3-5 ELA

This a great site that will motivate students to write.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

"Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. "

The site is home to a package of interactive games, stories and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read. The site can be used at school or at home. It's one of the most comprehensive interactive literacy resources on the net that is freely accessible... no area of the site is password protected. RTZ also aims to make life easier for educators who teach reading skills. You'll never be more than 3 clicks (...if that!) away from what you need. Recently over 360 educators assessed the effectiveness of the resources on www.roythezebra.com - 100% of the respondents agreed that RTZ had helped their pupils become better readers, 100% agreed that the site made reading fun and 100% said that they would use RTZ in the future. You can view the survey results at the about page. What can I find on this website? 1. Fun Interactive Reading Games that can be used on your interactive whiteboard or computers. The games focus on all aspects of teaching early literacy covering the following subject areas: * Capital letters * Full stops * Words that rhyme * High frequency words * Alphabetical order * Question marks * Singular or plural * Long vowel phonemes * Does it make sense? * Words within words * Double consonants 2. The Original RTZ Guided Reading Story A delightful nine part story about Roy the zebra's daring escape from the worst zoo in the world and his search for his herd. The story comes complete with: * Literacy worksheets * Before reading discussion sheets * After reading discussion sheets 3. Lesson Plans Each interactive literacy game comes complete with a lesson plan that gives practical step-by-step guidance on how to use the games in the classroom and in computer suites. The lesson plans are packed full of literacy resources that can be printed. Each resource is designed to support the teaching of literacy and to make the educator's life easier (no more late nights creating

Varying projects that can be done between students worldwide using writing skills.

This is a HUGE collection of excellent resources such as power points, work pages , lessons etc...It is well worth your time exploring this site!

A free Website that allows teachers (or students and parents) to enter their own spelling words. The students can then learn the words, play games with the words, and take a test on the words. Now, the site has added a gradebook feature. The site works great with the SMART Board or other interactive whiteboards.

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pre-K to 6 ela, science, math, geography interactive games and activities

Tikatok is a free creative community for kids under 13 where they can write, illustrate, and share their original stories, and have them printed out into real hardcover and paperback books. It was developed by two mothers to encourage the imagination and creativity of their children and children everywhere.