Writing Resources
Thanksgiving Writing Day 1: Use this link to complete the slideshow worksheet.
www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/feast/slideshow.htm
Thanksgiving Writing Day 2: Use this link to take a tour of a pilgrim village, a Wampanoag home site, and the Plymouth Plantation.
www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/webcast.htm#
Thanksgiving Writing Day 3: Use this link to play a Webquest game. You can partner up with someone.
www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/feast/webquest.htm
Winter Writing Resource: Use this link to help write your paragraph this week about animals during the winter.
www.sciencemadesimple.com/animals.html
Reading Resources
Epic: We'll go to this site this year. You can also go to it at home if you sign up for a free month.
www.getepic.com/app/sign_in
Lexile Library: This is a great website to help you find books within your range or check a lexile level for a book that interests you.
fab.lexile.com/
Book Adventure: This site can help you choose books that interest you.
www.bookadventure.com/Home.aspx
Time Lines: We'll use this site to help us with our Biography Pizzas. You may need to shorten your ideas to get them to fit in the boxes.
www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timeline/
Mad Libs: Have fun putting your ideas in these stories that are sure to become silly!
www.eduplace.com/tales/
Grammar Exercises: There are a whole bunch of practice ideas at this site.
www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/
Grand Grammar Jeopardy: You can practice all parts of speech here.
www.quia.com/cb/125663.html
Panda Mayhem: Review all parts of speech with some pretty cute pandas.
www.fun4thebrain.com/English/pandaMayhem.html
Dewey the Cat: If you've ever read books about Dewey the Cat you might like this site.
www.deweyreadmorebooks.com/
Sentences
Is it a Sentence: Look at each group of words. Is it a complete sentence?
www.quia.com/pop/13222.html
Sentence Garden: It's time to plant simple and complex sentences in the garden.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sentence_garden/index.html
Four Kinds of Sentences: Let's practice declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentences.
www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/four_kinds_of_sentences/quiz1543.html
Name that Sentence: Here's a little more practice for declarative, interrogative, exclamatory and imperative.
www.quia.com/pop/35934.html
Subjects & Predicates
Subject Pathway: Help the rabbit cross the park by looking at different types of subjects.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/subjectpathway/index.html
Ride the Predicate Coaster: Get ready to ride the coaster!
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/predicate_coaster/index.html
Nouns
Noun Games: Choose one of the last 3 options listed and you'll be all set to go.
www.turtlediary.com/game/find-the-noun-in-the-paragraph.html
Ice Cream Time: Help your monkey build a massive ice cream cone! You can also play this game with verbs.
www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm
Fishin' for Nouns: Click on the fish with the noun and its belly will get a tasty worm.
www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/nouns.htm
Noun Dunk: Get ready to shoot some hoops for common and proper nouns.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index.html
Common & Proper Noun Piggybank: Let's earn some coins in your piggy bank.
www.quia.com/cz/50478.html
Common or Proper Noun Quiz: How well do you know the difference?
www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/noun/quiz295.html
Plurals for Lucy: Here's an easy start to singular and plural nouns.
roythezebra.com/reading-games/singular-or-plural-1.html
Singular and Plural Noun Matching: Get ready to make the matches.
www.quia.com/jg/67715.html
Plural Play Tic Tac Toe: Get ready to go head to head with a friend.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/plural/index_pre.html
Plural Girls: Get ready for a little challenge at this site!
www.funbrain.com/games/the-plural-girls
Possessive Noun Practice: Here's some multiple choice questions for practice.
www.english-zone.com/spelling/poss2.html
Cave of Stone Wonders: Can you make it through the cave?
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/exploring_possessives/index.html
Singular Plural Nouns Quiz #1: You type in the words.
www.wisc-online.com/learn/humanities/linguistics/wcn6702/singular-possessive-nouns
Singular Plural Noun Quiz #2: Choose the correct form. Watch the apostrophes carefully.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g3c10/nadia.htm
Singular Plural Noun Quiz #3: Here's the final quiz.
www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/possessive_nouns/quiz327.html
Noun Jeopardy: Let's see what you know about all the different types of nouns.
www.quia.com/cb/28126.html
Pronouns
Traveling Pronouns: Here's an easy introduction to pronouns. There are 3 levels.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/pronouns/play/
Life on the Pronoun Reef: Deep sea diving for pronouns will be fun.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sea_park/index.html
Pronoun Clubhouse: What will your clubhouse look like? Read the questions carefully.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pronoun_clubhouse/index_pre.html
Pronoun Toss: Can you toss the ring on the right type of pronoun?
