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Reading and Phonics |
http://library.thinkquest.org/50027/main.html
Welcome to "123 Reading Road." This site is dedicated to understanding and providing materials to support the early stages of reading development. Our reading activities are organized in three groups: (see below for descriptions)
Group 1: Alphabet Soup
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| A LINK TO NANCY! (3-7)
Nancy Drew: This childhood friend of mine now has her own web site that will take adventures into a mystery. Join Nancy and George on the slopes for what will prove to be an exciting time of secrets and discovery. Lesson plans for teachers. http://www.nancydrew.com/kids/ |
READING PLANS:
http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/reading_plans.html Reading Bingo, Story Wheels, Story Chains, Flap Charts--
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Teach with Harry Potter |
This section of the Palma Sola Elementary School Website
features online tutorials in reading comprehension strategies and
free reading comprehension and content area practice sheets for you to
use with your child or students. Phonological awareness strategies and
practice, as well as other pre-reading skills, are found on the K-2 Strategies
index page.First and second grade reading comprehension tutorials and practice
are found on the 1-2 Reading Page.
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary /palmasola/rcompindex.htm |
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| HARRY POTTER TEACHING RESOURCES:
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/harry/index.htm http://www.mikids.com/harrypotter/ |
READING LESSONS:
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/reading/ index.html A series of reading lessons & activities geared to grades 4 and up will have students using various techniques and processes to sequence, write, inter- view characters, etc., all based on the books you are using in your classroom. |
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| Your free book test is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
http://www.mikids.com/harrypotter2/ Username is HP (capital letters) password is holly |
READING--WHAT TO TEACH AND WHEN:
http://www.creativeclassroom.com/jf00ttt/whatto.html Descriptions of student learning patterns at each grade level accompany teacher guidelines for reading strategies. Covers Kindergarten through grade six. |
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| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
http://www.mikids.com/harrypotter2/ username vet password 11 (That's eleven) |
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| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
http://www.mikids.com/harrypotter2/ Username:hp Password:4 READING COMPREHENSION WORKSHEETS:
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TEACHING TIPS FOR READING:
http://teachingtips.com/articles/Greading1.html Find several strategies and prompts to use in the classroom for semantics, structure, graphics, self-monitoring, etc. |
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| Looking for a novel study unit with activities?
http://www.links2learn.com |
CYBERGUIDES GRADES 6 - 8:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy68.html Same as above, with absolutely great resources chosen for Middle School level. Each Cyberguide is related to Lan- guage Arts content standards; well worth the visit. |
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| PARTS OF SPEECH POETRY:
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/41.html This exercise for grade two and up can be adapted to virtually any parts of speech your class happens to be studying. An easy-to-use lesson, integrating a grammar exercise with creative writing activities. |
CYBERGUIDES GRADES 4-5:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy45.html One of the best literature resources on the web is provided by SCORE (California), in these cyberguides for literature and language arts teachers. Each unit-- and there are many! is aligned with language arts standards. Each also supplies several excellent student activities on each literature text. The books chosen are all popular titles for appropriate grade levels. |
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| This is a board game for reading comprehension.
http://spanglers.scrutiny.tripod.com/ |
CYBERGUIDES GRADES 9-12:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy912.html All the classic literature texts are listed here, with some pretty great resources, lessons, and activities to go along with each one. Stuck for ideas on teaching "Of Mice and Men" this year, or simply want to try something new? Try here! |
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| 101 WAYS OF REPORTING ON BOOKS:
http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/science/lessons45/books.html Similar to 100 Responses to Literature, this list offers creative ways to refresh otherwise stale book reports and resonses. They can be adapted to virtually any book. |
READING COMPREHENSION SUPPORT/UPPER GRADES:
http://www.rti.santacruz.k12.ca.us/sss/ Looking for lesson plans on comparing and contrasting characters? How about the main idea and supporting evidence? Cause and effect, sequence -- all in one place! This site provides a wealth of resources and material for Reading & Literature comprehension. |
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| MULTI-MEDIA BOOK REPORT RUBRIC:
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/bk.rep.fic.htm Specially designed for middle grades, fiction texts, and multimedia reports. |
LITERATURE ACTIVITIES FOR SACHAR'S
"HOLES":
http://www.nancypolette.com/LitGuidesText/holes.htm Find five suggested classroom activities to accompany your reading of the book. "HOLES" DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Find writing activities, classroom activities, worksheets, themes, and a book summary at this site. |
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| LITERATURE-BASED TEACHING IDEAS:
http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/default.html The University of Calgary, Canada, sponsors this Doucette Index, a high-quality database for tracking literature guides and activities. You can find both web and book resources; simply enter the title and/or author of the book you are studying and the Doucette Index will provide clickable links, texts, and lesson plans. |
ONLINE FAIRY TALE UNIT:
http://home.att.net/~cattonn/fairy.html Written especially for grade one, this 4-6 week unit on fairy tales covers many titles in this genre. |
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| A JOURNEY INTO MAKE BELIEVE:
http://www.covington.k12.tn.us/uop/uop3.htm Written as a unit for students in grades 4 through 8,
writing activities across the curriculum explore character and meaning
in the novel. Online research also figures prominently.
