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English ReadingCable News Network, Inc. Literacyworks The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco bureau news stories. Each module includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension. The learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text, and view a short video clip of the story. Fourth grade to adult. Database of Award-winning Children’s Literature. The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature and to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards. DAWCL has over 4,000 records from 50 awards across five English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom). Each book is indexed to some degree so users can find it using the form search or the keyword search. Teacher/parent/librarian resource. presents this very child-friendly news service wherein each story pops up in a kid-safe window and runs a Flash presentation for students. Students control the flow of information and pop-up glossary terms are embedded right in the text. Graphics are warm and inviting, and information is delivered in bite-size chunks perfect for elementary students. Alphabet Action - Click on a letter, hear the letter name and see a picture of an object that begins with the letter. Great for early emergent readers. Time for Kids is an online news magazine just for kids. Weekly issues include current events stories for kids grades 2-5. Selected articles from past issues are archived on the site. Colorado Virtual Library for Kids- search for resources by topic. Provides extensive lists of resources and links. Many sites for kids, a page for parents with info on good children's books, reading to children, keeping kids safe in cyberspace, and a page for teachers where web sites are searchable by grade level, standards. Elementary age with teacher resources. E-Texts- Books on-line The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. Junior High- High School and Adults Project Bartleby. This is an internet publisher of literature, reference and verse for students and researchers with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. Resources are indexed by author and title. The site includes searchable dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, quotations, the King James Bible, Shakespeare, anatomy, and writing resources. University of Calgary Internet resources for children and young adults. This site includes links to authors, stories, recommended book lists, journals and book reviews, resources for teachers, resources for parents, resources for storytellers, resources for writers and illustrators, research guides and indexes, internet book discussion groups, children's literature organizations on the internet, and children's publishers and booksellers on the internet Mid-Continent Public Library. 'Based on the Book' is a compilation of over 850 book titles, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. Utilizing the Internet Movie Database as the authority on release dates, all movies in this collection have been released since 1980. This site not only answers "what book was this based on," but "did somebody make a movie of this book?" Middle and High School Clifford The Big Red Dog Site Interactive web site where Emily Elizabeth will read you a book! Early childhood/elementary. On-line Dictionaries, thesauri and encyclopedias Capital Community College resource:
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Users can click on links to see related words. Basic level language instruction. Grammar Guide to Grammar and Writing at Capital Community College Instruction and interactive quizzes on a wide variety of topics for improving sentences, paragraphs and essays including: Sentence Parts and Word Functions, Verbs , Clauses, Phrases,Diagramming Sentences, Sentence Fragments, Run-on Sentences, Punctuation, Articles, Noun Forms, Pronouns and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement, Placement of Modifiers, Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Sequence among Verbs, Infinitives, and Participles, Capitalization, Abbreviations, Using Italics and Underlining, Using Numbers, Making Lists, Vocabulary Builders: Suggestions, Quizzes, Pop-Up Lexicon, and Spelling Rules. It also includes an entire Web site for writers in English composition courses — featuring handouts on Getting Started, Structure, Tone, Transitions, Editing, Logic, Formats, Rhetorical Patterns, Argumentative Essays, Research Papers, and more — accompanied by an abundance of successful sample essays, business letters, memos, application letters, thank-you letters, resumes, meeting minutes and agendas, and the research paper. Ask Grammar! will allow you to submit a question about English usage or grammar. Answers are posted in the Grammar Logs sometimes within hours, almost always within a day or two. Full responses are sometimes sent through e-mail. Junior High through Adult, and Teacher resources. Funbrain features a variety of interactive online games to provide language arts and math practice. The Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, they get a banana. The beginner level features nouns and verbs only, and the advanced level features all parts of speech. Elementary age. Puzzles Discovery Puzzle Maker allows teachers and students to make crossword puzzles within minutes! The user supplies the clues and Puzzlemaker generates the puzzle. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. This site includes: computer generated mazes, word searches, cross-word puzzles, cryptograms, and math games. Any age, and teacher resource. Teach-nology offers an easy-to-use word search generator. Each puzzle can contain up to 20 words for your word search, and each word can have up to 15 letters. Teach-nology offers the following teacher tools: Crossword Puzzle Maker, Web Quest Generator, Weekly Assignment Generator, Science Lab Generator, Word Scramble Generator, Today In History, Word Search Maker, Weekly Multi-Subject Assignment Generator, and Elementary Word Search Maker. Graphic OrganizersTeach-nology contains a large collection of writing resources to help teachers. This site offers a Concept Web Generator, an SQ3R Chart Generator, Graphic Organizer Workbooks, Time Line Generators, a KWL Generator, and a Venn Diagram Generator. Sand Diego City Schools Technology Challenge web site offers teacher instruction on the Inspiration program. The