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ELA
Web Resources |
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Other
Reading and Writing Websites |
| Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations |
The ninth edition of John Bartlett's classic collection of
quotations contains over 9,000 selections. |
| Biography
Maker |
The
Biography Maker is
meant to inspire lively story telling and vivid writing which will
make your readers want to know more about your subject. Create
an exciting biography. Follow these steps:
1. Questioning | 2. Learning
| 3. Synthesis | 4. Story-Telling
Six Traits of Effective Writing |
| Book
Box |
This website puts you in touch with
your favorite authors and their books. (Click on one of the sections
of the box to see the different features) |
| The
Children's Literature Web Guide |
The Children's Literature Web Guide is an Internet resource
of books for Children and Young Adults. |
| The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare |
This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the
Internet community since 1993. |
| Cursive
Desk Top Chart |
Students in third grade are probably
well on their way to using cursive writing now. Here is a colorful
printable chart to mount on their desks and help them remember their
letter formation; this one is D'Nealian cursive. |
| Dolch Word Lists |
Click on the Word documents or better yet, if you
have PowerPoint, use them. They flash the words on the screen. If
you choose the PowerPoints you can set the transition time to go
faster or slower. |
ECHOES:
great poets inspiring young writers |
"Echoes"
is an encyclopedia of poets created by 8th grade English students at
Cary Academy in Cary,
North Carolina. Each site contains a biography of the poet,
sample poems with literary analysis, and original student poetry
inspired by the poet. If you are a middle or high school
teacher who would like to have your class contribute to "Echoes,"
please email site editor Delia
DeCourcy. We would like to expand the list of poets as
well as create new links to the ones already in the index below.
Curriculum and resources for the Echoes project can be found on the Student
& Teacher Resource page. |
| EDSITEment |
The best humanities has to offer. |
| Harry
Potter Lesson Plans and Activities
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Harry Potter is coming to movie
theaters in mid-November! Entertain and educate your students with
Harry Potter lessons and activities that are
sure to entice them to read. Visit our Harry Potter page for an
educational board game idea, crossword puzzle, script-writing
lesson, book cover art, and more. |
| OWL
= Online Writing Lab |
Purdue University offers an Online Writing Lab to help people with
grammar questions and other problems they face in writing. Handouts
and Materials on writing are available for students and teachers. |
| Poetry.com |
This site, which will publish online any poem submitted and runs
contest for poems to be published in hardcover. |
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| Tales
of the Coast Must
See! |
Find the stories about: The
Crissie Wright, Decatur Gillikin, and Blackbeard |
| Writing
Across the Curriculum: Informational Writing |
Items of Interest on DPI's
Web Site - "Writing Across the Curriculum: Informational
Writing" suggests ways that teachers can use writing to develop
communication skills in all classroom subjects. |
