Language Arts Sites for Kids

• AMERICAN FOLKLORE
  Easy to use index of American tales. Contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States.
  
  
• BIOGRAPHY MAKER
  Interactive web site that takes students through the research writing process. These online lessons explain what a biography should be and walk writers through questioning, learning, synthesis, and story-telling. The site includes embedded links to relevant Internet resources and tips for effective writing.
  
  

• FUNBRAIN: KID'S CENTER: WORDS
  Test your grammar rules with this collection of word games for kids.
  
  
• FABLEVISION
  A wonderful place for teachers and students to explore the world of fable.
  
  
• HOMEWORK CENTER: INFOPLEASE
  Helpful tips on writing skills and research.
  
  
• JIM TRELEASE READ ALOUD
  Jim Trelease has published books about the best best book to read aloud and share.  Many good suggestions.

• MERRIAM-WEBSTER WORD GAMES
  The creators of the dictionary share daily games at this site.
  
  
• PUZZLEMAKER 
  If you like to design your own puzzles this site provides the tool.
  
  
• WIRED FOR BOOKS
  Wired for Books from the Ohio University Telecommunications Center features audio and video presentations of book and poetry readings including children's stories and interviews with authors.
  

• WORD GAMES ARCHIVE
  Word games for English language learners; very graphically illustrated.
  

 Kid-Friendly Sites for Publishing Your Own Work

• NOODLETOOLS: RESOURCES FOR YOUNG WRITERS
  Offers links to "authentic audiences"; places for teens and kids to publish on the web.
  
  
•  PLACES TO PUBLISH
  Useful site prepared by the National Council of Teachers of English.
  

• KIDPUB
  This is a great place to publish your stories and news about your town or school.
   
   
• KidsWWrite
  The easy format makes it easy to navigate this web site that focuses on creative writing by young students.
   
   
• KIDSCRIBE
  This is a bilingual site for kid authors. Students can publish essays, stories, poetry, or jokes.
  
  
• REACH EVERY CHILD: GET STUDENTS' WORK PUBLISHED
  Use list of links to web sites for student publishing on various grade levels.
  
  
• TIKATOK
  Students can compose their own tale, post them online for friends and others to read, and print a copy.  The web site ties into a national writing program for young children.
   
  
• WEB WINDOW
   This site publishes student poetry, reviews, research papers, and short stories.
  
  

 Language Arts Resources For Teachers

• ABC TEACH
  The ABCteach site is a collection of resources for teachers, student teachers, parents, and students to supplement classroom curricula or help parents who want to work with their children at home.
  
  
• DOSITEY.COM
  The Dositey.com site provides numerous online language arts and math activities for students in grades K-8. In addition, the site provides printable work sheets.  Teachers may register (free) and take advantage of the work sheet builder that is available.
  
  
• READING ONLINE
  Journal of reading K-12 practice and research published by the International Reading Association.

• RESOURCE ROOM
  "Free-spirited structured, multi sensory learning" that includes ready to use lesson plans and strategies.

• COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH
  Based on a book by the author of the web site. Click the link to the alphabetical reference list of common errors.
  
  
• EDHELPER:LANGUAGE ARTS
  EdHelper has a variety of free printable worksheets and activities for many grade levels. See also their links for writing skills.
  
  
• ELEMENTS OF STYLE
  Check up on the rules of usage, principles of competition, elements of form, and commonly misused and misspelled words.
  
  
• EDUCATION PLACE: LANGUAGE ARTS
  Portal to many links and helpful lesson plans from Houghton Mifflin.
  
  
• EDUCATION WORLD: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE CENTER
  A great portal site for articles, lesson plans and web site reviews.

 
• GRAMMAR AND STYLE GUIDE
  Standard English grammar and style. 
  
  
• INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION
  Professional organization's web site offers many links to lesson plans, professional development, and lesson plans.
   
• LITERARY RESOURCES
  
Good jump page with many links to literary sources; arranged chronologically.


• NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
  
Designed specifically for secondary English teachers, this site has links to many resources.    See Literature links.
 
• PARADIGM ON-LINE WRITING ASSISTANT
  
Created by a professor at Boise State University, Paradigm helps students to think about what goes into writing an essay or theme before they put their pencil to paper.  You'll find sections on organizing ideas, revising and editing drafts, and choosing what to write.
 
• PROJECT GUTENBURG
  One of the largest electronic text collections on the Net. Searchable.
  
  
• READ WRITE THINK
  ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation.  Web site offers many standards-based resources.
  
  
• OWL AND MOUSE
  Free materials including maps, puzzles, and other learning games are found on this site from an educational software company.
  
   
•  WEB ENGLISH TEACHER
  Important portal for teachers at all levels that provide many links to great web resources.
  
  
• STORYARTS ONLINE
  This site, created by storyteller and author Heather Forest, is designed to help educators improve their storytelling skills.
  
  
• RIF
  Reading in Fundamental is a non-profit program that supports reading by providing free books to children.
  
  
  
• For more teacher related sites *Go to FACULTY RESOURCES.