Arcademic Skill Builders
Arcademic Skill Builders is a website that hosts several fun online multiplayer arcade racing games that will teach you addition, multiplication and division.
Essay Map
Use this interactive graphic organizer to develop an outline that includes an introductory statement; main ideas that you want to discuss or describe; supporting details; and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas.
Primary Literacy
Interactive literacy activities for grades K-3
Primary Source Learning
Discover, Learn, and Teach with Digital Historical Documents
Printing Press
The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets.
QUICK - Quality Information Checklist
This website is a resource to help you evaluate the information you find on the internet.
Rain Forest Math
200+ online mathematics activities for kindergarten through 6th grade.
Starfall
Starfall.com is a free on-line service to help children learn to read. It includes lots of ABC animations, animated interactive books and other reading exercises. Completely ad-free.
ThatQuiz
ThatQuiz is a free online resource for math practice and testing.
Story Mapping Tool
Use this online graphic organizer to create a character map, conflict map, resolution map, or setting map
Fact Monster
Online almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, and homework help
Holt Online Essay Scoring
6th Graders - Holt Online Essay Scoring is an Internet site designed to help you improve your writing skills and prepare for standardized writing tests.
National Geographic World Magazine for Kids
NGW Magazine for Kids features games, stories, jokes, postcards, screen wallpapers, and ideas for science projects.
Persuasion Map http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/games/memory-gameUse this interactive graphic organizer to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.
Sight Words
Use this website for some great lists of sight words to practice.
Mr. Myers Math Mania
This website has some great study skills for math.
Typing Master
This is a neat program for students who want to learn some basic typing skills.
Peter’s Online Typing Course
The site is self described as a place for "beginning typists and frustrated hunt-and-peckers who want to move from four-finger typing to full-blown touch typing." Users will want to begin with the "preliminaries" that provide information on how to use the course, typing ergonomics and principles of typing. The lessons begin with the basics of home row, top row or QWERT, bottom row and numbers row. The final section deals with exercises to train the fingers and improve accuracy and speed.
The Memory Game
National Geographic offers these memory games for students to learn how to increase their short term memories -- great for improving test-taking skills.
Book Report Now!
Five fast and easy steps to finding a book and writing a great book report. Includes information on different types of book reports as well as templates for selected books.
Graphic Organizers
Outstanding collection of graphic organizers, sized and ready to print for teacher use. Includes 5 Ws, fact and opinions, KWL, KWS, etc.
Writing Prompts, Grades 1-8
The more students write, the better spellers they become. Writing prompts encourage the integration of spelling, proofreading, and writing. Use these writing prompts for additional ideas for writing and spelling practice.
You'll find a new set of Writing Prompt Ideas next quarter.
This website is great for learning your basic facts. Whether it is addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, they have a quick game that allows you to practice. It's you against the machine in this timed exercise, where students get to practice fast addition (with carrying) to beat the clock and score points.
Dr. Goodword's
Dr. Goodword’s Word Wizard offers a fun and engaging way for students to improve their vocabulary skills. Miss Spelling’s Spelling Center offers information on the most often mispronounced and misspelled English words, tips for writing, and word games as well as fun articles on the use of spell checkers and the inconsistency of English spelling.
