Mifflin County School District Curriculum Links

Language Arts

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Student Activities and Worksheets for Hatchet
  • 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".
  • Hatchet Activities
    This site offers discussion and review questions, along with several extension activities.
  • 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.
  • Hatchet Journal and Writing Prompts
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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