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pronoun_toss/index.html
Pronoun Jeopardy: Find a competitor and get going!
www.quia.com/cb/81637.html
Pronoun Quiz #1: We'll do this quiz in the lab.
www.quia.com/pop/34143.html
Pronoun Quiz $2: Here's another quiz for you to take in the lab.
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/quiz/en27pron-e3-quiz
Adjectives
The Blustery Day of Adjectives: Help the little rabbit get home before he's blown away!
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/blustery_day/index.html
Spider Adjectives: Click on the spider with the adjective and his belly will get a tasty fly.
www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/adjectives.htm
Adjective Word Drop: Can you unscramble the word before you run out of time?
www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/b/words.php?f=adjectives_for_people_1
Bugs Day Out: Here you'll get practice with comparative adjectives.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/bugs/index.html
Comparing Adjectives: Can you spell them correctly?
www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/adjectives-adverbs/adjectives/compare-exercises?1
Adjective Quiz #1: We'll do this quiz in the lab.
www.quia.com/pop/38945.html?AP_rand=10314801
Adjective Quiz #2: We'll do this quiz in the lab.
www.ezschool.com/play/english/Is-the-underlined-word-an-adjective/Choice/308
Verbs
Verbs in Space: Whack the robot who is holding the verb. Don't worry, he'll be okay.
www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/verbs.htm
Verb Viper: Time to fill the snake's belly with verbs!
static.arcademics.com/games/viper.swf?0
Fantastic Flights: Time to fly paper airplanes to learn about linking verbs, action verbs, and contractions.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/paper_airplane/index.html
Rollercoaster Verbs: Light up the park by identifying the verbs.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/verb_power/index.html
Snowland: Things may get a little chilly as we work on main verbs, helping verbs, and contractions.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/snow_verbs/index.html
Verb Battleship: Get ready to sink some ships! You can challenge the computer or a friend.
www.quia.com/ba/142658.html
Monster Truck Safari: Let's look for some animals while we're practicing subject verb agreement.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/monster_truck/index.html
Covered Wagon: Time to load the wagon by matching the correct verb with the subject.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/covered_wagon/index.html
Matching Irregular Verbs: Let's play a matching game.
www.quia.com/mc/20459.html
Jeopardy Irregular Verbs: Feel free to challenge a friend.
www.quia.com/cb/8111.html
Story Irregular Verbs: Can you help the writer complete her newspaper story?
www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm
Irregular Verb Quiz #1: We'll take this in the lab.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g3c17/nadia.htm
Irregular Verb Quiz #2: We'll take this in the lab.
www.english-zone.com/verbs/irrpast1.html
Adverbs
Find the Adverb: Here's a great introduction to adverbs. Click on the tutorial first and then play the game.
www.ezschool.com/play/english/read-the-sentence-and-click-the-adverb/402
Shining the Light on Adverbs: Find the animals hidden in the woods by clicking on the correct adverb flashlight.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/shining_light/index.html
Rats: Help the rat figure out the difference between adjectives and adverbs and he'll have a full belly.
www.learningplanet.com/act/rats/rats3.asp?rats_advadj
Adverb Ringers: Time to toss the horse shoes for nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/adverb_ringers/index.html
Adverb Quiz #1: Just complete level 1 and share your score.
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/quiz/en26adve-l1-quiz
Fact & Opinion
Arthur Introduction: Here's a fun little site to practice fact and opinion.
pbskids.org/arthur/games/factsopinions/
Fact and Opinion Quiz #1: Can you tell the difference? We'll do this on in class for practice.
www.quia.com/jq/24723.html
Fact and Opinion Quiz #2: You can take this quiz with a partner in the computer lab.
www.quia.com/pop/12709.html
Fact and Opinion Quiz #3: This quiz you'll take alone in the lab.
www.quia.com/pop/39102.html
Making Inferences
What Can You Infer?: Play this 15 point game to help practice inferences.
