Book Talks, Discussion Guides, and Video BookTalks from Scholastic
This site offers book talks, discussion guides, and video book talks for many books.
The Stacks from Scholastic
They have videos, blogs, games, and much more about books and authors. Great resources for students and teachers.
Newsela Elementary, Online Reading
Newslea takes news articles from around the world and rewrites them at up to five different lexile levels and in Spanish.
Online Dictionary
Reading Skills
Students must use context clues to find the meanings of words. Every correct answers moves cows to another pasture.
Synonym Sam's Lab from Between the Lions, PBS
Students are given a word and must find 2 synonyms from a list for that word.
This game has players choose the correct homonym to complete the sentence. Two levels, easy and hard.
Drawing Conclusions from Study Zone
Drawing Conclusions from HMH
Important Details from HMH
Drawing Conclusions Lesson from Study Zone
What's the Big Idea from Harcourt School Publishing
Students must choose the main idea from a passage, then using letters (like hangman) solve a riddle.
Fact or Opinion? (quiz 1) - a Quia quiz
Fact or Opinion? (quiz 2) - a Quia quiz
Download pdf files and use on interactive whiteboards
Elements of a Story by learner.org
An interactive Web site where students can learn about different literary "ingredients" that make up a story. After watching and listening to an interactive version of "Cinderella," students will learn about various elements that are common to all stories: setting, characters, plot, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution.
Literary Elements Mapping by Read, Write, Think
This site allows teachers to create graphic and fill in graphic organizers about any story. With a projector, students can watch and copy on their own paper, includes Character Map, Conflict Map, Resolution Map, and Setting Map.
What a Character graphic organizer from RealClassroomIdeas
Character Web from TeacherFiles
Character Analysis Lesson Plan with many character analysis graphic organizers
Character and Story Graphic Organizers from Education Oasis
Drama Mapping from Read, Write, Think
Analogies from Sadlier-Oxford
One or two player, divide the class into two groups to play against each other.
Fact Monster, Analogy of the Day Click yesterday's analogy quiz to see more.
Analogies, Which Word from Spelling City
Analogies, Match it Sentences from Spelling City
Fun game to test your knowledge of prefixes and suffixes and use the word in a sentence. You can play by yourself or against a classmate.
Short Circuit from Maggie's Earth Adventures
Prefixes hold the key to building the castle and making it light up.
Fish Tank Game from Sadlier-Oxford
Type the root, suffix and or prefix to create a Fish Tank.
Interactive game with questions
Guess using riddles - infer what is being described by the clues you read
Refrigerator Magnet Poetry Google Draw
You will have to log into your Google Account to access
Students read poems and use inferencing to determine who the poem is describing.
Poetry Idea Engine from Scholastic
Create a Diamonte Poem from Read, Write, Think
Shape Poems from Read,Write, Think
Figurative Language Games from Spelling City (need not log in)
Click on Featured Games for various games
Questioning the Author Interactive
Author's Purpose from HMH
Author's Purpose from FCAT Express
Text Types from BBC
A free service offered by the folks at Visual Thesaurus (a fee-based service). VocabGrabber makes it easy to generate vocabulary lists from any text that you can digitally copy. To use Vocab Grabber simply paste any chunk of text, up to 200,000 characters, into the Vocab Grabber. The VocabGrabber then sorts, and places in a word cloud, the most frequently used words in that text. Words are also sorted into academic categories like Social Studies, Math, Science, and Literature. Click on any of the words in the word cloud to see the definition displayed on the right side of the screen
Grammar
Go for Grammar Gold for Harcourt
Multiple Choice quizzes covering various grammar skills (could use clickers in verbal mode).
Noun Dunk from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This fun basketball game has students choose whether the word on the basketball is a common noun, proper noun or not a noun at all. To gain points, they must sink the basket with the correct choice.
Grammar Blast from Houghton Mifflin
Multiple choice quizzes arranged by grade level over various grammar topics. (clickers in verbal mode)
Grammar Gorillas from Fun Brain
Beginner and Advanced levels for students. Students must identify parts of speech.
Grammar Practice Park from Harcourt
Play games to practice skills including sentence types, verbs, nouns, punctuation, etc.
Subject Verb Agreement from BBC
Students must pick the proper subject verb agreement. If they choose correctly, they get to go on a treasure hunt. Can be done with clickers in verbal mode.
Spelling Skills
British Site, Spellingframe includes all the words - both statutory and the example words - from the National Curriculum for Spelling for Year 2 to Year 6. Choose a spelling rule and each word is read aloud and provided within a sentence for context.
Writing
Students must create sentences from mixed up words, find the correct punctuation, and make it more interesting.
Students must read a passage, find, and edit all errors.
Enter a noun into this website and get a range of words to help you describe it. Superb for creative or descriptive writing projects.
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