Literacy - Foundation
(3-5 year olds)
2. Stories
Literacy - Key Stage 1
(5-7 year olds)
2. Punctuation
5.Writing
6. Stories
Literacy - Key Stage 2]
(7-11 year olds)
1. Punctuation
3. Poetry
4. Writing
5. Stories
7. Shakespeare
Literacy - Key Stage 2
(7-11 year olds)
1. Punctuation
3. Poetry
4. Writing
5. Stories
7. Shakespeare
Literacy - Key Stage 3
(11-14 year olds)
2. Writing
3. Poetry
4. Shakespeare
Language Arts and Reading SmartBoard Interactive Activities
Reading Exercises
LOOK, COVER, WRITE AND CHECK - Powerful online s
pelling tool. Teachers and pupils can create their own
lists or adapt and choose from many built in lists.
Children at Ambleside can create their own personal
lists!(Req. FLASH4)
The SUPERSPELLER - Prefixes and Suffixes -
Try Year 4's machine!
The Interactive Pet Adventure - Can you make
it home?
Jungle Adventure featuring "Lara Amble" - We have been
using some excellent adventure gamebooks to explore
story and plot development. Try out our own interactive
Jungle Adventure!
generator!
Grammar Exercises
Literacy Quiz - do your best with our challenging test.
Sentence Machine - make silly sentences!
Plurals Quiz - test your spelling with this tricky quiz
Easily Confused Words 2 - yet more homophones!
Homophones - their / there / they're quiz.
Homophones 2 - spot the easily mispelled
words in this story.
Homophones 3 - are, our, hour - sort your spelling
with this game made by Year 4
Call my Bluff - challenging word definition
game by Year 4
Online Literacy Activities
Everything you wanted to know about Haiku - don't
make any without reading this first!
200+ Proverbs - Good!
Kids News - online writing site - superb
Aesop's Fables
Online Picture Dictionary - letters, pictures &
Internet links - great!
Language lessons & reference:
Conjunctions - joining words.
Spelling Rules - superb resource.
English Grammar - the rules of sentence construction.
Grammar information - excellent collection.
Language Arts Interactives
Interactive Websites for the Primary Grades
Kids'Interactive Web Sites
1.BASIC SENTENCE PARTS
2. VERBS AND VERBALS
3. CLAUSES & PHRASES
4. STRUCTURAL FLAWS
5. PUNCTUATION & BASIC MECHANICS
6. PRONOUN USAGE
7. STYLISTIC CONSIDERATIONS
8. NOTORIOUS CONFUSABLES
9. SPELLING
Original Online Story Starters (Writing)
169 free to use educational interactive resources for Primary Schools.
15 free to use fun games for children aged 4 - 11.
Over 100 links to other free interactive, image and software resources.
Language Arts
3-6 Student Interactives - Language Arts - UEN3-6 Interactives - Fun, educational, online games geared towards third through sixth grade students. ... Language Arts for Grades 3-6, 3-6 Game Home
Spelling | Words | Reading / Grammar | Writing | Spanish | Required Plug-ins
Interactive Language Arts Websites
Interactive Websites - Reading and Language Arts
Interactive Websites - Reading and Language Arts
Reading and Language Arts
[PPT] K-3 Language Arts Internet SitesFile Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - View as HTML
6 Traits of Writing - Language Arts FREE Presentations in PowerPoint format, Free Interactives and Games. Lots of ideas for all grades—powerpoints,
Poetry
Writing
Language Mechanics
Spelling
Reading, Spelling, Figurative Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
These Wacky Web Tales are geared for grades 3 and above.
Mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks
A childrens digital library
What do you think of when you hear about eBooks? To some, it means online versions of books (especially children's books). To others, it means any book that is electronic. Many think of it as text that has been digitally preserved and made available to use with software that reads the text. This page will link to online children's storybooks, and to children's storybooks that can be downloaded to use in software programs (like PowerPoint and Clicker).
