Online Interactive Resources for English Language Arts

Name of Website Website Address Description of Website

Grade PreK / Age 4
Access a wealth of interactive games and video clips on a
PBS Kids http://pbskids.org/ variety of topics featuring popular characters from PBS
programming.
Grades PreK - 2 / Ages 4 - 8
Access interactive videos at four levels from learning letter
Starfall http://www.starfall.com/
sounds to reading on one's own.
Practice reading and writing skills with interactive games
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.
Learn English Kids and songs, interactive and offline activities, songs, and
org/en/
videos.
Grades PreK - 5 / Ages 4 - 11

Access online interactive stories and related activities. The

Pre-School Library has stories, each with a related online
http://www.storyplace.org/storyplace
StoryPlace activity, print activity, suggested reading list, and parents'
.asp
activity. The Elementary Library offers stories, each with a
related print activity and suggested reading list.

Listen to James Earl Jones, Elijah Wood, Betty White, and

other members of the Screen Actor's Guild read children's
Storyline Online http://www.storylineonline.net/
books. View the videos for the readings at different
Internet connection speeds and with or without captions.

Grades PreK - 6 / Ages 4 - 12

TVO Kids http://www.tvokids.com/games Access interactive games and videos on a variety of topics.

Access easy-to-use interactive games and activities

Crickweb http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ organized by subject. Extra resources include Countdown
Timers, YouTube phonics videos, and "just-for-fun" games.

Sadlier-Oxford: Phonics
http://www.sadlier- Explore a variety of interactive phonics games and activities
Student Online
oxford.com/phonics/student.cfm grouped by pairs of grade levels.
Components
Grades PreK - 8 / Ages 4 - 14
Search this virtual library for books by language, grade
level, length, characters (kids, animals, imaginary
Internet Children's
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ creatures), type (picture or chapter, fairy tales, award-
Digital Library
winning, recently added, true or make-believe), length--
even the color of the cover!
Access interactive games (grouped by subject and grade),
FunBrain http://www.funbrain.com/ online versions of several popular books, and several online
comics.

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Grades PreK - 12 / Ages 4 - 18

Access a video directory compiled from teacher suggestions
WatchKnowLearn http://www.watchknowlearn.org/ and searchable by subject and age level. User ratings and
comments are provided.
http://www- Link to approximately 250 English nursery rhymes that
Nursery Rhymes personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhous appear on separate pages of the site. Note: The history
e/nursery/rhymes/ links do not work.
Access a wealth of interactive games, video clips, and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/stude
BBC Learning Students activities. At each of the levels, the interactive material may
nts/
be accessed by subject or by site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teach Access a wealth of quality resources, including, activities,

BBC Learning Teachers
ers/ lesson plans, worksheets, video clips, and more.

Scholastic Online Access a wealth of interactive activities from Scholastic

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/
Activities and Interactive organized by grade and subject. Activities include video,
learn.jsp
Learning audio, photos, and games.
Search for interactive activities, projects, and games, as
well as other resources in several types of media, from
assets drawn from or connected to PBS programs. Includes
PBS Teachers http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
lesson plans, teaching activities, Activity Packs, online
professional development opportunities, and other
resources.
Grades K - 4 / Ages 5 - 10
Access the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library for a
http://www.mrcpl.org/literacy/lesson
Learn Dolch Sight Words variety of easy-to-use reading games and a money-
s/sight/index.html
counting activity.
Grades K - 5 / Ages 5 - 11
Play games on ICT, math, English, science, social studies,
Primary Games Arena http://primarygamesarena.com/
and other topics. Select games by age.
Grades K - 6 / Ages 5 - 12
Explore online interactive courses searchable by grade and
http://www.e- subject area. A link to "E-Learning for Life" provides life
E-Learning for Kids
learningforkids.org/index_main.html skills materials for older students and adults, nearly all on
computer and business skills.
Grades K - 7 / Ages 5 - 13
Learn about Greek mythology at this highly interactive and
engaging site. Explore animated stories; interactive games;
crafts to make; a substantial "who's who" of gods, mortals,
Winged Sandals http://www.wingedsandals.com/
and monsters; history on topics such as philosophy, the
Olympic Games, and Athenian politics and government;
and additional resources.

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Grades K - 8 / Ages 5 - 14

Access a wealth and variety of interactive resources.