www.quia.com/pop/89733.html?AP_rand=1421051616
Who Wants to be a Millionaire Inferences Drawing Conclusions: Can you earn a million dollars?
www.quia.com/rr/332704.html
Battleship Inferences: Can you sink your opponents battleships?
www.quia.com/ba/41785.html
Riddle Inferences: You'll love these guessing games!
www.philtulga.com/Riddles.html
Character Traits
Inferring Character Traits: There are all sorts of great games here to practice understanding character traits.
reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=29774
Character Trading Cards: Can you describe a character to me?
www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/trading_cards_2/
Character Traits Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Remember synonym means the same and antonym means the opposite.
www.quia.com/rr/583254.html
Character Traits Jeopardy: I would suggest playing this in teams. We may play it in class.
jeopardylabs.com/play/character-traits4
Homophones & Other Tricky Words
All Aboard: The sheep would like to get home from the petting zoo.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/all_aboard/index.html
Homograph Jeopardy: Do you know the difference between rain and reign? Son and sun? Check this out.
www.quia.com/cb/8285.html
To vs. Two vs. Too: Do you know the difference?
www.quia.com/pop/1000.html
To vs. Two vs. Too Challenge: Here's a little more practice.
www.grammar.cl/Games/Two_Too_To.htm
There vs. They're vs. Their: Do you know the difference?
a4esl.org/q/h/mc-ttt.html
More There vs. They're vs. Their: Choose which game you'd like to practice this concept. reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=505
Camping with Commas: Do you know where to put a comma in a sentence? Let's go camping and find out. www.harcourtschool.com/activity/campingcommas/index.html
Diving into Quotations: Dive on it and see if you can put the quotation marks in the right areas.
Hint: There are other punctuation marks missing too.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/diving/index.html
Title Ball: Choose which title is written correctly and you'll get to take a shot at the carnival.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/title_ball/index.html
Metaphor Madness: Let's practice metaphors.
reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=6853
Figurative Language: Do you know the difference between similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and imagery? There are some fun games here to practice these ideas.
reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=872
MAP Review: These games will help you prepare for Language Usage and Reading MAP tests. reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=5714
Thanksgiving Writing Day 1: Use this link to complete the slideshow worksheet.
www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/feast/slideshow.htm
Thanksgiving Writing Day 2: Use this link to take a tour of a pilgrim village, a Wampanoag home site, and the Plymouth Plantation.
www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/webcast.htm#
Thanksgiving Writing Day 3: Use this link to play a Webquest game. You can partner up with someone.
www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/feast/webquest.htm
Winter Writing Resource: Use this link to help write your paragraph this week about animals during the winter.
www.sciencemadesimple.com/animals.html
Reading Resources
Epic: We'll go to this site this year. You can also go to it at home if you sign up for a free month.
www.getepic.com/app/sign_in
Lexile Library: This is a great website to help you find books within your range or check a lexile level for a book that interests you.
fab.lexile.com/
Book Adventure: This site can help you choose books that interest you.
www.bookadventure.com/Home.aspx
Time Lines: We'll use this site to help us with our Biography Pizzas. You may need to shorten your ideas to get them to fit in the boxes.
www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timeline/
Mad Libs: Have fun putting your ideas in these stories that are sure to become silly!
www.eduplace.com/tales/
Grammar Exercises: There are a whole bunch of practice ideas at this site.
www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/
Grand Grammar Jeopardy: You can practice all parts of speech here.
www.quia.com/cb/125663.html
Panda Mayhem: Review all parts of speech with some pretty cute pandas.
www.fun4thebrain.com/English/pandaMayhem.html
Dewey the Cat: If you've ever read books about Dewey the Cat you might like this site.
www.deweyreadmorebooks.com/
Sentences
Is it a Sentence: Look at each group of words. Is it a complete sentence?
www.quia.com/pop/13222.html
Sentence Garden: It's time to plant simple and complex sentences in the garden.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sentence_garden/index.html
Four Kinds of Sentences: Let's practice declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentences.
www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/four_kinds_of_sentences/quiz1543.html
Name that Sentence: Here's a little more practice for declarative, interrogative, exclamatory and imperative.
www.quia.com/pop/35934.html
Subjects & Predicates
Subject Pathway: Help the rabbit cross the park by looking at different types of subjects.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/subjectpathway/index.html
Ride the Predicate Coaster: Get ready to ride the coaster!
