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PHONICS & READING LITERATURE RESOURCES POETRY WRITING GRAMMAR

SPELLING & VOCABULARY REFERENCE LESSON PLANS & UNITS

PHONICS AND READING

Phonics Links California guide on reading comprehension features profiles of helpful
books, teaching strategies, and a FAQ on state standards.
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/Phonics_Link/phonics.html

Room 108 has sight word activities, books to read, etc.
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108b.html

100 Remedial Reading & Phonics Worksheets
http://www.tampareads.com

Alphabet to Print
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/2482/alphabet.gif

123 Reading Road---Early Reading
http://library.thinkquest.org/50027

Cursive to Print
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/2482/cursive.gif

Phonics Charts
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/2482/learn3.html

Reading Plans from the Teacher's Desk Look over a collection of teaching ideas for the classroom. Lesson plans
range from reading bingo and story chains to alternative book reports.
http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/reading_plans.html

A Compact for Reading k-3 Great resources!
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/

Learning to Read Discusses balanced literacy, interactive lessons, and recommended books.
Connect to the National Council of Teachers of English homepage.
http://toread.com/

EnglishTown (All ages) This site can help people to learn English who want to learn it well. When English is a
second language, people have to have a place to practice. If you need help with your English skills this is a great site.
http://englishtown.ef.com/en/lessons/games/

Downloadable English Units for Student's years 1-13
http://www.english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/home.html

Word Flashcards
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/2bprinted/flashwords.html

LITERATURE RESOURCES

GRADE 2 ONLINE STORIES
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/third6.html

Pilkey's Website of Fun: Children's author, (The Dumb Bunnies) Dav Pilkey, aka Sue Denim, has aunique and
amusing website about himself and his stories. Also included is a section on jokes, interactive acitivies that include
printable coloring sheets and games, and a section for teachers on how to use Dav's site as a teaching tool
http://www.pilkey.com/

Folklore and Mythology
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Seussville These simple Shockwave games are fun activities for your little ones based
on popular Dr. Seuss books.
http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/games/

LITERATURE AND STORY RESOURCES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND UP
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6617/stures.html#a

This online version of Aesop's Fables includes the full public domain
texts-638 fables. http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/

Classics for Young People (All ages) This site is a huge collection of classic stories and novels that are on the reading l
ists for many schools.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storclas.html

Anne Frank Online. More than 1,000,000 children under the age of 16 diedin the Holocaust.
Anne Frank was one of them.
http://www.annefrank.com/

Book Units PreK-12th grade
http://members.aol.com/sskufca/bookunits.htm

Mount Miguel Library - American and World Author Links Lists resources for authors, poetry archives, lesson
plans and documents on various classics, and other useful links.
http://www.grossmont.k12.ca.us/MtMiguel/library/authors.html

HeroicStories
http://www.heroicstories.com

O'Conner's American Literature Online
http://web.missouri.edu/~engmo/amlit.html

Full text of classics by Frank L. Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, and
others. Online Children's Stories Varied genres of children's stories. Seuss and more.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html

Children's Literature Web Guide Links to children's book awards, and stories on the web.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
Shakespeare's work, online.

SHAKESPEARIAN HOMEWORK HELPERS
http://hometown.aol.com/liadona2/shakespeare.html

Listen Story
http://www.listenstory.com
Teens having trouble with Shakespeare? Fear Macbeth no longer! Listen and understand
Shakespeare with a little help from your friends at ListenStory!

POETRY

Poetry Workshop for Teens
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq157/index.htm

Build a Poem
http://www.evsc.k12.in.us/schoolzone/schools/EMPOWER/reitz/engldept/BETH-R1.html

WRITING

Web's largest collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related
research projects. http://www.researchpaper.com/

Typing practice Dance Mat Typing

Students must have good typing skills to compete in today’s education system and in the
future job market. Plus, for many students, once they learn to type, the computer makes
life much easier for them. I love this site and so do kids.