Students can watch videos and do activities. Students can
Professor Garfield http://professorgarfield.org read books online (some available in French, Spanish,
Russian, or Chinese) or be read to. Many other interactive
games and activities on a variety of topics are offered.

Grades K - 12 / Ages 5 - 18

Obtain factual answers and general information on

questions in many subject areas. Unlike search engines,
Wolfram|Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Wolfram|Alpha works from its own store of knowledge and
generates unique answers to queries. Provides a wealth of
resources, including interactive demonstrations.

Use interactive web lessons/activities. Brief lesson

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.co
Beacon Learning Center descriptions include the lesson topic, subject area, and
m/WebLessons/
grade level.

Access a wealth of interactive resources where students

can take a virtual road trip through civil rights history, learn
Knowitall.org http://www.knowitall.org/ the "Wash Hands" song, practice math and science skills in
"The Hobby Shop," write a theater review, take a virtual
field trip to a salt marsh, and much more.

Explore an online library of media resources from NOVA,

Frontline, American Experience, and other public
Teachers' Domain http://www.teachersdomain.org/ broadcasting programs. Resources include videos, audio,
interactive games and activities, self-paced lessons, images,
documents, lesson plans, and more.
Access videos and interactive activities and lessons on a
comprehensive list of economic topics. Each lesson plan
http://www.econedlink.org/educator has a corresponding student version that may include
EconEdLink
/ videos, images, interactive activities, links to related
concepts and sites, printable materials, and interactive
quizzes and tests.
Access interactive games and tools from a distinguished list
http://www.thinkfinity.org/student-
Thinkfinity of partner sites. Interactives are organized by grade and
interactives
subject area.

Access a wealth of quality interactive student resources

http://edsitement.neh.gov/student-
EDSITEment! from around the web and searchable by grade, subject
resources
area, and type. Link to lesson plans using the resources.

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Grades K - 12 / Ages 5 - 18 (continued)

Access award-winning digital learning games and activities
http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/p
eduweb: portfolio created by eduweb for a list of distinguished clients and
ortfolio.php
searchable by subject and grade.
Access interactives on organizing and summarizing, inquiry
http://www.readwritethink.org/classr
ReadWriteThink and analysis, writing poetry, writing and publishing prose,
oom-resources/student-interactives/
and learning about language.
Use this site for flashcards. Students can choose from sets
or create their own. For each set of flashcards, they can
Quizlet http://quizlet.com/
display and hear the full list of terms and definitions, take a
quiz, and play games to test their knowledge.

Access the websites of children's book authors by clicking a

America Writes for Kids! http://usawrites4kids.drury.edu/ US map to view the names of authors in that state or by
clicking an author's name in an alphabetical list.

Access a resource for which innovative classroom uses are

Wordle - Beautiful Word constantly being discovered. Clearly useful in creating art or
http://www.wordle.net/
Clouds poetry, brainstorming, and analyzing text and websites to
see which ideas have the most prominence.

Grades 1 - 5 / Ages 6 - 11
Access a wealth of interactive games and video clips on a
PBS Kids Go! http://pbskids.org/go/ variety of topics, featuring popular characters from PBS
programming.
Grades 1 - 6 / Ages 6 - 12

Woodlands Junior School Access interactive teaching games and activities, as well as
http://www.woodlands-
- Interactive Games and fictional stories and nonfictional narratives, to help
junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/
Activities for Kids students learn, improve their skills, and prepare for testing.

Grades 1 - 8 / Ages 6 - 14
Access news articles for children on a wide range of topics.
DOGONews http://www.dogonews.com/ Articles are updated daily, simply written, and illustrated
with photos, drawings, charts, video, etc.

Link to a large number of interactive games from other

http://www.covenantworks.com/Bou
Mr. Young's Bouncy 'A' sites in science, computers, math, social studies, reading,
ncy-A/index.htm
language, spelling, art, music, and other subjects.

Grades 1 - 10 / Ages 6 - 16

Assists students in homework and exam study. Materials

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/bitesiz include review guides to read online, watch, or watch and
Bitesize
e/ interact with; interactive games and activities; interactive
quizzes and mock exams; and printable worksheets.

