LANGUAGE+ARTS

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GRAMMAR
GUIDE TO GRAMMAR - http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ A treasure of grammar and writing information, but one requiring good reading ability. At this very content-rich site the main page's links break further down to sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. The site also contains Adobe Acrobat samples of business writing and research papers, PowerPoint presentations, interactive quizzes, Q&A service, book resource list, on-line resource list, quotes from famous people on writing, and "grammar goofs" gleaned from college and high school writing. The "goofs" page does contain some innuendos. Besides a well-linked index, the site offers its own search engine.

THE TONGUE - http://grammar.uoregon.edu/toc.html This site is a reference. It doesn't provide much interactivity beyond the quizes that it provides, but a site that you can refer students to for extra practice.

GRAMMAR BYTES! = http://www.chompchomp.com/ This site adds a little humor to what some consider a rather tedious topic...grammar. There are cool cyber prizes for answering questions correctly. It is arranged by grammar categories with lessons, activities, and even handouts, if printing is a must.

WRITING
MODEL WRITING - http://go.hrw.com/eolang/modbank/ Each Writer's Model is a full-length model paper, with interactive notes to help you make your writing stronger. Plus, each one comes with a printable Writer's Guide. This site could be a Language Arts teacher's best pal. Holt, Rinehart and Winston's Elements of Language presents a collection of writing models designed to help students learn to write a wide variety of essay types common to both middle school and high school writing. It covers just about every type of writing exercise. Be aware that it uses a newer version of Macrmedia's Shockwave, which may or may not download depending on your school's network settings.

LITERATURE
GOOGLE LITERATURE TRIPS - http://www.googlelittrips.com Maps locations from a novel and you can add your own content and questions to different destinations. Students can then import this into their Google Earth and interact with the destinations, pictures, wikipedia information, and your discussion questions.

ELEMENTS OF A STORY - http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/ This well-done site will help even older elementary school students explore the elements of a story using the well-known Cinderella tale as source material. Students will learn about setting, character, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution. The site would also be ideal for ESL/ELL students as a pleasant female voice "reads" the text appearing on the screen, which can help with English pronunciation, etc. The site also has a 14-question assessment.

DETERMINING READABILITY LEVELS - http://www.educational-psychologist.co.uk/fry_readability_program.htm This site is one of many based on the Fry Readability Graph which was created to determine the reading levels of text. This website simplifies the original formula which uses the number of syllables and sentences in 100 words to figure out a reading level. By simply counting syllables and entering them into spot on the site, it automatically computes this level for any text.

POETRY
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS - http://www.poets.org/ In addition to providing brief biographies for more than 500 poets, Poets.org has texts of almost 2000 poems, many with audio recordings. There are also essays and discussions on a wide variety of poetry-related topics, from analysis of poems to thoughts on writing poetry. Also excellent is the National Poetry map, which provides clickable access to a state-by-state listing of poetry, poets, and events involving poetry.

**VOCABULARY**
FLASH CARDS - [] Use already-created flash cards for foreign language, or create your own sets.