Language ArtsBoom Writer
http://www.boomwriter.com/ Creative writing platform teaches collaboration and helps develop writing skills. BoomWriter allows kids to co-author their own books. Teachers provide a "story start" which is essentially a first chapter, kids then write a follow-up chapter, submitting them for teacher approval. Meanwhile, other kids vote anonymously on approved chapters. BookPals http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/ This site features Screen Actors Guild members reading children's books aloud through an online video streaming program. Sesame Street Games http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=games Read interactive stories from Sesame Street, hear your favorite theme songs, and play over 100 games. Grades PreK-1 Kids Read http://www.kidsreads.com/ Word scrambles and trivia games based on children’s books and movies. Visit the Trivia and Games section. Grades K-5 Starfall http://www.starfall.com Starfall is a creative website designed to teach children to read. The interactive books available have sound – so turn your speakers on. Teachers may request free writing journals for classroom use that reinforce the sequential phonics lessons of each interactive book. Grades Pre-K-1 Building Language for Literacy http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bll/ Online literacy skill activities. This site appears to be a product advertisement but scroll down to click a character to enter the online practice activities of oral language, phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, or concepts of print. Grades K-3 Meet An Author http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/authors.htm Choose from classical or current authors and learn more about them at this website. Grades 1-4 Story Starters http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/setting.htm Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to help get your story started. Grades 1-4 |