153 Resources (by Title) for: Classrooms > Language Arts Title / Description / URL / Keywords 1-language.com - The ESL Site for everyone learning English!   (Feedback) Comprehensive new ESL Site including forums, realtime chat, grammar, writing, interactive quizzes and games, flashcards, phonics, streaming audio materials, world news, TOEIC modules, helplines, multi- lingual content, and much more. http://www.1-language.com Keywords: esl, efl, english, language, tefl, tesol, esol, flashcards, writing, reading, speaking, listening 2 Games for Language Arts   (Feedback) Here are two games that help students develop and use their vocabularies. http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/293.html A to Z Teacher Stuff   (Feedback) This is a preK-12 network covering thematic units, lesson plans, seasonal activities, printables, etc. http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/themes/ A Word A Day   (Feedback) This website shares words through the web and via email. http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html Action Factor: Home of Sing Your Way Through Phonics   (Feedback) Tired of lesson plans for teaching phonics thru boring drill? Activities in Sing Your Way Through Phonics CDs and Mini-Charts use the power of rhythm and song to help kids learn the basics of reading. http://www.actionfactor.com Keywords: phonics, phonics lesson plans Aesop's Fables   (Feedback) Traditional and modern versions of Aesop's Fables - illustrated by students from the University of Massachusettes. http://www.umass.edu/aesop Alphabet Zoo - ABC order   (Feedback) ABC order http://www.primarygames.com/ABC%20Zoo/start.htm American Girls Collection   (Feedback) From the American Girls Collection of books, this site introduces the main characters, their families and their worlds. http://www.americangirl.com Animal Database   (Feedback) From the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA, a website that provides pictures and detailed descriptions of animals in the aquarium http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/ANIMAL_DATABASE/animaldbase.html ArtsEdge   (Feedback) ArtsEdge offers Teaching Materials with Curricula, Lessons and Activities, Curriculum WebLinks, Get Published, Idea Exchange, and Using ARTSEDGE Lessons. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/ Ask a Linguist   (Feedback) Most of the members of our distinguished Ask-A-Linguist panel are university professors. http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/ Awesome Stories   (Feedback) What really happened? Using the great stories of history and popular culture as a springboard, this site interactively allows users to examine the actual documents, pictures, graphics, and other primary resources that are the backbone of the story. This site is fascinating. It takes categories (such as history, biography, disasters, etc) and then lists events, people... that fall into those generic categories and gives authentic information about those events, people - primary resources!! http://www.awesomestories.com/index2.htm Bartleby's Great Books Online   (Feedback) Resources available include reference books, verse, fiction and nonfiction. http://www.bartleby.com/index.html Bennett Elementary Portaportal   (Feedback) Portaportal of resources for K-5 teachers http://guest.portaportal.com/bennettes Bestwebquests.com   (Feedback) Tom March has begun collecting outstanding webquests and providing descriptions and evaluations. http://bestwebquests.com Biography.com   (Feedback) Find biographical information about over 25,000 individuals. http://www.biography.com/ Book Adventure   (Feedback) Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8 created by Sylvan Learning. http://bookadventure.com Brain Pop   (Feedback) Educational movies about health, science, technology http://www.brainpop.com/ brain teasers   (Feedback) logic and math reasoning http://www.syvum.com/teasers/ BRI Portaportal   (Feedback) This portaportal is used by the teachers and students at BRI. http://guest.portaportal.com/brilab Keywords: brilab portaportal Candlelight Stories   (Feedback) The Candlelight Stories Spelling Machine is an illustrated spelling tutor for young children to enjoy with their parents. It works like flash cards by showing a picture and waiting for someone to type the word with large on-screen buttons or the computer keyboard. You can ask for the answer and erase wrong entries with one button click. The site includes online word games. http://www.candlelightstories.com/learning.htm CCPS Reading Sites   (Feedback) Mostly geared for middle and high school level students, with many sites focusing on reading strategies and independent reading. http://guest.portaportal.com?ccps-2read Keywords: guided reading, novel, novels, book list, literature, literacy Celebrate African-American Art, Music, Literature   (Feedback) Approach Black History from a different perspective. Explore the rich heritage of African Americans through art, music, and literature. http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/jan99/cybe0199.htm Center for Applied Linguistics   (Feedback) The Center for Applied Linguistics aims to promote and improve the teaching and learning of languages, identify and solve problems