ELA Links

  Authors  

Book Reviews

Authors and Illustrators on the Web
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
Book Hive
has book reviews, videos of stories read by famous authors and students can write book reviews to be published online
http://www.bookhive.org
Jan Brett's Home Page This website contains over two thousand pages with activities, contests, coloring pages, and make your own book section
http://www.janbrett.com/index.html
Book Review Projects-links to many online book review projects http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic87.htm
Robert Munsch.com
Robert Munsch website featuring his books which can be listened to online, storytime, poetry and biography

Kids Bookshelf- a place to read reviews, submit book reviews, poems and short stories
http://www.kidsbookshelf.com/

 


Children's and Young Adults' Authors & Illustrators
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Links to hundreds of Author sites
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm
Web English teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher. com/index.html
ESL Support
English Grammar links for ESL students
http://research.umbc.edu/~kpokoy1/
grammar1.htm
 
Fables, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales nd Myths
Classic Fairy Tales
Classic Fairy Tales, Anderson and Grimm Fairy Tale sare read, games can be played and coloring pages of Fairy Tale characters.
http://www.classicfairytales.com/en/main
Reference Materials
Myths and Fables from Around the World Grades 2-5 Folktales
http://www.afro.com/children/myths/myths.html
Dictionaries and Thesis
Faire Names for English Folk: Late Sixteenth Century English Names
Grades 6 Up
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/christian/fairnames
Explorers Picture Dictionary for Little Explorers
Designed for use in second and third grades, this area of the picture dictionary provides information about different explorers. Students may search for names alphabetically or click on predetermined categories such as "Americas" or "Early 1500s" to find information about specific explorers. Many entries include links to additional information.
Tales of Wonder- Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World
http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/
  Grammar   Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/
  Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
  Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/
  Grammar Gorillas
http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain/grammar/
  One Look Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com/
  OWL (online writing lab) Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling from Purdue has powerpoint presentations and
exercises for grammar
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
  MSN Encarta Dictionary
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/
dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx
  Grammar Now
provides defininitions, explanations of parts of speech,
http://www.grammarnow.com/
  Your Dictionary.Com
dictionary, thesaurus and includes translator for 26 languages http://www.yourdictionary.com/
  Grammar Bytes includes exercises, handouts and terms
http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
   
  GameGoo where learning sticks- letter recongnition, phonics
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooeylo.html
 
Spelling
  Alphabet Soup
Alphabits, Storybooks, and Themes
http://alphabet-soup.net/
  Young Minds Language Arts- includes spelling, grammar, composition and vocabulary
http://donnayoung.org/language.htm
  Hiyah.com
This site features classic children's stories with audio narration. It is easily navigated by young children.
   
  Kidsport Language Arts Activities
Activities include missing alphabet, letters and pictures,
letter blends, missing letters, unscamble words, dot to dot, letter maze, childrens literature, story creator, and poem creator
http://www.kidport.com/Grade1/LanguageArts
/LanguageArts.htm
 
Vocabulary
  Know it all - Westwood Elementary- Poetry, Grammar, and Comprehension for grade1 through 4 http://vdc.engr.scu.edu/KnowItAll/  

Vocabulary University
activities broken down by level
http://www.vocabulary.com/

 
Poetry
   
  Giggle Poetry
Fill in the blanks, tonuge twisters, silly rythmes and poetry contests
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
   
  Poetry Game create your own poem
http://vdc.engr.scu.edu/KnowItAll/English/
2ndEnglish/poetrygame.htm
   
  Poetry writing by Scholastic
includes opportunites to write with Poets, and submitting poems
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/
   
 
Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky Grades K-Up Poetry
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/jack_home.htm
   
  Kid’s Poetry Page Grades 2-8 Poetry
http://www.magneticpoetry.com/kidspoetry/playonline.cfm
   
  Banph Grades 3-8 Literature
http://www.banph.com
   
 
Reading
 
Writing
  Scott Foresman Reading - has printable worksheet and stories to read for grade K-6 http://www.sfreading.com/   Writing Prompts for everyday spelling by Scott Foresman
http://www.everydayspelling.com/workout/
prompts/promptsndx.html
  Arthur online activities, story scamble, poetry club, and brain game
http://pbskids.org/arthur/
  Paradigm online writing assistant and poetry express
guide to organizing, revising and editing
http://www.powa.org/
  Bear Country with the Berenstains Bears
This website contains interactive storybooks, create your own coloring books, mazes and a trivia quiz
http://www.berenstainbears.com/
  Houghton Mifflin Education Place - includes many graphic organizers, write responses to stories read, wacky web tales, guess word definitions. and Author Spotlight and join online projects
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/index.html
 
Calilou activities include create your own story book, connect the dots, spell with Calilou, matching game, memory game, find Gilbert, follow the stars, magic keyboard and dress Calilou from PBS
http://pbskids.org/caillou/
   
  Clifford Read an Interactive book about Clifford or play a game with everyone's favorite big red dog http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/index.htm    
  International Children’s Digital Library
read 708 free children's books online
http://www.icdlbooks.org
   
  America's Story
The Library of Congress presents America's Story
use primary sources to read about history and watch a movie, hear a song, play a tune from America's past.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
   
  Jan Brett's Home Page This website contains over two thousand pages with activities, contests, coloring pages, and make your own book section
http://www.janbrett.com/index.html
   
  Sagwa - has story maker where kids can add pictures and create stories about the pictures, color and draw characters and flip books and listening games from PBS
http://pbskids.org/sagwa/games/index.html
   
  StarFall.com
This website is designed to help students learn to read in a multi-media interactive way. Online books have movies and games to accompany them.
http://www.starfall.com/
   
  Toon University interactive books and letter activities
http://www.toonuniversity.com/demos.asp
   
  Winnie the Pooh Online contains books, games and activities http://disney.go.com/disneychannel
/playhouse/bop/bop_books.html
   
       
       
       
       
 

Pbskids Stories
each story leads to an adventure of related games
http://pbskids.org/lions/stories.html

   
  Puzzlemaker use for spelling and vocabulary words
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
   
  Stories