A set of ten study questions on the text will provoke
THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE VIEWS:
Teacher reviews and activities precede a group of nine
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THE BFG TEACHER ACTIVITIES:
http://www.roalddahlfans.com/teachers/bfgclass.htm http://www.roalddahlfans.com/teachers/bfgcomm.htm Find a suggested activity for making Frobscottle... The
CREATIVE WRITING IDEA:
Scroll down to entry #6, and have your students create
a
THE BFG ACTIVITIES:
Several activities extend the themes and vocabulary :)
of
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THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE: http://www1.uop.edu/kidline/ftct/index.html Students will explore character relationships with pre-
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HOMECOMING TEACHER'S GUIDE:
http://www.randomhouse.com/BB/teachers/tgs/homecoming.html Find several discussion and writing questions, links to
HOMECOMING NOVEL GUIDE:
Extension activities explore all aspects of Voigt's novel,
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| LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE UNIT:
http://faculty.acu.edu/~armstrongl/geography/house.htm This is a 15 day geography-oriented unit with both guided
LITTLE HOUSE LESSON PLAN:
Students in grades two and three will learn about
CLASS ACTIVITIES FOR LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE:
Find classroom activities across the curriculum to extend
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FIFTY GREAT BOOKS FOR GRADES 3 & 4:
http://www.jcl.lib.ks.us/kids/50great3&4.htm FIFTY GREAT BOOKS FOR GRADES 4 & 5:
FAVORITE FOURTH GRADE BOOKS:
TIMELESS CLASSICS K-6:
3RD - 5TH GRADE READING LIST:
GREAT BOOKS FOR GRADES 4/5:
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| READING WORM:
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/reading_worm.htm Children can color segments of the worm as they learn each new word, or use these printables to record books read as well. |
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Glossary Maker |
A LINK TO ENGLISH HELP (4-12)
Common Errors in English: "The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak." http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ |
| http://k-6educators.about.com/bltools.htm
Quotations for the day |
A LINK TO WORDS (7-12)
Visual Thesaurus: A great tool to find words. You type in a word and it floats on the screen. Then thesaurus finds other words that mean the same and floats them behind and around the requested word. Useful for those visual learners among us. Well done, applet video used. http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/ |
| http://k-6educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa102900a.htm
Speeches |
SPELLING TICKLERS:
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/~morris/speltic.html Bookmark this site before you lose it! Activites across the curriculum and covering grades K through 12 will make your students better spellers. |
| http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html
A LINK TO WORDS (4-12) A Word a Day: This site introduced readers to a new word each day. This gives the pronunciation in RealAudio or Wav, definitions and usage. A great resource to increase vocabulary. |
SPELLING AND VOCABULARY PLANS:
http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/spell_plans.html Great teacher resources are offered at this site for teaching practically any level and/or ability of spelling class. The games will not only reinforce regular class spelling lessons, but can also be applied to studying for spelling bees. |
| COMPREHENSIVE WORD LISTS:
http://www.hmschool.com/spelling/wordlists/index.htm Choose from Levels A through F; great for spelling, vocabulary, or Spelling Bee practices . |
BJ PINCHBECK'S WORD LISTS:
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/ bjpinchbeck/bjarchive.html Test your would-be competitors with an English vocab list, a SAT vocabulary list, a Spanish language vocabulary list, and both upper and lower levels spelling lists. Updated weekly. |
| GRAMMAR GORILLAS:
http://www.Funbrain.com/grammar/index.html Students will enjoy practicing and reinforcing their gram-
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HUMOROUS GRAMMAR RULES:
http://www.creativeteachingsite.com/ humorgrammar.htm Time to have a little fun with today's resource--
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| CORNERSTONE PUNCTUATION WORKSHEET:
http://www.learningcompanyschool.com/school/prods/pdf/Clpun2.pdf The Cornerstone series sharpens and reviews language arts
and math skills taught throughout the year, and is particularly useful
for pretesting practice as standards testing draws ever nearer. Try this
punctuation worksheet, and
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Daily Grammar
Over 400 Grammar lessons http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html |
Last update May 14, 2001