related to language and culture, and serve as a resource for information about language and culture. http://www.cal.org/ Charles Dickens   (Feedback) This page includes numerous links to information about Chalres Dickens, his life and his works. http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html Charles Dickens   (Feedback) Website to accompany the three-part series on PBS that focuses on Dickens and Victorian London http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dickens/ Children's Literature Web Guide   (Feedback) Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/rteacher.html Children's Storybooks Online   (Feedback) This site includes stories for young adults as well as stories for very young children. In addition to stories, riddles and mazes are also available. http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html Choices Annotated Booklists   (Feedback) Each year, thousands of children, young adults, teachers, and librarians around the United States select their favorite recently published books to be included in the Choices annotated booklists. http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices.html Cindy Cain's PortaPortal for Huguenot High School   (Feedback) This PortaPortal was developed for the teachers of Huguenot High School http://guest.portaportal.com/cainhhs Clifford the Big Red Dog Interactive Storybook   (Feedback) This interactive story provides phonics practice for early readers as they read and listen to this story. http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/index.htm Come Fly With Me   (Feedback) This is a lesson plan about rhyming words.  Students identify rhyming words from the book A Fly Went By by matching words written on index cards with same endings, eliciting word when prompted by the teacher and by identifying rhyming words in the text.  http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/96.html Community Scavenger Hunt   (Feedback) You can create a scrapbook with a cover that sums up your town in pictures and words. http://www.planning.org/kidsandcommunity/scavenger_hunt/instructions.htm Core Knowledge Lesson Plans   (Feedback) This is a site for all grades/levels of core knowledge containg lessons sent in by teachers for non profit. http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/K.htm Cornerstones   (Feedback) Based on Between the Lions, the award-winning PBS Kids literacy program for beginning readers, Cornerstones offers literacy units for teachers of young students who are deaf and hard of hearing. Our goals are to support reading, writing, vocabulary development, and decoding skills through the intensive study of a single story. http://ncam.wgbh.org/cornerstones/ Cyberguides to Literature   (Feedback) CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards. In the guides, the magenta text indicates the language (or context-appropriate equivalent to the language) of the content standards. http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html Digby Mole's Rhyming Game   (Feedback) Rhyming game http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/laac/words/dg3.html dMarie Time Capsule   (Feedback) This is a great resource for information that students will want when writing an autobiography. After entering a specific date, a customized page is produced that includes all the information chosen, plus typical consumer prices from that year, Academy Award winners that year, etc. Data for the years 1800 through 2001 is currently available. http://dmarie.com/timecap/ Dositey   (Feedback) interactive games for students and instructional material for teachers and parents. Nice graphics and easy for readers. http://www.dositey.com Early Literacy Technology Project -Lesson Plans   (Feedback) As part of the 1997-98 grant activities, participating kindergarten and second grade teachers worked with their school teams to create lesson plans integrating reading and/or writing to inform and science topics with technology. http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/archive/lesson_plans.htm EDSitement -Art and Culture   (Feedback) The purpose of EDSITEment is to offer a gateway for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject of art and culture. All sites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and likely impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subjectArea=1 ELECTRAGUIDE   (Feedback) ONLINE THESIS MAKER AND OUTLINE MAKER FOR PERSUASIVE ESSAYS http://www.ozline.com/electraguide/ Elementary Web Resources   (Feedback) From a school in Texas, a selection of websites that accompany curriculum areas. http://www.mumford.k12.tx.us/mumford/links.htm Elite Skills   (Feedback) Online writing club. http://www.eliteskills.com/ English Online   (Feedback) English Online is part of an ongoing English professional development contract between UNITEC Institute of Technology and the New Zealand Ministry of Education. In 1998 and 1999 it involved 100 primary and secondary schools per year. Each school nominated a lead teacher who undertook an Internet tutorial, and then developed a unit of learning which was posted on the site as a permanent resource for New Zealand (and international) English teachers. http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/ English-Zone.com   (Feedback) English-Zone.Com has a Teacher's Zone filled with ready-to-print materials usable for ESL teaching guides, worksheets, handouts, or quizzes. There are dozens of links to other sites for teachers as well. http://www.english-zone.com/ essay writing   (Feedback) tips on how to write an essay http://www.write-an-essay.com/ Funbrain   (Feedback) Excellent website for parents to utilize when working with children at home. Great tool for teachers! Can be used as a math center where children can work at their own level to work on specific math skills. http://www.funbrain.com Games for Teaching Storytelling   (Feedback) Games include: You Finish the Story, Can You Describe It?, and Name It Now or Never. These games are reprinted from the National Story League. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/storygames.htm Giggle Break   (Feedback) Children will share their favorite jokes, riddles, and stories during a special class giggle time! http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/humor/giggle.html Giggle Poetry   (Feedback) Learn how to inspire a love of poetry in your students and teach kids how to write different types of poems. http://www.gigglepoetry.com/index.cfm Grammar Bytes   (Feedback) This site gives a wide variety of grammar exercises for review. http://www.chompchomp.com/ Grammar Gorillas   (Feedback) These activities require that kids identify parts of speech for words in sentences. http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/ Grandpa Tucker’s Rhyme Time   (Feedback) Together we'll share the "Love of Language." Here are funny stories that deliver a message, silly poems that will bring a smile and allow you to share some thoughts. http://www.night.net/tucker/index.html-ssi Great Palm Education Software for Kids   (Feedback) This site provides great quality Palm software for kids education. http://www.pdabell.com/ Keywords: Palm software, kids education, palm game, game, software, Bible Great Speeches   (Feedback) From the History Channel, a collection of recordings of modern speeches from Hank Aaron to Queen Elizabeth. http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/speeches.html Grimm's Fairy Tales   (Feedback) On-line texts of 209 of the famous fairy tales.  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/ Homonyms Website   (Feedback) Words, like "caret" and "carrot" that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and that have different meanings. This list was compiled with a true appreciation for "the prime numbers of the English language."  http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html Houghton Mifflin Website   (Feedback) -8 resources for teachers, students, and parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Intervention, Professional Development, activities, games, and textbook support. http://www.eduplace.com/index.html Indispensable Listening Skills   (Feedback) This lesson challenges the students to use their listening skills to their fullest potential. http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/ceclang/ceclang.21.txt Inventions   (Feedback) This lesson plan has students creating and describing an invention. http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/ceclang/ceclang.79.txt Keywords: writing process Jan Brett's Web Site   (Feedback) Web site to extend all of Jan Brett's books http://www.janbrett.com Kay Lera's Portal   (Feedback) mainly K-5 http://guest.portaportal.com/wpsva Keypals   (Feedback) Mighty Media presents the KeyPals Club, a place for young people, teachers and students to locate and correspond with other youth and students around the world. http://www.teaching.com/keypals/ Kids Space Storybook   (Feedback) An extensive collection of storybooks in a variety of genre written of kids, by kids, for kids. http://www.kids-space.org/story/story.html Kidz Word Puzzles   (Feedback) Collection of word searches, mazes, and word scrambles. http://www.worldvillage.com/kidz/puz-main.htm Kindergarten - Literature   (Feedback) Lesson plans and resources for teaching Mother Goose rhymes. http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/K/KOLit.htm Language Arts Adventures   (Feedback) This site offers a collection of links to various reading and writing activities for students. http://www.dixie.fayette.k12.ky.us/languagearts.htm Language Arts Lesson Plan Ideas   (Feedback) A wide variety of lesson plan ideas for K-12 English teachers. Lots of easy to adapt ideas for teaching specific books as well as writing skills. http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/LanguageArts.html Learning Resources from CNN   (Feedback) eb site is to provide current news stories to students with lower reading levels. Interactive learning activities reinforce and provide greater understanding of what is presented on the screen. Teachers can use the lessons for group activities and students can work at their own pace for individualized learning.  