Language Arts


Good links to go with each story.  
Click on the story we are reading to read 
about the author.  
Click on 'eglossary' to look up vocabulary words.
Click on 'ewordgame' to play a vocabulary game.
Have fun!
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/index.jsp?grade=4

AKIAK
Iditarod Race - Scholastic

Sled Dogs: An Alaskan Epic - go to Dogsledding 101 link

Learn about Alaska

Author Robert Blake tells how he wrote the story of Akiak

GRANDFATHER'S JOURNEY
Learn About Japan

How to Use Chopsticks

How to write a Haiku poem

FINDING THE TITANIC
Story of the Titanic

Titanic Facts

Titanic Exhibition from Encyclopedia Britannica

BY THE SHORES OF SILVER LAKE
Virtual tour of Laura Ingalls home and life on the prairie.

Learning about Braille

Time-Line of Laura Ingalls life

Pioneer Supply List

A VERY IMPORTANT DAY
Ben's Guide to Citizenship

Interactive Tour of Ellis Island

BOSS OF THE PLAINS
Stetson hats and John Stetson

The history of making Stetson hats

TOMAS AND THE LIBRARY LADY
Learn about Tomas Rivera

Learn about migrant workers

CENDRILLON
Cinderella Stories from Around the World

Learn about the island of Martinique

HEAT WAVE
Animated Tall Tales

Hot, Hot, Hot! - Learn about hot spots around the world

SING TO THE STARS
Watch video and listen to violin, viola, cello and double bass

San Francisco Symphony for Kids - compose your own music

Learn about the Harlem Rennaisance

Learn about the jazz musician - James P. Johnson - mentioned in the story

Jazz Kids: Interactive site about jazz from PBS

THE LAST DRAGON
Chinese New Year 

Chinese New Year Stories

Chinese Dragons

Virtual tour of San Francisco's Chinatown

MARVEN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS
Learn About Logging

Learn about the 1918 influenza epidemic

French for kids

THE STRANGER
Chris Van Allsburg's website

Jack Frost stories

How autumn leaves turn color - short video

MY NAME IS MARIA ISABEL
Christmas Traditions around the world

Read about Hannukah

GLORIA ESTEFAN
Biography of Gloria Estefan

What is Multiple Sclerosis?

Kids biography of Fidel Castro

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. KING
Text and Video of  MLK's "I Have a Dream Speech"

Learn about the Civil Rights movement

Kids biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

LOU GEHRIG
Lou Gehrig Biography

What is Lou Gehrig's disease?

Official Website of Lou Gehrig

ROALD DAHL
Roald Dahl website

Roald Dahl information and activities

More Roald Dahl Activities

OTHER RESOURCES

ASK FOR KIDS 
http://www.askforkids.com/

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FOR KIDS
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

TIME FOR KIDS
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

BBC Typing practice
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing

Learn to type
http://kids.learn2type.com/Tots

Paragraph Writing
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/index.htm

Analogy of the Day
http://www.factmonster.com/analogies

Parts of a Book
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/bookparts4.cfm

Possessive Nouns
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objid=wcn1601

Practice YOUR spelling list here!
Spelling City

The Terrible Wave - Johnstown Flood

The Johnstown Flood (The Terrible Wave)

Links to Houghton Mifflin

A very fun site!
Build Yourself WILD

Interactive e-books for kids



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