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Language Arts Resources



[|CNN San Francisco Literacy Archive] - Provides reading comprehension practice. Students can have a large variety of articles read aloud, watch movie clips, and complete activities relates to vocabulary, reading comprehension, and sequencing.

[|Speakaboos]- __THE__ Kids Website for reading and literacy - online stories, educational activities, games, worksheets, arts and crafts and more.

[|English for Everyone] - A leading website for // English // education. High quality free // English // worksheets on reading comprehension, parts of speech, spelling, matching, vocabulary, etc. Activities and assignments target many different anchors. The free, printable assignments are adapted for students across the PSSA scoring spectrum (below basic - advanced).

[|Scholastic] - The popular publisher's website. Contains dozens of games, lesson, tools, etc for enrichment purposes. Give this site to parents as a means of extra work/support for the students.

[|Fakebook] - a mock Facebook site that allows you to create a profile/wall for any character you choose. Site uses Google Image search to find pictures of individuals provided they're searchable. Works great for non-fiction. Check out my sample page for Reformation leader [|Martin Luther.]

50Ways - 50+ Web tools you can use to create your own Web-based story. Your mission is not to try every single one, but to pick one that sounds interesting and see if you and your class can produce something. (use their older site Cogdogroo for more resources that are being transferred to the new site)

[|LibriVox] - Search for public domain books available in audio form

[|Content Literacy Strategies] - a list of 40 strategies designed to help improve literacy. Each strategy can be developed/transformed into a higher level strategy.

[|ReadWorks] - Provides lesson plans and readings (over 500 non-fiction reading passages, each with 5 multiple choice questions) that test your students' reading comprehension. Passages are broken down by grade and skill/strategy

[|WordSmyth] - A free online dictionary that allows you to look up words based on beginner, childrens, or advanced dictionaries. Comes with a widget to install in your bookmarks for ready access to the dictionary. Wordsmyth also has audio pronunciations, online quizzes, and pictures/movies to help in definitions.