http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/ Lesson Planet   (Feedback) Lesson Plans  search over 30,000 links to lesson plans via Lesson Planet. http://www.lessonplanet.com Keywords: lessons, lesson plans Lewis and Clark Then and Now: Linking the Trail to America's Students   (Feedback) Apple Learning Interchange will be following Lewis and Clark throughout the 2003 to 2006 school years. Lewis and Clark Then and Now: Linking the Trail to America’s Students will follow the Discovery Expedition of St. Charles as members re-enact in real time the three-year voyage of the Corps of Discovery. A variety of live videoconferences as well as other broadcasts will be held. All videos and other materials are archived. http://ali.apple.com/lewisandclark/ Lil's Fingers Storybooks   (Feedback) Website for the youngest children with games and stories http://www.lil-fingers.com/abc/b.html Linguistics   (Feedback) This page provides definitions of terms related to linguistics and the study of languages. http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/3920/index.html Madison IT Resources   (Feedback) This list includes resources for grades K - 12 and includes Special Education. It is broken up by topic rather than grade level. It is the result of almost 4 years worth of work. http://guest.portaportal.com/raehn Keywords: NETS*T, SOL, Themed Resources, Book Buddies,Career and Technical Education, Clip Art, ESL, Internet Safety, White Boards, Live Cams, Math, Games Make Me A Copy Please   (Feedback) Often times students are not able to communicate clearly what they would like to say. It is the purpose of this lesson to help student understand the need to be articulate and precise when explain steps to another student. In addition the student listening will learn to be a more effective listener. http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Listening_Comprehension/LST0002.html Making Multicultural Connections through Trade Books   (Feedback) The Program of Assessment, Diagnosis and Instruction (PADI) created a data base of multicultural trade books for elementary aged children. These books were selected because they represent a specific culture and its traditions, history, folk tales, or current peoples. http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/MBD/Grade_index.html Media Literacy Online   (Feedback) Online journal focuses on teaching media literacy skills with resources for students and teachers http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/home/index.html Merriam-Webster's Word Puzzles   (Feedback) Got two minutes? Play a new puzzle every day or visit the archive to play games you missed during the past month. Word puzzles come in five fun formats. http://www.m-w.com/game/ Message to the Future   (Feedback) Designing a monument can be fun. It is a way to learn about the ideas and planning that go into the creation of a monument. Future archaeologists may learn a lot about our culture from the monuments we leave behind. http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/arch/ancient3.html Middle School ITRT Portaportal   (Feedback) Many links for the middle school environmnet, covering multiple content areas. http://guest.portaportal.com/salansky Monster Exchange   (Feedback) Monster Exchange is designed to encourage the development of reading and writing skills while integrating Internet technology into the classroom curriculum. Kids draw a monster and write a description of their monster. They send the description to a partner school and students try to recreate the monster from the description! http://www.monsterexchange.org/about/about_msdescription.htm Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet   (Feedback) This site is a complete annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet. http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/default.htm Mr; Morse's Technology Links   (Feedback) Blog for elementary school computer lab teachers featuring interactive, educational websites appropriate for K-5 students. http://mrmorse.blogspot.com/ Mrs. Letter's Portaportal   (Feedback) I created this portaportal when I was a fourth grade teacher - Enjoy! http://guest.portaportal.com/mrs.letter Keywords: fourth, elementary, portaportal, links, SOL My Year With...   (Feedback) Students adopt an author for the entire school year, researching their lives, works and critics. At the end, they do a presentation in the persona of the author. http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Writing/WCP0024.html Mystery Picture   (Feedback) Many children have difficulty accurately giving or following verbal instructions. To encourage students to focus on the importance of clear, oral communication. http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Listening_Comprehension/LST0003.html Keywords: lesson plan NoodleTools   (Feedback) NoodleBib allows users to create and edit MLA-style bibliographies. http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/index.php Oban’s Myths and Legends   (Feedback) Myths and legends tell us many things about the relationship between animals and the world's indigenous peoples including different interpretations of how the world began, how people came to be, how the sun first came to the world, and how beings, half animal-half human, once roamed the world. http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends.htm Ohio Resource Center   (Feedback) This is a very useful site for interactive demonstrations of mathematical concepts and problems as well as a myriad