Language Arts
Language Arts- Grade Level K-1
Seussville
Interact with your favorite Dr. Seuss book characters.
Nick Jr.
Play kid online games with characters from your favorite Nick Jr. TV shows.
GAMES | PBS KIDS
Play hundreds of fun educational kid’s games with PBS KIDS favorites such as Curious George, Elmo, Super Why, The Cat in the Hat and many more!
School Home Links
This site has more than 100 School-Home Links activities for grades K, 1, 2, and 3. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to each grade. Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write.
Clifford Storybooks
Clifford interactive storybooks.
Storybear's Stories
Offered by the BBC, this site has three very entertaining interactive storybooks. Students must listen carefully and participate for the story to continue.
Children's Storybooks
This site contains a number of illustrated online stories written for kids of all ages. Two of the stories include printable activities including a coloring book and a maze.
Building Language for Literacy
This web page brought to you by Scholastic uses three characters. Each character leads children on a language adventure to different places in the community, helping children not only develop language skills, but a sense of the world around them, as well.
Clifford Phonics Fun
Clifford The Big Red Dog. Phonics Fun for Early Readers.
Virtual Library
The Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County sponsors StoryPlace, an interactive web site. It provides children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers. Available in Spanish.
Binky's Story Scramble
Interactive practice of story sequence. Students read three sentence panels and then put the story in order.
What's the Word?
Students click on the word that best describes the picture. Six topics at various levels.
Rhyme Practice
Three levels of interactive rhyme practice.
Interactive Activities
Shockwave plug-in needed. This page contains an index of Kindergarten Language Arts interactive programs including Missing Alphabets, Letters and Pictures, Letter Blends, and more.
Blends
Click on the blend that begins or ends the picture name.
See 'N Spell Blends
Look at each picture. Click and drag the letters into the grey box to spell the word. Click on the Check Work Button to check your answer. This game has 10 questions.
Elephant Matching Game
Tests student’s memory turning over cards one at a time and trying to make matches. The program automatically gets progressively more challenging as the student completes a level, provides great fine motor skill and memory training for the primary grades.
Paw Park
Language Arts activities that have three levels – beginning, intermediate, advanced – good for letter recognition, differentiate between real and make believe and consonant blends.
Language Arts Grade Level 2-3
Literacy
This site produced by the Screen Actors Guild presents streaming videos of of books being read to students by famous actors. Each book presented includes a book summary, several age appropriate activities, information about the author, and information about the reader. Teachers can also download a complete lesson plan to use with the book. The list of books appropriate for your grade on this site are as follows: Brave Irene written by William Steig, read by Al Gore Me and My Cat written by Satoshi Kitamura, read by Elijah Wood My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother written by Patricia Polacco, read by Melissa Gilbert A Bad Case of Stripes written by David Shannon, read by Sean Austin No Mirrors in my Nana's House written by Ysaye M. Barnwell, read by Tia and Tamera Mowry Thank You Mr. Faulker written by Patricia Polacco, read by Jane Kazmarek The Night I followed the Dog written by Nina Laden, read by Amanda Byrnes Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge written by Mem Fox, read by Bradley Whitford
Scrambled Stories
This site has several familiar stories that children can read, have read to them, and interact with while they practice recognizing different parts of speech. The graphics in the story change with student input and the completed story can be printed out.
School- Home Links
This site has more than 100 School-Home Links activities for grades K, 1, 2, and 3. The activities are organized by reading and literacy skills appropriate to each grade. Under each specific skill, there are varying numbers of activities to help children develop their ability to read and write.
Arthur's Games
Children try to make 4 matches before Buster the rabbit. Students identify flags, musical instruments, and sports in a card game. Buster reads each card aloud to students.
Alphabet Soup
Students unscramble letters in Alphabet Soup. They must discover the word that fits the context of a given sentence. This is a challenging activity that has students practice their spelling skills.
Internet Research Skills
Research Skills
How to Search for Information on the Internet. This site provides a great tutorial on Keyword Searches. This page allows students to do Keyword Searches using 5 different child safe search engines. The site also has links to tutorials on advanced search strategies.
Reasoning and Memory Skills
The Cat's Concentration Game
Two levels of play. Students match Dr. Seuss characters to their books (requires Macromedia Shockwave). Be patient, this page takes a long time to load!
Arthur's Story Scramble
Students practice sequencing skills on this page. Students read the words or click on each speaker to hear them. They use their mouse to move the pictures into the proper order. When they are finished they click on 'Read it' to hear the story.
Graphic Organizers and Charts
Graphic Organizers
More graphic organizers for students to use, this site is presented by Houghton Mifflin and contains many including KWL charts and Five W's charts.