Eye on Idioms can be used to introduce students to idioms. The activity includes a series of exercises, in which students view the literal representations of seven idioms and then examine the metaphorical meanings of the idioms.
need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal.
Beginner (nouns and verbs only)
Advanced (all parts of speech)
Which sentence is written correctly?
The Absolutely Free And Totally
Fun Way To Improve Your
Spelling. helps
to dramatically improve your
students ability to learn and retain
spelling words
What do you think of when you hear about eBooks? To some, it means online versions of books (especially children's books). To others, it means any book that is electronic. Many think of it as text that has been digitally preserved and made available to use with software that reads the text. This page will link to online children's storybooks, and to children's storybooks that can be downloaded to use in software programs (like PowerPoint and Clicker).
Choose the correct homonym
This game is here to help you in learning your prefixes.
PHONICS
Phonics Printable Worksheets and Activities
(Word Families)
There are differences in opinion about whether using phonics is useful in teaching children to read. My personal opinion is that everyone learns differently -- try a variety of things with your kids until you find what works for them. My oldest daughter just sort of magically read books -- natural ability and lots of family reading time were the causes I think -- she didn't often sound out words or enjoy playing word games. My younger daughter was very keen on phonics lessons and constantly asked to play rhyming word games and activities. Word families really appealed to her and to this day (grade 6) she enjoys word based "puzzles" like word searches and crosswords (my eldest daughter would rather play soccer *grin*). My advice: good luck, don't get frustrated and try to have fun learning with your kids -- just when you think you have it all figured out, the next one will be completely different. If you decide word families (also known as analogy phonics) might be something you'd like to try, read on!
When approaching word families, I like to learn them in sets that have some commonality (for example, short a sounds or long e sounds). I find it easier for kids to make up their own rhymes, sentences and such when they have two or three word families to use together. Having said that, I do sometimes do a single word family when I find the kids are struggling with something in particular -- the first time we did long vowels instead of short vowels for example.
I also try to keep word families that are too similar in different groups (example, I wouldn't do the "long a" /air/ and /are/ word families together). With my girls I found that they got too confused when words sounded the same, but were spelled differently (like 'hare' and 'hair'). I saved that type of learning for grade 4 and 5 when we started talking about synonyms, antonyms and homonyms.
Anyways, here are the Word Family sets as I would recommend combining them.
Click "Here"
The study of short vowel sounds is vital to students' early reading and writing skills. Short vowel sounds are typically introduced to children before long vowel sounds.
All children develop as individuals. Parents and caregivers should use the grade level ratings as a general guideline, taking the abilities, temperament and interests of their children into account.
Interactive Language Websites Click "HERE"
Browse Online Activities by Grade & Subject(Language Arts)
Starred activities are favorites selected by teachers like you. Click "HERE"
Interactive grammar games can help keep kids engaged in learning. Playing interactive grammar games online can be a good compromise for parents who want to keep the amount of mindless computer. Click "HERE"
This page contains links to lesson plans and resources for teaching reading, spelling, writing, journalism, communication, debate, and drama. Resources and lesson plans for poetry and reading as well as children's and adolescent literature have been relocated to separate sites, but are still accessible from the site index. Click on one of the topics in the index below. All links on this page were checked and updated 7-23-09
Here is our collection of interactive whiteboard games for educators on PBS KIDS. Students will enjoy participating in these collaborative, fun and engaging experiences, while exploring curriculum from trusted programs such as Curious George, Super Why and Arthur. Like our programs, all of our games are age-appropriate and vetted by educators. Click "HERE"
Write On is a professional development project whose goal is to improve composition skills for grades 3-5 through a school-wide writing initiative based on the Four Square Writing Graphic Organizer developed by Judith S. and Evan Gould. Writing using the Four Square Graphic Organizer is one of many initiatives for the Jefferson County Schools. This organizer has proven to be extremely effective in helping our students to organize their thoughts for writing to a prompt in thirty-five minutes. Teachers provide quality instruction and practice with the graphic organizer to enable students to produce a well-developed first draft of a five
paragraph essy
Flash-based math games, language arts games, on-line quizzes, web pages, ... A portal to more than 2000 interactive learning activities and games for ... Free Lesson Plans and other English language resources for teachers and students. ...