of resources for the educator. http://ohiorc.org/ Paradigm Online Writing Assistant   (Feedback) Online Writing Assistant - Organizing, Revising, Editing Strategies http://www.powa.org/ Paragraph Punch   (Feedback) This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic paragraph. Users develop an idea and write their own topic sentence, 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. Completed paragraphs may be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application. http://paragraphpunch.com Park Avenue Elementary   (Feedback) A variety of SOL resources from this elementary school in Danville, VA http://web.dps.k12.va.us/ParkAve PBS Kids - Between the Lions   (Feedback) This site includes interactive reading stories, games, songs, word helper, things to print, and resources for teachers and parents. http://pbskids.org/lions/ Phonics in Whole Language Classrooms   (Feedback) Instructional strategies to develop phonemic awareness in young children. http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/phonics.html Picture Dictionary with Links   (Feedback) 1097 illustrated dictionary entries! Each word is used in a meaningful example sentence. Most entries have links to a related web site. Just click on an underlined word (or its accompanying picture), and you'll link to a great web site related to it.  This is a wonderful resource!  http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html Pink Monkey   (Feedback) This site offers over 345 Free Literature Summaries, 1,800 Online Classic Texts, Online Textbooks for 15 Subjects, SAT Prep / Testing and State Testing Resources, College Planning Resources, Study Links / Study Help, and Research Links. Online booknotes are available for free. http://pinkmonkey.com Poets and Poetry   (Feedback) Poetry.com, sponsored by the International Library of Poetry, is by far the largest and most comprehensive poetry site on the Internet. Their mission is to eliminate the traditional barriers that prevent most people from having their message heard. http://www.poetry.com/ Poets’ Corner   (Feedback) The goal of Poets' Corner is to create the largest, most diverse, and most user-friendly public library of poetic works ever assembled. The materials on display are selected from an inventory of thousands of works by hundreds of authors. http://www.geocities.com/spanoudi/poems/ Positional Words   (Feedback) In this activity, children will work with positional words, reinforcing their understanding of the terms left, right, before, after, between, first, and last. http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathcentral/gradeK/kjca2.html Primary Reading Resources   (Feedback) Lesson plans for elementary school teachers including emergent literacy, phonics/decoding, and language experience, activities, programs, and thematic units, comprehension, reading programs, and lessons skills. http://www.proteacher.com/070009.shtml Publication Scams   (Feedback) Publication scams that take advantage of writers. Featuring the poetry.com scam. http://www.eliteskills.com/writing_scams/ Puppetry Home Page   (Feedback) All you need to know about puppets, from building them to using them. http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/ Puzzability Puzzles of Common Knowledge   (Feedback) This site offers a variety of puzzle formats including hangman, word searches, cross-words, brain teasers, and visual puzzles. http://www.puzzability.com/cgi-bin/commonknowledge.pl Reading Comprehension   (Feedback) Featuring free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids. They include original stories, poems, essays, and articles. They a re most appropriate for upper elementary http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm Reading is Fundamental   (Feedback) RIF Reading Planet, RIF Reading Planet is a place where kids and families come together to explore the world of books through interactive games, fun activities ... Description: America's largest non-profit children's and family literacy organization, helping children and caretakers come together and...read http://www.rif.org/ Reading Strategies Workshop   (Feedback) Strategies, tutorials for reading. http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcompindex2.htm Rebus Rhymes   (Feedback) Rebus Rhymes is designed for children who are learning how to read.  Emergent readers enjoy picking out the words they can read in their favorite nursery rhymes.  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Rhymes.html Reciprocal Thinking   (Feedback) Reciprocal teaching is an instructional procedure designed to enhance students' comprehension of text. It is characterized by: a dialogue between students and teacher, each taking a turn in the role of dialogue leader; "reciprocal": interactions where one person acts in response to the other; structured dialogue using four strategies: questioning, summarizing, clarifying, predicting.  