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Browse more than 200 websites with interactives to help children learn to read fluently, improve their reading comprehension skills, and learn to write anything from essays to poetry.  English Language Learners (ELL) - ESL - and children studying foreign languages will also find many helpful websites here.
 
 
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Author/Host of Website Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit 6+1 Trait Writing
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Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

From site:  In the early 1980's, creative teachers in school districts across the country decided there must be a better way to gather useful information about student writing performance rather than with single scores or standardized tests. Teachers wanted an instrument that would provide accurate, reliable feedback to students and teachers, a tool that would help guide instruction. When an exhaustive search didn't produce such a tool, they rolled up their sleeves and began the difficult process of creating an analytic scoring system that would be valid, honest, and practical.

After evaluating thousands of papers at all grade levels, the teachers identified common characteristics of good writing. These qualities became the framework for the 6-trait analytical model, which has now grown to include a seventh, +1 trait. The model uses common language to identify the traits year to year as we refine our idea of what 'good' writing looks like by using the scoring guides.

Not everyone uses the 6+1 Trait model : ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation. Some use four; some use more. These same six or seven characteristics show up on everyone's list in one form or another. The 6+1 Trait components are the foundation for the NWREL's writing assessment model and the basis for the descriptive criteria we use to define the qualities of good writing at different levels of achievement.

 
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Author/Host of Website Jenny/60Second Recap, Inc.
Type of Educational Content Video
Visit 60 Second Recap
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Grade Level High (9-12)

From site:  The 60second Recap wants to make the great works of literature accessible, relevant, and, frankly, irresistible to today's teens. Through our 60second Recap video albums, we seek to help teens engage with the best books out there ... not just to help them get better grades, but to help them build better lives.

Smirk if you must. Consider this yet another mile-marker on civilization’s road to perdition. But here's the fact: You won't get non-readers to read by forcing them to read more. You'll get them to read by opening their eyes to the marvels awaiting them between the covers of that homework assignment.

With the 60second Recap, teens finally have an alternative to the boring, text-based study guides that have burdened them for generations. And -- who knows? -- maybe that's just what they'll need to begin a love affair with literature, one that will last a lifetime.

 
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Author/Host of Website J. Banfill
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit AAASpell.com
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Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)
This site provides typical spelling lists for grades 1-8, as well as a review of the alphabet.  A very useful tool is that it enables a teacher or student to input a spelling list, and then use a variety of  methods to practice spelling, such as adding or removing letters, and unscrambling letters.
 
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Author/Host of Website Greg Nussbaum/MrNussbaum.com
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit ABC Order and More!
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Grade Level Elementary (K-5)

Pick a category to play an interactive game that helps improve your vocabulary skills.  ABC order games give you 10 words to put in order.  Synonym games let you match similar words; antonym games let you match opposite words.

 
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Author/Host of Website PBS Kids/WGBH
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit About Face
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Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)
Choose on of Arthur's friends to hear their story.  Then decide how they feel.  This game focuses on what the learner can infer from the story.
 
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Author/Host of Website Academic English Cafe
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit Academic English Cafe
Free
Grade Level High (9-12)

Academic English Cafe serves up a list of daily specials to help you improve your English, discover great books, and inspire your writing.  There are more than 60 integrated online reading, listening and writing lessons, vocabulary quizzes and games, test prep advice, grammar quizzes and an online interactive writing journal.

 
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Author/Host of Website BAM!/Dept. of Health & Human Services
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit Ad Decoder
Free
Grade Level Middle and High (6-12)

From site:  Decipher the messages behind the ads you see every day.

 What’s the deal?
Turn the pages in this interactive magazine and learn about the messages behind the ads you see every day.

Why?

Learning about the messages behind the ads will help you understand the differences between real vs. ideal and know the truth will help you craft a positive self-image!

 
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Author/Host of Website KidsKnowIt Network
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit Adjectives Movie
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Grade Level Elementary (K-5)
Learn about what adjectives are and how they are used.  Other key ideas that are explained include sentence parts, proper use of adjectives and examples of adjectives.  Take an interactive quiz at the end to see what you've learned.
 
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Author/Host of Website KidsKnowIt Network
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit Adverbs Movie
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Grade Level Elementary (K-5)
Learn what adverbs are and how they are used.  Other ideas explained in the movie include sentence parts, the proper use of adverbs and examples of adverbs.  At the end, you can take an interactive quiz to see if you can identify the adverbs in several sentences.
 
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Author/Host of Website John R. Long/Star Systems
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit Aesop's Fables
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Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

From site:  Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) the rest are from Jean De La Fontaine in French and translated to English by several good internet souls.

Included are Real Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables, Search Engine Message Forum and much more on the way. Recently added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, with 209 Grimms Fairy Tales coming soon along with much more mythology and stories for your reading pleasure.

 
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Author/Host of Website Aidtochildren.com
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit AIDtoCHILDREN.com
Free
Grade Level All Ages (K-12)

From site:   Select the appropriate meaning.  For every correct answer we will donate .25 cents to children in need.  All of the money raised by this site is donated to under privileged children.

AIDtoCHILDREN was developed based on a desire to help under privileged children in the most impoverished places around the world.

 
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Author/Host of Website Game Goo/Houghton Mifflin
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit Alien Scavenger Hunt
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Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)

In the Alien Scavenger Hunt game, kids catch letter bugs to create words they hear.  The letters do not have to be caught in order.  Good for learning letter sounds.

 
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Author/Host of Website Game Goo/Houghton Mifflin
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit Alien Scavenger Hunt II
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Grade Level Early Elementary (K-2)

In the Alien Scavenger Hunt II game, kids listen to a word, then vacuum up the missing sounds to spell the word.  Letter sounds do not have to collected in the correct order.  Each level is increasingly difficult.

 
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Author/Host of Website iKnowthat.com
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit Alien Word Mine
Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
Parent/Guardian Information
Free
Grade Level Elementary and Middle (K-8)

From site:  Wack those Pesky Aliens!  Collect word rocks belonging to a target part of speech or word type.

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Author/Host of Website American Society of Newspaper Editors
Type of Educational Content Website
Visit ASNE High School Journalism
Lesson Plans or Teacher Info
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Grade Level High (9-12)
From site:  Bookmark it! The go-to scholastic journalism site on the Web for students, their teachers/advisers, guidance counselors and professional journalists. If you want to know about journalism -- learning it, teaching it, doing it -- this is the site for you.
 
 
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