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Language Arts for Grades 3-6
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CCSD Content Standards and Objectives: Language Arts
Reading | Writing | Speaking and Listening
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Content Standards
Internet Resources
Content Standard
READING
Students use the reading process to demonstrate understanding of literary and informational texts.
  1. Authors and Illustrators From the Children's Literature Web Guide, information about children's authors and illustrators and their books.
  2. Character Scrapbook Use this reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect your scrapbook pages.
  3. Character Trading Cards Students use character trading cards to examine characters in a story. New! 2011
  4. Comic Creator Interactive site that allows students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). New! 2011
  5. Just for Kids Who Love Books This site has lots of great reads and other cool stuff. Check it out!
  6. Kids Authors & Illustrators: Websites
  7. Myths and Fables An impressive collection of more than 650 classic fables and their morals, presented in table format for easy browsing. Other features include the new Fairy Tale collection, beautiful illustrations, Real Audio narration, and a Search Engine.
  8. Newbery Medal The award presented by the ALA to the author of "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Includes information about current wininng title and honor books as well as lists of previous winners.
  9. Sadler Phonics Use your knowledge of words, synonyms, analogies and more, as you try out the games and activities Teacher recommended!
  10. Story Map The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.New! 2011
  11. Timeline Creating timelines with this tool becomes an engaging activity for students as they choose from five different units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other) and add specific descriptions of each entry. New! 2011

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Content Standard
WRITING
Students use the writing process and use appropriate strategies to write a variety of expressive and expository pieces.
  1. Arcademic Skill Builders Choose Language Arts for games about Antonyms, Synonyms, Vowels, Spelling, Parts of Speech, Verb tense and more. New! 2011
  2. Book Cover Guide Students can use the tool to review the parts of a book cover before analyzing how book covers work or creating their own book covers.
  3. CD/DVD Cover Creator Allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information.
  4. Character Scrapbook Use this reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect your scrapbook pages.
  5. Comic Creator Interactive site that allows students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). New! 2011
  6. Compare and Contrast Map This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline for one of three types of comparison essays: whole-to-whole, similarities-to-differences, or point-to-point.
  7. Different Types of Poem for Kids Here are some different types of poems to try in your classroom. This site has great definitions and examples of poetry for kids.
  8. Fractured Fairy Tales Students turn familiar fairy tales upside down and inside out—and to have fun. New! 2011
  9. Giggle Poetry Giggle Poetry, approaches poetry with a sense of humor. Poems from Bruce Lansky and other poets are archived for students to enjoy reading or to use as examples. Included are fill-in-the-blank poems, poetry contests, favorite poems, school poems, and more.
  10. Instant Poetry Forms Choose your form of poetry then add words to make your own poem.
  11. Letter Generator tool is designed to help students learn to identify all the essential parts of a business or friendly letter, and then generate letters by typing information into letter templates.
  12. The Magic Key Fun, simple, literacy activities
  13. Magnetic Poetry Board In this interactive tool from ReadWriteThink, students can move “magnetic” words to create original poems.
  14. Make Beliefs Comix Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids
  15. Noun Dunk From Harcourt School Publishers
  16. PicLits.com creative writing website that generates words to match the picture. Excellent resource for focusing on using more descriptive words. You do not need an account to use. New! 2011
  17. Plot Diagram Interactive organizational tool to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories. New! 2011
  18. Poems: Acrostic In this online tool, students can learn about and write acrostic poems.
  19. Poems: Diamante In this online tool, students can learn about and write diamante poems.
  20. Poems: Letter Letter poems are a particularly apt medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry—line breaks.
  21. Poetry Forms Chose your poetry form. Then just add words to make the poem your own.
  22. Profile Publisher draft online social networking profiles, yearbook profiles, and newspaper or magazine profiles for themselves, other real people (including historical figures), or fictional characters.
  23. Punctuation Campground From Harcourt School Publishers
  24. Sentence Power Is the group of words a sentence? If so, is it a simple sentence or a compound sentence? New! 2011
  25. Scholastic Story Starter First generate a creative story starter, pick a format, and print your story!!. New! 2011
  26. Shel Silverstein: The Official Site for Kids Visit for the games (such as Finish Shel's Poems), the terrific printables (a coloring book, a bookmark, and two Poetry Kits) and to watch animated video clips from Silverstein's poems and books (some performed by Silverstein himself.)
  27. Story Map The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. New! 2011
  28. Timeline Creating timelines with this tool becomes an engaging activity for students as they choose from five different units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other) and add specific descriptions of each entry. New! 2011
  29. 6 Traits of Writing OWL (Online Writing Lab) for Elementary Students
  30. Types of Poems for Kids A list of nineteen poetic forms for elementary students
  31. Wacky Web Tales Choose one of the tales to create your own funny story.
  32. Word Tamer Creative writing help. Interactive flash-based website where you “tame words and train stories”. IWB friendly New! 2011
  33. Writing with Writers: Poetry Scholastic offers this poetry resource for grades 1–8. There are tips from authors of children’s poetry, a teacher’s guide, step-by-step workshops, and more.

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Content Standard
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
Students use listening and speaking skills for a variety of purposes and audiences.
  1. Kerpoof Use the Kerpoof Picture Maker to allow students to create a picture to write a story about or create Kerpoof scenes for students to use as the basis to write a letter about. Use the Kerpoof Movie Maker to allow students to write and produce their own eMovie. (Free Registration Required) New! 2011
  2. Storybird Someone starts a Storybird by writing a few words or grabbing a few images. Then the other person takes a turn, adding more words and pictures. In as little as one or two turns they can finish and share a Storybird. They can do it sitting side-by-side or across the country from each other. Web 2.0, Free registration required. New! 2011

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General Language Arts Resources

Just Crosswords a site of 15x15 crossword puzzles that you solve right in your Web browser. For more fun, make your own crossword puzzle!

Read Write Think offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom.

 

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