words - The Spell Check Game Power Proofreading. Examples online to correct. Bunny Drop: Seventeen different spelling word lists are available to choose from for this fun game. Membership is needed to play the game, but is free. SYNONYMS, ANTONYMS, ANALOGIES Synonyms Tons of Synonym and Antonym activities! Learning Analogy Activities Analogy Jeopardy games Analogy Game and Lesson Analogy Challenge Stories & Texts (Regular and Online) Guy's Read - artistic sight with books for boys Sports Illustrated for Kids - latest news on athletes and professional teams. Children's Storybooks Online - Categorized for young children, older children and young adults. Grimm's Fairy Tales - interactive Visit the online home of Arthur, the world's most famous aardvark! Walk through the art gallery and writing center of student work. Submit your own! Billy Bear! for kids Animated, downloadable stories. The Magic School Bus Children's Storybooks Online has links to over a dozen online books for K-1. Read aloud if you like, solve the riddle, or color the pictures in the online coloring book. Weekly Reader Gallery - interactive games, quizzes, trivia and of course Current Events! Tumble Books has electronic books to read online for students age 5-8. Animation, music, narration, and interaction are all a part! Electronic Text Center has 5000 texts including classics, fiction, children's literature, and American history. BookSpot - online books, book reviews, reading lists, author info, facts about Harry Potter Multicultural Tales Golden Books lets you read books online and has several interactive lift the flap editions. Stories and Books Online Teaching Books K Learn to Read at Starfall! ABC's, learn to read, try your skills, and read! Fable Vision Place - entertaining stories to discuss. Create your own animated tale Native American Cinderella Story Authors and Books at Teaching Net Books for every genre and more Story w/ video Owen and Mzee Story w/video Chicks and Salsa American Folklore - retellings of the stories. Sample Stories worth 1-6 points. Paul Bunyan Stories - 15 short tall tales Topics in Early Reading Celebrate the joys of reading with family. Thought provoking approach to children's literature Link to Literacy has standards based reading, writing, communication, and critical thinking activities. Cyberguides for Works of Literature! Collections of web searching activities with teacher guides and assessment rubrics. Online eBooks Reader's Theatre Vocabulary Vocabulary programs to use online Fun Brain word of the day and vocabulary activities Writing Dr. Peet will read your story as you type! Try a game of memory called Fun Match. Teach the Writing Process online with the cute chickens. Very thorough. Ideas and tips. Publish online when finished! Add a Form Online Alphabet Books - create your own! Writing Contests galore at this Short Stories site Complete a writing mystery Punctuation Paintball - Tons of Fun! Create your own comics of Garfield and friends... or sequence premade Garfield comics and answer some questions about them. Comic Creator - may not be able to save your work Comics Garfield style may not be able to save your work Writing Fix has prompts for writing and 6 traits lessons Try this well designed news site for students: CNNFYI 6 trait short explanation and activity for each for kids Writing Fix - prompts and traits Essay Creator Flip Book - up to 10 pages with labels Fractured Fairy Tale Wizard Letter Creator - type in the information, the website puts it in letter format Persuasion Graphic Organizer. Goal, 3 MI with 3 details each.Printing Press: create a brochure, flyer, newspaper, or booklet. Stapleless book - for short stories or a journal Peer Editing |