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Audio Books
1. Audio Owl
2. Lit2go
3. Librivox
4. ebooks
5. Thought Audio
6. Learn Out Loud
7. Open Culture
Audio Books
Buzzin English
1. Reading
2. Writing
3. Grammar
4. Speaking
5. Glossary
Cause and Effect
1. Interactive Reading
Edits
Edits for each month and day
ESL
1. Picture Dictionary
4esl
ESL Blues
Many Things ESL
Brain Pop in Spanish
Talking Dictionary
Reading Activities
Learn English
hear the words in English, see them in Spanish
Read, Write, Think
lots of interactives
Flash Cards
Spanish-English Cycle Race
Clean up the trash
ID nouns or verbs
Translator Alligator
Quia Exercise
http://www.quia.com/pop/39102.html?AP_rand=967812061
Fact/Opinion
Quia Exercise 1
Quia Exerecise 2
Learning Resources
Fact or Opinion
lower level
Fact or Opinion 2
Fact or Opinion 3
Figures of Speech
1. Quiz on Figures of Speech
2. ID figures of Speech
3. Find Literary Divices
4. Figurative Language
5. Synonym Toast Match Up
6. Examples of Figurative Language
Genre
Blurbs - Guess the Genre
Genre Thinkquest
Create a Venn Diagram to compare Genres
Genre Characteristics
Definitions
Identify the Genre Quia Activity
Do you know your Genre? Quia Activity
Hangman Genre ID
Posters of genre
Genre ID Worksheet
Quiz
Genre Review
Quia Matching Activity
Grammar
1. Power Proofreading
2. Grammar Blast - Pronouns
3. Grammar Blast - Adverbs and Prepositions
4. Grammar Blast - Super Challenge
5. Sentence Sort
7. Adjective Activity with test and worksheet
8. Activities for reading, writing and grammar
9. Working with words - Choose your grade
10. Catch the part of speech
11. English Online game zone
12. Tag - Parts of Speech - iknowthat.com
13. Sentence Puzzles - iknowthat.com
14. Punctuation Paintball - iknowthat.com
15. Alien Word Mine (parts of speech) - iknowthat.com
16. Whadda you know worksheets - iknowthat.com
17. Whadda you know quizz show - iknowthat.com
18. Lots of links to grammar activties
19. Grammar Index
20. Blue Book of Grammar - interactive and quizzes
21. BBC Skillswise
22. BBC Skillswise Games
23. Verbs Activity
24. Grammar Bytes
25. Past Participles - Quia
26. Practice Pronouons Test
27. Comma vs. Semicolons Info and Activities
28. Apostrophe Catastrophy Activity
29. Answers to Grammar Questions
30. Prefix Activity - Quia
31. Scholastic- Info and Activities
32. School House Rock Songs
33. Pronouns Activities
34. Notable Confusables
35. All types of grammar lessons
Lots of worksheets
Graphic Organizers
1. Graphic Organizers
2. More Graphic Organizers
Homophones
1. Speed Words 1
2. Speed Words 2
3. Speed Words 3
4. A Feast of Homophones
quia
5. More Homophone Fun
Iditarod
1. Musher Profiles
2. Iditarod Millionaire Game - Quiz
3. Be a Musher in the Iditarod Race
4. Explore the Iditarod Trail stopping at checkpoints
5. Iditarod Activites and Videos
6. Iditarod videos
Information Sources
1. Kid Friendly Dictionary
2. Kid Friendly Thesaurus
3. Kid Friendly Almanac
4. Visual Thesaurus
5. Rhyme Dictionary
6. Fact Explorer with info and practice
LA Day
Time For Kids Cover
Letter Sounds
1. Word Sounds
Literary Terms
1. List of literary terms
2. Short Story Elements - Quiz
3. Literary Devices
4. Homophones song
Name that literary element activity - ID
Madlibs
Madlibs 1
Madlibs 2
Mad Libs 3 - Catch them
Madlibs 4
Madlibs at Gamequarium
Other
1. Cause and Effect Exercises
2. Refdesk - search, dictionary etc
3. Mrs. Craft
4. Book Crossing - Review a book
5. WikiHow - Give instructions how to perform a task
6. Games
7. Fun Guide on How to do Research
8. Visual Thesaurus
9. Read or listen to folk tales told by authors
10. Kids Click - an online library
11. Every Day Edits to use in the classroom with students
12. Citation Machine
13. Book Talk
14. Creating Talking Books with PowerPoint
15. Rhyming Dictionary
Madlibs 2
Madlibs3
Outsiders
Teaching the Outsiders
vocab reading quizes jeopardy and more discussion questions
Help4Teachers
layered activities
Chapter Questions and Essays
Quia Quiz
Quia: The Outsiders Vocabulary Chapter1-4
Learn vocabularies in chapter 1-4 from concentration games
Quia: The Outsiders Vocabulary Chapter5-8
Learn vocabularies in chapter 5-8 from concentration games.
