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Building Vocabulary
Jeopardy Prefixes 1
Race to Ramses
Building Prefixes
Prefixes - Fact Sheets & Quizzes
Rags to Riches - Roots & Prefixes
Test your skills
Flashcards - Literary Terms
Prefixes - An Aid to Spelling
Flashcards - Greek Roots
Suffixes - Their Importance in Spelling!
Dictionary.com
Games & flashcards - prefixes and Latin roots
Fact Monster!
You will find ALL KINDS of useful information here! Check it out!
Largest Root Word Dictionary!
Classroom Blogs
News From the Classroom
Mrs. Halterman Has Class!
Classroom reading blog!
Grammar Sites
Parts of Speech & Punctuation
The Grammar Gorillas
Subject/Verb Agreement
The Plural Girls
Brain Pop
English-Zone
Noun Dunk
Game - Identify Nouns
Magnetic Words
Sort the nouns!
Capitalization and Punctuation Games
Punctuation Quiz
Comma Game
Punctuation Trivia Game
Basic Punctuation Games
Comma Chameleon
Punctuating Dialogue
review notes and complete exercise
Parts of Speech Game
Sentence or Fragment Game
Guide to Grammar and Writing
More Punctuation Games
More Punctuation Games
Language Arts Skill Builders
Grammar Quizzes
Interactive quizzes
Quotation Marks Quiz
Test your knowledge!
Quotation Marks Quiz II
Take another quiz!
Punctuation Games & Activities
Don't Use Said Game
(Remember, said is dead!)
Punctuation Activities
An activity for everything!
Verb Balloons
To Bee or Not to Bee
Pickit Verbs
Verbs in Space
Verb Viper
Parts of Speech Games
Irregular Verbs
Verb Power
Nouns and Verbs
Great Poetry Sites
Writing Poetry
Magnetic Poetry
Giggle Poetry
Math Poems and Stories
School Poems
Glossary of Poetic Terms
Instant Haiku Generator
Limericks
Great Reading Sites
Reading Comprehension Activities
Short Pieces - Fiction and Nonfiction
Reading Skills
Author's Purpose
Seventh-Grade Skills
Fun Brain Games
Reading Comprehension - Stories
The Learning Planet
Reading Planet
Classroom Reading Blog
Plot Diagram
Plot the story!
More Reading Comprehension Stories
Practice Reading Test
Brainchild
Figurative Language
Personification Practice
Simile Matching Game
Similes, Metaphors & Idioms
Paint by Idioms
Animal Similes
Figurative Language Games
Figures of Speech Hangman
Figurative Language Baseball
Parts of a Book
Powerpoint-parts of a book
Great Writing Sites
Writing Tips
Writing With Writers-Descriptive
Author Virginia Hamilton
The Writing Site
What is Descriptive Writing?
Narrative Writing
Narrative Essay and Prompts
Lots of good ideas here!
Narrative Writing Tutorial
Forms of Writing
Go-to resources for writing
Persuasive Writing
Writing Workshop
Persuasive Writing Websites
Persuasive Writing
graphic organizer
Expository Writing
teaching text structure
Expository Writing Tips
from "Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test"
Expository Writing Prompts
Expository Essay and Prompts
Make a Wordle!
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Just for Middle School Kids!
Great Sites - All subject areas!
Kids Domain - Halloween Links
Halloween Web sites
Halloween Sites for Kids
Christmas Links
More Christmas Links
December Holidays
Holiday Web Sites
Kids Domain - Thanksgiving Sites
Thanksgiving and Pilgrims
The First Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Sites - Top Picks
Mystery Net
Extreme Explorer
Cool Stuff to look at and read!
Squigly's Playhouse
Games, puzzles, jokes & other cool stuff
Spring Activities and Resources
Spring Puzzles for Kids
Activity Village
Check it Out!
Black Dog's Easter Links
Family and Kid's Easter
Holidays
Games and study skills
Gollywhoppergames
Novel Studies
Julie of the Wolves
webquest
Christmas Jars by Jason Wright
Read some real live Christmas Jar stories!
The Outsiders - by S.E. Hinton
Meet the Author
Webquest for The Outsiders
Which greaser are you?
Funny quiz!
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
RobertFrost poem
Character Synopses
Review all of the chatacters!
Jeopardy Game
Great review!
More about S.E. Hinton
Private Eyes
Ace Detectives
Kids Mystery Net
Who Killed Angela Spelling?
Fingerprinting
A lesson on classification
Crime and Forensics
explains the roles of forensic scientists and the techniques they use
The FBI Kids' Page
CIA Kids' Page
Forensic Science for Kids
The Science Spot
forensic lesson plans and activities
Crime Scene Investigation
More Fingerprinting
Nancy Drew Sleuth
How to be a Teenage Detective
History Detective Kids
Mystery Case Files Huntsville Game
Kids' Mystery Links-Games,Books,Puzzles
Detective Games for Kids
Reading Genres
Genre Quiz 2
Another Genre Quiz!
Identifying Genres
Read first - then test yourself!
Genre Matching Quiz
Research and Technology
Plagiarism
Copyright and Fair Use
Copyright and the Internet
Using Material From the Internet
How to Use Internet Materials w/o Violating Copyright
RCPS Acceptable Use Policy
How to cite your sources
Son of Citation Machine
Cite any source!
Teacher Sites
Carol Hyrst's Children's Literature Site
Aesop's Fables
Children's Literature Web Guide
Language Arts Lesson Plans
Reading Lesson Plans - all grades
Read Alouds for Middle Grades
Clip Art
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Read, Write, and Think Lessons
Collection of Power Points
Language Arts Links
Reading/Writing Sites
Creating Rubrics
Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk
ideas for teaching genre
Persuasive Writing Lesson
The "Everything" Site
Listed in ABC order!
Rubric Generator
Scholastic Archives
nonfiction articles and activities
Printable Graphic Organizers
Easy Street Prompts
Feeling creatively stuck? Great ideas!
Alliteration, Idioms & Hyperbole
Teaching the Outsiders
Elements of Literature Grade 7
Punctuation PowerPoints
Lots of ppts, quizzes, etc.
Verb Flashcards
Virginia Readers' Choice Books
Owen & Mzee
Airborn
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083
Punished!
Hattie Big Sky
Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Read all about the author of Blue!
The 3 R's-Reading,'Riting,& Resesarch
Ms. Hostetter's blog
The Black Book of Secrets
Enter at your own risk!
The Lemonade War
Book of a Thousand Days
Miss Spitfire-Reaching Helen Keller
Irony
What is irony!
Review the three types!
Verbal Irony
Definition and examples
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