GREAT WEBSITES FOR TEACHERS & PARENTS
LANGUAGE ARTS, LITERATURE
POETRY
LANGUAGE ARTS
Comprehensive website listing various websites for elementary writing skills which include interactive tools and fun, interesting sites including, “Maggie Tree House Writing Club”, Fun Brain’s Word Page”, Jenny Eathers Writing Fun” and more!
http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictionary-articles/Websites-for-Elementary-Writing-Skills.html
Interactive and fun writing activities for teacher, parents and kids!
http://www.brucevanpatter.com/funstuff.html
Kids spelling, grammar and writing games! Worksheets for teachers and parents.
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/writing/Kids_Writing.html
This is for lower elementary students. A great book website to motivate emergent/early/fluent readers. Great graphics and interactive quizzes in which the kids earn points for the books they read offline and then got to pick prizes!
http://www.bookadventure.org/
This is for lower elementary students. This is a great resource for first graders. they just love many of the activities!
http://www.abcteach.com/
This website has interactive stories, games, printouts, etc. for children’s books like Clifford, Arthur, and lots more.
http://www.pbs.org/
This is for reading comprehension as well as all kinds of graphic organizers and samples to share with students on annotating text.
http://www.englishcompanion.com/
Includes site where kids can submit their writing for contests.
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
This website describes part of an essay, kinds of essays, and how to write an essay.
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/essay/index.htm
This website is a site in which teachers can have students explore during their free time or when done with an assignment. this website contains links to storybooks, activities, games (jigsaw puzzle), crafts (book markers), coloring pages, exams and lesson plans (speaking, writing and vocabulary) for teachers.
http://www.onestopenglish.com/
A very useful sight if you wish to enhance pupil’s vocabulary. It works at three levels of difficulty. The content is eye catching and entertaining, full of variety, as well as educationally meaningful.
http://www.vocabulary.com/
On this website, there are quotes and word tracking filters for tracking motifs and themes. These made great overheads for discussions/quizzes, etc.
http://www.bookrags.com/
This is a great interactive website for students to experience reading and writing in fun ways. They can choose from many activities and games, in addition they are encouraged to read letters from authors and create their own books. The neatest part is that they can post their thoughts, stories, poems, writings on the site.
http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet.htm
This website has an updated listing of words, a daily game, a language arts center, and other fields that help students improve reading, word development, writing, vocabulary, spelling, and etymologies. Great tool for upper elementary middle, high school, adult education, and ESL.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
This allows you to translate up to 150 words instantaneously.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
This allows you to translate words instantaneously.
http://www.freetranslation.com/
A great website for students with learning disabilities. It has timely articles, cool links and the latest stuff in the field of special education.
http://www.ldonline.org/
LITERATURE
This website is great for lesson planning ideas as well as vocabulary, bio, and historical info for literature at the secondary level. http://www.lessonplans.com/