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Writing and Assessing an Autobiographical Incident

Teaching the Compare and Contrast Essay through Modeling

 

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Handwriting Practice (animated) lowercase

 

 

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Proofreading
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Use these sites before handing in any work as a finished product.

Kid Friendly 4-point Rubric
 
Writing and Editing Checklist
Self-Evaluation Rubric
 
Common Errors in English
Power Proofreading Proofreading Makes Perfect

 

Grammar Games  
   





Idioms

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The Idiom Site  Learn how common phrases and sayings originated.
 
Fun Brain Idioms Game

Idioms and Axioms Meanings and origins

English Zone Idioms
   








 

Daily Grammar  use in place of a language text
 
Grammar Quizzes
Grammar Rock Power Proofreading  Go here to learn grammar skills in a fun way.  Try it.  You'll love it!
 
Grammar Blast  Go here for a number of quizzes on sentences and parts of speech.  Fun way to learn!
 
Project LA
The Blue Book of Grammar  Grammar and punctuation instruction, exercises and answers, tests and self-checking available here. Wacky Web Tales Game Have fun creating your own stories here.  Be careful. You must know your parts of speech.  There is help there if you are not sure.
 
Spelling and Grammar Practice
 
Guide to Grammar and Writing  Includes everything you would want to  know about grammar, punctuation, paragraphing, capitalization, includes quizzes, power points, and a comprehensive index
GrammarBook.com  Find rules and examples here.

 

 






 






 

A Thousand Words  mini lessons for writing

Teaching the Compare and Contrast Essay through Modeling
 
Creating a Concluding Sentence

Moving to the Five Paragraph Essay
Writing Fun  Steps to writing
 
Communication Arts Links by Donna Horne, Bonne Terre 4th grade eMINTS teacher
 
Character Traits
More Character Traits
 
Writing Rubrics
Great Source iWrite
 
Writing a Teaching Encounter Reflections Summary
 
Journaling  Find models of different types of journals here.
 
Quotation Punctuation Guidelines
Comic Creator
 
Paragraph a Week Writing
Writing Essentials  Lots of sites to help you do a better job with writing.
 
ABC's of the Writing Process  Find the steps to writing explained, topic ideas, graphic organizers, etc.
 
Mystery Net  Read, solve and create mystery stories.
 
Fairy Tale Activities story starters, report forms, graphs, etc.
Mini-Book
 
Biography Maker
 
The Better You Write, The Better You Communicate Persuasive Writing
 

DESE Writing Scoring Guide

Write On  Jefferson Schools, Tennessee, includes PowerPoint game reviews, commonly misspelled word activities, Mr. Moneybags and Snaps paragraph writing

Prompts with Presentations

Prompts for different genres of writing

Writing Prompts on pdf. files



 









 

                                  Word Fun                                   
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Word Central  lots of word play here!
 
Antonym Challenge
World English  All sorts of information here about the English language
 
Fun School Language Arts listing of all sorts of sites
Palindrome words, phrases and sentences
 
 

 
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look, Cover, Write Check Spelling
Spelling words are given.  You look at the word, then it gets covered, and you try to spell the word. 
 
Learn to Spell Math Numbers
Spelling it Right  Learn to spell confidently tips about learning how to spell and why spelling is important.  Parents should also read this information. 

 
Puzzlemaker  create your own puzzles to learn spelling words
Spelling and Grammar Practice Magnetic Letter Spelling
 
Fun Brain Spelling  Practice with easier and harder words.
 
Personal Educational Press  Create your own word worksheets here.
Spelling Practice
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buzzword of the Day   Learn a new vocabulary word each day.  Want to review the collection of Daily Buzzwords from previous months?  Check out the bottom corner when you get there.
 
Analogies Race Game
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun  word searches, matching, hangman, and quizzes can be found here.
 
The Rhyme Zone  Go here to find rhyming words, synonyms, antonyms, definitions and more.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary online  Go here for the definitions and a thesaurus to find synonyms, antonyms and more. Visual Thesaurus OnLine Edition  Go here for an interesting look at words, synonyms, antonyms, their definitions, and their parts of speech.  Cool site!
 
SAT vocabulary quizzes  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friendly letter 
 
Letter Generator  Learn the parts of a letter, then practice writing your own friendly and business letters.
Writing a Business Letter Lesson
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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