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/predicate_coaster/index.html
Nouns
Noun Games: Choose one of the last 3 options listed and you'll be all set to go.
www.turtlediary.com/game/find-the-noun-in-the-paragraph.html
Ice Cream Time: Help your monkey build a massive ice cream cone! You can also play this game with verbs.
www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm
Fishin' for Nouns: Click on the fish with the noun and its belly will get a tasty worm.
www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/nouns.htm
Noun Dunk: Get ready to shoot some hoops for common and proper nouns.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index.html
Common & Proper Noun Piggybank: Let's earn some coins in your piggy bank.
www.quia.com/cz/50478.html
Common or Proper Noun Quiz: How well do you know the difference?
www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/noun/quiz295.html
Plurals for Lucy: Here's an easy start to singular and plural nouns.
roythezebra.com/reading-games/singular-or-plural-1.html
Singular and Plural Noun Matching: Get ready to make the matches.
www.quia.com/jg/67715.html
Plural Play Tic Tac Toe: Get ready to go head to head with a friend.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/plural/index_pre.html
Plural Girls: Get ready for a little challenge at this site!
www.funbrain.com/games/the-plural-girls
Possessive Noun Practice: Here's some multiple choice questions for practice.
www.english-zone.com/spelling/poss2.html
Cave of Stone Wonders: Can you make it through the cave?
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/exploring_possessives/index.html
Singular Plural Nouns Quiz #1: You type in the words.
www.wisc-online.com/learn/humanities/linguistics/wcn6702/singular-possessive-nouns
Singular Plural Noun Quiz #2: Choose the correct form. Watch the apostrophes carefully.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g3c10/nadia.htm
Singular Plural Noun Quiz #3: Here's the final quiz.
www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/possessive_nouns/quiz327.html
Noun Jeopardy: Let's see what you know about all the different types of nouns.
www.quia.com/cb/28126.html
Pronouns
Traveling Pronouns: Here's an easy introduction to pronouns. There are 3 levels.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/pronouns/play/
Life on the Pronoun Reef: Deep sea diving for pronouns will be fun.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sea_park/index.html
Pronoun Clubhouse: What will your clubhouse look like? Read the questions carefully.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pronoun_clubhouse/index_pre.html
Pronoun Toss: Can you toss the ring on the right type of pronoun?
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pronoun_toss/index.html
Pronoun Jeopardy: Find a competitor and get going!
www.quia.com/cb/81637.html
Pronoun Quiz #1: We'll do this quiz in the lab.
www.quia.com/pop/34143.html
Pronoun Quiz $2: Here's another quiz for you to take in the lab.
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/quiz/en27pron-e3-quiz
Adjectives
The Blustery Day of Adjectives: Help the little rabbit get home before he's blown away!
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/blustery_day/index.html
Spider Adjectives: Click on the spider with the adjective and his belly will get a tasty fly.
www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/adjectives.htm
Adjective Word Drop: Can you unscramble the word before you run out of time?
www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/b/words.php?f=adjectives_for_people_1
Bugs Day Out: Here you'll get practice with comparative adjectives.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/bugs/index.html
Comparing Adjectives: Can you spell them correctly?
www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/adjectives-adverbs/adjectives/compare-exercises?1
Adjective Quiz #1: We'll do this quiz in the lab.
www.quia.com/pop/38945.html?AP_rand=10314801
Adjective Quiz #2: We'll do this quiz in the lab.
www.ezschool.com/play/english/Is-the-underlined-word-an-adjective/Choice/308
Verbs
Verbs in Space: Whack the robot who is holding the verb. Don't worry, he'll be okay.
www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/verbs.htm
Verb Viper: Time to fill the snake's belly with verbs!
static.arcademics.com/games/viper.swf?0
Fantastic Flights: Time to fly paper airplanes to learn about linking verbs, action verbs, and contractions.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/paper_airplane/index.html
Rollercoaster Verbs: Light up the park by identifying the verbs.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/verb_power/index.html
Snowland: Things may get a little chilly as we work on main verbs, helping verbs, and contractions.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/snow_verbs/index.html
Verb Battleship: Get ready to sink some ships! You can challenge the computer or a friend.
