Pike_teacherweb's List: EnglishIA6-9

The Curriculum21 Clearinghouse provides an easily-accessible list of websites and web-based tools to help you teach. Each tool is rated by a social network of teachers. Check it out!

At the center of the screen, you see a word that you've typed in. Like spokes from the hub of a wheel, the word's synonyms and antonyms stretch outward. You can click each one to further explore the word's meaning. Much simpler to look at than a dictionary, this site is in some ways more effective for its simplicity.

Pike has a school-wide subscription to this wonderful site where students create comics. Teachers guide the work by setting the theme and expectations for the lesson and by giving feedback directly to students. Teachers also decide when comics are ready to be shared in the class workspace. Kids love it!

International Children's Digital Library, a nonprofit foundation, has compiled hundreds of beautiful, online books in many different languages, and about many cultures.

The "KidLitosphere" is a community of reviewers, librarians, teachers, authors, illustrators, publishers, parents, and other book enthusiasts who blog about children's and young adult literature. In writing about books for children and teens, we've connected with others who share our love of books. With this website, we hope to spread the wealth of our reading and writing experience more broadly.

The two teachers at A Year of Reading are a librarian and a 4th grade teachers. Contributors to Stenhouse, they review fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, easy readers, and series books for K-6 readers.

The most fun grammar site I've ever seen!

This site allows students to create their own blogs.

This wonderful site allows you to search through all resources from PBS -- video, games, and Web sites -- by choosing a subject and a grade level. Don't miss it!

ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while devel

Learning North Carolina's Best of the Web collection provides a searchable, annotated catalog of more than 3,000 top-quality interactive websites and also first-class lesson plans.

This site is rightfully well-loved by teachers. It contains online activities, lesson plans, and teaching strategies in all core subject areas for grades PreK to high school. Information is well-organized by "timely topics", "best practices", and "current

ThinkFree includes highly-rated online software for word processing and spreadsheets. Documents created by ThinkFree are accessible from both school and home (from different computers in different places) and can be edited collaboratively by many users.

Factsheets, worksheets, quizzes and games to help students improve basic skills.

This site has a comprehensive database of reviewed web sites, organized by content area, and information about education topics like assessment.

Quia offers many interactive activities in mathematics, language arts, and many other subjects. Some quizzes require a paid subscription, but others (like those on this page) are free.

Students learn the story of Homer's Odyssey through this interactive game in which they can choose to play a particular character.

Students will find short animated movies that discuss the basic concepts of math, English, social studies, and other subject areas. The teaching style is a bit conventional but very straightforward, and some students might benefit.

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning. The site requires a subscription (you can try it for free for a limited time), so speak to the Technology Departmet if you

Students can write collaboratively or individually using this on-the-Web word processor from Google. Documents can be accessed from home or school. Requires Firefox (not Safari). You must create a Google account to access Writely (it's free).