Language+Arts&Literacy

=Lesson Links: Language Arts & Literacy=

Classroom Booksource- This free, internet based site allows you to keep track of your classroom library. Another idea is to create a google form and have student volunteers enter titles. Either way keeps you organized!

Mariam-Website word games- Mariam Webster has compiled games that give students practice with spelling and definitions.
====Grammaropolis- This site offers interactive games and videos to help students (and adults!) with their grammar. Meet the nouns, adverbs and other parts of the speech. Love the site a lot? Sign up for a passport.====

Spelling City: This site has expanded greatly since its inception. Students love the games and I've loved the ease of use. Tip:Save some steps and search for your spelling list on other teachers' sites.

Tagxedo & Wordle : These sites allow you to plug in a chain of words and then create a graphic that contains those words. When using these sites, it's helpful if students create a document first so they can edit the list if they do not like the created graphic. These sites can be used for a wide range of assignments and subject areas. (free)

Graphic Organizers Need a graphic organizer? This site from Houghton Mifflin (eduplace) has lists of them available for free download. The age range is broad so go shopping for what you need, it's free!

__ McGraw-Hill __ reading series: use this site to find completed spelling lists that are printable and even modified! (great for copying and pasting onto __ Spelling City __) Go to the students tab for online activities that align with each story.

Flocabulary Reach your inner poet with flocabulary, started by two New Yorkers who wanted to reach students through poetry set to a beat. The free subject resources are few, but worthy of a listen. Use them as inspiration or order the lessons on line (paid)

__ PBS Learning Media __ PBS has launched their own resource for teacher resources. Available in free and premium, collaborators include The National Archives, Cyber Chase, Library of Congress and PBS based outlets such as NOVA and Sid the Science Kid.

__ Creative writing prompts __ use these prompts to start the day or inspire group thinking, writing and story board illustration.Assign a range of numbers for student choice.

__ [|Leveled technology literacy exercises] __ Guiding students to be technology literate is an essential of 21st century skills. This site, hosted by MacGraw Hill, is a grade leveled list of skill basics for students. Great for a 'when you are done' list or station work.

__ Starfall __is a collection of activities for primary literacy skills. Great for a technology station during small group instruction or a hook activity to get readers motivated and hooked.

__ ABCya! __ students can create online animations of their ABC's and 123's. Animate sentences,verbs, it's limitless! The site also lists more online activities for math and primary grades.

__ Awesome Stories __ (description taken from njeat) features a collection of multimedia primary source materials—photos, video, audio and historical documents—held together in a series of digital stories about films, famous trials, disaster and historical events. When you become a member of Awesome Stories—membership is free—you can see everything on the site (including an extensive image database), explore all its features (includingnarrated stories), dig deeper (with lesson plans and text documents) and stay up to date with a freenewsletter profiling current events and hot topics.

Storybird.com is a very fun (and addictive) website where students can build books they write and illustrate. The site is beautifully done and applicable for any age group.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|www.wordle.net] – make “word clouds”.

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