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Spell Check: An interactive spelling challenge to practice spelling words; different levels of difficulty SpellaRoo: Challenge yourself to a spelling game Spelling It Right: Printable spelling exercise worksheets National Spelling Bee: Information about the national spelling bee; study tips; learn about word origins; lesson plans for teachers SpellWeb: Not
certain how to spell a word? Enter how you think the word
is spelled to find the correct spelling
A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students: Step by Step Research & Writing Help Bonus.com: A protected site for kids of all ages; over 500 activities - Send in your own creative writings for publication in their AUTHOR SECTION Communication Writing Skills Program: Students' Resources section is filled with information on plagiarism, use of quotations, and the style for citing resources. Each of these sections allows the students to quiz themselves. Included in the student section is the Editor's Grammar and Mechanics page, which covers the basics of editing, including terminology, punctuation, and sentence management as well as a self quiz How to Write an Essay: Introduces the steps of writing an essay, from planning and writing to editing, revising, and evaluating. The section Tips and Techniques provides students with clear steps for tackling essays paragraph by paragraph. Also in that section, teachers can find suggestions for model essays and sample lesson activities. The site also provides prompts for expository, narrative, and persuasive essays, as well as links to prompts at other sites Kid Authors: Share your stories and poems with people around the world, including your friends and family; Read stories and poems written by kids around the world Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Walk step by step through the essay writing process. Paragraph Punch: An interactive online paragrah writing tutorial Stone Soup, the Magazine of Writing and Art by Young People: Wacky Web Tales: Fill in the blank with appropriate word and write your own web tales Write 101: Over 200 pages of articles on writing; a valuable resource for students. A six-part home study writing course covers everything from the basics of grammar, punctuation and expression, to writing and documenting essays Writer's Window: Submit a Story or Poem; Join in writing an online story Writing World: A World of Writing Tips - for Writers Around the World Young Writer's Club: Learn how to be a write
How to Write an Effective Letter Letter Generator for Students: Learn the parts of a letter and how to write your own letter. Letter Writing Fun for Primary Students: Sections for ideas, hint, and tips Letters, Resumes, and Writing Styles: Writing skills including formal and informal stsyle, resumes, cover letters and other business documents, essays and Free Lesson Plans for Teachers
A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation: Gathering Materials, Using Outlines, Statement on Plagiarism, Working with Quotations, Formatting the Paper, Alphabetical Order, and more NoodleQuest: Dedicated
to smart people who want to do smart research; takes out some of
the "technological legwork" from online research. NoodleQuest gives
you some great starting points for whatever topic you're researching.
Citation Machine: Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist students in creating properly formatted bibliographies. Enter the information and in turn receive a polished bibliography that's correctly formatted and ready to print! Citing Electronic Resources and Links: How to cite information found on the Internet in school papers, thesis, reports with links to citing resource sites NoodleBib: NoodleBib
is an interactive bibliography composer which automates what used
to be the confusing (and poorly-defined) process of creating a bibliography;
NoodleBib takes care of punctuation and produces
a polished bibliography that's
correctly formatted and ready to print! Use
the free composer!
English Word Games: Games designed to build vocabulary skills: ABC Puzzle; Word Search; Sentences Puzzle; Making Sentences; Hangman; Hoppers (Spelling); Word Generator; Wuzie Board Games; Picture Find Fake Out! An internet vocabulary game Focus on Words: A program that will enhance English-vocabulary skills Funbrain.com: Vocabulary: A game to challenge your vocabulary skills Virtual English Language Center: Increase your knowledge of the English Language Word
Detective: An
interesting look at vocabulary for secondary
students
Dictionary.com: Writing Resources
...drawings have been found in ancient caves which means that early man tried to communicate with each other through pictures and written symbols? ...written language was invented by the ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia, around 300 B.C.? ...the ancient Greeks were the first to assign one letter to each spoken sound? These symbols eventually became the alphabet. ...today there are many alphabets in use: Arabic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Roman, Syrillic? They are all based on the idea that one sound is assigned to one letter. ...writing is the only way to preserve the spoken word because once a word is spoken, it is not recorded? ...people write for many reasons: recording thoughts and experiences, communicating ideas, stating opinions, informing readers about current and past events, creating original and entertaining stories? ...to write well, a writer must learn how to write good sentences which use proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization? In order to write well, a writer must write often! ...a good writer follows the writing process: finding a good idea, writing a rough draft, revising, editing, publishing, and sharing? ...a journalist is a writer who specializes in gathering and writing the news? ...an editorial writer specializes in writing his opinion(s) about political or social issues? ...staff writers usually write for magazines and newspapers, and earn a salary for their writing? ...a free-lance writer is a person who does not write for any one magazine or company, but instead works for himself, and submits his work for publication to one or more magazines and newspapers Index/School Subjects/Search Engines /Dear Kid Info, |
