ELA Links
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| 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 |
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| 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
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Children's and Young Adults' Authors & Illustrators: Links to hundreds of Author sites http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm |
Web English teacher http://www.webenglishteacher. com/index.html |
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ESL Support |
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| English Grammar links for ESL students http://research.umbc.edu/~kpokoy1/ grammar1.htm |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| Tales of Wonder- Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/ |
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| Grammar | Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com/ |
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| Guide to Grammar and Writing http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ |
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus http://www.m-w.com/ |
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| Grammar Gorillas http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain/grammar/ |
One Look Dictionary Search http://www.onelook.com/ |
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| 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 |
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| 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/ |
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| Grammar Bytes includes exercises, handouts and terms http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm |
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| GameGoo where learning sticks- letter recongnition, phonics http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooeylo.html |
Spelling |
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| 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 |
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| Hiyah.com This site features classic children's stories with audio narration. It is easily navigated by young children. |
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| 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 |
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| Know it all - Westwood Elementary- Poetry, Grammar, and Comprehension for grade1 through 4 http://vdc.engr.scu.edu/KnowItAll/ | Vocabulary University |
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Poetry |
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| Giggle Poetry Fill in the blanks, tonuge twisters, silly rythmes and poetry contests http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ |
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| Poetry Game create your own poem http://vdc.engr.scu.edu/KnowItAll/English/ 2ndEnglish/poetrygame.htm |
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| Poetry writing by Scholastic includes opportunites to write with Poets, and submitting poems http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/ |
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Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky Grades K-Up Poetry http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/jack_home.htm |
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| Kid’s Poetry Page Grades 2-8 Poetry http://www.magneticpoetry.com/kidspoetry/playonline.cfm |
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| Banph Grades 3-8 Literature http://www.banph.com |
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Reading |
Writing |
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| 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 |
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| 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/ |
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| 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 |
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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/ |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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/ |
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| Toon University interactive books and letter activities http://www.toonuniversity.com/demos.asp |
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| Winnie the Pooh Online contains books, games and activities http://disney.go.com/disneychannel /playhouse/bop/bop_books.html |
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Pbskids Stories |
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| Puzzlemaker use for spelling and vocabulary words http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ |
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