Hot Links!
Reading/Language Arts.......Writing.......Math........ Science........ Social Studies....... Research
 

Reading / Language Arts
  1. Wacky Web Tales - For grade 3 and up, you can make and read funny stories using different part of speech.
  2. Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West - Funny, famous folktale with highlighted vocabulary words.
  3. American Folktales Tall tales for all ages!
  4. Webtime Stories - A wealth of stories, myths, fables, fairy tales, and more
  5. Alphabet Super Highway
    http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/index.html

Writing

  1. Writer ' s Notebook Techniques

  2. Magic Tree House Readers' and Writers' Club
    http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/magictreehouse/
    randwclub/randw1.html

    1. A Journey to Publication Using Writer's Notebooks

    http://www.lesley.edu/academic_centers/hood/currents/v2n1/michel.html

    Article about writer's notebooks

    2. Tips for Young Writers

    http://www.ralphfletcher.com/seminars.htm

    Ideas for stories and how to use a writer's notebook

    3. Puzzlemaker

    http://www.puzzlemaker.com/

    Create original word puzzles or let students make them

    4. Writing Prompts

    http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

    Site from Canada with many, many good ideas to get students started

    5. Write Source Writing Topics

    http://www.thewritesource.com/topics.htm

    Organized by grade level with a lot of ideas

    6. Story Starters

    http://wwwbir.bham.wednet.edu/wws/GTSTART.HTM

    Great site with characters, problems, settings, and titles to choose from

    7. Vocabulary.com

    http://www.vocabulary.com/

    Games to play to encourage acquiring word knowledge

    Poetry 

    1. Kristine O'Connell George—For Teachers page 

    http://www.kristinegeorge.com/for_teachers.htm

    Poetry to read and tips for writing poetry with students

    2. Poems for Kids

    http://www.gigglepotz.com/poementer.htm

    Prompts for different types of poems

    3. Listen and Write from the BBC

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/listenandwrite/home.htm

    Great site with poems to write online or print out

    4. Online Poetry Classroom

    http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/index.cfm

    Links to how to teach and what to teach

    5. Word Dance Fun--Haiku

    http://www.worddance.com/magazine/worksheet.html

    Great explanation of how to write a haiku

    6. KidzPage ! Poetry and Verse

    http://www.veeceet.com/

    Site with great poems for kids to read

    7. PIZZAZ! Creative Writing

    http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html

    Although this is an ESL site, it has good information on how to write many types of poetry.

    Graphic Organizers

    1. Example of a Graphic Organizer on Similes

    http://www.graphic.org/similie.html

    Uses the Inspiration program

    2. Graphic Organizer Generators

    http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/

    Lets you create your own graphic organizer

    3. Graphic Organizer General Information

    http://www.graphic.org/

    Lots of information about graphic organizers

    4. Graphic Organizer Index

    http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html

    Compares the different types of graphic organizers

    5. Spider Map Graphic Organizer

    http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm

    Easy to use graphic organizer

    6. Graphic Organizer Examples from S.C.O.R.E

    http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm

    Links to 17 types of graphic organizers

    Paragraphs 

    1. Information and Activities for Modes of Writing

    http://www.angelfire.com/ks/teachme/modesactivities.html

    Great site with links to expository, descriptive, narrative and more

    2. Successful Paragraphs

    http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/lang/ceclang/ceclang001.html

    Lesson plan for 4-6 graders with good idea for improving paragraphs

    3. Paragraph A Week Program

    h ttp://www.teachersdesk.org/writing_plans.html

    Used with 5 th and 6 th grades, but could be adjusted for lower grades

    4. Word Choice Hodge Podge

    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/8405/wchodgepodge.html

    Ideas to get students thinking descriptively about music and food plus information on showing vs. telling

    5. An Apple for Your Thoughts

    http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Writing/WCP0002.html

    Lesson plan for 4-6 graders on descriptive paragraph

    6. Descriptive Paragraph Lesson

    http://etc.sccoe.org/i2001/i2001proj/la/LinkLit/text/Lesson1.html

    Lesson plan for 2 nd and 9 th graders—could be adapted for upper elementary

    7. The Art of Storytelling

    http://www.eldrbarry.net/roos/art.htm

    Great site for teachers to find information on narratives

    8. Annotated Bibliography for Narrative Picture Books

    http://www.geocities.com/oberry1790/narrativebibliography.htm

    How to use picture books to help students develop their own narratives

    General Writing Links

    1. Teacher's Corner Writing Sites

    http://www.theteacherscorner.net/writing/skills/

    List of good writing links

    2. Literacy and Technology

    http://campus.fortunecity.com/newton/40/home.html

    List of good links to writing and other literacy skills

    3. Lesson Ideas Using Writing and Technology

    http://www.kent.wednet.edu/staff/ljancola/6Trait/lessons.htm

    Good ideas and examples for encouraging writing using technology

    4. Writing Lesson Plans from Teach- nology

    http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/language_arts/writing/

    Lots of links to various writing ideas

    5. Writing WebTopic
    http://www.dimensional.com/~janf/wtwriting.html

    Links to young authors' sites and more

    6. Writer's Workshop Tips

    http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/languagearts/readingwriting/writerworkshop.htm

