Read
- Write - Think
ReadWriteThink offers a wide array of standards-based
lesson plans that meaningfully integrate Internet content into the teaching
and/or learning experience. Lessons can be selected according to grade band
(K–2, 3–5, 6–8) and area of literacy practice. Each lesson is
research-based, and includes a detailed instructional plan. The lessons are
written for the teacher but include student-ready materials such as worksheets,
interactives, and reviewed Web resources.
http://readwritethink.org/index.asp
Webbes
- Create Little Digital Books
This site enables you to download templates
for making terrific little books. Students can write adventure stories. They
can add graphics to illustrate them and/or draw pictures and scan them into
the templates. They easily print and are very effective!
http://www.realebooks.com/
Powerpoint
Grammar and Writing
Several PowerPoint presentations lead classes through the finer points of understanding
English grammar, including avoiding run-on sentences, using apostrophes, colons,
and semi-colons, and spelling rules for everyone.
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/powerpoint.htm
Word Central
From Merriam-Webster - "Word Central is the place on
the Web where kids can learn how much fun words can be! We've developed this
site with input from teachers around the country using a language arts curriculum
framework. We hope you enjoy it and find it helpful."
http://www.wordcentral.com
Educate
the Children / Literacy
This is from the UK but still an excellent interactive site for
literacy skills. This section covers sentence meaning and structure,
grammar, punctuation and word order. Included are lesson plan,
interactive activities, worksheets and tests.
This is an "activity bank" associated with S.C.O.R.E. It has a teacher activity
bank and a student one, with topics like graphic organizers, rubrics and journalism.
Looks great!
This is a useful database of writing prompts suitable for grades
4 to 12. Handy if you are running out of ideas!
This tool will automatically format, alphabetize and print
your bibliography!
Word Lovers Web Site
Little
Explorers Web Dictionary - Neat little online dictionary with clickable
links to other information, games or jokes. It can be accessed in English, or
English with /Spanish/French/Portuguese/German
This is an excellent resource page written by the staff at Lake
Junior High School from St. Paul, Minnesota. Many resources
referenced or presented here are excellent for all age levels. Site
includes citing sources, five paragraph essay wizard, grammar and
style notes and vocabulary builders - a treasure trove.
Word Play site for all ages. Activities include Compound Clues,
Rhyming Buddies, A-Z Lists, Words Within Words, Numbletters,
Alpha-Spells, Anagrams, Similes, Oxymorons, Mystery Word and Links to
similar sites. Teachers can email and send their own, or students'
contributions to the word site.
This is the neatest site we have seen in a long time. Go to the Evolution
of Alphabets link and watch ancient alphabets "morph", using a timeline, into
something you can actually recognize. Fascinating!
Slate
- Citation Machine
Great for citing Internet research - type the info requested
into the machine and it will assemble your citation correctly!
http://landmark-project.com/citation_machine/index.php3
Biographies
Biography
Maker - A step-by-step on-line "Biography Machine" that is "... designed
to help you convert facts into insights, dull and bring information into fascination
and magic ... to inspire lively story telling and vivid writing which will make
your readers want to know more about your subject".
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomak2.htm
The National Women's
Hall of Fame - In 1969, a group of women and men of Seneca Falls, New York
created the National Women's Hall of Fame. This is a searchable web site containing
pictures and biographical sketches of the women who have been inducted into
the Hall of Fame. It also has a section of the history of the struggle for women's
rights.
http://www.greatwomen.org/home.php
Notable Women Ancestors
- Interesting web page designed with the intent of honoring all of our notable
women ancestors, and offering a large volume of historical and genealogical
info. The Data Base of Female Ancestors can be searched alphabetically or by
categories like "Adventurers", "Royalty", "Feisty Women", etc. The really unique
aspect of this site is that you can submit your own "ancestress" as part of
our documented heritage.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/
Who2
- Find Famous People Fast
"Classic authors, movie stars, famous frauds, kings and queens, mythical
gods, cartoon dogs--anyone famous is fair game for Who2." Each entry includes
birth and death dates, birthplace, what the person is best known for, a couple
of paragraphs with assorted other biographical information, and four links to
good Web sites. Who2 Loops includes dozens of eclectic lists of people who share
something in common, such as Death by Car, Celebrity Beekeepers, and May-December
Presidents. The pop-ups are annoying but the site is so much fun, you can live
with them.
http://www.who2.com/index.html