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Check out the English department page for other resources.

http://www.essaypunch.com/ This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a basic essay. Users develop an idea and write their own short essay, consisting of an introduction, a two- to three-paragraph body, and a conclusion. The web site provides questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing. Completed essays may be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application. To begin, click **Start Writing Now**. Grades 3-12
 * [|Essay Punch]**


 * [|Paragraph Punch]**
 * http://www.paragraphpunch.com/**
 * This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing a paragraph. The web site provides questions that help to guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing. Completed essays may be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application. To begin, click **Start Writing Now**. Grades 3-6**

Play over 100 games, hear your favorite theme songs, read interactive stories from Sesame Street. Grades PreK-1 [|http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Home.html] This is a fun educational site for audiences as young as preschool. Some of the areas covered: science, language arts and geography. (Not all pages are interactive.) Grades Pre-K-3
 * [|Sesame Street Games]**
 * http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=games**
 * [|Enchanted Learning]**
 * [|Enchanted Learning]**

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/grammar_games_index_page01.html A huge collection of online grammar games. Grades 3+
 * [|Grammar Games]**
 * **[|Game Goo]** **- interactive games Grades 2-5**

[|http://www.gamequarium.com] A collection of language arts, math, science, and social studies. Grades PreK-6
 * [|Gameaquarium]**

[|http://www.kids-space.org] Started in 1995 to promote international communication for students, this is a must see for teachers in k-6 classrooms. Students are able to write stories that are displayed on this site (teacher will join, get a password and send the completed stories). For the younger grades students will love the “Create Your Own Scenario”. (Not all pages at this site are interactive.) Grades K-5
 * [|Kids’ Space]**

[|http://www.literacycenter.net] This site, from the Early Childhood Education Network, provides lots of early literacy learning activities for young children, In order to view the webpages you will need Flash Player. Grades Pre-K-K
 * [|Literacy Center]**

[|http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Home.html] This is a fun educational site for audiences as young as preschool. Some of the areas covered: science, language arts and geography. (Not all pages are interactive.) Grades Pre-K-3
 * [|Enchanted Learning]**

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A4=1 This site contains a variety of edu-taining activities covering areas of math, language arts, social studies, and science. Grades K-6
 * [|Fun Brain]**

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/ The News Zone presents current events that are most relevant to students, in a format that is fun and appealing. The current events and engaging activities include Note Now, **[|Games and Quizzes]**, What’s Your IQ and Write a Caption. Grades 3-8
 * [|Scholastic News]**

http://www.writeexpress.com/online2.html Find a rhyme in no time online! Useful, fun, and fascinating! Grades 1-12.
 * [|Online Rhyming Dictionary]**

http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/scramble.htm Click and drag to make a poem. Grades 2-4
 * [|Magnetic Poetry]**

[|Scholastic Grammar activities] [|Punctuation Game] **Grades 2-6** [|Spin and Spell] **Grades 2-3**

Online literacy skill activities. This site appears to be a product advertisement but scroll down to click a character to enter the online practice activities of oral language, phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, or concepts of print Grades K-3
 * [|Building Language for Literacy]**
 * http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bll/**

http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/rings/teachers/LOTRE%20Export/index.html The activities in this guide put your students in the director’s chair. They encourage the same sort of creativity and ingenuity that Peter Jackson and his team used in making The Lord of the Rings. Grades 5-9
 * [|The Lord of the Rings Exhibition Teachers' Guide]**

http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm#Vocabulary Includes: 35 Vocabulary exercises, 43 Grammar exercises, Reading-comprehension exercises, and more. Grades 4+
 * [|Interactive Language Arts Exercises]**


 * [|Kid Port]**
 * **[|Kindergarten Games]** http://www.kidport.com/GradeK/LanguagesArts/LanguageArts.htm
 * **[|Grade 1 Games]** http://www.kidport.com/Grade1/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
 * **[|Grade 2 Games]** http://www.kidport.com/Grade2/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
 * **[|Grade 3 Games]** http://www.kidport.com/Grade3/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
 * **[|Grade 4 Games]** http://www.kidport.com/Grade4/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
 * **[|Grade 5 Games]** h[|ttp://www.kidport.com/Grade5/Science/ScienceIndex.htm]
 * **[|Grade 7 Games]** http://www.kidport.com/Grade7/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm
 * **[|Grade 8 Games]** http://www.kidport.com/Grade8/LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm

[|Apples for the Teacher Language Arts Games]

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/langarts.html

http://kidsdomain.com/games/read1.html [|**Langua**]**[|ge Games for Older Kids]** http://kidsdomain.com/games/read2.html http://www.funschool.com/games.php Choose from 194 Flash, Java and Shockwave games. Grades K-8 http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_LanguageArts **Language Arts Basic Skills and Games** http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la.html
 * [|Alphabetizing a List of Words]
 * [|Crossword Puzzles]
 * [|Homophones]
 * [|Language Games for Younger Kids]**
 * [|Funschool Games]**
 * [|I Know That Language Arts Games]**
 * [|English Grammar Pronouns]** provides rules, a simple game, and the "gory details" for using pronouns correctly. Grades 3-5
 * [|Sadlier-Oxyford Phonics Interactive]** Phonics and Word Study provides exciting activities for short vowels, long vowels, diphtongs, homonyms, synomyms, diagraphs, suffixes, contractions, and many more! Grades K-5

**[|More Language Arts Resources]** **[|PowerPoint Resources]**

**[|Grade 6-12 Language Arts Interactive Resources]**