Internet Resources for Language Arts

General Teacher Sites
Lesson Plans for Teachers
Interactive Sites for Students
Student Publishing Sites
Poetry
Writing Instruction
Vocabulary
Reading
K-5 Surfing for Success

The National Council of Teachers of English
http://www.ncte.org

MarcoPolo
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/

Know It All
http://knowitall.org

American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/

The American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/lit.html

Great database of all types of topics about literacy
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/forpd/resources/

ABC Teach
http://abcteach.com/directory/reading_comprehension

Eduplace
http://eduplace.com/rdg/res/prevent.html

Star Dots
http://www.stardots.com/index2.shtml

Can Teach
http://www.canteach.ca

Ask Eric
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
Discovery School (a good collection of writing lesson plans)

http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/other/seirtec/parentpages/
A resource for lesson plans, classroom resources, etc. Check out the Internet links to reading resources for parents. There are many interactive sites.

http://lessonplanspage.com
The Lesson Plans Page

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http://www.storyplace.org
From the Charlotte, NC, public library. This is a great site for kids.

http://www.bookhive.org
Listen to a story read aloud. Find other good information for kids.

http://www.funology.com
This is a jumping off place for lots of activities for children.

http://www.kizclub.com
Downloadable language-arts pages for teachers and parents to use with children.

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic93.htm
Electronic Books and Online Reading

http://pbskids.org/arthur/grownups/activities/learn_to_read/is_arthur.html
A is for Arthur

http://pbskids.org/caillou/games/keyboard/index.html
Magic Keyboard

http://smarteducation.canterbury.ac.uk/classroom-resources/interactive-websites/
Interactive site online for literacy

http://www.sedl.org/reading/ir/
Activities for all phases of literacy instruction

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm
PBS TeacherSource

http://www.Aboutschool.com/
Check out this site to find online stories. Like any other guided reading activity, choose the text carefully, taking care to match students to levels of texts.

http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks
This site offers many books online with free access to teachers and students. Try one of these online books for a guided activity with students.

http://kidshealth.org/misc_pages/journal/index.html
Read from the journals of kids who have health problems

http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/monkey/monkey.html
Create sentences from groups of words—game

http://www.storyplace.org
This is a good site for books online.

http://www.readwritethink.org
Letter Writing Machine

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/rzn2000/
Online books for kids

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/fun5000/
Cartoons for kids

http://www.droodles.com
The Droodle Homepage

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~jtbauer/sentence.html
Create a sentence and watch it animate

http://www.funbrain.com
Fun Brain

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http://nfbkids.ca/kids/
The Prince and I

http://mgfx.com/kidlit
Kid Lit

http://www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/Publish.html
Young Authors Workshop

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http://www.gigglepoetry.com
This is a fantastic site with all kinds of fun and educational poetry-related resources

http://www.cybersurfari.org
CyberSurfari

http://www.veeceet.com/
Kidzpage

http://www.robertpottle.com/
A different poem everyday

http://www.poetry4kids.com/mainframe.html
Poetry for kids

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http://www.yakscorner.com
Yak’s Corner. This site has a wealth of articles and activities that are sure to delight young readers.

http://www.stonesoup.com
Stone Soup

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/crunch
Crunch

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/news
Yohooligans News

http://www.weeklyreader.com
Weekly Reader Galaxy

http://www.cyberkids.com
CyberKids

http://www.nwf.org/kids/
Kids Zone

http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/daily
Times Daily

http://www.pathfinder.com/TFK
Time for Kids

http://www.time.com/time/index.html
Time Magazine

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
US News and World Report

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/rzn9650/
Magazines just for kids online

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http://flatstanley.enoreo.on.ca/
After reading the book Flat Stanley, students can participate in this wonderful online journaling project.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/index.html
Discover in-depth ideas for teaching this important skill that students will use for their entire academic careers.

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar
This fabulous Web site covers every topic imaginable related to grammar and writing. You will find detailed descriptions and examples on topics such as words, sentences, paragraphs, essays, and research papers. You can even test your knowledge with the online grammar quizzes. This is a wonderful Internet tool that no college student, or even middle to high school teachers, should do without.

http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/English/essay/
Five point essay

http://www.thewritesource.com/mla.htm
MLA Style Sheet

http://ccweb.norshore.wednet.edu/writingcorner/writingprocess.html
Writing guides

http://www.mhrd.k12.nj.us/mk/library/readyreference.htm
Reference site for writing

http://www.thewritesource.com/WS2000.html
Writing handbook

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/examp.html
Research paper writing

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/resources/genre.html
Genre writing

http://auckland.massey.ac.nz/dept/ss/documents/extramural_workshop
_essay&report_writing.pdf
Types of writing

http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri/
OnlineThesaurus

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html
Visual Thesaurus. This is a neat site for multimedia Thesaurus activities.

http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/scoring.asp?odelay=3&d=1&r=1
Six Traits Writing Guide

http://www.charleston.net/visitor/tipsfortourists.shtml
Postcards from Charleston

http://www.bartleby.com/66
65,000 essential quotations that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts. Entries from more than 5,000 authors and speakers are multiply classified into 6,500 subjects.

http://www.dowlingcentral.com
Mrs. Dowling’s Grammar Corner - Look in the drop down box for topics.

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http://www.cooper.com/homophonezone
This site has an impressive collection of alphabetically organized homophones.

http://www.vocabulary.com
Vocabulary University

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com
Vocabulary Puzzles

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769327.html
Acronyms and Other “Onyms”

http://www.mrsabc.com
Spelling sites

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Http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown
The Children’s Literature Web Guide

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/browse/rzn0000
Reading Zone

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
Authors and Illustrators on the Web

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