Website aimed at middle school, but strangely is what we cover in elementary school. Good for practice and for some children an extension of the difference between a dictionary, atlas, encyclopaedia, almanac and thesaurus.
Sing Along Songs for kids of all ages. This is the dub version of a large selection of nursery rhymes. Great for writing poems to, as there is no singing.
This website allows children to practice adding prefixes and suffixes, as well as giving the meaning of those prefixes and suffixes.
It's great for whole class or independent learning.
Commercial with LeBron James and Dwight McDonalds. Good for fact and opinion generating.
This features the snickers commercial. To be used with generating fact or opinion.
Fun, educational and FREE word game for 3rd grade kids by Courseware Solutions. Identify correct form of verb to agree with subject.
This is great for whole class or independent fun.
This powerpoint is a good introduction or review for teaching subject/verb agreement.
Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude. Includes detailed terms, interactive exercises, handouts, PowerPoints, and more!
Wonderful interactive grammar games with accompanying handout for the class to complete whilst playing the games.
This website has an array of grammar interactive games. This is a good website to refer to when it is necessary to practice whole group; so teacher can decide what to play at any given time.
Games obviously can be played independently too. Some games teach you as you play, which is great. This is helpful for teachers who may not always know why a rule applies (or not!)
Great website for practicing identifying simple, compound and complex sentences. Great for whole class review with teacher explaining characteristics of sentences.
This website is great for whole class practice of determining main idea.
Great website that gives many opportunities to identify cause and effect. Remind children to always think about what comes first (cause) and what happens after (effect).
This website allows chldren to practice identifying cause and effect. Great for practice once they've been taught how to think about identifying cause and effect.
This webpage looks at a host of summarizing techniques to teach children during the reading process. An excellent website from West Virginia Education.
Excellent strategies for teaching activating strategies. Activating strategies is one of the most important strategy to help children make connections in their learning. This webpage gives a variety of ways to activate prior knowledge.
Excellent website highlighting a list of vocabulary strategies to use while teaching reading.