Archive for the 'Language Arts' Category
The Library of Congress website has a wide variety of online primary resources that can be used with students. These resources include newspapers, comic books, maps, and more. The Teachers page includes lesson plans for using primary sources in grades kindergarten and up. The site has recently added references to the Common Core standards. It […]
Read More...
108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom is a blog post by the award-winning blogger Michael Gorman. As the title suggests, the post offers more than 100 ways to use work clouds in the classroom. What I like about this particular post is that the ideas are organized by subject area.
Read More...
Road to Grammar is a site designed for ELL students, but has resources for any student learning English grammar. The site contains online games, practice exercises and quizzes that give immediate feedback. Road to Grammar also offers grammar-related resources that teachers can download.
Read More...
55 Interesting Ways to Support Writing in the Classroom is a slideshare site that offers many good suggestions for teaching good writing. As with most slideshare sites, the creator of this site welcomes contributions by others who have good writing tips to share.
Read More...
Simple English Wikipedia is an online wiki-style encyclopedia geared for students, children, and anyone trying to learn the English language. The articles are shorter than those you would find on the regular Wikipedia, and the articles are written in more basic English. Like Wikipedia, the articles available through Simple English Wikipedia are written and edited […]
Read More...
VocabGrabber is part of the Visual Thesaurus website. VocabGrabber creates a word cloud of vocabulary words from any text you copy and paste into their text box. Each of the words becomes a link that, when clicked on, displays the definition of the word in both written and web format.
Read More...
bubbabrain is a site that offers a variety of interactive activities for all grade levels. The activities are easy to use and are organized by grade level, then by subject. Teachers can create their own games, but they need to register. Students can play the games created by their teacher by entering the teacher’s ID.
Read More...
Wordsmyth is an online dictionary designed for use by students of all levels. Wordsmyth offers three levels of dictionary: Beginner’s, Children’s and Advanced. Wordsmyth provides definitions, audio pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, similar words and image.
Read More...
The Free Online Dictionary is an online dictionary and thesaurus. In addition, you can search for and look up the meanings of popular idioms. You can also search for the meaning of frequently-used acronyms.
Read More...
Great Ways to Teach Any Day’s Times is a post on the New York Times’ Learning Network blog. I’ve mentioned The Learning Network blog before in this blog. It’s one of my favorite educational blogs. I just discovered that they have a number of interactive graphic organizers (e.g. Venn Diagram, KWL Chart, Cause and Effect […]
Read More...