LanguageArts

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** __PreK- Kindergarten__ **
ABCTeach Educational site that provides printable materials for teachers.

** __Grade 1-2__ **
Spelling and Vocabulary Games Fun games to help reinforce spelling and vocabulary. Allows teacher to customize the words to fit spelling word lists, etc.

Signal Words - //pdf download//

** __Grade 3-4__ **
** Bitesize: English - Writing ** ** A great website for review and refreshers on different styles of writing. Includes games, videos and even quizzes. **

Spelling - Prefixes & Suffixes

Writing Den

[] 4th grade resources for all language Arts needs.

** __Grade 5-6__ **
How to Write a Bibliography - video A fun video for students to explain the concept of writing a bibliography

Diagram sentences Interesting site that helps to teach how to diagramming sentences

** __Grade 7-8__ **
Type with Me A collaborative word processor. Use this tool for online collaboration. You can invite others to join. Each author comes up as a different color, so you can see who is editing what. You can import/export the document, save it as you work, view various revisions and share it when you are done.

[|MixedInk] Assign students a text to write together. Then they'll create their own versions, edit their peers' work, and weave different versions together into new ones. Students comment on their classmates' submissions and rate different versions to identify the best written, most popular language and ideas. Discuss the top version as a class - Explore the strengths and weaknesses of the class's favorite texts together.

[|the.News] Using journalism and technology, //the.News// provides educators with content specific tools while also helping them meet the civic mission of schools. An instructional design informs video and curricular content, targeted to middle and high school students, to support social studies, language arts and science learning objectives, as well as critical thinking and media literacy. Each video story is supported by lesson plans with content-based standards, discussion questions, student activities, vocabulary and primary references. This material is presented as options to fit teachers’ instructional needs and is accompanied by professional development resources.

** __All Teachers:__ **

Click above for ideas to get students writing

National Writing Project Sites work in partnership with area school districts to offer high-quality professional development programs for educators. NWP continues to add new sites each year, with the goal of placing a writing project site within reach of every teacher in America.

Kids on the Net
Lots of recources for writing lessons and projects

Illustrated Story Starters Ages 3-12. Children can create stories using illustrated story starters.

[] Grammar help along with worksheet pages for review