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General Language Arts Sites
Reading Recovery Sites
Teaching Writing
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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
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"Handy" Guide to Writing 5 Paragraphs A summary and guide
for upper elementary students on how to write a five paragraph essay.
- Organizing
Thoughts and Ideas Suggestions for guiding elementary students
through the organizational stage of their writing.
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Planning to Write This online exhibit helps students to organize their
thoughts for prewriting, and includes an online test and student
worksheet.
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Writing a Good Paragraph
Third grade and up.
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What is a Topic Sentence?
Practice those all-important topic sentences with this activity.
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Book and Author Websites
- A Separate Peace
A
Separate Peace Study Guide
Here is an overall guide to the book, with plot summary,
characterizations, themes, etc.
A
Separate Peace WebQuest
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Separate Peace Spark Notes
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Cyberguides 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".
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Dante's
Inferno Unit Guide A guide for comprehension in ten different
lesson plans, with a bonus of grammar exercises on each section, all
related to "Inferno".
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An Internet Sampler of Favorite Authors
Find out more about favorite authors, such as Eric Carle, Jan
Brett, or Maurice Sendak in this
children's author webquest.
- Harry
Potter Teaching Resources
- 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.
Student Activities and Worksheets for Hatchet
Several diverse projects are used to explore Paulsen's novel here.
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 the 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
Several ideas here to accompany journal or essay writing exercises for each
chapter of Paulsen's "Hatchet".
- Gulliver's Travels
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Jan
Brett Web Page
- Tomie de Paola
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Meet Tomie
dePaola
Tomie
dePaola biography
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