Free English Course for K12

Free websites offer online English course and teacher resources for kindergarten and k12 grade 1 to 6 include culture, reading, writing, listening, and talking.

English Grammar Quizzes
Selection of online graded Grammar quizzes for primary grades.

Grammar Arts Songs
Listen to and sing along with these songs that assist students to learn about parts of speech.

Grammar Sites
List of Grammar sites for teachers.

Learn English Grammar
Click on the words for brief explanations of common areas of grammar.

An Elementary English Grammar
Consisting of One Hundred lessons, carefully graded and adapted to the classroom.

English-Zone.Com
Large range of explanations and exercises related to many areas of Grammar.

Handouts for Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling
Worksheets and powerpoint presentations for a range of Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Activities.

Handwriting printables
Handwriting worksheets and flashcards for Zaner Bloser and D'Nealian styles.

Australian School Handwriting Fonts
Teachers make your own handwriting exercises, posters, crosswords, flashcards and other classroom resources on your computer using these school fonts.

Helping Your Child to Better Handwriting
Ideas from the American Occupational Therapy Association.

How to Teach Handwriting
There are three components to handwriting, whether a child is learning to print or write in cursive: correct letter formation, uniform letter size, and uniform slant.

Mechanical Obstacles to Writing
By Stephen Isaacson, Portland State University and Mary M. Gleason, University of Oregon.

Alan Cooper's Homonyms
Extensive list of homonyms with their meanings.

Internet Scavenger Hunts
These hunts reinforce reading for facts. They help novice internet users gain experience using a browser and web site search forms.

Order of Events
Collection of worksheets where students order the events from a story.

Seussville
Loads of fun reading activities from Dr Seuss.

Comprehension
Reading comprehension stories.

Comprehension Worksheets
Texts and worksheets on various themes for K - 6.

Fun Reading Comprehension
Fun ideas for Reading Comprehension.

Fun Reading Comprehension Activity
Simple, easy-to-prepare activity.

Kickball Comprehension
Integrate softball into an interactive outdoor lesson.

Literature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected
For self-paced literature circles, students choose their own reading material, respond to reading in a journal, and talk about their books daily in small groups.

Reading Comprehension
Comprehension exercises.

Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids.

Advanced Education Resources
Providing specialised education resources that give Australians the best opportunities to excel at school and beyond.

Beyond Worksheets: Making Reading Make Sense
Ideas for improving classroom reading comprehension activities.

Collaborative Strategic Reading
Strategy for improving Reading Comprehension skills.

Exploring On-Line Tools and Activity Databases that Enhance
Online tools that teachers are using to construct original classroom literacy activities that enhance reading comprehension.

Focus On Reading Comprehension
Article on correlation between vocabulary instruction and reading comprehension.

Guided Reading - The Comprehension block
Powerpoint presentation about Guided Reading.

How to Improve Reading Comprehension
Ideas for parents to help their children improve reading comprehension.

Common Words
300 words that make up 65% of written material.

One Across Puzzle Solver
Search engine that allows you to enter the clues from your crossword to help you find the word you need.

Spelling Lists and Games
Spelling lists and games.

Word Association
Lesson on word association and exploration.

Consolidated Word List
Compilation of over 100 Scripps National Spelling Bee word lists dating as far back as 1950. It appears below in four sections totaling 794 pages.

4 Star Listening Post
Site devoted to listening skills.

Debating Links
List of links for debating.

Icebreakers
Ten currently popular icebreakers and links to more than 100 additional icebreakers.

Listening Tips For Teachers
It is not always students who need to improve their listening skills. Here are some tips for teachers.

Speaking and Listening Activities
In each of these activities, both speaking and listening are addressed to provide for the development of speaking and listening abilities in conjunction with one another.

Persuasion Map
Online tool that allows students to map persuasive ideas for their writing.

Teaching Current Affairs
Links to sites for teaching current affairs using television, newspaper and magazines.

Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories provide a great stimulus for student writing.

Storyteller
Site for children to publish their stories. Over 11,000 stories submitted.

Writing Topics
Collection of stimulus ideas to help K-6 students get started with their writing.

Outta His Head: Writing Lessons
Extensive list of writing lessons on various themes.

Pizzaz
Creative writing and oral storytelling activities with handouts for use with students of all ages.

Kids Can W.R.I.T.E.
Discussion and links to creative writing sites.

Targeting Text: Narratives
Strategies for teaching aspects of narrative texts.

Procedure Writing Scaffold
Instructional writing framework worksheet.

Yahooligans Recipe Search Results
Around 300 links to recipes suitable for children.

Book Report Ideas
Several ideas for responding to literature in the classroom.

Response Writing
A list of ideas for response writing.

Identifying Proficient Readers
Chart that identifies characteristics of proficient readers.

Improving Reading Comprehension
Good reading means building frameworks for connecting words to thoughts.

Learning Discoveries
Article explores relationship between Spelling, Writing, Reading and Comprehension.

Multisensory Vocabulary Guidelines and activities
Vocabulary is a weak area for many students, but much "vocabulary instruction" ends up being handwriting practice.

Project LITT
Project that examines the roles that technology plays in improving reading skills of students with learning disabilities.

Reading Comprehension
The complex processes involved in reading comprehension are explained in three categories.

Srategies for Reading Comprehension
Instructions for a wide range of comprehension strategies. Includes worksheets.

Ten Reading Comprehension Activities
These reading comprehension activities focus students' attention on the various ways of reading a text.