Mansel Wells's List: MS ELA Featured Sites

Steps to eliminate Plagiarism from your classroom

This is an interactive website designed specifically for students in grades K - 8. Here you will find dozens of interactive games, activities, worksheets, and teacher tools that pinpoint essential skills. MrNussbaum.com was created and developed by a teacher! Many of the activities are color-coded.
Red = Grade 1 +
Orange = Grade 2+
Yellow = Grade 3+
Green = Grade 4 +
Blue = Grade 5+

Blog About Books
Presented by National Geographic for Kids, DogEared is a blog about books—good books, funny books, adventure books; books about animals, friendship, pirates, faraway places . . . every kind of book that kids enjoy. Why is the site called “DogEared”? You know when you read a book and you turn the top edge of a page over to mark your place? That’s called a “dog-ear”! Students mark (“dog-ear”) the Web page so they can return to it often in order to read real kids’ reviews and recommendations. They also share their own opinions and create their own reading wish list—as if it were their own online book club.

Sources of grants and other attainable funding, rich resources for 21st century skills, professional development opportunities, free and inexpensive finds and help with research and assessment. Additionally this site offers a deep e-newsletter archive — searchable by keywords — with resources not found in the print editions.

A list of fifty open source tools that you can use to write, edit and organize your work.

StorYBook is a free, open source story writing software for creative writers, novelists and authors that helps to keep the overview over the strands when writing a book, a novel or a story. StorYBook assists you in structuring your book.

This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can:

* Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,
* Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer,
* View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen,
* Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

You can browse by author or title.
You can also use it in iTunes.

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Watch student writing come alive with free online writing tools. Publish student writing online, participate in collaborative writing, or develop interactive fiction. Tools can be used either by students in grades 7-12 or by K-12 teachers. Included: A dozen Web sites with online or downloadable tools for improving student and teacher writing.Watch student writing come alive with free online writing tools. Publish student writing online, participate in collaborative writing, or develop interactive fiction. Tools can be used either by students in grades 7-12 or by K-12 teachers. Included: A dozen Web sites with online or downloadable tools for improving student and teacher writing.

American literature sites are devoted to the works, lives, influence, and culture of some of America's most important authors. Many of the sites include digital versions of authors' works and little known facts about their lives; sounds, images, and other interactive features; primary source documents, publishing histories, and more. Included: Eighteen sites that are sure to spark your interest and that of your students.

The English language is fraught with fun. What's the longest English word whose letters are arranged in alphabetical order? What words are their own antonyms? What word means "to cause a frog or toad to fly up in the air"? These questions and many more are answered in Fun With Words.

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Thinkfinity.org makes it easy for educators to enhance their classroom instruction with lesson plans, interactive activities and other online resources. Thinkfinity.org also provides a wealth of educational and literacy resources for students, parents and after-school programs.

All of Thinkfinity.org's 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and reference materials are reviewed by the nation's leading education organizations to ensure that content is accurate, up-to-date, unbiased and appropriate for students.

At Thinkfinity.org, you'll find primary source materials, interactive student resources and grade-specific research lists to help you tailor materials to meet your needs.

This search engine enables you to search by subject (e.g. history, science, etc.), Grade Level, and Resource Type ("Media" when searching for images). There are nine major partners who can be accessed through this search engine. They are
* American Association for the Advancement of Science
* Council for Economic Education
* International Reading Association
* National Center for Family Literacy
* National Council of Teachers of English
* National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
* National Endowment for the Humanities (Includes content from the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art!)
* National Geographic Society
* ProLiteracy
* Smithsonian National Museum of American History
* The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Search for lessons by Content Area: Language Arts

Great resource for remediation and AIS. Resources for lessons, practice, and interactive activities

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This is an extensive collection of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms. You can search by topic or grade level. This is an easy way to quickly locate online materials.