HOUGHTON MIFFLIN EDUCATION PLACE
The EduPlace website is designed for parents and students to support the
Houghton Mifflin reading program. Just click on "Kids' Place."; In "Kids'
Place" you will find fun and educational games, crossword puzzles, book
lists, and much more. You can play Social Studies, Math, and Spelling
games. You can also do word searches and crossword puzzles!
http://www.eduplace.com/
SPELLING GAMES TO PRACTICE PATTERNS WE ARE PRACTICING IN SCHOOL!
Click the name of the game you'd like to play. Start with lesson 1 and then try to move to higher
levels as the year progresses.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/books/gr3/
VOCABULARY FUN
Learn and practice new words at this site. You can do word searches,
quizzes, matching games, crossword puzzles, hangman, etc. All of these
games can be of different levels (easy, medium, hard) and they can be timed
or untimed.
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
ONLINE MADLIBS
Click on the title of the tale you would like to create. Then fill in words
for the correct part of speech (noun, verb, adjective). If you're not sure
about a part of speech, click on "Parts of Speech Help" at the bottom. When
you are finished, click "See Your Web Tale" to read your story!
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
HIGHLIGHTS MAGAZINE FOR KIDS
Highlights Magazine is now online!! There are so many things to see and do on this website. You
can even create your own monster!
http://www.highlightskids.com/
YAHOOLIGANS!
Yahooligans! contains educational games, news articles, reference tools, and
information about math, science, social studies, movies, etc. These
articles are so interesting that the students forget they are reading. You
can even put the names of these articles on your child's reading log.
Please specify that it was a Yahooligans article.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
Vocabulary Pinball
Play pinball to earn letters to form new words.
http://www.playkidsgames.com/vocabularyGames.htm#
To find language arts websites, scroll down to the bottom. You will find
games to practice reading comprehension, words, sentences,
prefixes/suffixes, sequencing, contractions, plurals, homophones, grammar,
etc.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_3rd_original.htm
TumbleBooks! Online books for kids...picture books and some chapter books.
**This link is from the Roselle Public Library. Just click on TumbleBooks
and access the books for free! There are games to play, too.
http://www.roselle.lib.il.us/YouthServices/Overview.htm
Improve your decoding and comprehension skills with Cloze paragraphs. Read
the paragraph and type the missing words. A word bank is given. Remember,
you may need to read ahead in order to fill in the missing words. ** These
are difficult, so start with the grade 2 passages (orange). If you do well
with those, move on to third grade (yellow).
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/cloze.htm
POWER PROOFREADING!
First, choose your grade level. Next, choose a passage to read. As you
read, find and correct the mistakes in the paragraphs. This helps to
practice all the grammar and punctuation skills you've learned.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm
Do you have a favorite author? Do you want to find out about the author of
the book you are reading? If so, visit this site to see interviews with many
authors.
http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/
Did you know you can play a word game and DONATE RICE to the World Food Program? For each
correct answer, you donate 10 grains of rice! How much rice can you donate??? Just click on the
word that means the same as the given word.
http://www.freerice.com/index.php?s=English%20Vocabulary&t=25817763726&l=1