Center for Electronic Studying, at the University of Oregon offers a variety of computer based study strategies. This site provides tutorials ,ideas and a clearing house of templates and examples using graphic organizers. Inspiration Software website. This site offers many valuable tools to help make your workshop, class, or presentation a success. It also offers resources for meeting curriculum standards, a variety of activities and lesson plans and the option to download free trial version. Inspiration Software offers a step by step Kidspiration with pictures. Inspiration in the Classroom Created by Teachers offers examples and ideas from Spartanburg county schools.Inspiration must be installed in order to view these diagrams. KidSpiration examples from Spartanburg County Schools. Inspiration must be installed in order to view these diagrams. Global Classroom offers Kidspiration templates which can be downloaded into your Kidspiration program. Each template includes a description, content area and grade level. Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project offers ready-to-use Kidspiration templates. Create-A-Venn allows teachers to generate venn diagrams for students to use. Teachers select a category, fill in the text areas, and view the diagram. WritingThis web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic essay. Users develop an idea and write their own short essay, consisting of an introduction, a two- to three-paragraph body, and a conclusion. The web site provides questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing. Fourth Grade 4 to adult. Visit real-life kid authors and learn how to publish kid's writing. Learn the answers to questions about writing: how long it takes to write a book, where you can find stories, and how much you can get paid. Join the Critique Group to share stories and poems that you have written yourself. Get constructive feedback from other kid writers in the process. Children under 18. KidAuthors is a creative place for kids. Students can share and read stories and poems with people around the world. KidAuthors.com Club is an online community for ages 6 to 18. It includes a monthly writing contests, prizes, and opportunities to publish stories and poems online for FREE. "Only a Matter of Opinion?" introduces teachers, students and all interested to opinion pieces such as editorials, commentaries, columns and editorial cartoons, with the purpose of encouraging writing opinion pieces after instruction and research. The Web site offers links to a wealth of information, a timeline, quotations, and cases studies, on the First Amendment, as well as a variety of lesson ideas and assessment tools especially for teachers. The Research Center of this Web site makes it easier to perform research, a key part of journalistic and persuasive writing. It also offers a Teacher Exchange, and a Writing Exchange. Create your own adventure story by using this mad lib style activity. You can choose between five different story titles. Elementary age. The Scholastic Writing Center provides interactive mini-lessons and instruction to help students develop their writing skills. Topics include: expository writing, persuasive essay, using transitional words & supporting Facts, and using supporting examples. It also offers step-by-step assistance with the writing process from pre-writing to publishing. Basic level- any age. School-Home Link Reading Kit lists 100 School-Home activities for the kindergarten level. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to this grade. Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write. For the categories that have multiple activities, you can download the entire section or the individual activities within that section by selecting from a pull-down menu. Children's Television Workshop offers a variety of Sesame Street activities, including on-line stories for students in primary grades. The site features some excellent skill reinforcement activities with letters, numbers, shapes and sorting. Early childhood.
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(Fill-in-the-Blank) Activities Houghton Mifflin English for Middle School Students offer resources for writing. The Evaluation Station features a step by step guide to editing a paper. Grammar Blast provides games. Wacky Web Tales tests parts of speech using MadLibs. The site offers information on Authors and Illustrators. Instruction on how to use Graphic Organizers. Bright Ideas for Writing features story starters and ideas to inspire writing. Finally, Net's Best for Research has collections of web sites on popular topics. Middle School curriculum. Sentence Sense: A Writer's Guide from Capital Community College. This online textbook in basic writing offers students three approaches to becoming more confident writers. Part One examines how sentences work, giving students a structural understanding of the language they use every day. Part Two focuses on errors that commonly appear in written English. Part Three suggests techniques and topics for developing ideas in writing. Students may move back and forth among parts, using the resources collected in Part Four as support. Middle and High School, also a Teacher Resource. Capital Community College Guide to Writing Research papers based on (MLA) Modern Language Association Documentation. This site provides instruction on how to start, take notes, use an outline, avoid plagiarism, use quotes, format the paper, use citations, use proper grammar and employ the APA style guide. Middle and High School, also a Teacher Resource. Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities. Topics include: Journalism and Yearbook, Literature (Prose), Media & Media Literacy , Mythology, Folklore, and the Hero, Phonics, Poetry, Professional Resources, Reading, Shakespeare, Speech, Study Guides, Vocabulary, Writing, and Young Adult Fiction. Elementary through High School teacher resources. Writing Activities for Early Writers offers activity books to print. These printouts, crafts and writing activities are designed to encourage and stimulate writing. Resources include: essay topics, research paper topics, book reports, diorama, all about me books, back-to school books, vacation memories book, comic books, and poetry. Elementary age. Vocabulary game. Choose a word, and guess its definition or write your own definition and post it. Grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. |