Alvarado's Language Arts Sites

Alvarado's Language Arts Sites
An Internet Hotlist on Language Arts

created by Robert Broecker, CTI
Alvarado Elementary School

Introduction
Great sites to work with literacy.

The Internet Resources

Game Goo -
Hola Español -
I Know That! Language Arts Activities -
Starfall.com - Learn to Read & It’s Fun to Read. Great phonics based online reading activities in English. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, Kindergarten and second grade.

Houghton Mifflin

Houghton-Mifflin English K-5 - Power Proofreading, Grammar Blast, Writing Ideas...
Houghton-Mifflin Lenguaje - Ideas par escribir, Ayudas graficas, Autores e ilustradores.
Houghton-Mifflin Lenguaje Education Place - Aquí encontrará recursos en línea gratis que incluyen actividades estimulantes para su salón de clases, enlaces útiles y bibliografías que apoyan el contenido de los temas presentados en Houghton Mifflin Lectura: Herencia y futuro para estudiantes de Kindergarten a sexto grado.
Houghton-Mifflin Reading Education Place - Here you'll find free online resources, including great classroom activities, helpful links, and bibliographies, that support and extend the themes found in Houghton Mifflin Reading for Grades K – 6.
Houghton-Mifflin Reading Kidsplace - Activities to supplement and extend reading units.
Quotation Marks or Underlined? -

Early Literacy

Alphabet - Writing letters - Watch Spinner, the Writing Spider, actually draw the letters of the alphabet. He's a good and tireless model to follow! Now you can draw the letters of the alphabet right along with Spinner.
Building Language for Literacy - Scholastic - Nina the Naming Newt, Leo the Letter Loving Lobster, Reggie the Rhyming Rhino
Clifford the Dog - Phonics Fun for Early Readers. Inertactive stories and activities.
Education.com - Wordshop, Joker Soaker...
Jeune Premier - English Lessons -
JigZone.com Number & Alphabet Puzzles -
Learn English - Interacta.com -
Literacy Center: Actividades en Español - Para niños K-1. Alfabeto, numeros...
Literacy Center: Activities in English - For kids K-1. Alphabet, numbers...
PBS Kids: Between the Lions - Working with letters, vowels, phonemes...
Piñata Concentration Game - Match words in Spanish.
Poison Rouge - Learning Activities for kids of all ages.
Spanish Flashcards -
Special K - Many Kindergarten activities
Story Place - Preschool - Interactive Stories, online and Print-Out activities dealing with early literacy.
Story Place Español - La Biblioteca Pre-Escolar -
Story Time - Little Animals Activity Center - Three stories to read.
Word Games - Little Animals Activity Center - End sounds, first sounds, rhymes

Intermediate Literacy

Adding -ing : Penalty Shoot Out - First School Years
Arthur's About Face - Read the descriptions and decide how Arthur's friends are feeling.
Coco Lokos - Juegos en linea
Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words - Jim's Crankophone: What sound can you hear in the middle of the words that Jim is making?, The Whirlyword Machine: See how many new words you can make from the letters on the fruit machine.
Cuentos Interactivos - Cuentos locos (MadLibs) y Hipercuentos.
LECTURA, ART, COMUNICACIÓ,... ON LINE - Hipercuentos, Cuentos Interactivos...
Maya & Miguel -
Mummy's Curse - You have been left behind in the museum with a horrible mummy. The main doors are locked and can only be opened by using clues about Romans, dinosaurs, Egypt, and Captain Cook.
Plurals: Irregualr Plurals - Choose the correct form of the plural for each noun.
Prefixes & Suffixes - First School Years
Story Place Elementary - Interactive Stories and Print-Out activities.
Story Place Español - La biblioteca digital de niños.
Story Scramble with Arthur - Kids read and listen to sections of a mixed up story. They then rearrange them to put them in the correct order.
The Little Prince - Read the story chapter by chapter.
The Magic Scroll - Choose to be a boy or a girl, then follow the links to create your own story related to Harry Potter or Robin Hood.
Words and Pictures: Sandcastle Quiz, Write a Postcard - Build a sandcastle and get to know the common spelling patterns for vowel phonemes./// Help Salty Sam write a postcard and get used to using words containing alternative spelling.

General

Alphabetical Order - Alphabetize words.
American Sign Language Fingerspelling - A number of tools for novices and experts alike to help you become proficient at fingerspelling. For novices, there is a standard dictionary to learn the basic fingershapes. For fun, see what a word looks like with the fingerspelling converter. If you need to practice your receptive skills, try the interactive quiz.
Antonyms - Drag the word on the right to its antonym (opposite).
Ayuda para tus Tareas -
Dositey.com - Free interactive lessons, exercises and worksheets, educational games, open-ended questions in Math and Language Arts, and more..
Homonyms - Drag the word on the right to its homonym.
Learrning Planet - Various Grammar Activities
Phonics and Word Study -
Reading Brain - MadLibs, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, etc.
Scholastic Online Activities - Lots of activities for different age levels. Many opportunites for kids to publish writing online.
Skillswise Words -
Spanish Activities & Games -
Spanish Vocabulary Games - Gamequarium
Spellaroo! - Choose the misspelled word.
Word Games en Espanol - Word Searches, Hangman

Keyboarding

Spelling

Catch the Spelling - A huge collection of spelling games. These games feature falling letters, you catch them with a paddle. Select from word categories (birds, kitchen, body parts), difficulty, level of hints provided, or grade level (such as Dolch site words for kindergarten through third grade.)
Spelling Bee - Bonus.com - Pick from letters on the screen to spell the word. As you progress from easy mode to normal, the letters start moving faster.
Word Wizard - readwritethink.org - Using vocabulary from four popular pictures books ('The Very Hungry Caterpillar,' 'Corduroy,' 'Chrysanthemum,' and 'Franklin in the Dark') the Word Wizard is my pick of the day for beginning spellers. Be sure to have your speakers on as the narrator reads clues such as 'The things that wiggle on your feet' and asks you to pick letters from a scrambled list to spell the four-letter answer. Because this game is so well done, older elementary students will also enjoy it.
tvokids.com Spelling Bee - Practice your spelling skills with the Spelling Bee! Like real spelling bees, you only have one chance to spell the work right. The Spelling Bee pronounces each word.(don't forget to turn on your speakers). Confused about what the Spelling Bee said? Use 'Repeat Word' or 'Definition' to help you.

Content by Robert Broecker, CTI, rbroeck@muse.sfusd.edu
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Last revised Wed Apr 2 9:22:57 US/Pacific 2008