Language Arts sites:
- http://www.spellingcity.com/
SpellingCity.com has:
- Over 38,000 spelling words and eight spelling games!
- A REAL person who says each vocabulary word and sentence
- Thousands of free spelling lists. Or save your own spelling word list!
- A free forum and newsletter with more spelling resources!
- Eight spelling and vocabulary games to play with your lists.
- Kathy Shrock: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
- Kidsreads: http://www.kidsreads.com/index.asp
Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors and special features on great books are our specialties. And for even more reading fun we have trivia games, word scrambles and awesome contests!
2. Education Place (grammar practice through Mad Lib type stories): http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
3. Starfall: http://www.starfall.com/ Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling.
4. Vocabulary.com: http://www.vocabulary.com/
A free site that allows students at high-elementary, junior high and high school levels, teachers and life-long learners to acquire and retain vocabulary. Each free session has three levels. Each level has 3 puzzles with 12 words each (36 total words in a session) and contains seven (7) additional activities/exercises that help develop vocabulary. It is continuously updated.
Alphabetical List of 50+ thematic features
For details on existing thematic content and Latin & Greek Root list click here:
School Content Calendar
Alphabetical List of Latin & Greek Root
5. The Beehive (Middle School Grammar resource): http://www.thebeehive.org/school/middle/subjects.asp?subject=12
6. Free Rice (Vocabulary practice): http://www.freerice.com/index.php
*For each word you get right, Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. It starts by giving you words at different levels of difficulty and then, based on how you do, assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. When you get a word wrong, you go to an easier level. When you get three words in a row right, you go to a harder level. This one-to-three ratio is best for keeping you at the “outer fringe” of your vocabulary, where learning can take place.
There are 50 levels in all, but it is rare for people to get above level 48.
7. Toondoo: (create your own comic strips): http://toondoo.com
8. Book Adventure: http://www.bookadventure.com
Similar to Accelerated Reader, this site provides a small reading assessment and identifies where your child should be reading for their "just right reading level." This site also provides a large inventory of books that can be read at your child’s reading level and also provides comprehension tests for books they've read.
9. Harcourt Trophies: www.harcourtschool.com
This site provides activities to help with writing, spelling, grammar and reading. It also has lesson plans, ideas, practice sheets and other valuable resources to go along with all the Harcourt Trophies stories accessible through the Teacher's Resource button.
The first time you log on, you will need to use the following:
Password: beck
School name: Homelink
State: Washington
This is only required for the first time you access the Harcourt site from your computer.
Process for logging on each time:
1) Click on "The Learning Site" (red box)
2) Select the reading button (some of the other content areas are accessible
also...click around and see what you can find)
3) Click on the Harcourt Trophies Logo
4) Click on the books in the middle of the screen
5) Select the grade level you are interested in
6) Select the area you want to enter
7) If you choose "Teachers Resources" use the following username and password:
Username: Homelink
Password: Parent
If you choose the "Electronic Lesson Planner" in the Teacher's Resource area you can access all the stories by grade level and have additional resources at your fingertips to go along with the story your child is reading.
10. Links to Learning: http://www.linkslearning.org/Home/_index.html
Links to Learning has something for everyone! Children will want to visit for the interactive math and reading games. Parents and teachers can log on to learn some of the best strategies to teach math and reading as well as to watch recorded lessons of teachers teaching the activities and strategies in the classroom.
11. Reading A-Z: http://www.readinga-z.com
Instant access to:
• Leveled Readers
• Benchmark Books and Running Records
• Lessons and Worksheets
• Phonics Program
• Phonemic Awareness Materials
• Poetry Books
• Alphabet Materials
• High-Frequency Word Books
• Vocabulary Books and Activities
• Fluency Passages
• Reader's Theater Scripts
• Assessments
If this looks like a resource you want to learn more about, contact the Homelink staff for a temporary username and password to explore the site more thoroughly. If you decide you want to use it throughout the year, we can provide you with your own username and password.
- Elements of Literature textbook site: http://eolit.hrw.com/hlla/
Check this site out if you use Elements of Literature. This site provides quizzes, writing resources, language resources, reading guides and other helpful material for middle school students using Elements of Literature.
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