English Standard 1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose. — This website contains streamed media. Students or teachers may search for audio and video of historical speeches.
English Standard 1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies Students formulate adroit judgments about oral communication. They deliver focused and coherent presentations of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the audience and purpose. — This website contains a database and index of 5000 full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declarations. It also has a field for 100 top speeches.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — This site is part of dictionary.com and as a thesaurus gives an elaborate description of words, the part of speech and synonyms and antonyms of that word. It can be accessed alone or through dictionary.com.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — This website provides an online graphical dictionary. It provides a visual tool to find new words and improve vocabulary. When a word is searched, a graph is shown which connects that word to various other words based on different relationships between them. You can hover over each word to get its definition and also zoom-in and zoom-out using the mouse wheel. This site may be used as a dictionary and thesaurus.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — This site delivers a “Word a Day” to your email account.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — One of the features of this website is an interactive vocabulary practice. In addition, grammar and writing practice are also available.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — This website, Definr, is a very fast dictionary. After a few key strokes in the search box, it suggests the nearest possible words as you type. It provides spelling and word meaning.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — This site, known as dictionary.com. is very comprehensive. It provides word meanings and pronunciations and various tools, such as RSS feeds to improve vocabulary and word explorer pod casts.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — The Merriam Webstar online is a resource for learning and improving English. It provides a dictionary and thesaurus, which includes Spanish-English and medical dictionaries. It provides an audio pronunciation guide. Crosswords, word games and a visual dictionary are also contained on this website.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — This website is subscription only and costs money, but it allows a teacher to produce activities, quizzes, word games, etc. very easily. There is a section that has SAT prep words.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Different fonts, layouts, and color schemes can be used to create beautiful word pictures.
English Standard 1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately. — The metaglossary has a unique way of finding meanings of words. It aggregates various links on the web which provide an explanation of the term and shows the results. It pulls definitions of the word from the internet and provides web resources for further investigation.
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process as needed. — The Writing Site uses a back to basics approach to teach various writing genres. It provides a many varied writing prompts designed to generate thoughts, ideas and eventual composition.
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process as needed. — The Owl at Purdue offers assistance in all matters of the many writing processes, in an orderly, explicit and concise layout. Educational tutorials deconstruct every aspect of writing. It also includes an excellent section on the purpose, methods and objectives of resume writing.
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process as needed. — This interactive MLA citation guide offers its users practical information regarding MLA citation rules and standards; but more importantly, it allows users to practice various citations through a slide show presentation. This site resembles that of a video game, if you will, which should be more enticing and enjoyable for teenage and even adult users. Other style formats, such as APA, Chicago style for historians, and CBE for biologists are also available on this site.
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process as needed. — This website is specifically designed to assist high school students in a variety of ways, from reading and writing to issues of health and sexuality. “Teen Space’s” most useful feature is its section called “Homework Help.” With the one click of the mouse, a student has access to information and guidance on science projects, math equations and essay writing. “Teen Space” is a well organized maze of hyperlinks. “Teen Space” offers teens a forum to post, discuss and share poetry via the “Teen Poetry Wiki” section of the site.
English Standard 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused essays that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process as needed. — This site contains 347 writing prompts. The web page contains numbers 1-347 and you must click on a number to view the prompt.
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: — This web site stresses basic punctuation, sentence starters and support for the writing process. It contains articles to explain or reinforce grammatical points, such as when to use quotation marks.
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: — This web site sponsored by Calgary University contains the following focus: parts of speech, sentence elements, punctuation and word use. It is an interactive grammar guide.
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: — This web site sponsored by Purdue University contains a comprehensive grammar guide and a writing lab. It contains an APA and MLA formatting and style guide, basic business letter and help with developing a resume.
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: — This web site sponsored by Calgary University contains the following focus: parts of speech, sentence elements, punctuation and word use. It is an interactive grammar guide.
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: — This web site stresses basic punctuation, sentence starters and support for the writing process. It contains articles to explain or reinforce grammatical points, such as when to use quotation marks.
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: — Are you writing a poem and need a word that rhymes?This site has a rhyming generator. Put in a word and the site generates a list of rhyming words.
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: — The web site is comprehensive and offers a broad array of content to help teachers and students with any grammar question, practice or example. It also has a section to help with paragraph development. This site has a web design that is easy to navigate.
