Circle Session: LA and Technology Integration    
       

Language Arts Websites
Web Address Description
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ Wacky Tales Web Tales is an interactive site for 3 grade up.  Students can practice parts of speech and have fun at the same time.  It is similar to Mad Libs.
Houghton Mifflin Power Proofreading Interactive site that helps students learn to proofread.
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/
ord.cgi?A1=s&A2=0&A3=words&INSTRUCTS=1		 Students must put words in ABC order in this interactive game.
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/
L3?Area=WackAWord		 Students must identify parts of speech in this space game.
http://readwritethink.org/materials/
letter_generator/		 An interactive site that allows students to create a letter using the main parts of a letter.
http://www.paragraphpunch.com/ Interactive site to help students learn to write a good paragraph.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/
quizzes/index.html		 This site helps students learn the parts of Grammar including how to recognize a good sentence.  Recommended for Grades 2-6.
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/
seasonalhaiku/index.html		 An interactive site that allows students to create a haiku poem and print it inside a leaf.
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/
gg.cgi?A1=m&A2=0&A3=0&AFUNCT=1&ALEVEL=0		 Grammar Gorillas is a site that allows students to practice parts of speech in a fun way.  This is the lowest level.  Students can select Harder and have more parts of speech to practice.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/desktop/index.jsp An interactive thesaurus.  On student web pages as the "Wild and Wonderful Thesaurus."  Must try!
http://millard.esu3.org/bryan/webquest/
writersworkshop/index.htm		 A WebQuest about the 6th Traits writing process.
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/
verb.cgi?A1=s&A2=1&A3=0&INSTRUCTS=1		 A verb conjugation game for 4th-6th grade.
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/
gg.cgi?A1=m&A2=0&A3=0&AFUNCT=0&ALEVEL=0&INSTRUCTS=1		 Find the misspelled word game.  2nd-4th grade.  Click Harder for more difficult words.
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/ww.cgi?A1=s&A2=0&A3=0&INSTRUCTS=1 Identify homophones game for 3rd-6th grades
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html What is in the Bag? An interactive site for K-2 grades for problem solving.  (Has sound)
       

Reading Websites
Web Address Description
http://education.jlab.org/beamsactivity/
online/reading/		 This site contains several reading selections which require students to select a missing word from a list.  Probably 4th grade up reading levels.
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/
dots.cgi?A1=s&A2=0&A4=0&INSTRUCTS=1		 This is for grades K-1.  Students connect the dots using abc's.
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/vo.cgi?A1=s&A2=anim&INSTRUCTS=1 Identify a word that names an animal in a picture.
http://www.naschools.net/teachers/
ross/ross.htm#Activities%20for%20Children		 Site contains links to many reading activities for elementary students.
http://www.dositey.com/langk2.htm Site has many language arts activities for both reading and writing.
http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/LibraryWeb/
elem/ElemLA/elareading.html#wordid		 Reading resources from K-6th grades.
http://www.starfall.com/ Great site for beginning readers (K-1).
http://www.esu3.org/districts/bellevue/
curriculum/technology/jones/kindergarten.html		 Check out the Kindergarten websites.
 

Resources for Language Arts and Reading
http://www.brainconnection.com/ Read about how new research on how the brain works will effect the way we teach.
Circle Session: Language Arts and Reading Evaluation Form Form to use for evaluating websites.
 

Constructed by Barb Jones - Technology Team - Bellevue Public Schools
Updated: February 27, 2004