Booklists

www.carolhurst.com/titles/4th.html

Brief description and reviews of books for 4th grade students

www.carolhurst.com/titles/5th.htm

Brief description and reviews of books for 5th grade students

www.carolhurst.com/titles/6th.html

Brief description and reviews of books for 6th grade students

http://www.reading.org/
resources/tools/choices.html

Children and teacher choices of books. This list is up-dated each year and includes new books.

Reading activities

www.scholastic.com/kids/
home_flash.asp

Kids Fun Online - Reading activities for students. (This is the text used in 4th and 5th grade at Clarendon.)

go.hrw.com/gopages/la-la.html

Reading activities for students connected to the text used in 6th grade at Clarendon. Our text is the Introductory Course.

students.resa.net/
stoutcomputerclass/2la.htm

Reading and writing activities - includes activities for ESL students

ALA's Great Websites for Kids

List of websites for students to use in language arts. Look under Literature and Languages.

Phonics

School House Rock Grammar

This site contains the lyrics and audio clips of School House Rock Grammar songs.

www.kidport.com/Grade4/
LanguageArts/LanguageArts.htm

Improve your English and grammar.

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/
words/grammar/

Grammar, spelling, reading, writing, listening, and vocabulary activities

Author sites

www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/
authors.html

List of most children's authors and websites to find out more information about each author

www.ehhs.cmich.edu/
~tbushey/author.html

Celebrate children's authors

www.beverlycleary.com/

Official website for Beverly Cleary

www.roalddahl.com/

Official website for Roald Dahl

www.terabithia.com/

Official website for Katherine Paterson

www.jkrowling.com/

Official website for J. K. Rowling

www.seussville.com/

Dr. Seuss activities

Six-traits

www.aps.edu/aps/Cochiti/6traits/

Description of the six traits, lesson plans and literature to use for each trait (can be used by students, parents and teachers)

OWL-Online Writing Lab

OWL (Online Writing Lab)
for Elementary Students. This website has lots of activities using six-traits.

senior.billings.k12.mt.us/6traits/

Interactive activities using 6-traits. Sign in as Class Account Number: WEUH663, Student Numbers are spx001 through spx040

Writing activities

Writing Process Website

Writing activities on the writing process for students and parents to use

www.pvc.maricopa.edu/~butler/#dict

Ideas for writing from the Maricopa County Public Library. You can even sign up for tutoring.

www.judyblume.com/writing-jb.html

Author Judy Blume talks about writing.

Reading and Writing games

I Know That

Games in language arts

www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooey.html

Game Goo - Learning that Sticks

www.eduplace.com/edugames.html

Edugames

Vocabulary.com's Level 1 puzzles

This site has interactive games to improve students' vocabulary skills, including word analysis and synonyms and antonyms.

Access Excellence

Mysteries for students to read and solve.

www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

Select your grade level and go to Words.