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1 Wacky Web Tales
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 1 - 5
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This site allows students to create wacky stories while reviewing the parts of speech. The students supply the parts of speech requested in a list. This list is then inserted into a story template creating a wacky story.
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2 Renaissance, The Elizabethan World
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 12
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This site lists many topics to search with regard to the English Renaissance. In addition to the massive selection of topics to search, the site also lists additional Renaissance sites to visit.
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3 Elizabethan England
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 12
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This site was created by students through their 12th grade English Literature Class. The subject matter deals with the Elizabethan Period (late 1500 - early 1600). The site outlines historical figures/events, everyday life, arts and architecture, Shakespeare and his theatre, and gives additional links. Although the last update was in 1997, the teacher who made this site still utilizes this site.
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4 Guide to Grammar and Writing
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 6 - 12
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This site emphasizes exercises in English/Language Arts with regard to grammar and writing. The web site contains tutorials and interactive quizzes. The site also contains links where you can ask a make believe character, Grammar (Grandmaw), questions related to grammar. You can also find other helpful information on this site. After students take the quizzes, they receive immediate feedback on how well they did. The students also have a chance to retake the quiz and reread the tutorials.
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5 Cyber English Web Folios
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 11
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Cyber English is a web site created by Ted Nellen of Murry Bergtraum School in New York City. This site contains web folios of students in his junior English class. All assignments are done online where each student creates a web page that displays his/her work. Assignments for the class as well as all student work can be accessed by students to use as models for writing. The site also includes numerous articles on using technology in the English classroom and links that are valuable to teache...
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6 The Biography Maker
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 9 - 12
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The site goes through the steps of creating a biography: questioning, learning, synthesis, and story-telling. It also gives students examples of questions they can ask when writing a biography and sources both online and off to find information about their subjects.
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7 Stories of the Dreaming
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 3 - 12
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This site tells the roll of the story teller in Aboriginal cultures and has many Aboriginal Dreaming stories.
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8 Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 3 - 8
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The media uses advertising techniques to influence our purchasing decisions. "Don’t Buy It" provides information and activities for students, teachers, and parents to uncover the 'tricks' of advertising. Students can view actual commercials to analyze the messages sent to the public. Activities on the site include: Food Advertising Tricks; Create You Own Ads; Design a Cereal Box; Be the Ad Detective; and What’s In an Ad.
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9 Exploring the Renaissance
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 9 - 12
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This webquest was developed for students as part of an effort to encourage exploration of the Renaissance. Students are asked to research a particular area of Renaissance society. This lesson focuses on group interaction and requires collaboration of the group members in order to construct a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
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10 Picture Match by Read Write Think
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: K - 2
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This online activity allows students to practice beginning-letter and short-vowels sounds through interactive games. In the beginning-letter sounds section, an illustration of an object is displayed, and students are prompted to choose the letter that corresponds with the first letter of the word. In the short-vowel sounds section, students are prompted to choose the vowel that corresponds with the word.
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11 Comic Creator by Read-Write-Think
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: K - 12
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The Comic Creator invites students to create their personal comic strips. This activity will provide practice for a variety of contexts such as prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on. Students have the option to select backgrounds, characters, props, and compose related dialogue. A "Comic Strip Planning Sheet" is available, as well as an option to print the final strip.
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12 I Spy
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: K - 4
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I Spy combines intriguing photographs of familiar object collections with rich rhyming riddles to create visual brain-teasing puzzles that kids can’t resist. Each time kids play I Spy, they discover clever object associations, word play, and themes which help them build important learning skills including reading, problem solving, and creativity. Kids think when they play I Spy!
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13 Grammar Bytes
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: 5 - 8
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This site provides interactive quizzes on common grammar errors such as comma splices, fragments, subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, and more.
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14 Kids Hub - Spelling Pictures
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Subject Area: English/Language Arts Grade Level: K - 2
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This activity allows students to drag and drop missing letters to complete a word. The game would be great for practicing spelling, phonics, and reading pictures.
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