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"Tips-o-Matic"
This site that offers a concise look at sentence, paragraph, and essay structure. When you turn
"Tips-o-Matic" off, you can work on reading comprehension skills by looking at the "feature topic of the day" (complete with audio and
pictures) and taking quizzes on the information.

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30 Days of Poetry
Although this was originally set up for secondary level writers, I felt many of the ideas could be carried out by fifth graders. If you need poetry activities, you’ll like
this site.
http://www.msrogers.com/English2/poetry/30_days_of_poetry.htm
5 Paragraph Essay
You do not have to be a wizard to learn to write excellent five-paragraph essays. You do need some basic skill and practice. At this site, you will find the information
you need to learn how to write the essay as well as some writing prompts to help you develop skill. With a little bit of effort, you will create your own written
wizardry.

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6+1 Traits Writing
The 6+1 TraitTM Writing framework is a powerful way to learn and use a common language to refer to characteristics of writing as well as create a common vision of
what 'good' writing looks like. Teachers and students can use the 6+1 TraitTM model to pinpoint areas of strength and weakness as they continue to focus on
continued writing improvement.
http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/department.asp?d=1
Authors and Illustrators
Is anyone doing book reports? Would you like your kids to research the authors and illustrators? Or would you just like to know more about the people you are
reading as a group? Well here is a great reference library of authors and illustrators.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
Basic Essay Writing
An essay can have many purposes, but the basic structure is the same no matter what. You may be writing an essay to argue for a particular point of view or to
explain the steps necessary to complete a task.
Either way, your essay will have the same basic format.

If you follow a few simple steps, you will find that the essay almost writes itself. You will be responsible only for supplying ideas, which are the important part of the
essay anyway.

http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/
California Reading List
Welcome to the California Reading List Web Site
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/readinglist.asp
Captions Help Tell the Story
Students look at three pictures and try to determine which caption fits best.
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=2&act=4&que=1
Cinquain Poetry
In this lesson, students will write a Cinquain poem, add an appropriate graphic, and format the text. They will use the Internet to get appropriate pictures for
illustration. Samples and directions are given in both AppleWorks and PDF formats.
http://www.eusd4kids.org/edtech/handouts/5th/5Cinquain.sit
Comic Creator
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature,
and so on). Very fun!
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/cartoon10.swf
Compare and Contrast Tutorial
This site reviews how to identify compare and contrast when reading a selection. Students can also download and print a practice page. There are also links to other
excellent compare/contrast activities.
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcccon1.htm
Compare and Contrast Tutorial
Students can download and print a practice page. There are also links to other excellent compare/contrast activities.
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcccon1.htm
Create a Poetry Calendar
In this lesson, students research, design, and create a school-year calendar based on the work of famous poets. The activity, which can take 4-5 class periods to
complete, is a great culminating activity for a poetry unit for grades 3-12. Lots of technology skills are incorporated into this project.
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/techlp/techlp027.shtml
Cyber Guides to Literature: The Sign of the Beave
Based on Elizabeth G. Speare's historical novel, The Sign of the Beaver, and is designed to supplement a unit focused on American colonial life and the Native
American cultural themes of the novel. This CyberGuide is anchored in fifth grade language arts and social studies, however, it may be extended to additional grades
and subjects.

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/beav/beavtg.html
CyberWriting
Posted each month is a list of "CyberWriting" prompts.
http://www.hickman.k12.ca.us/cyberwriter/writing.html
Drawing Inferences
This site offers a tutorial and practice for your students on being a critical reader by drawing inferences.
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=11&act=2&que=1
e-encyclopedia
...an easy-to-use, online encyclopedia produced by Dorling Kindersley and powered by Google; it includes both DK content and images and links to related Web sites

