Curriculum / ELAR

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K-5 ELAR

6-12 ELAR

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ICT Games

K-2 literacy games.

Funbrain - Reading

Free educational games, online books, and comics.

Visuwords Online

Visuwords online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.

Knowing Poe

The literature, life, and times of Edgar Allan Poe... In Baltimore and beyond.

Google Lit Trips

Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth.

Story Maps

A collection of story maps built around real data and places.

After the Deadline

We use artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions.

501 Writing Prompts

Free writing prompts!

English Companion Ning

A place to ask questions and get help. A community dedicated to helping you enjoy your work.

Language is a Virus

Languageisavirus.com exists to cure writer's block and inspire creativity. You can choose from a multitude of writing games, gizmos, generators, writing prompts and exercises, tips, experiments and manifestos from infamous avant garde writers and how-to articles on fiction writing and poetry.

Using English

A large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics, covering the full spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.

Storyline Online

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation records well-known actors reading children's books and makes graphically dynamic videos so that children around the world can be read to with just eh click of a Storyline Online video book image.

To Kill a Mockingbird Resource List

Tons of resources for use when reading "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Narrative vs. Expository Writing

A PDF to help students with their writing.

4th Grade Writing Boot Camp

Another PDF to help students when writing narratives and expository passages and their differences.

Mrs. Oswalt and Mrs. Holmes - Narrative vs. Expository

More resources to help writers.

Doorway Online

Interactive and accessible learning activities.

Primary Games Arena

Play games on ICT, math English, science, social studies, and other topics. Select games by age.

E-Learning for Kids - Language Arts

Explore online interactive courses searchable by grade and subject area.

Winged Sandals

Learn about Greek mythology at this highly interactive and engaging site. Explore animated stories; interactive games; crafts to make; a substantial "who's who" of gods, mortals and monsters; history on topics such as philosophy, the Olympic Games, and Athenian politics and government; and additional resources.

Mr. Young's Bouncy 'A'

This site has a large number of interactive games from other sites in science, computers, math, social studies, reading, language, spelling, art, music, and other subjects.

Arcademic Skill Builders

Play interactive games in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, integers, decimals, fractions, money, time geography, language arts, and typing.

Edgalaxy - Literacy

Edgalaxy is a place with cool stuff for nerdy teachers.

4 Kids - Reading Room

Resources for teaching stories, mythology, magazines, and news.

Exploratorium - Language & Speech

Resources for teaching about language and speech.

Nobel Prize - Literature

Play interactive learning games of various sorts and degrees of difficulty.

TVO Kids

Access interactive games and videos on a variety of topics.

Scholastic - Student Activities

Engaging web and whiteboard activities across all grade levels and subjects.

Know It All - English Language Arts

Access a wealth of interactive resources where students can take a virtual road trip through civil rights history, learn the "Wash Hands" song, practice math and science skills in "The Hobby Shop," write a theater review, take a virtual field trip to a salt marsh, and much more.

PBS Learning Media - English Language Arts and Literacy

Explore an online library of media resources from NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, and other public broadcasting programs. Resources include videos, audio, interactive games and activities, self-paced lessons, images, documents, lesson plans, and more.

Graphite - ELAR

Graphite is a free platform from Common Sense Education that saves you time by making it easy to discover the best apps, games, and websites for your classroom.

TES - Teaching Shakespeare

Teaching Shakespeare provides creative routes into the world of Shakespeare, while helping to bring a selection of his works vividly to life with resources from some of the UK’s major cultural institutions.

Open Library

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book every published.

Quill

Free tools to make your students better writers.

Cite Fast

Citefast is a free service that allows students and professionals to properly create, organize and manage citations.

Storybird

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

Scholastic Story Starters

Writing prompts for grades K-6.

Grammaropolis

Grammaropolis uses the parts of speech as animated characters starring in books, songs, videos, and interactive games.

Newsela

This is an educational literacy and current events site. You can explore it as either a student or a teacher.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books. It remains one of the best free ebook sites out there.

Knight Cite

KnightCite is an online citation creation service provided by the Hekman Library of Calvin College. It’s a top-notch bibliography generator.

Many Things

This is an entertaining cross between Mad-Lib and a random sentence generator. It’s super-fun to use an learn with.

Visual Thesaurus

Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus. It creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.

Tag Galaxy

This is a visually appealing way to learn word relationships. Type in a tag word, hit Go, and watch your tags float onto the screen. It’s beautifully interactive learning.

CK-12 English

A collection of simulations, interactives, and practice built for individualized learning.

Grammarly

Grammarly finds and corrects up to 10 times more mistakes than your word processor.

GoodReads

Meet your next favorite book.

Inquiry By Design

Inquiry by Design partners with schools and school districts across the country to provide smart, engaging, and rigorous curriculum materials along with dynamic, highly relevant professional development.

Go Teen Writers

Go Teen Writers is all about honesty, encouragement, and community.

Write Any Genre

Teaching writing skills is offered throughout these pages by me and focuses specifically on one particular aspect of the traditional approach to teaching the craft.