Your child may take quizzes on books he or she has read and other cool stuff. http://www.bookadventure.com/qt/quizsample.asp
Literary or story elements Short Story Elements Notes.doc
literary elements puzzle on teacher web http://teacherweb.com/Puzzle.ASP?WCI=WordSearchDefinition&WCE=Form1&WCU
Gold Rush Website http://www.questconnect.org/ak_klondike.htm
general mythology http://www.theoi.com/Encyc_A.html
mythical monsters http://monsters.monstrous.com/index.htm
online dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
Great Depression http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm
Esperanza Rising http://home.jps.net/~gailhd/crossing/esperanza/student.htm
PBS: Its My Life Games http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/games
pre-writing using comic design comic strip creator
word search, fill in the blank, mad libs word games
plural girls
grammer gorrillas
Root it Out
Word Confusion
create a vocabulary wordsplash http://www.wordle.net/create
review plot analysis http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/index.html
information about 1930 to 1939 american cultural history
prefix and suffix matching game
comma splice or fused sentence game
Pliny the Younger
pyroclastic flow
more volcanic eruptions
TAKS practice website http://www.blevinsenterprises.com/TAKSReadingResources.html
2009 released TAKS http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2009/taks_g06_read/6reading.htm
2006 released TAKS http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2006/grade6/read/6reading.htm
2004 released TAKS http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2004/grade6/read.htm
Lots of short story ideas to get started Anusha's short story link
Book Festival Oct.1 Austin Teen Book Festival 2011
Spice up your presentation. Prezi
Safe facebook style education forum Edmodo
Another presentation tool using pictures Animoto
"Knock, Knock" by Daniel Beaty HBO Def Peotry Slam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eYH0AFx6yI