Early Finishers
Sometimes, you just finish your work before everyone else! If you can't make good use of your time by working on something for another class (maybe you're a master of time-management, and you are caught up in everything else), please browse this selection of English Language Arts related websites and games for something to keep you busy (and learning)!
"Free Rice" is a simple game. A multiple-choice question appears on the screen, and if students answer correctly, they get a grain of rice in their bowl. The more correct answers they produce, the more rice they receive. The cool part is that the rice is real. Free Rice donates actual rice to empoverished people around the world. Students can track how much rice they have accumulated via correct answers, and they can see how much they are helping those in need. "Free Rice" features different categories, such as grammar, vocabulary, and literature, as well as various levels of difficulty.
Done your work early? Try writing a story! This opening line generator provides you with 10 random lines to start a story with, and to inspire you! Don't like the options provided? Scroll down to 'Write me an opening line,' click on it, and 10 new opening lines will be provided!
Scholastic Story Starters
This is a fun website that has a slot-machine style random idea generator. You start by choosing a genre from the options provided. Then click 'Spin' and you are given a random (and often silly!) character, problem, and point of view!
Choose a 4x4 board, or a 5x5 board. Make as many words as you can (letters must connect) in 3 minutes!
This website contains more than 50 language-arts themed games. These are sorted by popularity. When you arrive on the game page, most have instructional videos in the related items slider underneath the game.
This is a vocabulary builder game, found on the website readwritethink.org. Create your own Flip-a-Chip game, then try it out by trading with a partner!