Quia: The Outsiders Vocabulary Chapter9-12
Learn vocabularies in chapter 9-12 from concentration games.
The Outsiders: Multiple Choices
M.S. Hinton site – wow
Poetry
1. Need help creating a poem
2. Instant I Can
3. Another Instant Poem Form
4. A bunch of instant peom forms
5. Elements of Poetry Jeopardy
6. Mrs. Craft
7. Mrs. Craft
8. Magnetic Poetry
9. Poetry Resources and Links
10. Favorite Poems - Videos of what certain poems mean to individuals
11. Poetry Teacher with lots of links
12. Poetry Webquest
13. Explore Poetry
14. Several Poetry Sites
15. Links for Poetry
16. Diamante Poetry - Readwritethink
17. Poetry for Kids
Powerful Poetry PowerPoint
Glog on Poetry
Powerpoints
1. PowerPoints for Grammar
2. PowerPoints for grades 6-12
Prefixes/Suffixes
1. Match the prefixes
2. Prefix Match Up
Propaganda
1. Advertisiong Trick - Interactive
2. Examples of Propaganda
3. Propaganda Critic - Examples and Definitions
4. Propaganda Slide Show
5. Persuasion Map - Read Write Think
Quia
1. Shared Activities
2. 100 Most Misspelled Words
Read Write Think
1. Plot Diagram
2.. Acrostic Poems- writing process
3. Alphabet Organizer- creat alphabet chart or pages with notes
4. Animal Inquiry- explore animal facts and habitats
5. Bio Cube - summarizing tool to help identify key elements
6. Book cover Creator - create new covers for books that read or write
7. book Cover Guide - explore part of book covers
8. 8. Character Trading Cards - explore a character in a book that was read or as prewriting exeercies to creat character
9. Circle Plot Diagram - prewriting organizer as well as postreading organizer
10. Comic Creator - compose own comic strips in response to readings
11. Comparison and Contrast Guide - provides direct instruction on methods of organizing and gathering ideas
12. Diamante Poems - learn about and write diamante poems
13. Doodle splash - combines process of drawing with analytical thinking
14. Drama Map - Analyzing a play to map out key elements
15. Eye on Idioms - literal representations of idioms and they are examined
16. Fact Fragment Frenzy - finding facts in nonfictions text
17. Flip Book - type and illustrate tabbed flip books
18. Flip a Chip - promotes vocabulary development with affixes and roots
19. Fractured Fairy Tales - write traditional fairy tales with a twist
20. Graphic Map - charting high and low points
21. Hints about Print - evaluating nonfiction print resources
22. Letter Generator - learn parts of a business or friendly letter and compose
23. Letter Poem Creator - Online model for though process involved in creating poems
Reading Comprehension
1. Nasreddin and the Pot
2. Nasreddin and the Smell of Soup
3. The American Pepper
4. The Choking Dog
5. The Hitchhikeer
6. The Carpet Fitter
7. Several Reading Exercises
8. Click on category, click on story, then click on multiple choice on left side
9. BBC Skillswise
10. Reading Comprehension for Social Studies
11. More Reading Comprehension
12. QAR Comprehension
Various Activities for Reading Comphension
A Christmas present
Two Sisters and a Cat
Sequence and Problem Solving
Sequence, Problem Solvin, Compare/Contrast, Cause/Effect
Description, Compare/Contrast, Cause/Effect
American History Idol
cause/effect
Reading/Audio/Strategies
1. Promote Reading in Content Areas
2. Content Reading Strategies
3. Readers
4. Audio Stories on line
Loud Lit- Reading and Lilstening to Masterpieces
Run On Sentence Practice
1. Quiz
2. Repairing Run on Sentences
