Great Language Building Links
Grimms Fairy Tales
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html
More Fairy Tales
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4967/fairytales.html
Myths, Legends and Fables
http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends.htm
The genre of Fairy Tales
http://www.geocities.com/ljacoby_2000/fairytale.html
Words and pictures scrapbook
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/print/print.shtml
They sound the same, but...homophones!
http://www.abcteach.com//abclists/homophones.htm
Folk Tales
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/folk-tales/load.htm?f
Aesop's Fables
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php
Letter Generator
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php
Sentence Clubhouse
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/clubhouse/index.html
Grammar Blast
http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?
Grade=4&Unit=5&Topic=Capitalization+and+Punctuation&x=48&y=16
The Eats, Shoots and Leaves Game
http://www.eatsshootsandleaves.com/ESLquiz.html
Looking for the meaning of a word? Try Merriam-Webster's Word
Central.
Just type in the word and you'll instantly find its meaning!
Check out the "Daily Buzz Word" and expand your vocabulary!!!
http://wordcentral.com/
Core Word Review
http://school.elps.k12.mi.us/donley/classrooms/berry/sitton_spelling_activitie
s/3rdgrade_spelling/core_word_units.htm
Idioms for Everyday
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/idioms/
Want practice with nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs which
helps you build a humorous story? Go to the link and click on
the reading button.
Follow the links to Mad Libs Junior.
http://www.funbrain.com
Practice reading, letter sounds and language skills at Starfall.
Be sure to check out the Reading Link for stories on-line!
http://www.starfall.com
Do you want to hear some great stories?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/
One of my favorite children's authors is Robert Munsch. His
books are funny and there about his family adventures. Check out
his official website and get inspired to write about your family
fun too!
http://www.robertmunsch.com/books.cfm?bookid=27
ELA Practice Site for 4th graders
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listelapraccp.html
Word Sense: Prefixes and Suffixes
http://www.makereadingfirst.com/pre_suf.pdf
Another ELA Practice Site
http://www.bataviacsd.org/john_kennedy.cfm?subpage=8200
Work on your grammar skills at Skillswise!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/
TALL TALES - Check out these stories!
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312323/contents.htm
The Paul Bunyan Trail
http://www.paulbunyantrail.com/talltale.html
Storybooks on line
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html
The Fable Library
http://www.fablevision.com/place/library/index.html
Visual dictionary
http://www.visuwords.com/
Context clues and cows
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/5_6/cows/cows.htm
Although this site is for students in another state, it provides
great tips and organizers for addressing ELA goals and objectives.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/FCAT/strategies/default.htm
Irregular Plurals Matching Game
http://www.manythings.org/wbg/irr_plurals1-mw.html
Try this spelling game for words found in "Dononvan's Word Jar."
http://www.quia.com/hm/203365.html
How a character acts or speaks can tell a lot about them! Take a
look at this list and see how your favorite character measures
up!!!
http://home.att.net/~teaching/litcircl/charact.pdf
Magnetic letters - see how many words you can make!
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html
Check out the alphabet "zoo"!
http://www.bemboszoo.com/
Try writing your own fairy tale!
http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/ridge/wq/savona/index.html
Learn a lesson!
http://www.bygosh.com/aesop/index.htm
There more than bedtime story classics - these stories have a
lifetime message!
http://members.tripod.com/ah_coo/bedtime_stories.htm
Rhymes with a lesson to be learned!
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/rhymes.htm
Do you really know EVERYTHING about the main character? Use this
scrapbook to organize your facts!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scrapbook/
Try these "bite-sized" language games!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/
Great phonics page-sized posters!
http://www.boostforreaders.com/
Spelling City
http://www.spellingcity.com/
Splat, the Cat Video
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/harperchildrens/kids/gamesandcontests/fe
atures/video/
Phonics Fun with Dipthongs
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/diphthong_1.html
Word Families
http://www.users.nac.net/dominica/wordfam.html
Spelling Rules Tutorial
http://www.ezschool.com/Tutorials/Plural/Intro.html