Language+Arts+Resources

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General
//**ReadWriteThink!**// The mission of **ReadWriteThink**,is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials. Every lesson plan on ReadWriteThink has been aligned not only to the IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts but to individual state standards as well.

//**Writing Fix**// Since 2001, the **[|**Northern Nevada Writing Project**]** has proudly sponsored this free-to-use website, which aims to "fix" those teachers who don't believe that writing instruction can be both the most enjoyable part of their teaching day. If you explore the website's pages, you will find prompts, lessons, and resources that were created and shared--and then posted --during workshops and in-service classes sponsored by the NNWP. The Nevada teachers who participate in these professional development opportunities discover ways to be passionate about teaching writing, and share the very best, hoping that their passion is contagious to the teachers across the globe who have discovered what they've proudly posted here. The **[|Mentor Text Bibliography]** can help you directly link to lessons and prompts based on books you might already own.

Free Online Courses for Creative Writing Follow this link to free online courses for creative writing offered by top universities and educational websites. These courses focus on several types of creative writing, including poetry, essay writing and fiction writing. This site also offers other resources for writers including career information, reference web sites and average salaries earned by people in the writing profession.

How to Use an Apostrophe Well-designed diagram on when to use an apostrophe. The actual poster is available for order and use in your classroom.

//**iWrite**// Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents. [|For Educators] — Quick access to powerful writing lessons and assessments; [|For Students] — Step-by-step support for completing writing assignments; [|For Parents] — Tips for helping your child become a better writer, thinker, and learner

//**EDSITEment**// EDSITEment is a partnership among the [| National Endowment for the Humanities], [|Verizon Foundation], and the National Trust for the Humanities.EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality.


 * //[|Wordnik]//** Wordnik is a place for all the words, and everything known about them. Their goal is to show you as much information as possible, as fast as they can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known.Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they've found what they consider to be "enough" information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don't want to wait—if you're interested in a word, they're interested too! Examples of information they provide may include: example sentences, related words (those that show up in the same type of sentences), related images from places like Flickr, statistics about the word, audio pronunciations, and links and comments provided by users like you.

//**[|Fun With Words]**// **Fun-with-words.com** is dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language: **wordplay**. Playing with words and language is both entertaining and educational. Here you can have plenty of **fun with words** with over 500 pages of word puzzles, games, amazing lists, and fun facts.The site is divided into topical sections. Use the menu on the left to access them. Recommended pages: [|Books on Etymology] (Origins of Words/Phrases), [|words that end in gry] (puzzle) and [|Anagram Generator].

//**[|Conjugation.com]****Use this cool tool to conjugate verbs whenever you aren't sure of the correct words to use.**//

//**Conjugation** is the regular arrangement of the forms of the verb in the various voices// Example: Conjugation on the verb "to be" I am, You are, ..... They are //(Affirmative, Present Simple)// I have been, You have been, ..... They have been //(Affirmative, Present Perfect)// Not having been //(Negative, Past Participle)// Had I been? Had You been? ..... Had they been? //(Interrogative, Past Perfect)// [|www.comiclife.com] This website allows people to use the medium of comics and graphic novels to tell stories, inform others and show what they have learned. Click on the educational resources link for many ideas of uses and how-tos.

Language arts activities related to phonics and spelling Good for all grades. []

Book Buddy Reviews ([|http://bookbuddyreviews.pbwiki.com]) is a wiki created by two teachers. Students in first and fourth grades collaborate to read and review books. Fourth grade students read the books to the first graders. First grade students then draft reviews and the fourth graders edit the reviews for spelling and grammar. In the next step, the first graders narrate the reviews and the fourth graders create book covers. Finally, the book reviews and covers are posted on the Buddy Book Reviews wiki

[] This web page turns your handwriting into a computer font!

[] ESL Listening lab

http://reading.ecb.org/ //**Into the Book**// is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs.

//**Behind the Lesson**// provides information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

[] Homophone bingo

Making Words
Word Magnets will take a piece of text and break it into individual magnets which can be moved around the screen, resized, removed, colour coded, grouped, sorted and so on. New magnets can also be added at any point. Great for sorting groups of words into categories for any subject The resource also offers a range of backgrounds for use in a variety of activities. []

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