Language Arts Links

http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/

Elementary Theme Pages by Jim Cornish - EXCELLENT!!! Themed Units already planned out for you. This man teaches in Canada and must have his whole school working together on these units. They really look great!

http://www.rockhall.com/programs/plans.asp

lesson plans using music - MANY different subject areas and many different grade levels

http://www.gamequarium.com

Gamequarium – A portal to hundreds of free, online learning games and activities for Pre-School through sixth grade (or so) (on a personal note, once I click past the homepage, I turn my volume off – the “Under the Sea” theme as a midi file drives me NUTS! LOL but my 6 and 9 year old nephew and niece really like this site )

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/

good site with some really surprising quotes on the homepage.

http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/navigation/frameset.htm

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre – virtual tours, information on costumes of the time, all sorts of stuff to see!

http://librivox.org/ Librivox

LibriVox: free audiobooks

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

The Reading Lady http://www.readinglady.com/index.php

LOTS of stuff! Even free downloads for Assessment, Comprehension, Reader's Theater and Six Trait Writing. Lots of good stuff for reading and writing at many levels.

Six-Trait Writing website http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/LindaJancola/6Trait/6-trait.html

Looks very informative and easy to use. Includes lesson plans, student writing, rubrics, and an explaination of Six-Trait Writing.

http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=1587

R. L. Stein - How to Write Your Own Give Yourself Goosebumps Books

EXCELLENT!! I really think that the kids will have a blast following his directions to write their own stories following the Choose Your Own Ending plan.

http://www.thenightmareroom.com/writing-program.htm

The Nightmare Writing Room Writing Program. FREE from R.L. Stein - excellent well thought out program to help kids write. National standards addressed on the site. FREE Classroom Kit and Nightmare room writing paper to print out. There are some really cool ideas here for you!