Language+Arts



[|Florida Center for Reading Research] is a great place to visit for language arts activities in all areas of literacy from Kindergarten to Grade 4. It has lessons that can be modified for whole groups but focuses mainly on small group interventions but can be excellent for centers. Lessons and printables ready to go. Very easy to use!!! (Kelly) Read Works - K-6 lesson plans for Concepts of Comprehension (Rachel) Theme Online Resources by Grade the information is broken down by grade and theme so that you can search for safe online resources for your students. (Mary Ellen)

**//Early Learning Skills: //**
 * **www.starfall.com**
 * **[|www.abcya.com]**
 * [|www.pbs.org] - Meghan
 * [|www.abcteach.com] -Meghan
 * [|Have Fun Teaching]- a great site for voel sounds with posters and activities- Meghan
 * ====Langauge Arts Games free games for students in so many areas of the Language Arts curriculum (Mary Ellen)====


 * //Tools for Leveling Books: //**
 * Simply type in the name of a book to find the level [] - Sara
 * Correlation Chart, for example of you need the DRA number but you are only given the Fountas and Pinnell letter use the correlation chart to help you [] - Sara
 * == [|Reading A-Z] __User Name__: kingsburyschool __Password__: reading ~ yours truly, Meghan <3 ==

//**Genre Studies:** //
 * Genre Posters - Sara []
 * **Fiction - Sara**
 * **Nonfiction - Sara**
 * [] (excellent posters to use when teaching nonfiction text features) - Sara

//<span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Comprehension Skills:** // <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">This a great website with resourses for teaching eight comprehension strategies through songs, posters, and other resourses. - Sara
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//<span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Writing Skills:** // <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|tools.atozteacherstuff.com] Handwriitng Practice -Meghan <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Here a cute video to help remember the figures of Speech from [|You Tube for Teachers] (Kelly) <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">media type="youtube" key="icBFAZ4D8B4?version=3" height="180" width="320"

Chateau Meddybemps - Free printable illustrated storystarters. (Rachel)

//<span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**High Frequency Words:** //
 * <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">My school uses a combination of word lists to make up grade level high frequency word lists. Here is a link for Dolch Words - Sara[]
 * Hubbard's Cupboard - High frequency word books for Kindergarten/Early Elementary (Rachel)

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 * <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Jan Brett - Sara**
 * [] - Sara
 * [] (This website provided lesson plans to use with many of Jan Brett's books) - Sara
 * [] (This an another website that gives ideas for creating an author study as well as a short summary of the books you could use.) - Sara

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 * ** Dr. Seuss - Rachel **
 * http://www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorClassroomResources.php?id=printables#6


 * <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Lucy Calkin's pride and joy [] (there are some good resources and if you want to meet Lucy there are professional development opportunities provided at Teacher College Columbia University) - Sara

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<span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Here are the top 20 teacher blogs from Scholastic (Kelly)[|Scholastic Best of Teacher's Blogs]

<span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|KB Konnected] is another blog to check out. But her [|KB Konnected's Live Binder] and just about everything you will need to include audio stories. <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Bookflix] is a great reading website for students pre-k through third grade. A student can read or be read aloud fiction and nonfiction stories and books. The stories are animated versions of the actual book. after the reading students can play comprehension games and puzzles that go with the books. (Maggie) <span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Sundance Literactive Readers - Emergent level online books. (Rachel)

<span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Spelling City]Spelling city is a great resource for students looking for additional ways to practice spelling words. There are lists provided that include sight words, compound words, math vocabulary based on grade level or you can input your own lists. They have 25 activities and games that are used to practice the spelling words. There is a free membership that I have use that was pretty good, but you can also purchase a membership for additional resources. (Darcie)
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<span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//**Vocabulary:**// <span style="color: #ff0086; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">The link below was added to my blog but I thought I'd add it here so that the Language Arts information was in one place.//**Mary Ellen**//

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<span style="color: #ff0086; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">[] //**<span style="color: #ff0086; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Interactive White Board Games: **// TopMarks- is a great interactive whiteboard resource that can be used for math, language arts, and other academic areas. Good for all ages. (Taini)

Sheppard Software- great site where you can play math games. A lot of the games can be played on an interactive whiteboard. It has interactive games for other academic areas as well. Good for all ages. (Taini)

//**Oral Reading Fluency:**//  [|Storyline Online] can be a great tool to model oral reading fluency or to just have a great example of children's literacy read to students. (Kelly) // **Centers:** //

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// ** Florida Center for Reading Research ** // //** This is a superb site for centers. Centers are based around all the different reading strategies. The Centers are complete with materials, directions, and reproducibles. (Meghan) **// =====