Grammar
Grammar Rules
This page allows students to look up grammar rules, helper words, and other writing tips by selecting a heading: Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays.
Proof Reading Skills
This site from Houghton Mifflin provides students with interactive practice of proofreading skills presented by grade level and skill.
What's the Word?
A reading and vocabulary game. Students use picture clues to recognize to identify unfamiliar words. Topics include alphabet (Easy) animals, fruit, tools, machines, and shapes.
Alphabetizing
Online interactive Practice Alphabetizing words in sets of 4, two levels. Also on the same page students can find word definitions of the words.
Grammar Gorillas
Grammar Gorillas- Online interactive practice. The beginner level practices nouns and verbs only.
Worksheets
Cloze Activities
Brought to you by Enchanted Learning this site has a variety of cloze activities worksheets for young writers covering the following topics: Explorers, Inventors, History & Historic Figures, Science & Scientists, Authors, and Athletes.
Worksheets
This jam-packed site contains a huge amount of worksheets covering different areas of punctuation, grammar, dictionary skills, spelling, and phonics. This site also has worksheets for math, science, history, and more.
Printable Activities
We've got thousands of printable activities that will keep your children entertained and stimulated. Find printable games, holiday activities, skill-building worksheets, and more!
Grammar – different activities covering the following subjects:
Nouns/verbs
Editing-capitals, quotation marks and apostrophes
Match prefixes and suffixes
Word Endings
Homophones – words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
Language Arts Grade Level 4-6
Graphic Organizers
More graphic organizers for students to use, this site is presented by Houghton Mifflin.
How to Search the Internet
How to Search for Information on the Internet. This site provides a great tutorial on Keyword Searches. This page allows students to do Keyword Searches using 5 different child safe search engines. The site also has links to tutorials on advanced search strategies.
Scrambled Stories
This site has several familiar stories that children can read, have read to them, and interact with while they practice recognizing different parts of speech. The graphics in the story change with student input and the completed story can be printed out.
Bookpals
This site produced by the Screen Actors Guild presents streaming videos of of books being read to students by famous actors. Each book presented includes a book summary, several age appropriate activities, information about the author, and information about the reader. Teachers can also download a complete lesson plan to use with the book. The list of books appropriate for your grade on this site are as follows: Brave Irene written by William Steig, read by Al Gore Me and My Cat written by Satoshi Kitamura, read by Elijah Wood My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother written by Patricia Polacco, read by Melissa Gilbert A Bad Case of Stripes written by David Shannon, read by Sean Austin No Mirrors in my Nana's House written by Ysaye M. Barnwell, read by Tia and Tamera Mowry Thank You Mr. Faulker written by Patricia Polacco, read by Jane Kazmarek The Night I followed the Dog written by Nina Laden, read by Amanda Byrnes Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge written by Mem Fox, read by Bradley Whitford.
Scholastic News
This page contains age appropriate news stories for students.
It also includes lesson plans, reproducibles, teacher aids and more for teachers.
Grammar Skills
Grade 6. A site from Houghton Mifflin English that reviews many basic grammar skills such as prepositional phrases, complex sentences, modifiers, clauses and many others.
Proofreading Practice
Proofreading skills interactive practice for grades 2 through 8 in all areas of English, such as plurals, sentence structure, verbs, possessive nouns, past tense and too many more to list.
Infoplease
Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, Infoplease places the resources of an entire reference information center at students fingertips. This web site continuously updates and refines this enormous body of information as well as adding new discoveries and identifying trends so they have the most reliable and authoritative information.
Analogies
This site provides online interactive practice students solve 34 simple Analogies.
Myths
Scholastic has put together a great site Myths, Folktales & Fairy Tales. This rich resource can be used to learn about and write in these genres.
Topic Sentences
This is a good site that provides interactive practice on finding the Topic Sentence and Main Idea in a paragraph. Exercises are prepared in groups of five paragraphs students must write in the topic sentence containing the main idea for each selection. Students then submit their answers for grades. Students can route results information to you. You may pre-set information BEFORE student use or supply students a valid e-mail address for students to send results to.
Printable Activities
We've got thousands of printable activities that will keep your children entertained and stimulated. Find printable games, holiday activities, skill-building worksheets, and more!
A timed Word Search puzzle that changes daily – list is composed of
approximately 20 words. Good practice for intermediate grades.
Grammar – different activities covering the following subjects:
Nouns/verbs
Editing-capitals, quotation marks and apostrophes
Match prefixes and suffixes
Word Endings
Homophones – words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.