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Poetry Place
Story Starters
Figurative Language
Eats,
Shoots and Leaves
Punctuation Game
Reading Recovery
Teaching Writing
A Guide to Writing Good Paragraphs
Essential to good writing skills is the ability to compose a great
paragraph--find student guidelines at this site.
What is a Topic Sentence?
Peer Editing
Checklist
Sometimes students feel uncertain about editing their peers' writing
exercises. This checklist will provide a solid guide to make them
feel more comfortable with the procedure, while lending a rubric for
their own assignments as well.
Citation
Machine
Here's a cool little tool for teaching your students how to create a
bibliography for their research reports. They will need to plug in
the necessary information, and the citation maker will assemble the
data in the correct format, either MLA or APA style.
Planning to Write
Students can sometimes get stumped in the planning stage of the
writing process. This online exhibit helps students to organize
their thoughts for prewriting, and includes an online test and
student worksheet.
Writer's Window
Online writing publisher and more
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Book and Author Websites
An Internet Sampler of Favorite Authors
Find out more about favorite authors, such as Eric Carle, Jan
Brett, or Maurice Sendak.
Cyberguides offer literary resources and activities on many of
the classics read in the elementary grades including "Katy &
The Big Snow", "Hill of Fire", and "Little House in the Big Woods".
Dante's
Inferno Unit Guide
An introduction for high school students to Dante's Divine Comedy can be a
bit intimidating; find a guide here for comprehension in ten different
lesson plans, with a bonus of grammar exercises on each section, all related
to "Inferno". Grammar review sheets, a glossary, and answers are all
provided.
Gulliver's Travels
Harry
Potter Teaching Resources
Jan
Brett Web Page
A Separate Peace
Tomie dePaola
Hatchet
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Teacher's
Cyberguide for Hatchet
Students will use a wide variety of online resources to explore the physics
of flight, learn how to use a compass, visit Canadian wildlife and prepare a
short report, and create a survival guide.
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Survival Kit
Students will work in groups to brainstorm ideas about what they would need
to survive in the Canadian wilderness. They will collaborate to devise their
own survival kit, narrowing the list to twelve essential items.
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Student Activities and Worksheets for Hatchet
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Survival -- A Series of Lessons on Hatchet
A fifteen day unit contains student worksheets, journal topics, essay
questions, assessments, and chapter-by-chapter activities for reading
"Hatchet".
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Hatchet Activities
This site offers discussion and review questions, along with
several extension activities.
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The Hatchet Unit
Six activities complement your classroom study of the novel, "Hatchet",
with bioboards on the author, investigations in to wildlife with guided
worksheets, weather activities, and more.
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Hatchet
Journal and Writing Prompts
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Literature
Sites
The Biography Maker
Bulfinch's
Mythology
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature
Site
The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Children's
Literature Student Pages
The
Children's Literature Web Guide
Daily Spelling Bee
On-line test of spelling skills
Story
Arts Online
Story
Bytes an online literary magazine
The English Server
A collection of great works of literature and drama
Macmillan/McGraw Hill
Online resources include lesson plans, curriculum-based web
links, classroom activities, review ideas, projects and product
information. Word
of the Day
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary Word of the Day
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Mifflin
County School District Curriculum Links