Grammar Blast Interactive
Click "HERE"
Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject. The most common figures of speech are simile, metaphor, and alliteration.
The Topic:
SIMILES
METAPHORS
PERSONIFICATION
IDIOMS
ALLITERATION
HYPERBOLESPUNS
ANAGRAMS
OXYMORON
OTHER GENERAL RESOURCES
BOOK LISTs/ eTHEMES /SAMPLES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEFIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AWARDs/FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE SITES
Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else,
Similes AND Metaphors
saying one thing and meaning another); in other words, language that cannot be taken literally (or should not be taken literally only). Simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, apostrophe, are all forms of figurative language.
Examples all all
Language Arts PowerPoint Presentations K-5 Click "HERE"
Grammar Tutorials
5. Why improve your understanding of grammar and punctuation? ... This is a general exercise that tests your understanding of many areas of grammar
Within the English language, grammar is one of the most important and most misunderstood aspects. The Writing Center has many resources to help students gain a better understanding of how grammar works.
A tutor will check the student’s paper for grammar while editing and then attempt to converse with the student about how the grammar works within their paper. The Writing Center also contains many helpful handouts for students that target specific grammar issues (available in a printable and downloadable version). Along with the handouts accessible below, the Writing Center has also compiled and made available video tutorials on some specific grammar aspects that provide a more in-depth look into particular elements of grammar
A guide to free on-line tutorials, learning objects, open courses and self-paced learning modules on the Internet.
You can use this tool to map youy argument for a persuasive essay
Construct A Word
Choose Endings and create word famlies
An interactive dictionary and thesaurus that leads you to discover the connections between vocabulary words in a visually captivating display. Word maps blossom with meaning, encouraging exploration instead of rote memorization to expand vocabulary
Start here by entering you weekly spelling list
Teatme, Teach me, Play a game
Welcome to North Canton City Schools
Put the sentence in the correct order by clicking on the words one by one. Click on the "Next Exercise" button to go on to another sentence.
Welcome to the new Merriam-Webster's Word Central now reprogrammed for superior word power and language fun.
Introducing…Alpha-bot! The word-spelling robot hosts the latest amazing word game and challenges spellers of all ages.
Grammar Index — Grammar lessons from all levels
Free units from our online courses
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2. IDIOM ZONE
3. READING ZONE
4. SPELLING ZONE
5. VERB ZONE
6. WRITING ZONE
7. BASIC SKILLS ZONE
8. DICTIONARIES
9. FUN STUFF ZONE
10. HOLIDAYS
11. PRONUNCIATION ZONE
12. STUDY SKILLS ZONE
13. TEACHER ZONE
14. VOCABULARY ZONE
15. WORKSHEETS TO PRINT
16. CONVERSATION ZONE
Reading and Language Arts
Strategies and Activities
Grades 3, 4, 5 and 6
This game is designed to review the first five lessons for nouns in Unit 5. Skills include plurals (regular and irregular) and common and proper nouns
Fun Avtivities in Math, English and Science
Phonic's Videos
In this site are VIDEO lessons to teach kids long and short vowel sounds, and consonant sounds and Etc
•Games & Activities
Teacher Center
•Professional Development Videos
•Games & Activities
•Correlations to Basal Readers
•Correlations to State Standards
Family Center
•Games & Activities
1. Stages of the writing process
2. Common types of writing assignments
3. Grammar and Punctuation
4. Improving your writing style
5. Citing references in your paper
Literature gives order to human experience.
Literature explores cultural values.
Literature demands an emotional response from the reader.
Like a great journey, literature can show you things you have never seen before and will never forget.
Elements
Language Arts and Reading
Language Arts and Reading
Language Arts and Reading
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