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Language Arts Enrichment

Cool Kid Sites
updated July 20, 2010

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newpink bullet Idiom Dictionary
gold bullet iKnowthat.com Play word games and explore reading activities while practicing your language arts skills for grades pre-K to 6th.  You don't have to register to play... click 'maybe later'.
green bullet Alphabetical Order Practice placing words in alphabetical order with this online game.
blue bullet Synonym Toast In this fun 'game' from Scholastic.com, you identify synonyms.
pink bullet Spelling Time An interactive online spelling program for children in grades 1-5.   Free spelling tutorial resource with lessons Mon. - Thurs. and a test on Friday.  Parents get emailed a progress report.
gold bulletGame Goo Language Arts skills games
green bulletMystery NetMysteryNet Kids Mysteries Mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks for kids
blue bulletRATS Interactive game where you reinforce what you already know about adjectives and adverbs (from Learning Planet)
pink bullet'Between the Lions' Reading Games from PBS
gold bulletMcGraw Hill Reading Text Book Click on your book cover and discover web resources about the stories you are reading in class.
green bullet Quiz Hub This website has links to a variety of activities for pre-k to 12th grade.
blue bulletLiteracy Center Learn your letters, numbers, and colors in English, Spanish, French or German!
pink bulletCreate-a-Reader Learn your letters and letter sounds.
green bulletWritingFix for Kids Play games to learn how to become a better writer.
gold bulletGrammar Slammer Style and Usage, Capitalizing, Abbreviations, Punctuation, Letter Writing, Common Mistakes and Choices, Other Information
blue bullet To RIF Reading Planet Search for a good book (read reviews), have fun with Story Maker, Poetry Splatter, and more, send an e-postcard, share your opinions, take part in a poll, enter contests, or discover many of the other fun activities.
pink bulletTen Tips for Better Spelling from Fact Monster
green bulletMLA Bibliographic Form  Learn how to properly site your sources when doing a report.
gold bulletStarfall.com It's Fun to Read!   Have fun while learning to read.

blue bulletMaggie's Earth Adventure

These games are so fun, you'll forget you're learning!

pink bullet Education World

Reference Tools

The Toolbox Section contains all sorts of handy useful links to great resources, like online dictionaries, language translators, encyclopedias, maps, conversion engines, and more! 

green bulletLightspan - Kids Lightspan.com logo

Look at the cool things you can do here:

LearningPlanet.com
Learning Activities
Stuart Little
Homework Zone
Online Expeditions

gold bulletKids' Place logoEducation Place

Fun activities for language arts, math, social studies and science. You'll also find brainteasers for students in grades 3-8!

blue bulletBook Hooks

Bookhooks is an online book reporting toolkit for students in grades K-12. Publish stories, poems and images. Read book reviews. There are also over 200 links to authors.
 
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Cool on line magazine just for kids. You can (with your parent's permission) publish your art and stories. There are articles, stories, recipes, crafts, and more.

 green bulletKidnews

Students may submit their writing and read stories and poems posted by others. Invite your parents to look at this site with you!

gold bulletGuide to Grammar and Writing

Categories at this site include word, sentence, paragraph, essays and research papers, quizzes, and searches and lots more.

blue bulletReading Planet

The Reading Planet is brought to you by RIF - Reading is Fundamental. Use this site to read or contribute a book review. There are fun activities like creating your own word puzzles and completing a story that has been started for you. 

pink bulletSeussville

This is the place to go to learn about Dr. Seuss and his books.

green bulletBook Adventure

Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Create your own book lists from over 5,400 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books you've read offline, and earn points and prizes for your literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is a non-profit organization.

Sign up today and start earning points!

Many of the quizzes available are also on our AR list, so this is a great way to practice before taking an AR quiz!

gold bulletScholastic - Kids Clifford is one of many things you'll find on this site.

blue bulletTime for Kids.com logoTime For Kids

 On-line magazine for kids.

Are you a Harry Potter fan? Click here for the Potter Power page from Time For Kids.

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