Reading+&+Lanuage+Arts

=**Reading and Language Arts**=

[|Interactive Poetry Sites] Interactive Poetry and Poems by Kids and for Kids [|Roy The Zebra] A Reading Website for emerging readers. [|Word Girl Competition] [|Learn Alberta] C ommunicating Ideas Using Posters, Newspapers, and Comics [|Cybraryman's Poetry Site] [|Newspapers in Education](Lessons for 3-12) [|Merriam-Webster Site] [|Google Lit Trips] [|Novel on Location] [|Brain Pop-English] [|Create Your Own Comic Strip] [|Interactive Timeline] [|Build Your Wild Self] [|Little Bird Tales] [|Storybird] [|Websites on Irregular Verbs] [|LitCharts] [|Share What You're Reading] [|ECB-Author Websites] [|ECB-Children's Books Site] [|ECB-Literacy Centers Site] [|ECB- Poetry Site] [|Grammaropolis] [|Wordia] [|Pixton]- make your own comics [|Fun English Games]- wide range of free teaching resources that are perfect for students learning English, ESL classes and teachers looking for ideas online
 * This is a live vocabulary event being hosted by Scholastic and is free to participate in! The competition is made up of 3 rounds plus a bonus round. The competition will be in game-show format, students will be challenged to work those vocabulary skills as they answer questions pertaining to word usage, definitions, using words in different contexts, and reading comprehension. Your students will play along with the game in real time by submitting answers online during the webcast and may be called out during the event. This event will help your students understand the meaning of words, use context clues for correct word usage, leverage visuals to define words, draw on existing vocabulary knowledge, and present vocabulary words in varied and interesting ways. Fun right?!
 * A Different Way to Read Great Literature! This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!
 * This is a neat use of Google Maps designed to help you find fiction works according to their geographical settings
 * Have studenst create a comic strip using Make Beiefs Comix. Students can sue this tool to show main idea, sequencing, preditions and more.
 * have students create their "Wild Self" and use their creations for an intro into animal adaptions and haitiats in science, or use them as a creative writing prompt
 * Capture your child's voice and imagination with this story building tool.
 * Storybirds are short, are-inspired stories you make to share, read and print.
 * a service that provides condensed outlines and summaries of classic literature. They provide nice color coded outlines and summaries but doesn't provide so much information that a student can avoid actually reading the books you've assigned to them.
 * A service that provides students a way to create and read book reviews online.
 * Parts of Speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections
 * game-based platform that helps expose students to a variety of words and vocabulary

[|International Children's Digital Library] [|Open Culture- Free Audio Books] [|Online Storytime by Barnes & Noble] [|We Give Books] [|Learn Out Loud] [|Books Should Be Free] [|New Fiction] [|Though Audio] [|LibriVox] [|Podio Books] [|Project Gutenberg] [|Storynory] Free audio books especially for children. You can download a free audio story every week. [|Librophile] This is a search tool for eBooks. [|AudioLiterate]- free and paid audiobooks that you can listen to online or download [|Lit 2 Go]- large selection of fiction stories and poems available as free downloads [|Open Library]- more than one million free ebook titles that can be read online, downloaded or embedded into a site [|MeeGenius]- free and paid ebooks for kids [|Woodlands Junior School]- UK school website with links to free online talking storybooks [|Magic Keys]- good collection of talking picture books for children
 * Audio & Digital Books**
 * Amazing open-access resource with hundreds of digital books in dozens of different languages.
 * Award winning digital picture books for students through age ten. There is a mix of fiction and non-fiction, a variety of authors, and a balance of read-aloud books and independence readers. New books are added every month along with special, seasonal books.
 * A well designed and large collection of audio books.
 * Neat collection of classic works. You can listen online or download them in segments. You can also view the written text of some of the books as a PDF download.
 * These free audio books driven by volunteers record books freely and make them available as MP3 downloads or podcasts.
 * You can receive these podcasts as RSS feeds or download them directly.
 * Ongoing effort to digitize and archive cultural works in the form of ebooks. Human and machine read audio books.

[|Slime Kids] Book Trailers for Readers [|Book Wink]
 * Book Trailers**
 * a student/ teacher wiki that was started by Michelle Harclerode. The wiki features dozens of book previews and book reviews produced by students for students. There's also a section of book trailers featuring the books that teachers loved when they were growing-up.
 * Bookwink's mission is to inspire kids to read. Through pod-casting and web video, we hope to connect kids in Grades 3 through 8 with books that will make them excited about reading. The videos are approximately 3 minutes long and are updated monthly. Each video book talk is about a different topic, and additional read-alikes can be found on the Bookwink website. You can look for books by subject, grade level, author or title. We are constantly updating the book lists with our newest favorite books.

[|Spellingcity] [|World Spelling Day- (early March)] [|Tutpup]
 * Spelling**
 * Have students use Spelling City to learn their spelling words, vocabulary words, or site words through games, practice and quizzes.
 * Students play at home and at school against other students around the world in live games of spelling. Each game lasts for 60 seconds and students can play up to 100 games, earning points for their personal tally. Students can play beyond 100 games during the event, but points will only count to the World Spelling Day Spellometer, not their personal point score. The students who answer the most questions correctly will appear on the Hall of Fame. There are 5 levels of play, 20 games on each level.

__**Writing**__ [|Read Write Think] [|KerPoof] [|501 Writing Prompts] [|55 Interesting Ways to Support Writing in the Classroom] [|ECB-Writing and Publishing]
 * Website is sponsored by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English contains lessons plans and interactive tools that can be used in any content area that involves writing. There are maps you can adapt to help students organize with information for writing assignments.
 * user Kerpoof to allow your students to illustrate their writing, create a movie, and more!
 * This is designed to provide you with a variety of writing topics and model essays. Categories in this book cover many different types of writing: persuasive, expository, narrative, and literary response.

__**ACT Prep**__ [|English Sample Test] [|Reading Sample Test] [|Writing Sample Test] [|English Practice Questions] [|Reading Practice Questions Set 1] [|Reading Practice Questions Set 2] [|Reading and English Sample Questions]