Click on the word below to take you to links that have activities for you to do!

Parent Resource List

http://www.bookadventure.com/ki/rg/ki_rg_start.asp?newuser=1

This is a free site sponsored by Sylvan Learning Center. You can click “Book Finder,” use the short survey to fill out a kind of book you are interested in (and your reading level), and it will provide you with a list of books in that category. Likewise, when you click “Quiz-O-Matic,” you will be given the opportunity to take a quiz (10 questions) on a book that you have read. Hint: Check to see if the book has a quiz before you read it. The “Tools” section in “Cool Stuff” has practice exercises in every subject area, grades 1 – 8.

http://kids.aol.com/KOL/1/HomeworkHelp

Scroll down to the bottom left of this page, and you can click on “Textbooks.” If you know the publisher of your child’s book (any subject area, any level), you may be able to find it in this list. When you click on the link, and the publisher page comes up, be sure to click on your child’s level. Then you will find numerous activities for your child to complete (most on-line, most computer scored). Even if your child’s textbook is NOT listed or not the same level, there are still worthwhile activities for the student to complete.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/online.html

On-line science activities. Besides the activities listed on the main page, click on “Cool Sites,” (upper-right corner), and you will have access to many different links on science topics. Then, don’t forget to check out even more GREAT sites by clicking on “Most Recommended” in the upper left corner. This will be enough to keep your student busy for a few hours!

http://www.mathvids.com/

This site features hundreds of math instruction videos. Students access & watch videos and can rate them. Aimed at middle through college students. Must register, but it is free.

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm

This site features any and everything about the geography of our world. Includes a daily cash-contest question about geography. (no joke!)

http://scottbryce.com/us_geo/

Interactive U.S. geography questions.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do

If it’s history, it’s on this site. Includes quizzes, videos, games.

http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/0/8c84a2140b7e0331852569f5005a2ea6?OpenDocument

Interactive grammar exercises, various topics.

http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/Reading_Comprehension_Advanced/index.html

Reading comprehension and vocabulary exercises. Numerous additional links.

http://www.triv.net/qmenu.htm

Trivia site with interactive quizzes in many different subject areas.

www.explorestudent.org: This website provides information on the ACT Explorer test, educational preparation, and career exploration.

www.bls.gov/oco: You can access the Occupational Outlook Handbook, a resource that provides career information.

www.planningyourdreams.org: Tennessee college and career planning system. Students take interest, skills, and work value surveys. A great resource for parents and students.

AGREEMENT:

http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/quiz/subverb1.htm

Interactive exercise on subject-verb agreement. Answers provided.

APPOSITIVES:

http://bol1800-01.k12.fsu.edu/appositivephrasepage.html

Definitions, examples, practice with appositive phrases.

AUTHOR'S PURPOSE:

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/authorspurposep.cfm

Short on-line activity to complete about author's purpose. Good beginning exercise.

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/authorpur.cfm

Several activities to complete about author's purpose. Interactive; gives answers.

http://www.citycol.com/basic_skills/Quizzes/Purpose/reading_purpose.htm

Several excellent examples of different kinds of writing and author's purpose questions to accompany them. On-line activity with answers.

BOOK ACTIVITIES:

BRAIN GAMES:

http://puzzles.usatoday.com/

This website is sponsored by USA Today and has many different word and number games, including a daily crossword puzzle.

http://www.sudoku.net.au/index.php

This website has an on-line sudoku game that "lights up" a different color when you have the correct numbers entered in a box or in a line. It's a great place for beginning sudoku players!

http://linkudo.com/

This game works on rhyming, word-associations, and recognizing word parts. It is a more challenging game than some, and it will definitely make you exercise those lazy brain cells!

http://www.almanac.com/puzzle/index.php

MANY links to different games (math, word, riddles)for you to play.

COMING TO A CONCLUSION:

COMMA USE:

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/comma_quiz.htm

Good review of comma usage. Quizzes that you can take on-line and check.

COMPREHENSION:

http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html

Click on a category that you are interested in, and then click on a specific story to read. On the menu to the left, you can click a specific reading comprehension activity to do. You can also check your work on-line. Enjoy! (Level D and higher to work on these activities)

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm

Comprehension and vocabulary exercises for you to do. Use this key to choose your level: Level B click Level 200; Level C click Level 330; Level D click Level 410; Level E click Level 490; Level F click Level 570.

FACT OR OPINION:

FLASHBACK:

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=94

Lesson on flashback, plus several links to more in-depth explanations and explorations of the topic.

