Language Arts Sites for Students and Teachers


	Language Arts Sites for Students writing \| poetry \| technology \| vocabulary collective nouns \| spelling \| revising \| editing Writing: Writing Lessons for all ages and abilities http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/writing.htm 6 Trait Writing - http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/scoring.php?odelay=3&d=1 More: http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/curriculum/writing/elem_writing/Bib/6traitschart.htm http://senior.billings.k12.mt.us/6traits/ http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/teacherlinks/sixtraits/sixtraits.html http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langarts/sixtrtcrsmtrl.htm http://www.webenglishteacher.com/6traits.html http://6traits.cyberspaces.net/ Writing With Writers - biography, fairy tale, folk tale, journal, mystery, myth, news, poetry, book review http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm Graphic Organizers from Houghton Mifflin - http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html More Graphic Organizers - http://www.kathimitchell.com/graphorg.htm How to Write a Good Biography - http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm Writing Tips from Betsy Byars - http://www.betsybyars.com/writing.html Author Online - http://www.aaronshep.com/ Learn to Write Your Own Stories from Jean Craighead George - http://www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/writing.html The Structure of Paragraphs - http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/index.htm How to Write an Essay - http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/essay/index.htm Poetry: Forms of Poetry for Children - Mother Goose, limericks, haiku, cinquains, diamantes http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poeform.htm Different types of poetry for kids to write http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html Virtual Poetry Workshops from Teachers and Writers Collaborative with tons of ideas - super site http://www.twc.org/forums/virtualpoetrywrkshp.html Poetry Teachers.com or How To Teach Poetry and have fun http://www.poetryteachers.com/ Technology: Citing Electronic Resources - from Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/netciteFARQ.html Vocabulary: Black Dog's Word Games http://blackdog4kids.com/games/word/index.html Richard Lederer's Verbivore web site with: http://www.verbivore.com/ palindromes - http://www.verbivore.com/archolid.htm#newyr anagrams - http://www.verbivore.com/arcwdcir.html#ana "cat" words - http://www.verbivore.com/arccats.htm#cat3 Language Sites on the Internet suggested by Richard Lederer http://www.verbivore.com/rllink.htm and his archives http://www.verbivore.com/archive.htm Word Games - http://www.funbrain.com/words.html A Game-A- Day - http://www.agameaday.com/ Collective Nouns - http://rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/FactSheets/AnimalGroupNames.asp http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/collective/ (select a letter first) http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm Paul Vigay's Collection - http://www.vigay.com/nouns/ Use Roget's Thesaurus to add some interesting words - http://www.thesaurus.com/Roget-Alpha-Index.html Visual Thesaurus (costs money but interesting to view) http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ Wacky Web Tales http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ Word Games to Improve Vocabulary http://syndicate.com/index.html Word A Day sites: A.Word.A.Day - http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/ http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/wordofday/ http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/ Daily Buzzword from Word Central - http://www.wordcentral.com/buzzword/buzzword.php Dictionary.com - http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ Merriam-Webster Word Game of the Day - http://www.m-w.com/game/ Spelling - click here for a list of sites for kids, parents, and teachers Revising Tips: Guide to Grammar and Writing http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ Tips for Young Writers - about revision and more http://www.ralphfletcher.com/tips.html Writing With Writers http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/tguide/ Editing: The Elements of Style (online) by William Strunk, Jr. http://www.bartleby.com/141/ ---------------------------------------------------- How to Write Good Avoid commas, that are not necessary. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. Kill all exclamation points!!!!!! Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. Don't verb nouns. Never, ever use repetitive redundancies. No sentence fragments. It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Last but not least, avoid clichés like the plague. --William Safire in "Fumblerules" (Doubleday) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Back to Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School This page was developed by Kathi Mitchell and was last updated on December 5, 2011