English Standard 1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions: — This comprehensive and user friendly web site offers instruction in basic grammar, sentence structure and word choice, as well as rules for punctuation.
English Standard 2.0 Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials) - Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They analyze the organizational patterns, arguments, and positions advanced. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. In addition, by grade twelve, students read two million words annually on their own, including a wide variety of classic and contemporary literature, magazines, newspapers, and online information. — This site provides materials to support struggling readers. It contains pedagogical articles as well. The content provided aids instruction in vocabulary development and comprehension exercises. It uses popular texts, such as Harry Potter to organize and sequence events.
English Standard 2.0 Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials) - Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They analyze the organizational patterns, arguments, and positions advanced. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. In addition, by grade twelve, students read two million words annually on their own, including a wide variety of classic and contemporary literature, magazines, newspapers, and online information. — This website provides leveled reading comprehension passages with questions to improve literacy. These passages discuss contemporary issues and are appropriate for both struggling readers as well as more advanced students. This site is subscriber only. There is no cost to sign up.
English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. — This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up. The user can upload photos and “make them talk”. The uploaded sound has to be less than 2 MB. The sound can be uploaded from a sound file or recorded with a computer microphone. Students will enjoy being able to animate photos as part of a presentation or other assignment.
English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. — This website is a repository for the top advertising commercials in the country. Students can view them to get ideas before creating their own persuasive speeches or papers.
English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. — This site has a free text to speech program that is user friendly. It translates text to other languages or provides a spoken audio for text. This site would be helpful for students need to hear their writing before making their own presentation or speech.
English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. — This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up for 100MB of use. The user can create online presentations with animation, zoom and other capabilities not enabled by traditional power point slides.
English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. — This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up. An institutional membership is 10 cents apiece. This site provides a vehicle for a very creative presentation of student work. Demonstrating creative writing proficiency and using technology in a fun way, a student can create comic strips and comic books for a quick upload to an email account or facebook.
English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. — This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up. This site allows the user to create animations in flash that can easily be uploaded. This technology gives students a creative, contemporary means of producing their work in a medium that is familiar to them.
English Standard 2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine the traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0. — This site requires an account, but it is free to sign-up. This site allows the user to create movies by typing text that is then spoken by an AVATAR. This allows students to creatively deliver speeches or presentations in a media that they enjoy.
English Standard 2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies outlined in writing Standard 1.0. — This website focuses on common areas of writing, such as creative, literary and expository composition. It also delves into the writing processes involving business, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, as well as speeches and various presentations. “Writing Collections” is a well organized and systematic maze of hyperlinks that support vocational writing as well as academic exposition.
English Standard 2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies outlined in writing Standard 1.0. — This web site sponsored by the OWL project at Purdue University contains instruction and support for the following topics: General Writing • Research and Citation • Teaching and Tutoring • Subject Specific Writing • Job Search Writing • ESL.
English Standard 2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies outlined in writing Standard 1.0. — : This website is maintained by a professor of rhetoric at Brigham Young University. It defines and gives examples of terms of rhetoric and those found in literature.
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. — On this site, an alphabetical index links the user to poems (full-text) by major poets, and some links include commentary and study questions.
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. — The site is by the Library of Congress and provides free resources for lesson planning, primary resources, copyright information, content connections, presentations and activities to support the study of literature. Professional development opportunities as well as current events are also available on the site.
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. — This site lists 91 different ways to respond to literature. Multiple intelligences, varied ability levels, traditional to cutting-edge ideas are appropriate for elementary and secondary students. It also contains some innovative book report ideas.
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. — This site, created by a Stanislaus University English professor, is a research and reference guide in American Literature. This online book is organized in chapters and appendices. The ten chapters represent the major literary and historical perspectives, cycles, or movements in American literature; each chapter has an Introduction, a Selected Bibliography, and a list of representative authors. The twenty-two appendices cover a range of helpful and specialized topics in genre studies, writing assignments, research topics, and perspectives related to American studies.
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. — This website is divided into four main eras, Medieval, Renaissance, the 17th Century, and the restoration. Links lead to biographies, criticism, and analysis for major British authors.
English Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes. The selections in Recommended Literature, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve illustrate the quality and complexity of the materials to be read by students. — Random house’s site allows teacher to view and order a broad range of books in several subject areas including Language and Literature. This site could be very beneficial in coming up with ideas for books for the upcoming school year. They are arranges by subject area and genre.