Melodie Brewer's Websites Worth a Look

websites worth a look

LANGUAGE ARTS
WRITING	READING	VOCABULARY	SPELLING
Instant Poetry Forms Choose a poetry form from a list of templates, ad words of your choice and create works of literary art.	Voz Me Turn text into speech; great for your reluctant or struggling readers	Vocabulary Fun The Fun Way to Build Vocabulary Skills! Includes games, interactives and test prep	Spelling City An online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun.
Build a Sentence This is a fun game that has students build a sentence and then see it animated.	Elements of a Story Learn secrets for telling a good story, explore narratives -- heroes, plot and background. Then, write a story of your own.	Free Rice Give free rice to hungry people by playing a game that increases your vocabulary.	Spelling Bee Listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story.
Writing Fix Interactive prompts, lessons, and resources designed for teachers, students, and--most importantly--lifelong writers	Oculture MP3's of many classic books - FREE!	Quizlet Learn vocabulary a new way	Musical Spelling Rules Learn to spell with songs about spelling rules. Free sheet music and spelling exercises.
911 for Writers Get help with writer's block and spark creativity in your students' writing.	Book Adventure A free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8.Children create their own booklists, take interactive quizzes and earn points and prizes for their successes.	Visual Thesaurus An interactive dictionary and thesaurus that create word maps to show meanings and branch to related words.	SpellaRoo from Funbrain.com Find the spelling errors in these fun sentences. Choose between beginning and intermediate levels.
Professor Garfield's Comic Lab Interactive website that focuses on sequencing and reading comprehension through Garfield comic strips	Storyline Online streaming video program in which SAG actors read books aloud. Includes lesson ideas and accompanying activities.	English Vocabulary Games with Pictures Great for English Language Learners	Spellcheck Free online spell checker. Copy and paste your word oryour whole document to check and correct it online.
Cinema Write your own dialogue for a scene or put yourself in a producer's shoes by managing the production of a film.	Tumblebooks Tumble Readables Tumble Talking Books Animated, narrated children's and young adult's books and stories. Includes lesson plans, quizzes and book report help. "Word Help" functions assists children in sounding out words.	Flocabulary Flocabulary contains educational raps to increase your vocabulary development and educational hip-hop music for struggling students.	SpinAndSpell Offers an animated spelling game for children ages 4-8.
Interactive Stories "Choose your own ending" stories. When you come to the end of a storyline, it's your turn to add a chapter!	International Children's Digital Library Exciting and inspiring the world's children to become members of the global community by making the best in children's literature available online.	Quia 100 most common SAT terms	See 'N Spell at PrimaryGames.com A series of interactive games test knowledge of short vowels, long vowels, blends, diagraphs, other vowels, and plurals.
Novlet Take any story in the database and write a fork, branching off from any point in the story.	Literacy Learning Ladders An extensive resource of themes and projects that use book-technology connections to focus on reading.	Gamequarium Vocabulary Games for all learners	Tutpup a place where students are matched up with other students from around the world to play math and spelling games in real time. There are several games to choose from, each with multiple levels.
Plotbot Collaborative online screenwriting platform.	Scholastic Online Activities Browse and download online and interactive activities from Scholastic.com for all subject areas and topics for grades K-12.	Vocabulary.com A free resource used in over 20,000 schools to enhance vocabulary mastery & written/verbal skills with Latin & Greek roots.	GamesGames.com a site with lots of fun and free games. There are 18 Spelling Games where students have to build and find words in a very appealing format. These would probably be best suited for Grades 2 to 5. The site also has some good puzzle and logic games that could be used in the classroom.
Kids' Space Students can upload and publish their own stories and read stories from otherstudents around the world.	Rhymezone Online rhyming dictionary with hundreds of possibilities!	Webster's Online Dictionary Use directly from the link or embed on your teacher webpage for your srudents to find easily.
Writing with Writers Students cam create literary works with the guidance of widely known published childrens' authors and poets.	Google Lit Trips Access points of interest on Google Earth from your favorite novels and stories.	Tip of my Tongue Find that word that you've been thinking about all day. Search under part word, letters or meanings.
Tikatok Create a book and view online, embed, send via email or purchase a hard copy. (For more like this, please visit my Creativity Tools page.)	National Geographic Young Explorer Listen to and/or read the latest issues of this terrific student magazine online for free. Accomplanying lessons, worksheets and activities.	Save the Words Interactive site of challenging and unusual words to 'adopt'. Meanings and usage given.
Class Tools Create books with turning pages. Embed into any webpage.	Education Place Games, activities and reading materials for grades K-6 to correspond with the Houghton Mifflin basal series.	Grammar Grater A weekly podcast about English words, grammar and usage for the Information Age.
Cartoon / Comic Book Creators: Toondoo Comiqs Pixton Make Beliefs Comix Pikistrips Bitstrips Funny Times Toonlet Super Action Comic Maker	Literactive Reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students available online. The program is comprised of carefully levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities and a wealth of supplemental reading material.	Lexipedia Type in your word - parts of speech appear in different colours, with meanings attached.
Collab-O-Write Enter your own story, add to an existing story, illustrate a story, write a story from an illustration or just get some writing tips.	Whichbook A completely new way of choosing something to read. Make your choice by selecting the type or mood of the book, or by character, plot or setting.	Confusing Words A collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
Writing Fun Using text organizers to assist students with the writing process.	i-stars e-books for reading and learning	Word Ahead Vocabulary videos for word meanings and use in sentences.
Phrasr Write a phrase, Phrasr will find images to go with each word.	Primary Success PublicationsFree reproducible little books	VocabSushi Build your vocabulary through never-ending games powered with real-world usage and tailored to your skill level.
Magnetic Poetry Use magnetic words to write poetry.	Shelfari A social network for avid readers. Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books.
PicLits a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. Put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.	Word magnets is a tool that allows you to paste in some text and then change the text into word tiles like fridge magnets that you can drag and rearrange. Great for younger students who could put a sentence back together or point out errors in sentences.There are also backgrounds you can use to arrange the magnets, like Venn diagrams, tables, A-Z, numeric lists etc.
	Bookwink Through podcasting and web video, Bookwink hopes to connect kids in Grades 3 through 8 with books that will make them excited about reading. The videos are approximately 3 minutes long and are updated monthly. You can look for books by subject, grade level, author or title.
	Great Summary Quickly get the gist of a document, webpage, or any text selection of your choice. Identify the key topics of a document while eliminating redundant information. Great for large reading passages, research work,or special ed students who get overwhelmed by large text resources.
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