FINDING DETAILS:

FRAGMENTS & RUN-ONS:

http://webnz.co.nz/checkers/GramSentFrag.html

Good explanations of sentence fragments, how to correct them, and pratice exercises that you can check on-line.

http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/handouts/fragments.html

Good explanations of sentence fragments and how to correct them. Click at the end of the explanations for a practice test that you do on-line and check.

http://webnz.co.nz/checkers/GramSentFrag.html

Good explanations of sentence fragments. Exercises at the end of the examples that you can print, complete, and then turn in to your teacher (me!).

http://www.octech.org/icourses/eng/eng155/Runons.html

Definitions and examples of run-on sentences and comma splices. Good explanations on ways to correct them. No exercises for practice.

IDIOM:

http://www.funbrain.com/idioms/

Fun games to let you practice finding the meaning of an idiom.

Idiom click and drag practice activities that will challenge your brain!

   http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/idgm1.swf  (body idioms)

   http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/idgm2.swf (animals)

   http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/animals2.swf (animals)

   http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/animals3.swf (animals)

http://www.eslcafe.com/quiz/animal.html

A quick quiz about animal idioms; grades it when you are finished & gives you a score.

www.english-zone.com/idioms/food1a.htm

Practice with idioms about food.

Fun games to let you practice finding the meaning of an idiom.

http://www.funbrain.com/idioms/

A good place to look up an idiom that you do not know. Gives you an example, sample sentence, and explains meaning. At end of the list, there is a quiz with answers.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6720/

A ton of self-study idiom quizzes. Read the sentence, fill in the blank & then check your answer.

http://a4esl.org/q/h/idioms.html

Click & drag practice activity for parts of the body idioms.

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/idgm1.swf

Click & drag practice activity for animal idioms (#1).

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/idgm2.swf

Click & drag practice activity for animal idioms (#2).

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/.animals2.swf

Click & drag practice activity for animal idioms (#3).

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/animals3.swf

Click & drag practice activity for business idioms.

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/idgm3.swf

A 7 answer quiz for idioms. Print your answers as you finish each page.

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/idioms/

INFERENCE:

http://www.bismarck.k12.mo.us/English/skinner/Lessons/PredictInfer.htm

Several passages to read and to make inferences and conclusions about. Answers at

bottom of page.

IRONY:

http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/irony.html

Definition of irony with an example.

LITERARY TERMS:

ttp://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm

Glossary of all literary terms. A good place to start if you don't understand a term.

LOGIC:

http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/fallacy/

Fallicies in logic tutorials with examples.

MAIN IDEA:

METAPHOR & SIMILE:

http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/1poe.htm

Definition of metaphor and simile with examples; practice exercise with answers.

http://www.brainpop.com

When you get to the site, log in & click on "English," then click on "All English," and then click"simile and metaphor." Short movie explaining differences and giving examples of metaphors and similes

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http://www.fcps.edu/LibertyMS/sandfordsite/PowerPoint_presentations/Practicing%20Similes%20and%20Metaphors.ppt

Interactive PowerPoint presentation about similes and metaphors. Great fun!

Click and drag activity with similes.

http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/idioms/similes1a.swf

http://www.fcps.edu/LibertyMS/sandfordsite/PowerPoint_presentations/Practicing%20Similes%20and%20Metaphors.ppt
Interactive powerpoint that will give you practice identifying similes and metaphors.

www.quia.com/quiz/234882.html

Go to this site to take practice tests about similes and metaphors. The computer will score your answers as you go & then you can print your results at the end.

PARTS OF SPEECH:

http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html

Parts of speech game to play. You can choose your level of difficulty.

PLOT:

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_p.htm

Good explanation of plot and other literary terms.

POINT OF VIEW:

PREPOSITION:

www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/preposit.html

Definitions and examples of prepositions.

http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb-bd-preposition.html

A short quiz about prepositions. You can check your answers on-line.

http://www.aliscot.com/bigdog/prep_exercise.htm

Good exercise to practice finding prepositional phrases. Will tell you if you are right or wrong.

PRINCIPAL PARTS OF VERBS:

http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Irregular_Verbs

Many interactive exercises; answers & explanations of principal parts of irregular verbs.

http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm

Exercises for principal parts of verbs. Can copy some on your printer. Has practice exercises and answers. Has good explanations when you have an incorrect answer.

PRONOUNS:

http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Pronoun_Agreement

Many interactive exercises about pronoun agreement; has answers and explanations.

http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

Good explanations and examples of pronouns and antecedents. Quizzes with answers.

http://athena.english.vt.edu/~IDLE/Gym2/workout15/W15.stretch2.html

Good explanations and examples of pronouns and antecedents. Exercises with answers.

http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Pronoun_Reference

Many interactive exercises about pronoun reference; has answers and explanations, also.

http://www.quia.com/cb/81637.html

Interactvite jeopardy game featuring pronoun usage. Has answers.

