Online Resources for Language Arts
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Below is a list of web-based resources for the different areas of Language Arts.  Feel free to use these websites during computer time or at home for additional practice. 

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Motivation to Read

Book Adventure
Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.
http://bookadventure.org/

Kids Read
This website categorizes books and allows students to participate in contests, announces soon-to-be published books, game play, etc.
http://www.kidsreads.com/

Free Rice
Students can play for rice for persons in need in other countries (a United Nations program).
http://www.freerice.com/subjects.php?t=442418184756

Online Stop Watch to Track Time: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/large-stopwatch/

Comprehension & Fluency Practice

Students can listen to famous actors read aloud books to them (helps build fluency).
http://www.storylineonline.net/

Variety of Texts for Students to Read:
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/index/play.htm?f

Point of View Practice

Students answer questions based off short prompts.
 http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/authorpovpostest.html

Fact and Opinion Practice

A teacher-created website that allows students to interactively determine if a statement is a fact or an opinion.
http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk/factoropinion.shtml

A game where students are given 30 sentences and must determine whether it is a fact or an opinion.
http://www.quia.com/jq/24723.html

Main Idea Practice

This website provides short passages where the student can then identify the main idea.
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/mainideap2.cfm

Drawing Conclusions Practice

This skill is built upon the skill set of inferring.

This practice give the student scenarios, in which, they must decide what happened or will happen.
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/inferencesp.cfm

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/e/drawconclusionsp.cfm

Inferring (Making An Inference) Practice

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/inferencep.cfm

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?num=11&act=2&que=1 

http://testprep.about.com/od/englishlanguagetests/ss/Inference_SBS1.htm

Character's Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions Practice

This website gives small passages for students to practice anazlying and concluding a character's actions, feelings, and thoughts.
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/charactersfeelingsl.cfm

Summarizing Practice

This webpage provides a quick review lesson about what a summary is and how to summarize.
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/summaryl.cfm

Cause and Effect

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_long_rw_1/0,8256,1453913-,00.html

Students type in a effect for a cause and vice versa.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/causeconnect.html

Students must match the cause cards  with the effect cards.
http://www.quia.com/mc/20632.html

Timeline Text Practice

 

Consumer Text Practice

Advertisement:
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=5&act=2&que=1

Recipe Comprehension:
http://www.kids-cooking-activities.com/

Poetry Practice

This website allows students to create poetry that are reluctant to do so (it is similar to "Mad Libs").
http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/gamestation/poetrysplatter/default.mspx

Wizards & Pigs Game
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/wiznpigs/wiznpigs.html
Poetry Games:
http://www.poetry4kids.com/games

http://www.barkingspiderspoetry.com/

Figuarative Language

Students determine what type of figurative language is being used.
Practice 1:
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmatch/sm1.htm
Practice 2:
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmatch/sm2.htm
Practice 3:
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmatch/sm3.htm
Practice 4:
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmatch/sm4.htm
Practice 5:
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmatch/sm5.htm
Practice 6:
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmatch/sm6.htm

Grammar

Declarative & Interrogative Sentences
(Week of August 9th)
A declarative sentence makes a statement. For example, "I like to read." I tell the students to think of the "Declaration of Independence" as a mnemonic device--the U.S. declared, or stated they were going to be independent from Great Britain.

http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n21.htm

http://www.quia.com/quiz/106467.html?AP_rand=1244682233

Linking & Action Verbs
Verbs that show action (e.g. to jump) are action verbs.
Example:  Ted ran through the snow quickly to try to catch the rabbit.

The verbs that tell what the subject is or what the subject is like are linking verbs (e.g. was).
Example: Linda is friends with her her peers at school.

http://www.quia.com/quiz/653873.html?AP_rand=659430743

Subject-Verb Agreement
Singular Subject:
The subject and the verb in a sentence must agree. To make singular nouns or he, she, or it agree with most present tense verbs add -s (or -es if verb ends in ch or x).

Plural Subject:
If the subject is plural or I, you, we, or they, the present tense verb does not end in -s.

http://www.quia.com/pop/38406.html

Synonyms & Antonyms

Students help the "Synonym Fairy" match synonyms.
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/squanky2/squanky2.html

Antonym Match
http://www.quia.com/mc/3974.html

Prefix, Root Word, and Suffix Practice

Students think of the definition of each prefix and root word, and then they can check their answer.
http://www.studybulb.com/item/1076586420486

Jellyfish Game
Students work a game as they manipulate vocabulary words by separating them into prefixes, root words, and suffixes parts.
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/5_6/fishtanks1/fishtanks1.htm

Students create words based off the definition using pre- and post- prefixes.
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?num=1&act=2&que=1

Students make new words by dragging word parts onto base words
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=1&act=3&que=1

Words that have prefixes must be selected to complete a sentence.
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/prefixp.cfm

Students choose the best word that completes a statement.
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=1&act=4&que=1

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