http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/2-3/teacher/resources/reciprocal.html Recognize and Avoid Plagiarism   (Feedback) Information about plagiarism produced by the Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewts/wts/plagiarism.html Rhyming Dictionary   (Feedback) You enter a word or word ending and get a list of rhyming words to be used in poetry and song writing. http://www.rhymer.com/ Sayings, Phrases, Rhymes and Stories   (Feedback) Lesson plans on the use of nursery rhymes, common sayings and stories such as The Three Billy Goats Gruff. http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/K/KSLit.htm SCORE Language Arts Cyberguides   (Feedback) This site contains resources that were selected and evaluated by a team of educators from across California. These particular sites were chosen for their accuracy, grade appropriateness, and richness. http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cla.html Scripts for Schools   (Feedback) Scripts For Schools has been providing schools with scripts since 1988. More than 150 scripts are now available from our catalog. Includes free scripts related to bullying. http://scriptsforschools.com/ Sebastian Swan   (Feedback) Provides literacy plans and resources including interactive big books to be shared with a class, based on the seasonal adventures of a swan named Sebastian. The photographs are child appealing. http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant Seussville   (Feedback) SIte for interactive games revolving around Dr. Seuss. Biographical information about Seuss. Catalog and information about his books as well. POssible use for students of all ages. http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/ Shakespeare Biography Quiz   (Feedback) Twenty-two question interactive quiz on the life of William Shakespeare. http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/quiz/bioquiz.htm Spark Notes   (Feedback) This site provides study guides for literature selections, scientific topics, historical facts, and much more. Unlike other study guides written by disgruntled academics and stodgy old professors, SparkNotes are written exclusively by students and recent graduates. Well over 200 titles are now included in the collection. http://sparknotes.com Spelling it Right   (Feedback) Help, exercises and advice from an experienced teacher are available at this site which offers many spelling worksheets to print out for use in classrooms. http://www.spelling.hemscott.net Spelling Strategies: Discovering Rules   (Feedback) One of the strategies used by successful spellers is the application of rules.  Students understand and apply these rules better if they learn them through a discovery process. These are strategies one teacher uses to help children learn spelling through reading, writing and pattern finding exercises.  http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/spell3.htm Spelling Strategies: Mastering New Words for Writing   (Feedback) Strategies to individualize progress in spelling by helping children select and learn relevant words.  http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/spell2.htm Spelling Strategies: Partner Quizzes   (Feedback) An idea that not only saves time, but also strengthens skills because students work together on words they care about.  http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/spell198a.htm Spelling Strategies: Sounds and Spelling Strategies   (Feedback) This site outlines three strategies to use to encourage young writers to develop strategies for determining their spellings.  http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/spell4.htm Spelling: High Frequency Words   (Feedback) The 100 most frequently used words make up about half of the written English language.  Here are four strategies to use to help students learn to spell these words.  http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/spell1.htm Storybook Station Story Creations   (Feedback) At this site kids can personalize and print out their stories. http://www.searsportrait.com/StoryBook/StoryBook_StoryIndex.asp StoryPlace   (Feedback) StoryPlace currently consists of two libraries, the Preschool Library and Elementary Library with new activities and themes being added each month. http://www.storyplace.org/ Talking to Influential Persons   (Feedback) A website that lets students "talk" to famous people like Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Orwell, Wolfe, Hardy and Lincoln. http://www.talkingto.co.uk/ Teachers Helping Teachers   (Feedback) Presents a compendium of lesson plans for teachers along with other resources http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html Teamwork Times   (Feedback) his Harcourt Brace site provides a basic front-page newspaper layout for students to use to write their own news stories. Students select from a variety of "teamwork" oriented headlines and then write their own stories to match.  This would a be a good format to use with students just beginning a unit on newspapers or with students who need some initial ideas in order to begin writing assignments.  