Language Arts Sites for Students

writing |
poetry | technology |
vocabulary
collective nouns | spelling
| revising |
editing
Writing:
Writing
Lessons for all ages and abilities
http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/writing.htm
6 Trait Writing -
http://educationnorthwest.org/traits
http://educationnorthwest.org/traits/trait-definitions
http://www.literatelearner.com/6traits/page_template6t.php?f=main
Apps to retell/summarize -
http://www.smekenseducation.com/Use-Apps-Websites-to-RetellSumm0.html
Awesome Apps -
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/19914423325814664/
Apps: Book Creator AppleStore - Google Play - Windows Store
Story Creator - AppleStore - iTunes
More:
http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/curriculum/writing/elem_writing/Bib/6traitschart.htm
http://www.literatelearner.com/6traits/page_template6t.php?f=main
http://msjacoby.com/6traits.html
http://so024.k12.sd.us/6%20+%201%20Traits.htm
http://www.varsitytutors.com/englishteacher/6traits.html
http://www.cyberspaces.net/6traits/
http://pinterest.com/yingling/writing-6-traits/
Writing
With Writers - biography, fairy tale, folk tale, journal, mystery,
myth,
news, poetry, book review
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm
Graphic
Organizers from Houghton Mifflin -
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html
More Graphic Organizers -
http://www.kathimitchell.com/graphorg.htm
How
to Write a Good Biography
-
http://bellinghamschools.org/sites/default/files/BIO/QUEST.HTM
http://www.factmonster.com/homework/wsbiography.html
http://www.kathleenkrull.com/10-tips-for-students-in-writing-biographies/
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/biography/a/gradefourbiography.htm
Writing
Tips from Betsy Byars -
http://www.betsybyars.com/writing.html
Author
Online -
http://www.aaronshep.com/
Learn
to Write Your Own Stories from Jean Craighead George
- http://www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/writing.html
The
Structure of Paragraphs -
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/index.htm
How
to Write an Essay - http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/essay/index.htm
Poetry:
Different
types of poetry for kids to write
http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html
Giggle Poetry -
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
Classical Poetry -
http://www.storyit.com/Classics/JustPoems/index.htm
Interactive Poems -
http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?resource_type=16&type=28
Poetry links from Louisiana -
http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/2nd/more/poetry.htm
Poetry
Teachers.com or How To Teach Poetry and have fun
http://www.poetryteachers.com/
Technology:
Citing Electronic Resources:
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic24a.htm
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/netciteFARQ.html
http://www.cyberbee.com/citing_sites.htm
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/584/1/
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr247.shtml
Vocabulary:
Black
Dog's Word Games http://blackdog4kids.com/games/word/index.html
Richard Lederer's Verbivore web site with:
http://verbivore.com/wordpress/
http://verbivore.com/wordpress/language-sites-on-the-net/
"cat" words -
http://www.verbivore.com/arccats.htm#cat3
http://verbivore.com/wordpress/list-of-richards-columns/
Word Games -
http://www.funbrain.com/words.html
http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games
Collective
Nouns -
http://rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml
http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/animal-names/
http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-do-you-call-a-group-of
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm
Paul Vigay's Collection -
http://www.vigay.com/nouns/
Use Roget's Thesaurus
to add some interesting words -
http://www.thesaurus.com/Roget-Alpha-Index.html
Visual Thesaurus (costs money but interesting to view)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Thesaurus.com has
word-of-the-day and word games
http://thesaurus.com/
Online thesaurus -
http://thesaurus.babylon.com/
Wacky
Web Tales
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
Word
Games to Improve Vocabulary
http://syndicate.com/index.html
Word
A Day sites:
A.Word.A.Day -
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/word-of-the-day/
http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ Daily Buzzword from Word Central -
http://www.wordcentral.com/buzzword/buzzword.php
Merriam-Webster Word
Game of the Day -
http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games
Spelling
-
click here for a list of sites for kids, parents, and
teachers
Revising Tips:
Guide
to Grammar and Writing
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Tips
for Young Writers - about revision and more
http://www.ralphfletcher.com/tips.html
Writing With Writers
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/tguide/
Editing: The Elements of Style (online) by
William Strunk, Jr.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/ ----------------------------------------------------
How to Write Good
Avoid commas, that are not necessary.
Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
Kill all exclamation points!!!!!!
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Don't verb nouns.
Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
No sentence fragments.
It behooves us to avoid archaisms.
Last but not least, avoid clichés like the plague.
--William Safire
in "Fumblerules" (Doubleday)
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