Reading / Language Arts - Student Focused
http://www.kidsreads.com/ Kids Reads can help you find the latest books as well as some of your old favorites. You can view a time line about the life of some of your favorite authors, read or post a review about a book you read and learn interesting trivia about your favorite books and authors.http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/novelguide.cfm Check out this link. It is a complete list of books and novel projects that are often assigned in middle school and high school. There are some great projects in here. – Brandi Maynard
http://www.bookadventure.org/
Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades
K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended
titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline,
and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure
was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is sponsored by Sylvan
Learning, Inc.
http://www.scholastic.com/ Play games, enter contests, make your own riddle and talking picture show. Plus read about your favorite books. There's also great stuff for parents and teachers.
http://www.kidscourier.com/ A fun website that promotes reading and writing for kids, published by the National Children's Literacy Project.
http://www.wordcentral.com/ On-line dictionary with English experiments, a daily buzz word, a coding chamber where you can encode or decode a message, a verse composer, and you can even build your own dictionary.
http://www.vocabulary.com/ Enhance your vocabulary with these free vocabulary puzzles. You can choose puzzles by level or type of activity. They even have theme puzzles and lesson plan vocabulary exercises.
http://www.weeklyreader.com/homepage.asp For kids pre-k through sixth grade. Play games, take a poll, read articles, take a geography quiz, enter contests, and don't forget to leave your opinion about things going on in the world. There's also great stuff for teachers and parents.
http://www.starfall.com/ The Starfall
learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. We also provide
writing journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the
website or separately. Teachers around the country are using Starfall
materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to
inspire a love of reading and writing. Primarily designed for first grade,
Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, Kindergarten and second
grade.
http://www.netrover.com/~jjrose/dolch/intro.html
Interactive Dolch Site word game.
Handwriting Sites:
http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/cursive.htm
http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/cursive-1/make-c.htm
http://penmanship.donnayoung.org/cursive.htm
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