Campbell County School District's
Language Arts for Grades 3-6
Technology Curriculum Pages |
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Wyoming Language
Content Standards |
Internet Resources |
Content Standard
READING
Students use the reading process to demonstrate understanding of literary and informational texts.
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- Authors and Illustrators From the Children's Literature Web Guide, information about children's
authors and illustrators and their books.
- Just for Kids Who Love Books This site has lots of great reads and other cool stuff. Check it out!
- 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.
- 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.
- Sadler Phonics Use your knowledge of words, synonyms, analogies and more, as you try out the games and activities Teacher recommended!
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WRITING
Students use the writing process and use appropriate strategies to write a variety of expressive and expository pieces. |
- 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. NEW!
- CD/DVD Cover Creator Allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. NEW!
- 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.
- 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. New!
- Magnetic Poetry Board In this interactive tool from ReadWriteThink, students can move “magnetic” words to create original poems.
- Make Beliefs Comix Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids
- Poems: Diamante In this online tool, students can learn about and write diamante poems.
- Poems: Letter Letter poems are a particularly apt medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry—line breaks.
- Poetry Forms Chose your poetry form. Then just add words to make the poem your own. New!
- 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. New!
- 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.)
- 6 Traits of Writing OWL (Online Writing Lab) for Elementary Students
- Types of Poems for Kids A list of nineteen poetic forms for elementary students
- Wacky Web Tales Choose
one of the tales to create your own funny story.
- 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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SPEAKING AND LISTENING
Students use listening and speaking skills for a variety of purposes and audiences. |
- StoryPlace:
The Children's Digital Library StoryPlace, presented in both English and Spanish, offers children
the opportunity to view online stories, participate in interactive
activities, and print activity pages. Requires Flash plug-in.
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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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