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Grades 1 - 12 / Ages 6 - 18
Allows students to practice their spelling by keying a list of
VocabularySpellingCity.c
http://www.spellingcity.com/ words and then working with them through an interactive
om
self-test, teaching tool, and games.
Access interactive games on a wide array of language arts-
Vocabulary Games and
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ related topics, such as grammar, usage, spelling, SAT prep,
Resources
and vocabulary.
Grades 2 - 12 / Ages 7 - 18
Explore folk stories retold by the webmaster, a writer and
graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature. The site
American Folklore http://www.americanfolklore.net/ includes Canadian, Latin American, and Mexican folklore as
well as Native American myths. Podcasts are provided for
some stories.
Grades 3 - 6 / Ages 8 - 12
Play interactive games in addition, subtraction,
Arcademic Skill Builders: http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.co
multiplication, division, integers, decimals, fractions,
Educational Games m/games/
money, time, geography, language arts, and typing.
Grades 3 - 8 / Ages 8 - 14
Use this site as a virtual dictionary, a thesaurus, and a
resource for brainstorming activities. This site maps
associations between words and provides visual
Visuwords http://www.visuwords.com/
representations. Type a word and press Enter to elicit a
network of synonyms. Hover over a word to yield a
definition.
Grades 3 - 12 / Ages 8 - 18
Access a new word game or puzzle for each day of the
month. Games and puzzles are presented at two levels with
A Game A Day http://www.agameaday.com
an easy-to-use interface. Access games for the preceding
month as well as the current one.
Grades 4 - 8 / Ages 9 - 14
Access interactive spelling games, a dictionary, and
Merriam-Webster's http://www.wordcentral.com/games.
thesaurus and find rhyming words. The educators' portion
Word Central - Games html
of the site provides additional resources.
Access a weekly issue with three brief articles, each of
which directs students to a high-quality website. Easily
4Kids http://www.4kids.org/ access past stories by subject under the Cool Spots link. The
site also offers interactive games, videos, surveys, and
weekly quizzes.

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Grades 4 - 12 / Ages 9 - 18
Access Online Adventures--multimedia travel blogs to
locations around the globe. In each blog, students can learn
ProjectExplorer.org http://www.projectexplorer.org/
about different and engaging subjects through photos,
videos, audio, and downloadable materials.
Create online Jeopardy games, crossword puzzles, and
Jeopardy Labs http://jeopardylabs.com/ simple objective tests that students can take and grade
automatically.
Grades 5 - 8 / Ages 10 - 14
Access easy-to-navigate information on Greek mythology,
including animated profiles of individual gods and heroes
Greek Mythology http://www.mythweb.com/ and explanations of origins of words and common
expressions in Greek mythology. An interactive, illustrated
encyclopedia is also provided.
Grades 5 - 12 / Ages 10 - 18

Access Interactives on selected subjects through a

combination of narrative, video, photos, animations, and
Interactives http://www.learner.org/interactives/
interactive activities. Links within the Interactives provide
related onsite content and definitions of key terms.

Explore a daily newspaper consisting of articles selected by

tweens and teens working with professional journalists.
Tween Tribune http://tweentribune.com The site generates custom pages, after signup, showing
stories the class has commented on and students'
comments.
Grades 6 - 8 / Ages 11 - 14
Explore trailers and brief written synopses/reviews for
middle-school and young adult books produced by
Digital Booktalk http://digitalbooktalk.com/
University of Central Florida students and by students in K-
12 schools around the country.
Explore the Renaissance through themes using an
interactive timeline, a map, or an alphabetical list; choose
The Renaissance http://www.renaissanceconnection.o
an innovation and trace its history; commission a work of
Connection rg/
art; and much more; and reference lesson plans in different
subject areas.