3. Advoiding Comma Splices
must rewrite the sentence
4. Explanations, Examples and Quiz
5. Quiz 2
6. Quiz 3
7. Correcting Run On Sentences
8. Exercise
9. Exercise 2
10. Exercise 3
Search Strategies
Noodle Tools
Four NETS Search
Search Engine Watch
Kathy Schrock
Sites with lots of Links/ Some by SOL
1. English Zone
2. Directory
3. The Blue Book of Grammar
4. English Grammar Quizzes
5. 6th Grade Resources & Links
6. 7th Grade Resources & Links
7. 8th Grade Resources and Links
8. BBC Skillswise - WOW
9. Grammar Bytes
10. Houghton Mifflin 6,7, 8
11. 6th Grade Activities - Internet4Classrooms
12. 7th Grade Activities - Internet4Classrooms
13. 8th Grade Activities - Internet4Classrooms
14. English Index of info and activities
15. Interactive Lessons
16. Super Teach - Lots and lots of links
17. 411 Site Index
18. Big Dog
19. ReadWriteThink - Wow Wow
20. Poetry Teacher
21. Ms. Coffman Quia Page
Smartboard Ideas/lessons/sites
1. Smartboard Ideas
2. Find Smartboard lessons and activities
3. Lesson Ideas
4. Smartboard 2 minute tutorials
5. Search for Lessons by curriculum standards
SOL Practice
1. Tami Maloney Interactive Quizzes
2. 2004 Released Reading
3 2003 Released Reading
4. 2002 Released Reading
5. 2005 Released Writing
6. 2004 Released Writing
7. 2003 Released Writing
8. 2002 Released Writing
9. Poquoson Writing All
10. 2005 Released Writing Prompt
11. 6th grade activities and resources broken down by SOL
12. 7th grade activities and resources broken down by SOL
13. 8th grade activities and resources broken down by SOL
14. Glencoe - genre study
15. Glencoe - choose course
Spelling
1. Spelling Test
2. Another Spelling Test - Difficult
3. Scholastic Spelling Wizard - put your spelling words in and create a scramble or search
4. 100 Most Misspelled Words
5. Spin and Spell
6. Hard to Spell - Timed and different levels
7. Spell Check
8. Spellaroo
9. Harcourt Brace Spelling Activities 6th
10. Catch the Spelling - many different activities
11. Spelling Bee Hive - Merriam Webster
12. BBC Skillswise
13. When two vowels go walking song
14. Skills for Life - Spelling Patterns
15. ie/ei Spelling Activity and Info
16. Spelling Bee - Quia
19. Spelling Bee
audio story - spell words hear - levels
20. Spell City
Time for Kids
1. Create your own summer cover
2. Create your own traditional cover
3. Create your own winter cover
4. Create your own mother
5. Top of the Teacher - tictactoe answering teacher
6. Don
7. Blast Off - Change school rules
8. Headline Deadline - Looking for Lucky Mystery
Vocabulary and Word Fun
1. Thesaurus Tangle
2. Topic Tangle
3. Text Twist - make words from letters given
4. Book Worm - make words by connecting letters
5. Flip Words- form words with connecting letters
6. Jig Words - make words from letters given
7. Word Magnet
8. Words in a Word
9. Writer
10. Wordo - create words
11. Fowl Words
12. Word Central
13. Planet Zug - Word Definitions
14. WHOMP - Creating Words from Letters
15. Activities for Words
16. Scrabble Lessons
17. Word Ahead
Writing
1. BBC Skillswise
2. Wirter
3. Letter Writing Activities
4. How to write an entertaining biography step by step
5. Figurative Language
6.Paragraph Punch - guided writing - asks questions to be answered
7. Paper for writing
8. Combining Sentences
9. Repairing Runons
10. Fragments and Runons
11, Writing Process PowerPoint
12. Bibliography and Citation PowerPoint
13. Choose a picture and write a story
15. Writing Fix
prompts, genres, traits and more