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Hello Students!
Listed below are several websites with a variety of activities relating to tall tales. Take a moment and check out these sites. From games to videos to additional information, these sites are fun for all students. Enjoy!
Grammar & Vocabulary Links
Student Activities
This site includes several links about tall tales and folklore and offers activities for students.
This site offers several activities to help students understand tall tales. It also includes the game “Flapjack Frenzy” with Paul Bunyan.
Jelly Fish - classify the prefix, base/root words, and suffix
Rooting Out Words - find the root words
Squanky the Toothtaker in Quiet Quest for Opposites - antonyms
Squanky the Toothtaker in Tooth Tally- synonyms
Word Central - build your own dictionary and learn more about word meanings
Word Confusion - which homophone correctly completes the sentence
Word Frog - practice antonyms, synonyms, or homonyms
Word Jungle - identify the synonym of a given word
Word Works - create and use new words
Zoo Crew - play this game to learn the special name for groups of animals
Noun: "A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing"
Verb: "Verb: That's What's Happening"
Adverb: "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Adverbs Here"
Pronoun: "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla"
Adjective: "Unpack Your Adjectives"
Conjunction: "Conjunction Junction"
Interjection: "Interjections!"
Games
Nouns (a person, place or thing)
Adverbs (tells how, where or when, the condition or reason)
Pronouns (takes the place of a personal noun)
Conjunctions (connecting words) (Wheel of Fortune Game at bottom of page)
Prepositions (tells where the object is)
Got Books?
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics and Spelling Games
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx
Search AR Books from Home
DO AN AR TEST (username is the first letter of your first name and first four letters of last name. Password is your first name.
This only works during school hours with the presence of your teacher.
Noun Dunk - identify whether a word is a common or proper noun
Schoolhouse Rock - Grammar Rock lyrics
Wacky Web Tales - Mad Libs stories
Flamingos - which matches the meaning -y or -ly
Sentence Clubhouse - types of sentences, capitalization, and punctuation
Spell Check - find and correct misspelled words
SpellaRoo - find the misspelled word
Revising and Editing
Writing
Comic Creator - write your own comic strip
Limerick Factory - this website helps you to create a limerick but you can also learn about the patterns found in limericks
Paint by Idioms - practice using idioms to add details in a story
Wizards and Pigs - using rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration
Reading Links
Research Strategies
click here for some reminders about types of research resources
Online Resources
Fact Monster - an online almanac, dictionary, and encyclopedia
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
MSN Encarta - online encyclopedia, dictionary, and atlas