Reading / Language Arts - Student Focused
http://pbskids.org/lions/parents.html Between the Lions is a reading-focused section of the PBS website. This site has resources for you as well as the children.
www.rif.org Reading is Fundamental is a great place for the latest information regarding reading research as well as motivational ideas and teaching tips.
http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/lessonplans.php great writing website
http://www.fcboe.org/schoolhp/shes/sight_words.htm Dolch Sight Words by grade.
http://readingrockets.org/
You'll find hundreds of current articles on this site, such as:
About Reading
If you were to read just one article, this should be it! It's a
succinct overview of how children learn to read and what we can
do to prevent reading problems.
Early Literacy Instruction
This informative article takes what researchers have found to be
effective and translates that into practical things teachers can
do in the classroom.
http://www.readwritethink.org/index.asp
ReadWriteThink, established in April of National Council of Teachers
of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. NCTE
and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with
access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading
and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.
http://toread.com/ The purpose
of this web page is to improve the quality of reading instruction
through the study of the reading process and teaching techniques.
It will serve as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading
research through conferences, journals and other publications. Click
on the following links to search for developments in literacy, professional
materials, research and critical issues.
http://creative-writing-solutions.com/ Welcome to Creative Writing
Solutions. We provide proven techniques that will get writers of
all ages motivated to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards).
Here, we introduce creative ways for parents, teachers, and families
who home school, to get their reluctant children to write. Included
in this website is information about writing with learning disabilities
(such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, and fine motor delays) that hold
students back from reaching their highest writing potential, as
well as publishing opportunities and advice for young ambitious
fiction authors. This site is loaded with writing tips and lesson
plans for educators and parents.
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/makingbooks.html
Have a great time making books with your kids! The "shape books"
are especially fun!
http://sunlite.bamaed.ua.edu/ReadWriteNow/
At this site you can submit a book review or read book reviews written
by other kids.
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/
“The purpose of this site is to provide a user friendly online resource,
for students or teachers, no matter what they are being challenged
to write." This site offers ideas to help you with prewriting,
writing, revising, editing, and publishing.
http://members.aol.com/phonicsrm/
This website can be used by teachers as a resource guide. They offer
poems, songs, literature and activities for most of the letters
of the alphabet. This is a wonderful site for teacher resources
as well.
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html
Children’s story books online.
http://www.education-world.com/summer_reading/
Kids want to be outdoors during the summer, so why not take a book
and sit on the front porch. You can explore a great story while
enjoying the sunshine! On this site you'll find a great list of
recommended reading for kindergarten through 8th grade, book reviews,
author interviews and ideas for fun summer projects.
http://www.scholastic.com/
Play games, enter contests, make your own riddle and talking picture
show. Plus read about your favorite books like Harry Potter, Animorphs,
Goosebumps, Captain Underpants and more. There's also great stuff
for parents and teachers.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm This is a comprehensive website that covers rules and examples for grammar, writing, and composition. It even includes quizzes and power point presentations.
http://www.edhelper.com/spelling.htm Ideas and activities to help your child with spelling.
http://www.everydayspelling.com/ Improve your child’s spelling with fun activities from this website!
http://www.lexile.com This Website gives lots of great information to help you better understand Lexile scores.
http://gardenofpraise.com/spell1.htm
Songs to help your child learn spelling rules!
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/spell.htm National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides some activities to improve your child’s spelling skill.
<Visit>Here's a great website that lets parents hear an average reader in grades K-3. There is also great information in the sidebar that tells about substitutions, fluency, etc.
http://www.prenhall.com/bluepencil Several of you have asked about a grammar site that is not quite so easy. Here is one that is not for the faint hearted (it will even improve YOUR skills) and is completely interactive and free.
http://www.grammarlady.com The purposes of the site are to be helpful, to raise consciousness about correct language use, and to remind everyone of the ways to have fun with language.
http://www.ttms.org/
Steve Peha, President of Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc. (TTMS)
loves to share stuff with teachers using PDF's on the Internet.
Chocked full of great information and strategy ideas.
(Warning: you might run out of paper and toner if you print everything!).
His website is:
http://www.ttms.org/library/content_purpose_audience_packet.pdf
Content- Purpose-Audience strategy. This packet features a collection
of materials based on the Content- Purpose-Audience strategy. This
is perhaps the most powerful strategy we have. Though probably best
suited to persuasive and informational writing, it can be used as
a pre-writing strategy for any form. It can also be used as a reading
strategy to dissect any type of text.
You can download this packet:
http://www.ttms.org/library/transition_action_details_packet.pdf
STEP-BY-STEP SUCCESS: READING AND WRITING WITH TRANSITION-ACTION-
DETAILS This packet features a collection of materials based on
the Transition-Action-Details strategy. Transition-Action-Details
is a great strategy for all forms of narrative writing, biographies,
history, processes, procedures, math algorithms, science experiments,
directions, summaries, and just about anything that can be described
in a step-by-step fashion. It's also a great reading strategy, too.
You can download this packet:
http://www.ttms.org/library/what_why_how_packet.pdf
CRITICAL THINKING: IT'S AS EASY AS WHAT-WHY-HOW This packet features
a collection of materials based on the What- Why-Strategy. What-Why-How
is one of our best strategies for helping students with logical
arguments, expository and persuasive writing, thesis and support,
essay questions, and constructed responses. It's also a terrific
non-fiction reading strategy.
You can download this packet:
http://www.ttms.org/library/inspiring_instruction_packet.pdf
INSPIRING INSTRUCTION
This is a collection of over 40 of our best mini-lessons and articles.
These are the tools we use most frequently when we teach reading
and writing at all grade levels. Each lesson is on its own page
and no single article is longer than 750 words. These are things
teachers can use once or use over and over, things that can be used
in Reader's and Writer's Workshop classrooms and in traditional
classrooms as well.
You can download this packet:
http://www.ttms.org/library/language_arts_survival_kit_packet.pdf
THE LANGUAGE ARTS SURVIVAL KIT
This is a collection of really useful tools. In fact, it's possible
to teach pretty much an entire year with just the 20-or-so pages
in this packet. It contains all of our best "organizers",
those handy- dandy compilations of strategies and other ideas for
effective instruction.
There's probably the equivalent of 100+ lessons here, many of which
can be used over and over throughout the school year.
You can download this packet:
http://www.ttms.org/library/writing_process_organizer_large.pdf
AN INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL OF THE WRITING PROCESS This is a representation,
in 11 x 17 format, of a wide variety of teaching strategies in the
context of the writing process.
Everybody knows the writing process, but often we don't know how
to use it in our teaching. This document shows you how.
You can download this packet:
http://www.ttms.org/library/reading_process_organizer_large.pdf
AN INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL OF THE READING PROCESS This is a representation,
in 11 x 17 format, of a wide variety of teaching strategies in the
context of the reading process. Most of us know that reading is
a process, but we don't know what that process looks like. This
document helps make the teaching of reading tangible and more structured.
http://www.schwablearning.org/pdfs/EGuide_ReadingBasics.pdf?date=2-22-05 Excellent resource on Reading for teachers and parents. It is lengthy, 22 pages. However, it is a great resource and is in alignment with our (K12) approach to teaching reading.
Additional Sites suggested by teachers:
http://www.edhelper.com/language/language.html
Easier to find what you are looking for:
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm
http://englishplus.com/grammar/
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
(for help with parts of speech)
http://www.chompchomp.com/
(grammar bytes)
http://www.aliscot.com/bigdog/
(big dog grammar-cute dog on site)
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/grammar.htm
(grammar homework help)
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang.htm
http://www.epsbooks.com/
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0882902.html
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
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