Writing and researching skills resources
Looking for fun, interactive activities for your students to reinforce content at home? Then check out the L.A. homework playground!Click on the picture to access the page.
Elementary School Language arts
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Spelling
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Researching sites for kids
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Grammar
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Fun games...exciting exercises...involving interactive lessons to boost a child's success in school.
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Thesauraus 2.0!
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This simple-looking online thesaurus is actually MUCH more than a quick-look-up. You can find synonyms, antonyms, similar words, and rhymes for any word you enter. A click on any of the words offered provides the same information for THAT word, sending you on word-paths through the English language.
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Lessons and activities for k-2 by unit
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Kindergarten-First Grade
First grade-Second grade: Reading
First grade-Second Grade: Writing
First grade-Third Grade: Spelling and Grammar
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Lessons and activities for 3-5 students by unit |
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Lesson plans grades 3-5
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A great collection of lesson plans and ideas for language arts broken down by age and content. Just click on the links. |
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Resources for teaching reading and phonics.
All kinds of resources for teaching reading! |
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Interactive stories!
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International Children’s Digital Library Free access to actual page images of 900+ children’s books in 35 languages, categorized by ages 3-5, 6-9. 10-13 and other groupings, such as real stories, imaginary creatures, and award-winning books. Reader options include using your browser or a java-enhanced “comic” reader.
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Language Arts Activities: |
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Phonics and sight words/ vowel sounds
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Children’s literature
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Magnetic poetry! |
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Interactive sites for reading
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Decoding Strategies
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Rhyming patterns:
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Dr. Seuss's website |
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Instructional strategies for reading |
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Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8
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Digital story book! Have students make their own stories using this fun site. |
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Resources for teaching reading comprehension
Reading comprehension
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Interactive activities on reading comprehension |
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Read a passage and answer questions to show comprehension sites. (Grades 4-6) |
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Identifying Author’s purpose |
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Sequence |
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Understanding what you read-interactive tutorial |
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Interactive activities to help with character, plot main ideas, settings, compare/contrast |
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