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Grades 6 - 12 / Ages 11 - 18
Access interactive lessons, games, and quizzes and
printable study pages and worksheet activities. Topics
English-Zone.com http://english-zone.com/index.php include grammar, reading, basic life skills, pronunciation
(worksheets), idioms, spelling, writing, vocabulary, study
skills, and conversation.
Access a wealth of interactive student resources. The
English topics address reading, writing, spelling, word and
BBC Skillswise http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ sentence grammar, and speaking and writing. The math
topics address numbers, basic calculation, percent and
fractions, measuring, shapes, and graphs.
Use online lessons that include interactive activities on
TV411 http://www.tv411.org/ topics related to reading, writing, math, vocabulary, and
learning.
Answer interactive questions on a variety of subjects and
FreeRice http://freerice.com difficulty level. For each correct answer, FreeRice donates
ten grains of rice to help end world hunger.
Invites students to respond in various ways, some
interactive and some not, to New York Times content.
The Learning Network http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ Interactive content includes daily news quizzes,
crosswords, activity sheets, fill-in activities, Film Festivals,
and the On This Day feature.
Explore the world of Shakespeare. Offers a wealth of
resources including interactive games; non-interactive
http://www.folger.edu/Content/Teac
Shakespeare for Kids quizzes and challenges; and informational pages on
h-and-Learn/Shakespeare-for-Kids/
Shakespeare, his world, Queen , and Elizabeth, and objects
in the Folger collection.
Grades 7 - 12 / Ages 12 - 18
Access the interactive, timeline-like site that ranks the
86,800 most frequently used English words (using British
WordCount http://www.wordcount.org/
English) in order of commonness to "track the way we use
language."
Access thousands of fiction e-books, short stories, poems,
and plays, articles and interviews by the website staff, and
study guides on individual works of literature and literature-
Bibliomania http://www.bibliomania.com
related topics written by the website's Creative Team of
seniors and postgraduate students at UK and US
universities.
Browse the conjugations for more than 15,000 regular and
irregular English verbs, in all tenses, forms, and voices.
Conjugation.com http://conjugation.com/
View definitions and examples and translations of the verb
into many languages.

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Grades 8 - 12 / Ages 13 - 18

Play interactive learning games of various sorts and degrees

http://www.nobelprize.org/education of difficulty. Link to a page listing these productions by their
Nobelprize.org
al/ Nobel Peace Prize categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine,
Literature, Peace, and Economics.

Grades 9 - 12 / Ages 14 - 18
Access a comprehensive resource that provides accurate,
Guide to Grammar and http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/gr
readable guides on grammar, usage, and writing topics, as
Writing ammar/
well as interactive quizzes.

Access the Purdue Online Writing Lab for writing resources

on grammar, punctuation, mechanics, the writing process,
Purdue OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ academic writing, common writing assignments, and much
more. Vidcasts, podcasts, Flash movies, and downloadable
PowerPoints on selected subjects are provided.

Access all of Shakespeare's plays and poetry. Users can

display plays by act and scene or an entire play on single
The Complete Works of
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ pages. Students can use the search feature of their browser
William Shakespeare
to search the plays and poems for characters, specific lines,
etc.

Access resources for teens interested in reading about or

Poetry Resources for http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmI writing poetry. Monthly highlights include poems, profiles,
Teens D/394 interviews, and videos. Link to other useful resources, such
as Poetry 101, Writing Help, and a discussion forum.

Access a rich resource of audio, documents, and images

from the BBC. (Video cannot be displayed in the United
BBC Archive Collections http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ States.) Listen to personal accounts of the Holocaust and
accounts from survivors of the Titanic. From ancient
history to current events, it's covered here.

Access multimedia companion content for books.

Commentary and illustrations are provided for each set of
Book Drum http://www.bookdrum.com/
25 pages. There are a review, a description of the setting, a
glossary, a profile of the author, and a summary.

Explore interactive grammar and usage exercises. Topics

http://newsroom101.com/newsroom include common mistakes, grammar, punctuation, word
Newsroom 101.com
101/ usage, and spelling. The site provides recommendations for
teachers on using the material with students.

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Grades 9 - 12 / Ages 14 - 18 (continued)

Explore brief video documentaries of Americans of
http://www.favoritepoem.org/favorit different ages reading and speaking about poems that are
Favorite Poem Project
epoem/videos.html important to them. Clicking a poem's title or the reader's
photo opens the video window.
Learn about achievers in the fields of the arts, business,
public service, science and exploration, and sports,
Academy of examples of whom are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Rosa Parks,
http://www.achievement.org
Achievement Maya Lin, Richard Leakey, and George Lucas. For each
person, read a profile and biography, watch a video
interview, and browse a photo gallery.
Explore online courses in a wide range of subjects from a
large number of colleges and universities. Some courses
FreeVideoLectures http://freevideolectures.com/
provide a course description and notes about individual
lectures.
Reference a broad selection of blogs from a wide range of
science disciplines. Blogs include images, video, and links to
ScienceBlogs http://scienceblogs.com/
other sites. The bloggers' work represents their own views
and is not edited for the website.

Access Bartleby.com for free online access to reference

works, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. William Strunk's
Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/
Elements of Style and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations are
among the many reference resources available.

Guess the missing letters in headlines from real news

MSU Headline Clues http://gel.msu.edu/headlineclues/ga
stories from media sources such as The New York Times
Game me/
and NPR.

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