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http://712educators.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=712educators&cdn=education&tm=21&gps=109_548_1020_532&f=20&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.followyourdreams.com/food.html
Top 15 quotes
http://712educators.about.com/cs/speechesquotes/a/inspirational.htm
Presidential Quotes
See motivational quotes from American Presidents
http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/uspresidents/a/presquotesspee.htm
Themes for Speeches
What is the "big idea" of your speech?
http://712educators.about.com/od/speechestopics/tp/speechtopics.htm
Reading 5th grade
Grammar at the beach
http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/cleanup_eng_launcher.html
Fishin' Up (-ed and -ing)
http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/fishemup2_eng_launcher.html
It's Greek to Me (foreign word standards)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/gameGreekToMe.htm
Rags to RIches
http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html
Davy Crockett
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/people/david_crockett
Davy Crockett Ballad Lyrics and Music
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/davy.htm
More Davy Crockett History
http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1024.html
Alamo on TN history for kids
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/alamo
Official Alamo Site
http://thealamo.org/
Interactive scrapbook for books
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/flashlightreaders/main.asp?pageid=1&bookpass=1&s=1
Internet 4 Classrooms
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-5th-langbuilders.htm
Book Report Sandwich
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/sandwich.asp
book links & quizzes
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/units/units_with_books.htm
Treasures Link
Computer games
http://treasures.macmillanmh.com/tennessee/students/grade5/book1
Reading and Language Arts 6th grade
Grade 7 book links
http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/curric/languagearts/grade7.html#su
Roots and Prefixes Matching
http://www.quia.com/mc/66094.html
Paint by Idioms
http://www.funbrain.com//idioms/index.html
Eye on Idioms
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/idioms/idiom_1.html
The Plural Girls
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/plur.cgi?A1=s&A2=3&INSTRUCTS=1
Character Trading Card
http://readwritethink.org/materials/trading_cards/
Plot Diagram
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/plot-diagram/
Persuasion Map
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/
Diamante poetry and cause/effect
http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/grades6_8/Diamante/
Heroes
http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/grades6_8/Heroes/
Alternate book reports
http://gretchenle.com/bkrpts1to100.html
Think-Tac-Toe
http://www.rcs.k12.tn.us/rc/instruction/ttt/ttt.htm
Bio Cube
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/cube-30057.html
Writing workshops
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm
Prepositional Phrase Quiz
http://aliscot.com/bigdog/prep_exercise.htm
Grammar Blast (Prep. Ph)
http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=6&Unit=7&Topic=Prepositional+Phrases&x=25&y=9
Inferencing
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/makinginferencel.cfm
411 TV Inferencing
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=11&act=2&que=1
Riddles
http://www.philtulga.com/Riddles.html
Elephants-inferencing
http://www.english-zone.com/reading/elefants.html
kidblog
http://kidblog.org/PaulsPlayers/wp-admin/index.php
6th grade LA activities
http://www.willoughby-eastlake.k12.oh.us/classroom/technology/6th_grade_language_arts.htm
Internet 4 Classrooms
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-6th-langbuilders.htm
Enrichment Activities
Catherine Called Birdy
http://www.frontiernet.net/~mblow/birdy.htm
Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood/Catherine
http://teachers.saschina.org/jamesrobinson/category/catherine-called-birdy/
Quia: True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Ch 1-7
http://www.quia.com/rr/36492.html
Quia Characters/True Confessions of...
http://www.quia.com/jg/91953.html
Catherine, Quiz
http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/literature/seventhgradebookbingo/catherine.htm
Language Information and Help links
BINGO Card
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/bingo/
Poetry Patterns and help
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/memawscorne/Poetry%20Patterns.htm
Pronoun Guide
http://www.esldesk.com/grammar/practice/pronoun-types
How to write a memoir
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/how-to-write-a-memoir/
What is an acrostic poem?