    Good ideas on storying and mini lessons for writing

  3. Tips for Young Writers from Ralph Fletcher
    http://www.ralphfletcher.com/seminars.htm
  4. Fun Brain--Check out the word games
    http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

Web Publishing Sites

  1. Cyberteens Creativity Site
    http://www.cyberteens.com/cr/
  2. Kid Pub Publishing for Kids
    http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
  3. Young Writer: The Magazine for Kids with Something to Say
    http://www.mystworld.com/youngwriter/index.html
  4. Mid Link Magazine--Digital Magazine for Kids
    http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/

Writing Resource Sites

  1. Writing Topics/Journal Ideas from Can Teach
    http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

  2. Write Source: Writing Topics
    http://www.thewritesource.com/topics.htm
  3. Story Starters
    http://wwwbir.bham.wednet.edu/wws/GTSTART.HTM
  4. GigglePotz--Poems for Kids
    http://www.gigglepotz.com/poementer.htm

Rubrics 

  1. Teach-nology Rubrics Page
    http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
  2. S.C.O.R.E Language Arts Rubrics Page--California Department of Education
    http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/trubrics.htm
  3. RubiStar Online Rubric Maker
    http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
  4. Writing Rubrics for Grades 2-5 from Houghton Mifflin
    http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hme/k_5/rubrics/toc.html

Math
  1. Cool Math 4 Kids - Lots of really fun activities for elementary students!
  2. AAA Math - Hundreds of tutorials, practice activities, and challenging games!
  3. Hungry for Math - Fractions and Food!
  4. The Maths File Gameshow - Play the Wheel of Fortune and practice math!
  5. Puzzle Corner - Fun math games for elementary students.
  6. Learning Planet Mayhem- all facts with regrouping - can play against each other
  7. Learning Planet Basic Facts - basic facts 0, then 1, then 2, then 3 baseball math fact
  8. Mad Minutes  math minutes - great practice

Science
  1. Sci4Kids - Bilingual! - Topics on environment, soil, nutrition, insects, transportation, plants, careers in science, and WEIRD science.
  2. Brain POP - Movies on all kinds of science topics! Quizzes and more!
  3. For Kids ONLY - NASA website that focuses on Earth Science. Game section included!
  4. Weather Resources for Kids - Weather songs, proverbs, facts and forecasts!
  5. How Stuff Works - Find out how and why things work - from digital cameras to pole vaulting!
  6. The Universe - Cool Planet Site

Social Studies
  1. White House for Kids - Find out who lived in the White House, their pets, and write to the President!
  2. FBI for Kids - Take a cyber field trip to the FBI!
  3. National Geographics for Kids - Fun facts and information about our world
  4. World Factbook - Information from the CIA about many countries!
  5. Time for Kids - Time Magazine online for kids includes articles, voting, news, and games!
  6. Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - Historic documents, the 3 Branches, Symbols- GAMES!
  7. Texas Senate for Kids - Find out who is your senator and play Texas Trivia in English and Spanis

Research
  1. Ebsco
  2. Newsbank - database of newspapers

Online Almanacs
  1. Kids' Almanac - the information is organized in 15 categories. When you click on a category it divides into subcategories.
  2. Fact Monster - Cool facts!
  3. Daily Almanacs - In this website you will find out what happened on specific days for each day of the year!
  4. Famous Firsts - This is one of the best places to find out information about famous firsts in baseball.


Online Encyclopedias
  1. Electric Library Encyclopedia - a very detailed encyclopedia suitable for upper elementary students.
  2. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology

Online Dictionaries
  1. ASL Dictionary - This is an online American Sign Language dictionary with over 3,000 signs.
  2. Rhyme Zone - This is an online rhyming dictionary. Just enter a word and find the rhyming words organized by the number of syllables they have.
  3. WWWebster Dictionary - This is both a dictionary and a thesaurus.
  4. Biographical Dictionary - More than 28,000 famous men and women's biographies can be searched by birth year, death year, accomplishments, names, professions and more.
  5. Little Explorer's Picture Dictionary - Picture and word dictionary for little ones.

Library Databases - use the same username and passwords that you do at school -
Ask Ms. Crites , our librarian, if you have forgotten.

  1. History Reference Center
  2. Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
  3. Curriculum Resource Center
  4. Science Online
  5. Landmark Documents
  6. The World Atlas On-line
  7. Forms On File™
  8. Health & Living On-line
  9. Career Guidance On-line