www.quia.com/ba/142658.html
Monster Truck Safari: Let's look for some animals while we're practicing subject verb agreement.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/monster_truck/index.html
Covered Wagon: Time to load the wagon by matching the correct verb with the subject.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/covered_wagon/index.html
Matching Irregular Verbs: Let's play a matching game.
www.quia.com/mc/20459.html
Jeopardy Irregular Verbs: Feel free to challenge a friend.
www.quia.com/cb/8111.html
Story Irregular Verbs: Can you help the writer complete her newspaper story?
www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm
Irregular Verb Quiz #1: We'll take this in the lab.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g3c17/nadia.htm
Irregular Verb Quiz #2: We'll take this in the lab.
www.english-zone.com/verbs/irrpast1.html
Adverbs
Find the Adverb: Here's a great introduction to adverbs. Click on the tutorial first and then play the game.
www.ezschool.com/play/english/read-the-sentence-and-click-the-adverb/402
Shining the Light on Adverbs: Find the animals hidden in the woods by clicking on the correct adverb flashlight.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/shining_light/index.html
Rats: Help the rat figure out the difference between adjectives and adverbs and he'll have a full belly.
www.learningplanet.com/act/rats/rats3.asp?rats_advadj
Adverb Ringers: Time to toss the horse shoes for nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/adverb_ringers/index.html
Adverb Quiz #1: Just complete level 1 and share your score.
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/quiz/en26adve-l1-quiz
Fact & Opinion
Arthur Introduction: Here's a fun little site to practice fact and opinion.
pbskids.org/arthur/games/factsopinions/
Fact and Opinion Quiz #1: Can you tell the difference? We'll do this on in class for practice.
www.quia.com/jq/24723.html
Fact and Opinion Quiz #2: You can take this quiz with a partner in the computer lab.
www.quia.com/pop/12709.html
Fact and Opinion Quiz #3: This quiz you'll take alone in the lab.
www.quia.com/pop/39102.html
Making Inferences
What Can You Infer?: Play this 15 point game to help practice inferences.
www.quia.com/pop/89733.html?AP_rand=1421051616
Who Wants to be a Millionaire Inferences Drawing Conclusions: Can you earn a million dollars?
www.quia.com/rr/332704.html
Battleship Inferences: Can you sink your opponents battleships?
www.quia.com/ba/41785.html
Riddle Inferences: You'll love these guessing games!
www.philtulga.com/Riddles.html
Character Traits
Inferring Character Traits: There are all sorts of great games here to practice understanding character traits.
reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=29774
Character Trading Cards: Can you describe a character to me?
www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/trading_cards_2/
Character Traits Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Remember synonym means the same and antonym means the opposite.
www.quia.com/rr/583254.html
Character Traits Jeopardy: I would suggest playing this in teams. We may play it in class.
jeopardylabs.com/play/character-traits4
Homophones & Other Tricky Words
All Aboard: The sheep would like to get home from the petting zoo.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/all_aboard/index.html
Homograph Jeopardy: Do you know the difference between rain and reign? Son and sun? Check this out.
www.quia.com/cb/8285.html
To vs. Two vs. Too: Do you know the difference?
www.quia.com/pop/1000.html
To vs. Two vs. Too Challenge: Here's a little more practice.
www.grammar.cl/Games/Two_Too_To.htm
There vs. They're vs. Their: Do you know the difference?
a4esl.org/q/h/mc-ttt.html
More There vs. They're vs. Their: Choose which game you'd like to practice this concept. reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=505
Camping with Commas: Do you know where to put a comma in a sentence? Let's go camping and find out. www.harcourtschool.com/activity/campingcommas/index.html
Diving into Quotations: Dive on it and see if you can put the quotation marks in the right areas.
Hint: There are other punctuation marks missing too.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/diving/index.html
Title Ball: Choose which title is written correctly and you'll get to take a shot at the carnival.
www.harcourtschool.com/activity/title_ball/index.html
Metaphor Madness: Let's practice metaphors.
reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=6853
Figurative Language: Do you know the difference between similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and imagery? There are some fun games here to practice these ideas.
reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=872
MAP Review: These games will help you prepare for Language Usage and Reading MAP tests. reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=5714