Language Arts Literacy
| Assessment | |
| Literacy Assessment Instruments | Teachers ideas, literacy assessment, projects and more! |
| Cross-Curricular | |
| America's Story from America's Library | Stories about America's past from the Library of Congress. Visit the following sites: Meet Amazing Americans, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, Join America at Play, See, Hear, and Sing. |
| Children's Literature in the Math Class | Non-comprehensive coverage of the use of children's literature in the mathematics classroom. |
| Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation Headquarters | The site uses interactive stories and original thinking games to get kids to solve mysteries and learn crucial skills such as using the Internet for research and investigation, reading, and writing. The project encourages exploration of a wide range of subjects from math and science to geography, genetics and history. |
| Lesson Plans and Units | |
| EDSITEment | This site includes standards-based lesson plans, Web sites for the humanities, and assistance with classroom Internet integration. |
| Elementary Lessons | Language arts mini-lessons for elementary (K-5) levels. |
| An extensive listing of online Language Arts Literacy resources including lesson plans from FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence). | |
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Oyate is a Native organization whose work includes evaluation of texts, resource materials and fiction by and about Native peoples. View the FAQs, New Stuff, and Books to Avoid sections for more information related to children's books. |
| Score Cyber Guide | Supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected Web sites and a rubric, based on the California Language Arts Content Standards. |
| Elementary language arts lessons and grade levels. | |
| The Teacher's Desk | A collection of over 100 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English, Reading, and Vocabulary activities, with a few extras thrown-in, currently being utilized in a fifth- or sixth-grade classroom. |
| Teachers Helping Teachers | Online English units with multicultural focus, various grade levels, different units for the classroom and all are done by teachers. |
| Web English Teacher | This site provides K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities. |
| Literature | |
| Book Adventure | "This Web site houses a free motivational reading program for children in grades K-8. Reviews help children pick a book to read, either from a library or bookstore. After the book is read, children can take a quiz online, with the incentive of prizes after a number of quizzes are completed. Parents can monitor their child's activities and find resources for reading challenges in their families. Teachers can access the articles that may help them increase parental involvement. This Web site was developed by Sylvan Learning Centers." |
| Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site | This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. |
| Children's Literature Web Guide | Excellent children's literature resources for teachers. |
| Choose the Right Book | Gives lists of books by grade level and ages. |
| Classics For Young People | Literature classics online. |
| Folklore, Myth And Legend | Links to stories and children's books online. |
| Advice from educators, writers, and illustrators on how to spot literature that transcends stereotypes. | |
| Literature and Language Arts Resources | Information on children's literature and associated language arts. |
| Excellent information and links for teachers, parents and students. | |
| Hundreds of links to: Favorite Children's Stories, Authors and Illustrators, Resources (quotes, dictionaries, etc.),Writing by Children, Children's Book Award information, etc. | |
| Young Adults | Resources to support the curriculum in English and Language Arts for K-12 educators. |
| Study Aids | |
| Visual Thesaurus | Just type in a word and the Web site will create a visual map showing the word, its meanings and related synonyms. These maps are not just static, you can rotate them in 3D and examine the clusters of meanings. |
| Writing | |
| Book Hooks | Students can publish illustrated book reports, reviews and author biographies at Book Hooks. Readers are encouraged to draft both editorial and generative reviews; write independently or in response to guidelines and to include illustrations, photographs, etc. Students can also contribute material for crossword puzzles and word searches. Grades 2-12. |
| Students select music to accompany a poem they choose to read. They are given one minute to make their poetry presentation. | |
| Students grades PK through 6 are given the opportunity to resolve a problem posed by the Weekly Reader staff. | |
| Writing Fix | This site, sponsored by the Northern Nevada Writing Project and the National Writing Project, provides writing prompts, instruction tips and more. |
| Writing with Picture Prompts | |
| Prompts with Pictures | An interactive site that allows students to create a story step by step. |
| The Southern Regional ETTC and The Press of Atlantic City have collaborated to offer a source of photographs that can be used as writing prompts by teachers and students. | |
| There are rhymes, poems, pictures, fables and story starters to get those creative juices flowing. You can choose from a large selection of write-on clip art as well - each template is formatted to include a picture, optional teacher supplied lexicon box and writing lines sized by grade. | |
