Essay Punch Mr. Nussbaum LA Games Grades 2

APA Citation Auto Citations Machines
Citation machine
Easybib
knightcite compiles the citations, exports in alpha order to WORD Doc
noodletools (k-6 friendly)
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp
Various content links
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/langcode.htm
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/Interactive/Interact.html
Essay Punch
http://www.essaypunch.com/
This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic essay. Users develop an idea and
write their own short essay, consisting of an introduction, a two- to three-paragraph body, and a
conclusion. The web site provides questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing,
writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing. Completed essays may be transferred to a word
processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application. To begin, click Start Writing Now. Grades 3-12
ReviseWise English Reading, Writing, Spelling & Grammar & games
Mr. Nussbaum LA Games Grades 2-8
GameGoo Creative language arts online games. Grades 2-6
Mortifying Monday Create your own adventure story. Grades 3-8
Character Scrapbook A reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Grades
2-5
Paragraph Punch
http://www.paragraphpunch.com/
This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a paragraph. The web site provides
questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting,
and publishing. Completed essays may be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor, or email application. To begin, click Start Writing Now. Grades 3-6
Sesame Street Games
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=games
Play over 100 games, hear your favorite theme songs, read interactive stories from Sesame
Street. Grades PreK-1
Enchanted Learning
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Home.html
This is a fun educational site for audiences as young as preschool. Some of the areas covered: science,
language arts and geography. (Not all pages are interactive.)
Grades Pre-K-3
Left-Brained Poetry Prompts and Right-Brained Poetry Prompts
Writing Fun Using text organizers
Read Write Think Interactive tools for reading & writing
Make Beliefs Comix Create your own comics
bookr Create and share your own photobook using Flickr images
Magic Pen Story Starters Useful time-filler activity in which the class creates a story together.
SpellBee FREE teacher registration. Choose a partner & play a word game. Grades 2-6
Spin and Spell Choose a picture and spell the word. Grades 1-3
Spelling Time Grades 1-5
Spelling Wizard Type in 10 words, then make a word search or word scramble
Spelling City Free register, upload spelling lists, send kids to practice
Grammar Games
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/preview/harcourt_language/grammar_park.html
A huge collection of online grammar games. Grade 3
Game Goo - interactive games Grades 2-5
Gameaquarium
http://www.gamequarium.com
A collection of language arts, math, science, and social studies. Grades PreK-6
Kids’ Space
http://www.kids-space.org
Started in 1995 to promote international communication for students, this is a must see for teachers in k-6
classrooms. Students are able to write stories that are displayed on this site (teacher will join, get a
password and send the completed stories). For the younger grades students will love the “Create Your
Own Scenario”. (Not all pages at this site are interactive.) Grades K-5
Literacy Center
http://www.literacycenter.net
This site, from the Early Childhood Education Network, provides lots of early literacy learning activities for
young children, In order to view the webpages you will need Flash Player. Grades Pre-K-K
Enchanted Learning
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Home.html
This is a fun educational site for audiences as young as preschool. Some of the areas covered: science,
language arts and geography. (Not all pages are interactive.) Grades Pre-K-3
Fun Brain
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A4=1
This site contains a variety of edu-taining activities covering areas of math, language arts, social studies,
and science. Grades K-6
Scholastic News
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/
The News Zone presents current events that are most relevant to students, in a format that is fun and
appealing. The current events and engaging activities include Note Now, Games and Quizzes, What’s
Your IQ and Write a Caption. Grades 3-8
Online Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.writeexpress.com/online2.html
Find a rhyme in no time online! Useful, fun, and fascinating! Grades 1-12.
Magnetic Poetry
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/scramble.htm
Click and drag to make a poem. Grades 2-4
Scholastic Grammar activities
Spin and Spell Grades 2-3
Building Language for Literacy
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bll/
Online literacy skill activities. This site appears to be a product advertisement but scroll down to click a
character to enter the online practice activities of oral language, phonemic awareness, letter knowledge,
or concepts of print Grades K-3
The Lord of the Rings Exhibition Teachers' Guide
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/rings/teachers/LOTRE%20Export/index.html
The activities in this guide put your students in the director’s chair. They encourage the same sort of
creativity and ingenuity that Peter Jackson and his team used in making The Lord of the Rings.
