Language Arts Web Sites

Designed to supplement your Language Arts Instruction.

 Websites related to word studies:

Vocabulary University

http://www.vocabulary.com/

• Audience: Students and fellow teachers
• Description: This site is a lot of fun! You can practice your vocabulary skills while 'playing' games! A good prepartation for your standardized tests, too!

A Word A Day

http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

• Audience: Students and fellow teachers
• Description: A simple, yet informative site, where you can learn ONE new word each day. Now, is that too much to ask :)

Etymologic

http://www.etymologic.com/

• Audience: Students and fellow teachers
• Description: If you are feeling really smart now that you have practiced your vocabulary, use this site to test your knowledge. Be forewarned: you may feel like you need to practice your vocabulary skills at the other sites after taking their test. :)

The Word Detective

http://www.word-detective.com/

• Audience: Students and fellow teachers
• Description: This site is for people who are always asking, "Why?" or "Where does that come from?" Check out this website to find out!!

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary

• Audience: Students and fellow teachers
• Description: When your teacher asks you to 'look it up,' now you can....and on the Net no-less!!

Word Play

http://www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm

• Audience: Students and fellow teachers
• Description: A web site complining a HUGE list of other web sites related to interesting, and not so important information about words.

The Etymology of First Names

http://www.pacificcoast.net/~muck/etym.html

• Audience: Students and fellow teachers
• Description: A web site complining a HUGE list of other web sites related to interesting, and not so important information about words.

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary

http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: A meaning-aware rhyming dictionary and thesaurus. When you need just the write word for your poem, check out this site.

Spelling Test

http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: "An interactive spelling test which features fifty commonly misspelled words. Take the test and see how you score. At the bottom of the page are tips for how to improve your spelling." An excellent site to visit before the yearly spelling bee.

Websites related to grammar:

HyperGrammar

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: This is not a site about 'over-excited grammar information', it is an on-line grammar reference page. An excellent source of general information regarding grammar, since you don't have a grammar book at home :)

On-line English Grammar

http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: Another excellent resource for grammar information. Use this site as you would your grammar book at school.

Guide to Grammar and Writing

http://webster.commnet.edu/hp/pages/darling/grammar.htm

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: Excellent resource with interactive quizzes and other 'fun' activities, as far as grammar is concerned :)

Websites related to reading:

Jack London's Ranch Album

http://www.geocities.com/~jacklondons/intro.html

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: This site links to Jack London's home. Use this as a reference when we study the Call of the Wild.

Tales of Wonder

http://darsie.ucdavis.edu/tales/

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: "What a delightful online resource! Here you can find a large collection of myths and folktales from around the world. The site is well organized and nicely presented. "

The Encycolopedia Mythica

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: "Wow! If you are interested in myths and legends, you will be well pleased with this site. Myths, legends and folklore from around the world are presented in this online encyclopedia. It is searchable and even has a large image collection!"

Bartleby Library: Great Books Online

http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: A list of online 'great' books. We will be using some of these throughout the year.

Websites related to writing:

The Six Traits of Writing

http://www.nwrel.org/eval/writing/

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: This is the official web site for the 6 traits writing rubric we have discussed in class. Browse this site for futher explanation of the 6 traits.

Structure of the Five Paragraph Essay

http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/English/essay/

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: This is a basic format for your multipargraph essays. If I ask you to write less than a five paragraph essay, omit body paragraphs.

The Five Paragraph Essay

http://webster.commnet.edu/hp/pages/darling/grammar/five_par.htm

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: This is an excellent introduction to the five paragraph essay format. If I ask you to write less than a five paragraph essay, omit body paragraphs.

If I Were a Carpenter

http://www.swopnet.com/misc/writing/writing_tools.html

Audience: Students and Teachers

Description: An excellent, quick reference of 'tips' for good writers.

 Websites related to citations for bibliographies:

APA Style: Paper and Electronic Citation

http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/apastyle.htm

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: This is an online refernce for research paper bibliographies/citations.

Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Associations

http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: This is the official APA web site for documenting online references

MLA Citations of Online informaiton

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: This is a reference for MLA style citations for online information.

 Websites related to poetry:

Project:#37 Poetry

http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/37.html

• Audience: Students and Teachers
• Description: An online activity for writing poetry. Browse through the web site links for more information.