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ElementaryPhonics & Reading
- Progressive Phonics is an all-in-one reading program that is easy, fun, and totally FREE---that's right, totally and completely free! With Progressive Phonics, ANYONE can teach a child to read and write in just a few minutes a day, which makes it ideal for parents, teachers, tutors, volunteers and homeschoolers. Visit Progressive Phonics.
- Kids Zone - This looks like a fun site for younger learners.
- Dositey.com
- Starfall is a free learn-to-read phonics website primarily designed for kindergarten through second grade. It is a great resource for struggling readers. Starfall offers beginning readers interactive books, games, videos (complete with fun reading strategy songs). Starfall also offers free downloads of their printed materials which include short readers, writing and phonics journals, and more. The printed materials make classroom learning more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing.
- Saxon phonics
- Storyline Online -This website is an online reading program featuring actors from the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. Stories are read by actors such as Elijah Wood, Haley Duff, Amanda Bynes, Al Gore and many others.
- Silly Books uses free animated musical cartoon books to encourage children ages 3 - 13 to read. Kids log on to www.sillybooks.net , click on a colorful book cover, and then watch and listen to the cartoon. Hundreds of books are available, including those with lesson plans, art and music, and learning games and puzzles. Students and adults can also submit their own stories to be features as animated storybooks on the web site.
MeeGenius is an outstanding site with an online library of picture books that kids can read independently or as a read along. Books can be personalized with students names, just answer a few quick questions and the book is rewritten for you. Each book comes with audio playback and word highlighting, perfect for beginning or struggling readers to read along.
Language Arts
- GameGoo - Educational Games
- Wall of Words - Building Sentences
- Treasure Trove - contractions
- BBC - Schools - 4 to 11 years Literacy
- Pick a Story
- FunBrain.com - The Plural Girls
- Funbrain.com - Sign the Alphabet
- FunBrain.com - 2Bee or Nottoobee
- Sentence Clubhouse
- Grammar Girls - Who said grammar isn't fun? Grammar Girl is a free web site that takes a lighthearted approach to helping students brush up on grammar. Students can either read the material or listen to podcasts on topics such as "like" versus "as" "good versus well" , and more. It's all at Grammar Girls.
- Games for learning and teaching English. ELT, ESL
- BBC - Skillswise - Games
- Free Rice is an amazing website that I have posted about two or three times in the past. It has been a site where students can play a vocabulary game and earn 20 grains of rice for each correct answer. The grains of rice are distributed to hungry people all over the world through the UN World Food Program. Two of my students came in this morning with a printout of how many grains of rice they had earned over the weekend on the Free Rice website (we have a contest going each year to see which class and grade can earn the most grains of rice). They were unusually excited about this bunch of earned rice because they discovered some new features on Free Rice. Free Rice is now much more than a vocabulary game! Students can choose the subject they would like to play. As they increase in all types of knowledge, there is the added bonus of helping people in need. Free Rice subjects now include art (famous paintings), chemistry (chemical symbols), English grammar, geography (world capitals), language learning (French, German, Italian, Spanish), math (multiplication), and of course…vocabulary! Free rice is an incredible place for students to practice facts for a wide range of subject areas. Some additional new features: now students can click on a speaker next to a word to hear it read to them and can change the level of difficulty manually! I am so impressed with the site and impressed with my students for finding and sharing these new treasures!
- Help Me 2 Learn: Grammar is an outstanding way for students to learn the difference between nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives.
- Grammaropolis is a fun find that helps students learn the parts of speech. In Grammaropolis, all of the characters are a different part of speech. Students will “meet” Adverb, Linking Verb, Pronoun, Adjective, Preposition, Slang, Noun, Conjunction, Interjection, and Action Verb. Each character is personified with personalities inspired by their grammatical roles in a sentence. The characters interact with each other the same way that parts of speech interact in a sentence, brilliant! Each character has a character card that tells a story about them. Students can watch short Grammaropolis videos starring the characters (parts of speech) that live there. Students can take Grammaropolis quizzes, complete word sorts, and color the characters ofGrammaropolis in an online coloring book in the games section. Students will enjoy the funGrammaropolis song featuring all of the characters of Grammaropolis. Coming soon, students will be able to read a book series starring the Grammaropolis characters.
- Poetry Idea Machine What it is: April is national poetry month, the Poetry Idea Machine is sure to help you infuse your classroom with some inspired poetry writing. Students learn about different kinds of poetry by selecting from Haiku, Limerick, Cinquain, or Free Verse. The Poetry Idea Machine takes students through the steps of making each type of poetry. The Poetry Idea Machine makes an excellent introduction to types of poetry and will have your students writing their own in no time.
What Is The Monster Exchange?
Monster Exchange began in 1995 when John Thompson, a dedicated parent of a Brunner Elementary student in New Jersey, joined with Brian Maguire, a former third grade teacher, to create and participate in an educational project for the Kindergarten-8th grade level.
Monster Exchange is designed to encourage the development of reading and writing skills while integrating Internet technology into the classroom curriculum. Classrooms from a variety of schools worldwide are paired together; the students in each classroom are split into groups, each of which designs an original picture of a monster. The students must then write a description of the monster. The partnered classes then exchange their descriptions via e-mail and the Internet. These students are then challenged to use reading comprehension skills to read the descriptions and translate them into a monster picture. The true challenge involves creating a redrawn picture as close to the original picture as possible without looking at the original and using only the written description of the monster.
The written descriptions, original monster pictures, and redrawn monster pictures are scanned and uploaded to the Internet using the browser-based Monster Gallery Builder. The Monster Gallery Builder is entirely form-based and does not require the teacher or student to know any HTML code.
The Monster Galleries are then published, and feedback is provided via e-mail.
Any communication, material, pictures, descriptions of monsters and other content you post or transmit to the Monster Exchange, by any means, is and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. You assume full responsibility for anything you create, post or transmit, and you grant MonsterExchange.org, its parent, affiliates and subsidiaries the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any information or content you post or transmit for any purpose, without credit or compensation.
Spelling
- Funbrain.com Spelling
- Spelling City - We are an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun. What makes SpellingCity.com so special? It contains over 30,000 words, including plurals, contractions, past and future tenses. It uses a REAL person's voice to say the word and use the word in a sentence. Teachers and parents can enter and save spelling lists for their students or children. Students can play games with their words or any word list.
Creative Writing
- Creative writing prompts
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Middle School
- Houghton Mifflin English for Middle School Students
- Middle School Reading
- Creative writing prompts
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High School
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- High School English
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