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/
Irregular plural nouns
See rules and charts then practice
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/irrplu.htm
Language Practice
Paint by Idioms
http://www.funbrain.com//idioms/index.html
Eye on Idioms
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/idioms/idiom_1.html
Persuasion Map
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/
Comic Creator
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/cartoon10.swf
Letter Generator
http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/
Power Proofreading
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/proofread/index.html
Word Confusion
http://www.funbrain.com/whichword/index.html
Title Ball
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/title_ball/index.html
Diagramming #1
http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/diagram.html
Run On Sentences Quiz
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/fragments_quiz.htm
Repairing Run-Ons
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/runons_quiz.htm
Run-On Practice
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/run-ons_add1.htm
Run-On Practice #2
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/run-ons_add2.htm
Troublesome words 1
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/its_there_quiz.htm
Troublesome Words 2
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/lie_lay_quiz.htm
Troublesome words 3
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/lie_lay_quiz.htm
Interactive Quizzes
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
Troublesome words 4
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/dogs/fern/sentences/online_lesson8.htm
Double Negatives
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/quizzes28/aavillanueva/Grammar.html
Various 5th Grade Standards/quizzes
http://68.88.167.208/education/components/links/links.php?sectiondetailid=9596&PHPSESSID=585021c0ca29fe4871e6036a3d2b1d95
More Language Arts Practice
Predicate Coaster
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/predicate_coaster/index.html
Internet4classroom
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_6th_original.htm#reading
Plural exploring
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/nounexplorer/index_pre.html
Irregular plural nouns
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/irrplu.htm
compound/complex sentence game
http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/pandg/exg10a.shtml
compound/complex advanced
http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/pandg/exg10b.shtml
compound/complex sentence quiz
http://webschool.wash.k12.ut.us/language/lessons/compoundsentences.html
comma vs. semicolon #1
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/g_commacompEX1.html
comma vs. semicolon #2
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/g_commacompEX2.html
combining choppy sentence helps
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading45/sentence_unit/lesson_10.htm
conjunctions/compound sentences quia game
http://www.quia.com/pop/37751.html
Quia #2 sentences
http://www.quia.com/quiz/242899.html?AP_rand=1465736529
Quia Run On sentences
http://www.quia.com/pop/35933.html
Verb phrases Quia game
http://www.quia.com/pop/8096.html
Parts of speech game
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/parts1.htm
Parts of speech quiz
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvpartsp.html
6th grade review
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/quizzes/index.html
Fragments
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/writerschoice/gp/mslessons/grade6/lesson1b/exercises.shtml
ReadWriteThink/comparison
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/compcontrast/
Strory Mapping/ReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/index.html
Funbrain vocabulary
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/root.cgi?A1=s&A2=3&A3=1
Run-on practice
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/run-ons_add1.htm
Repairing Run-Ons
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/runons_quiz.htm
Run-On Practice #2
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/run-ons_add2.htm
Analogy Game
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/analogies/analogiesx.htm
Writing Quiz
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2005/write/level34/level3writing.htm
Supporting Sentences quizzes
http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/uploads/ressources/academic/paragraph/tutorial_3/support1.htm
Paragraphy
http://www.byrdseed.com/paragraphy/
Remediation and Enrichment
Social Studies for 5th
States & Capitals
http://vectorkids.com/maps.htm
Civil War
Fun Sites
Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/
Thinkfinity
http://www.thinkfinity.org/
Mr. Kash's Site
http://mrkash.com/ancient.htm
Social Studies Homework Links
Make a timeline
Using your assigned topic, enter 9 dates and events. Choose a sidebar and print.
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines/
Crayola Guide to Trade Route poster
Follow the directions to create a poster of ancient trade routes
http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/detail/trade-route-timeline-lesson-plan/
National Geographic Map finder
Use this site to locate and print maps
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/
Books! BOOKS! Books!
Margie Johnson's Portal
http://guest.portaportal.com/mnps7
A Corner of the Universe
Various sites to visit
Great resources
http://lccurriculum.wikispaces.com/