PUNCTUATION:

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/quotes_quiz.htm

Good review of quotation marks. Exercises and quizzes that you can take.

http://www.swt.edu/slac/writing/semi2.htm

Semicolon practice exercises with answers.

SENTENCE COMBINING:

http://grammar.about.com/od/combiningsentences/a/SCexEisely.htm

Sentence combining by using adjective clauses. Do work on your own paper; click to check your answers.

SENTENCE PARTS:

http://www.dailygrammar.com/101to105.shtml

Explanations, examples, exercises with answers for parts of a sentence (subject, verb, predicate nominatives, etc.)

http://grammar.uoregon.edu/nouns/predicateN.html

Definitions, examples, exercises with answers for noun sentence parts (direct object, object of preposition, subject, indirect object).  Also, interactive quiz with explanations and answers.

SENTENCE SCRAMBLE:

http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/exercises/causes_s.html

On-line exercise that will challenge you to arrange words to create sentences, and then further challenge you to arrange sentences to create paragraphs. Answers included. GREAT!

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/490/wchild/index.htm

Click on any of the "sentence ordering" exercises to put scrambled scentences in order.

http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/exercises/old_consumers_t.html

On-line activity that will allow students to organize sentences into paragraphs.

http://www.parapal-online.co.uk/exercises/ecotour.html

Interactive activity to put persuasive letter in sentence order. More difficult exercise.

SEQUENCE EVENTS:

http://www.funbrain.com/order/index.html

This activity concentrates on sequencing in geography and science. It will challenge your thinking--and is a slightly different kind of sequencing than we normally do in reading class!

SEQUENCING PARAGRAPHS:

http://www.uefap.com/writing/exercise/parag/paragex2.htm

In this exercise, arrange the paragraphs in sequential order by copying and pasting them to a Word document. Answer key provided.

http://www.englishforjapanese.com/tests/Cambridge/fce/reading/03%20blanks.html

Longer passage that requires you to choose 8 paragraphs to complete the essay. (You are given every-other paragraph.)Answer included.

STORY ACTIVITIES:

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Sites:

The audio drama is available online at the following address:

http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/sleepy/

If you enjoyed the drama version of "Sleepy Hollow," you may enjoy reading the original short story. The complete text is available on-line at the following address:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/41

Artists' renditions of different scenes in the short story are found at the following address:

http://www.hudsonvalley.org/education/LessonPlans/Storytelling/l_Crane/i_crane.html

Crossword puzzle about Sleepy Hollow stories, background, etc. Some additional information will need to be found in order to do this puzzle.

http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051575/sleepyhollow_crossword.htm

Interactive covabulary adtivity using words from the original story:

http://www.emse.fr/%7Eyukna/ENG/lessons/sleepyholl.htm

This link has Dutch music:

http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051575/music_links.htm

SUBJECTS & PREDICATES:

http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html

Game about subjects and predicates. How much money can you score?

SUBJECT - VERB AGREEMENT:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverb.html

Simple notes and good examples of most important rules in sub/verb agreement.

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm

Powerpoint presentation. Excellent explanations and examples of each sub/verb agreement rule; quizzes with answers.

http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Subject-Verb_Agreement

Many interactive exercises about subject-verb agreement; answers and explanations are provided with each.

SYMBOLISM:

http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/index.html

Extensive lists of common symbols and their meaning and use in literature and life. Also, link takes you to symbolism in visual images.

TROUBLESOME WORDS:

http://treasures.macmillanmh.com/iowa/families/buildin-skills/additional-spellingg-reading-writing-exercises/grades-5-6-troublesome-word-pairs

USAGE:

VERBS:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/verbs/xverb1.htm

Good review of kinds of verbs. Good, short review exercises on recognizing verbs; has answers.

VOCABULARY:

WRITING AN ESSAY:

http://www.writefix.com/argument/

Good explanations and examples of essay parts and of how to write an essay.

http://www.oswego.org/staff/tcaswell/wg/essays.htm

Simplified explanation of steps in writing essay

http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/3cc42a422514347a8525671d0049f395/11c346d877aed85a852569c300671b2b?OpenDocument#thesis

Examples and explanations about your essay thesis

http://www.cerritos.edu/reading/tutorials.htm

Good explanations, examples, and practice with main idea and topic sentences.

http://www.cerritos.edu/reading/tutorials.htm

Good explanations,examples,and practice with main idea, topic sentences, vocabulary in context.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm

Interactive practices and tests for a large list of different grammar topics.

http://www.csun.edu/~vcecn006/gramp.html

Variety of grammatical topics, including prepositions, commas, appositives, semicolons, antecedents, fragments, run-ons, and more.  Good explanations and examples.  Has exercises, but no answers that I saw.

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