Speech Writing Everything related to speeches and speech writing! Everything related to speeches and speech writing.
Free search of over 13,000 quotes by more than 4,000 authors, free speech writing tips, free example speeches, free
resource links
http://www.espeeches.com

Young Writers Writing tips, contests, and publishing opportunities for young writers.
The young-at-heart will equally enjoy it's parent site, with even more authoring information.
http://www.inkspot.com/joe/young/

YOUNG WRITERS' CLUB
This online club encourages children to make writing a creative pastime.
They are invited to share their work and help others improve their writing
skills.
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/derya/ywc.html

WRITING ASSIGNMENT: WHAT IS YOUR TEN YEAR PLAN?Students write their own ticket to the American
dream, as they see it, elaborating on how they will obtain and secure their various ideals and
enterprises. Introduced a la Great Gatsby.
http://www.ncte.org/teach/Wheeler24764.html

STORY FUN! This site is a madlibs story format. Practice adjectives, nouns, etc., or don't pretend you're learning
anything at all and just have fun making the weirdest stories you can possibly think of and see what's returned to you!
http://www.mit.edu/storyfun

WRITING ADVENTURES: Here you will find an extensive series of high school writing lessons divided into three main categories:
Composition I, Composition II, and English II. Each contains several lessons and resources, such as
writing about plot, 100 journal topics, literary analysis, poetry project, activities for specific novels--much more.
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/freshenglish/writing.html

WriteGuide provides an individualized writing curriculum
http://www.writeguide.com.

PARADIGM ONLINE WRITING ASSISTANT: The Paradigm page is full of how-to's for just about any writing enterprise,
with graphics, writing topics, activities and question and answer. See Informal Essays category for story-writing sub-headings.
http://www.powa.org/

INTERACTIVE ONLINE SCREENPLAY WRITING: Give your students a chance to write a movie script online! Students can
submit their scene and see if their characters' dialogue rings true. They can read previous entries and also see how the actual
screen- play was written. From the Annenberg Project.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema/screenwriting/page2.html

GRAMMAR

GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND WRITING: Professor Charles Darling from Capital Community Tech College (CT) has provided
an excellent and comprehensive guide to English grammar, sentence construction, spelling and composition. Also find categories
for Formsof Communication (e.g. business letter, resumes, research papers); Ask Grammar (If you're puzzled about or stuck
on a particular grammar problem, you may submit a question; do check the FAQ file first.) and Online Interactive Quizzes.
This site is quite extensive and provides a wonderful resource for teachers, parents and students alike
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm

The Basic Cozy Grammar Course: A light hearted, whimsical approach to learning basic
English grammar.
http://www.splashesfromtheriver.com

PARTS OF A SENTENCE
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/sentence/index.htm

ONLINE ENGLISH GRAMMAR: With a grammar clinic, practice pages, grammatical description and many resources, both
students and teachers can profit from this site.
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar.toc.cfm

EnglishTown Home Page
http://englishtown.ef.com/en/default.asp

SPELLING AND VOCABULARY

Game Time: Word Lightning
http://www.easyfunschool.com/WordLightning.htmlTARGET=_blank"
In this game you have one minute to think up as many words as you can that
begin with the same letter

SPELLING & VOCABULARY LESSONS: Teachers can find numerous lessons here in both spelling and vocabulary;
all grade levels. This site also contains many of its lessons in fun game formats. From Teacher's Desk.
http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/spell_plans.html

Here's a link to check out for spelling rules.
http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/susan.htm

BEE A BETTER SPELLER:
http://www.cis.ysu.edu/~duda/newweb.htm

VOCABULARY UNIVERSITY:
http://www.vocabulary.com/

FREE WORD SEARCH PUZZLES
http://freebies.about.com/library/words/blwsearch.htm

WILD WORLD OF WORDS This site offers a set of Web-based word puzzles for a variety of skills and levels.
http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/challenge/word.html

REFERENCE

Dictionaries galore--Includes almancs and encyclopedias
http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/dict.htm

Ask Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Perfect for those times when you're writing an e-mail and need a word
fast. Complete dictionary and thesaurus, as well as word games to add excitement to your research life.
http://www.m-w.com/

Roget's Thesaurus Search for a synonym for any word.
http://www.thesaurus.com/

LESSON PLANS AND UNITS

Language Arts Lesson Plans
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang.html

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