Reading+LA+Links

Web Resources for Reading and Language Arts
(K-8) ||< An amazing online interactive thesaurus. Shows parts of speech and will pronounce word. Terrific for vocabulary for all content areas. Subscription Site. || ||= A very comprehensive pre-reading and early reading skill site. || ||< A free online interactive site for spelling or vocabulary words. Students can enter words and get tested on spelling. ||
 * 1 || [|ReadWriteThink] || High quality resources for Reading / LA - search for a listing of "Project-Based Learning" ideas. ||
 * < 2 ||< [|Visual Thesaurus]
 * = 3 ||=  [|Starfall] (K3 - 2)
 * < 4 ||<  [|Spelling City] (1 - 6)
 * < 5 ||< [|Magnetic Chat] (K - 8) ||< This site works like refrigerator magnets. Scroll to the bottom for an alphabet chat. You can even enter words of your own into the chat boards - just Shift-Click anywhere and type the new word. ||
 * < 6 ||< [|This I Believe] (4 - 8) ||< Essays read by famous and not-famous people noting what it is that is important to them. Hosted by NPR. ||
 * < 7 ||< [|Comic Life] ||< Comic Life works with a PC or Mac and allows the user to "enhance" photos with "talk" bubbles or "thought bubbles. Great for a different kind of a writing activity. You can also add any text to tell a visual story for a flow chart or "first, then, next, last." Comic Life is a subscription site. $29 per user. ||
 * < 8 || [|Oral History / Digital Story Telling (4 - 8)] ||< ||
 * < 9 ||< [|Poets.org] (4 - 8) ||< ||
 * < 10 ||< [|Wordle] (1 - 8) ||< A fascinating free web site that can be used to make "visual maps" of words. Just type in a list of words to describe a "character" or "adjectives" or "feelings" or vocabulary and a jpeg is created.  ||
 * < 11 ||< [|Literacy Center] (K3 - 2) ||< ||
 * < 12 ||< [|Literature Learning Ladder - Project Ideas] (1 - 8) ||< Great project ideas. Makes connections between literature and technology ||
 * < 13 ||< [|Writing Fix] (2 - 8) ||< Interactive writing prompts - 6 Traits source ||