MS+LA

Writing Tools
 * [|Topic Marks] – Digital document marking tool
 * [|Letter Generator] – reviews parts of a letter and helps generate originals
 * [|Diamante Poem Generator]
 * [|Fishing for Plurals] – game to identify plural forms of words.
 * [|Homophone Practice]
 * [| Forms Practice] – practice apostrophes and plurals
 * [|Beat the Clock] – practice apostrophes with a time limit
 * [|Magnetic Poems] – create an online magnetic poem
 * [|Magnetic Poetry] – another site to build poems using magnets
 * [|Magnetic Poetry] – another magnetic poetry site with words organized into categories
 * [|Letter Generator] – online tool to generate a letter in the correct format
 * [|MakeBeliefsComix] – create unique comic strips
 * [|Great Source: iWrite] – collection of online tutorials on writing several different styles including persuasive and narrative
 * [|Lightning Bug] – online helper to write from brainstorming to editing and publishing
 * [|Glogster.edu] – the famous Glog site, for teachers version
 * [|Bubbl.us] – online brainstorming tool
 * [|Storybird] – create a short story online including pictures and share with others
 * [|bookr] – another online book creator that uses Flickr pictures

Vocabulary

 * [|Buzzwords] – word list game updates every two weeks
 * [|Entymologic] – practice the entymology of words, for advanced students
 * [|Analogies] – practice analogies with a time limit
 * [|Word Bubbles] – game that practices vocab building
 * [|Mensa Hangman] – very tough hangman game
 * [|Say it Another Way] – vocab game to use synonyms
 * [|Wordle/Word Clouds] – generate “word clouds” that emphasize words used most frequently in a passage
 * [|Word Web] – Type in a word to find a web of similar words arranged by distance/relevance
 * [|Funbrain Word Games] – a large collection of digital vocab games

Reading and Comprehension

 * [|Types of Text] – interactive game to tell differences between types of texts
 * [|Kids Biographies] – biographies of famous people as children
 * [|Share What You’re Reading] – student generated reviews of books and novels.
 * [|Shakespeare Online] – the Bard’s entire collection of work online.
 * [|SQ3R] – overview and explanation of the Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review method
 * [|Storybird] – create a short story online including pictures and share with others
 * [|Flashligh Readers] – from Scholastic, games and activities designed from books like __Holes__ and __Inkheart__

Grammar

 * [|Free Rice Grammar] – play a game and donate to feed the world
 * [|Irregular Verbs] – practice with irregular verbs
 * [|Grammar Games] – A collection of games that reinforces a variety of grammar concepts.
 * [|Grammar Ninja] – Grammar game that has the player throw ninja stars at nouns, verbs, etc. (claims to play on the Wii as well)

Lessons

 * [|Reading Examples] – uses Gary Paulson memoirs to help students with imagery in reading
 * [|Hoot Read for Change] – lesson that teaches how to write about an issue after reading __Hoot__

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