Language Arts Sites

1. Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventures
2. Words and Pictures
3. Contractions
4. Compound Words
5. Long Vowels: Words and Pictures and POEMS
6. Authors and Illustrators: From the Children's Literature Web Guide, information about children's authors and illustrators and their books.
7. Binky's Story Scramble: Help Binky put the story in the right order.
8. Construct-a-Word provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending and then adding a beginning letter or blend. New!
9. Jan Brett: Jan Brett's Home Page
10. Let's Meet Jan Brett A WebQuest designed for Language Arts
11. Phonics Fun For Early Readers: Clifford the Big Red Dog has some pictures for you to look at. Find the words that begin with the same sound as the large picture.
12. Picture Match: Designed to give new readers practice with identifying beginning-letter and short- and long-vowels sounds through a simple, fun game.
13. Rhyming BBC Literacy: A fun and interactive animated game to help children at KS1 with rhyming words.
14. SEUSSVILLE: Based on popular Dr. Seuss books. Fun activities. Games require Shockwave
15. Word Wheel 1: A multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in CVC words.
16. Word Wheel 2: a multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in words with clusters.
17. Book Cover Guide: Students can use the tool to review the parts of a book cover before analyzing how book covers work or creating their own book covers.
18. Letter Generator: A tool designed to help students learn to identify all the essential parts of a business or friendly letter, and then generate letters by typing information into letter templates.
19. Poems: Acrostic: In this online tool, students can learn about and write acrostic poems.
20. Poems: Shape: A shape poem is a poem that describes an object and is written in the shape of the object.
21. See 'N Spell: Have fun with magnetic letters.
22. Spelling City
23. Writing with Writers: Poetry
24. StoryPlace: The Children's Digital Library
25. Read, Write and Think
26. Page by Page Books
27. Jack Lynch's Grammar Site
28. The Official Eric Carle Website
29. Noodletools
30. Our next project after our Halloween fun was about color value. They created a value scale with pumpkins as their subject matter. Take a look!

4th graders started the year learning about different kinds of lines to draw. Zig-zag, broken, curly are just a few. Take a look at these wonderful peacocks with lovely lines in their feathers. They are in the process of getting finished.