Grades 5-9
Interactive Language Arts Exercises
http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm#Vocabulary
Includes: 35 Vocabulary exercises, 43 Grammar exercises, Reading-comprehension exercises, and
more. Grades 4+
Kid Port
 Grade 1 Games
 Grade 2 Games
 Grade 3 Games
 Grade 4 Games
 Grade 5 Games
 Grade 7 Games
 Grade 8 Games
http://www.kidport.com/Grade1/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
http://www.kidport.com/Grade2/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
http://www.kidport.com/Grade3/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
http://www.kidport.com/Grade4/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
http://www.kidport.com/Grade5/Science/ScienceIndex.htm
http://www.kidport.com/Grade7/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
http://www.kidport.com/Grade8/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
Apples for the Teacher Language Arts Games
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/langarts.html
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Alphabetizing a List of Words
Homophones
Language Games for Younger Kids
http://kidsdomain.com/games/read1.html
Language Games for Older Kids
http://kidsdomain.com/games/read2.html
Funschool Games
http://www.funschool.com/games.php
Choose from 194 Flash, Java and Shockwave games. Grades K-8
I Know That Language Arts Games
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_LanguageArts
English Grammar Pronouns provides rules, a simple game, and the "gory details" for using
pronouns correctly. Grades 3-5
Sadlier-Oxyford Phonics Interactive Phonics and Word Study provides exciting activities for
short vowels, long vowels, diphtongs, homonyms, synomyms, diagraphs, suffixes, contractions, and many
more! Grades K-5
Language Arts Basic Skills and Games
http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html
More Language Arts Resources
PowerPoint Resources
Grade 6-12 Language Arts Interactive Resources
Interactive Websites - Reading and Language Arts
Links open in a new browser.
Sites for the students:
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Synonyms and antonyms
Antonym Matching Game
Antonyms
Antonym Matching
Adjectives and Adverbs
Cause and Effect Florida
Lesson on Cause and Effect OswegoNew York State
8. Cause and Effect Oswego - New York
State
9. Base Words (root words)
10. Compound words
11. Create compound words
12. Match the contraction
13. Contraction Match
14. Contractions
15. Instant Poetry Forms - fill in the blanks
and create poems
16. Create a Diamante Poem
17. Drawing conclusions New York State
18. Making inferences and drawing
conclusions
19. Making inferences and more examples
of inferences
20. Drawing conclusions
21. Drawing conclusions
22. Create a Flip Book
23. Fact or Opinion - Teaching and Learning
Resources
24. Fact or Opinion - Quia
25. Main Idea New York State
26. The Main Idea Practice page
27. Main Idea - Comprehension activities
28. Noting details
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Building prefixes
Prefix Catch
Constructing Prefixes
Suffix and base word match
Practice with Prefixes
Practice with suffixes
Prefix Catch
More practice with suffixes - verbs
Using Suffixes
Punctuation Game
Reading, writing, spelling, grammar and
games
40. Spin and Spell easy level
41. Word Builder Harcourt Spelling
42. Multiple meaning words Funbrain
43. Multiple meaning words Manatee
44. Homographs Quia
45. Matching Vowel Sound Circus Builder
game
46. Matching vowels sounds Alpine Vacation
Game
47. Grow your own story from the story plant
48. Poetry Splatter
49. Parts of speech
50. r-controlled vowels
51. r-controlled vowels (2)
52. Making a "monster" simile
53. point of view? first or third person
54. Using context clues
55. Nouns: singular possessive
56. Nouns: plural possessive
57. Using their, they're and there correctly
58. Figurative Language and idioms
59. Simple subjects and predicates
60. Listening to Poe's "The Bells"
61. Interactive games alphabetizing through
3rd letter, parts of speech, words in
context, fact or opinion, possessive
adjectives
Resources for teachers
1. www.poetry4kids.com
2. Interactive Calendar with literacy ideas
and lesson plans
3. online Student Materials to support
literacy learning
4. Elementary Test Prep Math New York
State
5. Elementary Test Prep ELA New York
State
6. Point of View New York State
Elementary Test Prep
7. Create a Crossword Puzzle edHelper.com
8. Heroes - Grade 4, theme 5
9. Education Place - Houghton Mifflin
10. Read * Write * Think IRA, NCTE
11. AOL@School elementary
12. Fourth grade language arts
Resources for Sadako and the Thousand Cranes
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Kids Web Japan
Peace Day
Thousand Cranes Peace Network
Cranes a Teacher CyberGuide
Cranes For Peace
www.sadako.org/
Webquest about Sadako
Webquests and lesson plans
9. How to fold a paper crane