http://www.dke-encyc.com/home.asp
Giggle Poetry
This is a site students can visit and enjoy to learn how to go about writing some fun and effective poetry. Lots of funny poems, poetry contests, and more!
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/
Grammar Gym: Pronouns
Graphic Organizers
A good source of printable graphic organizers
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6293.html?detoured=1
Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension
Graphic organizers help students construct meaning. The following organizers (downloaded in PDF format) can be used with any book and across all grade levels.
Use them to assess your students understanding of what they are reading, observe their thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently.
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983
Guide to Grammar & Writing
Highly detailed and specific site that provides explanation and guidance for every level of writing. Quizzes, a write-in feature and PowerPoint presentations are all
available features. CA ELA Standards-Writing: 1.2
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Hispanic Heritage Month
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Education World offers a piñata full of activities that will help teachers focus attention on the
contributions of people of Hispanic heritage to the history of the United States. I discovered this one a little late, but it has lots of great ideas and links that go across
curriculums. There is a tie-in to word origins as well as links to explorers.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson023.shtml
Hooray for Heroes Theme Unit
This could be used at any appropriate time during the school year. This webpage gives a nice list of cross-curricular, character-building activities for exploring the
concept of heroism.
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=5288
Houghton Mifflin Reading Support
I know many of you have probably visited the Eduplace.com resource that goes along with our reading textbook, but if you haven’t, I think you’ll find it useful. There
are links for students and teachers, but my favorite activities were in “Kid’s Place.”
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hmr/5/
How Volcanoes Work:
This website is an educational resource that describes the science behind volcanoes and volcanic processes.

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/
Image Grammar
http://www3.uakron.edu/noden/index.html
Inference Riddles
Successful readers make guesses based on what they read and what they already know. The object of this game is to infer what is being described by the clues you
read. More of a just-for-fun site, but still it gets students thinking how inferences work.
http://www.philtulga.com/Riddles.html
Inferential Context Clues
Some students get upset when the teacher states, "The answer is right there!" This site reviews how clues appear where the meaning is hidden in the rest of the
words in the sentence. A brief interactive quiz helps assure understanding.
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/ccinfer.htm
Instant Poetry Forms:
This site consists of more than sixty interactive literacy activities.
Students can point, click and add words to the frame of a
poem. With a quick click on the button below the form, the writer's
words are magically added, completing each line. At that point, poets
are invited to export their draft into a word processor for further
revision and editing, (choose font, clip art, a border, etc.) An
interactive poetry form finder on the website categorizes the forms by
topic (or language skill) to help literacy teachers find just the right
form for the mini-lesson of the moment. An interesting, fun tool.
ELA Standard: Structural Features of Literature 3.1
http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Readability I
Need to figure out the readability of that new grade-level novel? Want to easily find out how to determine the reading level of a Web page? I have been given
permission to post the Fry Readability directions and graphs on this page, and have also included links to other readability formulas for use in the classroom CA ELA
Standards-Reading: 2.0 and 2.3
http://kathyschrock.net/fry/fry.html
Mad-Libs
Here are some on-line mad-libs. These are fun to print out or do online. Send the kids here from home, or do them in those rare spare minutes as a group. Just a
silly stop.
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
Main Idea and Detail
Students can guide themselves through this website that reviews and allows them to practice the important comprehension skill of main idea. It starts out easy then
progresses to more difficult reading passages. A very kid-friendly site.
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcmi1.htm
Making 6 Trait Writing Fun
When everyone needs a break from using picture books to teach narrative writing, make writing fun for both teacher and students by adding an art component to
some of your writing activities. Students need to practice the kind of writing required for state testing programs, but there are many ways to prepare them for the
test and help them acquire the skills they need.
http://www.geocities.com/oberry1790/writingart.html
Mother's Day Poetry
Poems that can be used with gifts made for mom.
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems57.html
Noah Webster's Birthday
On October 16, wordsmiths across the United States will celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Noah Webster, considered by many to be the father of the American
dictionary. What a perfect time to celebrate words! If you'd like to recognize Webster's birthday, these lessons and other resources will help you to do that in a
special way.
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/words.shtml
OneLook
...a website that indexes over 970 dictionaries and over six million references! The simple interface makes this useful for classroom use.

http://www.onelook.com
Paragraphs and Topic Sentences
Students match topic sentence cards to their correct body sentences cards. Includes a PDF worksheet you can download.
http://www.teachercreated.com/lessons/001110il.shtml
Paragraphs Tutorial
Topics include Parts of a Paragraph, How to Write a Paragraph, and Kinds of Paragraphs.
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/index.htm
Personal Narrative Writing
These sites have tips and examples for writing strong leads for paragraphs and structuring personal narrative writing. Students can learn how to capture and hold
their readers' attention. There are classroom activities, online quizzes and exercises, and ideas to help writers develop their skills. Includes links to eThemes on
grammar and interactive writing activities.
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001693.shtml
Persuasive Writing - Commercial Style
Students first write TV commercials to persuade consumers to buy products, then dramatize the commercials for videotaping.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/02-1/lesson024.shtml
Persuasive Writing Workshop