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/ttimes/newspaper_introduction.html The Big Myth   (Feedback) Animated creation myths from a variety of cultures http://www.bigmyth.com/ The Biography Maker   (Feedback) This site is designed to inspire creative biographical writing. http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm The Center on English Learning and Achievement   (Feedback) The website for The Center on English Learning & Achievment (CELA), a national research center affiliated with Albany State University and funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Leading researchers include Judith Langer and Arthur Applebee, two of the most prominent scholars in English Language Arts education and research. http://cela.albany.edu The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication   (Feedback) This ERIC clearinghouse focuses on reading with links to research, resources for families and more. http://reading.indiana.edu/ The Five Paragraph Essay   (Feedback) A wizard available to students to help them in learning to write a five paragraph essay. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/ The Grammar Safari   (Feedback) This website helps students search the web for real-life examples of grammar in action. http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html The Learning Site   (Feedback) Resources to accompany Harcourt School publications: some samples and subscriptions are also available for those not using Harcourt publications. http://harcourtschool.com/ The Light in the Forest   (Feedback) This lesson focuses on an extention of the teaching of the novel, "The Light in the Forest", by Conrad Richter. Students will research online resources, including primary source documents, for information regarding the culture of the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Tribe, create a Lenni Lenape identity for a captive, and reach group consensus about the "value" of each of the individuals who are "captured" by the tribe. http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/lewis/litf/ The Poetry Forge   (Feedback) The Poetry Forge is an open source archive, designed to allow teachers and student writers to explore, manipulate, create and develop innovative tools for the development of poetry. Read on to learn more about the Forge and how you can contribute. http://www.poetryforge.org/top.html The Story Pyramid   (Feedback) In this language arts lesson students will be able to read and understand a story line, to state the story problem, to state the solution to the problem through the use of a graphic organizer.  http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang40.txt The Teacher's Cafe   (Feedback) Free Teacher's Resources. Printable Math Worksheets: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division. Free online activities, lessons, assessments in all subjects. http://theteacherscafe.com/ Keywords: Math worksheets, teacher resources, online acitivities The Write Site   (Feedback) Exploring the World of Journalism for middle and high school students http://www.writesite.org/ This web site gives literature activities for Sign of the Beaver.   (Feedback) This web site gives literature activities for Sign of the Beaver. Sign of the Beaver is an excellent reader to use with intermediate readers. It cover Native American studies and character pillars. http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/beav/beavtg.html Three Little Pigs   (Feedback) This website uses a Venn diagram to compare two versions of the story "The Three Little Pigs" http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/347.html Keywords: lesson plan, graphic organizer Tips for Good Presentations   (Feedback) Provided by a projector vendor, this list of tips is concise and covers the usual rules for making a good presentation. http://www.presentingsolutions.com/effectivepresentations.asp Unit Lesson Plans in Dramatics   (Feedback) Lesson Plans. K-12 Includes lesson plans on creative dramatics; creative thinking; creativity, elements in drama, exposition, script starters, using expressive speech. http://www.byu.edu/tma/arts-ed/units/unithome.htm Virginia Association of Teachers of English   (Feedback) The state chapter of the national organization with resources and a conference for English teachers in Virginia. http://www.vate.org/ Keywords: VATE, Wacky Web Tales from EduPlace   (Feedback) The online version of a Mad Lib! An entertaining way to learn about parts of speech and databases. Great fun for kids of all ages. http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html Web Links For Virginia Second Grade Teachers   (Feedback) Great site of links for second grade teachers in Virginia. A must have resource! http://www.salem.k12.va.us/south/gradelevels/second/ WordCentral   (Feedback) Word Central is the place on the Web where kids can learn how much fun words can be! This site was developed with input from teachers around the country using a language arts curriculum framework. http://www.wordcentral.com/ Writing Tips   (Feedback) Learn what bad writing is so you can avoid it. http://www.eliteskills.com/writing/ Yahooligans! Authors   (Feedback) Links to pages on numerous authors of children's literature are included at this site. http://www.yahooligans.com/School_Bell/Language_Arts/Authors/ Yahooligans! Language Arts   (Feedback) A variety of language arts activities, games and information including the various genre. http://www.yahooligans.com/School_Bell/Language_Arts/ Zelo Nursery Rhymes   (Feedback) Are you always looking for a nursery rhyme to share with your class? This site lists many nursery rhymes and the words to each rhyme. http://www.zelo.com/family/nursery/index.asp