Language+Arts+Resources

**__Language Arts Websites for Educators__**
=**__Reading__**= [|ALA Authors] ALA Authors provides information different children's authors and illustrators to use with curriculum. [|Free Reading] Free Reading offers educators teaching K-6 lessons, activities, and ideas on reading. [|Literature Learning] Literature Learning offers educators information on different literature topics including activities on SAT, AP, and college exams. [|Teen Reads] Teen Reads offers teens information about different types of teen literature and information about the authors who write teen literature.

=**__Writing/Grammar__**= [|Read Write Think] Read Write Think offers teachers language arts lessons and other activities for grades K-12. [|PBS Teachers] PBS Teachers offers educators language arts lessons for grades K-12. [|__Daily Writing Tips__] Daily Writing Tips offers educators information on writing, grammar, vocabulary,and information to become a writer. [|Writing Fix] Writing Fix offers students and teachers ideas on the writing process to use. [|Grammar Blast] Grammar Blast by Houghton Mifflin offers students and teachers in grades 2-5 different grammar games to use. [|BBC] BBC offers students in middle and high school different activities with grammar, vocabulary, and writing to use. [|Grammar Games] Grammar Games offers kids and teens different types of games to learn grammar. [|Writing Teens Kids.Gov] Kids.gov offers teens tips for writing with additional information on authors and reading.

**__Language Arts Websites for Students__**
[|Loud Lit] Lord Lit offers different audio books for students K-12 on novels, poetry, and children's books. [|Oxford Owl] Oxford Owl offers help with reading skills for kids and includes ebooks to read. [|Literacy Zone] Literacy Zone provides students with literacy games for spelling, reading key words, and letters. [|Brain Pop English] Brain Pop provides information on various topics including authors, grammar, reading skills, and writing for students. [|Star Fall] Star Fall is an online tool for young children to learn how to read through phonics. [|Language Arts Lessons for High School] This is a link provided by Hot Chalk that hosts language arts lessons for high school level. [|MCREL Language Arts Lessons for K-12] MCREL offers various language arts lessons for K-12 including reading skills, writing, speaking, researching, etc. =**__Spelling__**= [|Spelling City] Spelling City offers students activities to learn spelling and vocabulary. [|Many Things] Many Things offers different levels of spelling games for students to use. [|Kids Spell] Kids Spell offers students to learn their spelling words through spelling lists and games. [|NEA Spelling Lessons for Grades 9-12] NEA hosts a link for spelling lessons for grades 9-12 to help with spelling. =**__Writing/Grammar__**= [|Grammar Bytes] Grammar Bytes provides students and teachers information on grammar with exercises and handouts. [|Brain Pop English] Brain Pop provides information on various topics including authors, grammar, reading skills, and writing for students. [|Wacky Web Tales] Wacky Web Tales offers students in grades three and up a way to create funny stories using different parts of speech. [|NCTE Grammar Lessons for High School] NCTE offers grammar lessons from ReadWriteThink for grades 9-12. [|Purdue Owl University Writing] Purdue Owl offers information on the writing process and how to start writing projects.
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__**Additional Language Arts Web Tools**__
[|Story Bird] Story Bird is an online tool to create short stories, games, or greeting cards with students. How to Make a Trailer How to Make a Trailer is a wiki describing in detail on how to make a book trailer for readers using video web tools. [|Free Rice] Free Rice is an online tool to use for vocabulary building for students. Students using this website will help provide food for the World Food Program when they answer vocabulary questions correctly. [|Magnetic Poetry] Magnetic Poetry is an online tool for students and adults to create poetry. [|Google Lit Trips] This is a web tool for teachers and students to use to learn about different literature from grades K-12. Google Earth must be downloaded before using the videos on this site.