Free websites offer online English course and teacher resources for kindergarten and k12 grade 1 to 6 include culture, reading, writing, listening, and talking.
Culture
Selection of online graded Grammar quizzes for primary grades.
Listen to and sing along with these songs that assist students to learn about parts of speech.
List of Grammar sites for teachers.
Click on the words for brief explanations of common areas of grammar.
Consisting of One Hundred lessons, carefully graded and adapted to the classroom.
Large range of explanations and exercises related to many areas of Grammar.
Worksheets and powerpoint presentations for a range of Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Activities.
Handwriting
Handwriting worksheets and flashcards for Zaner Bloser and D'Nealian styles.
Teachers make your own handwriting exercises, posters, crosswords, flashcards and other classroom resources on your computer using these school fonts.
Ideas from the American Occupational Therapy Association.
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.
By Stephen Isaacson, Portland State University and Mary M. Gleason, University of Oregon.
Reading
Extensive list of homonyms with their meanings.
These hunts reinforce reading for facts. They help novice internet users gain experience using a browser and web site search forms.
Collection of worksheets where students order the events from a story.
Loads of fun reading activities from Dr Seuss.
Reading comprehension stories.
Texts and worksheets on various themes for K - 6.
Fun ideas for Reading Comprehension.
Simple, easy-to-prepare activity.
Integrate softball into an interactive outdoor lesson.
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.
Comprehension exercises.
Free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids.
Providing specialised education resources that give Australians the best opportunities to excel at school and beyond.
Ideas for improving classroom reading comprehension activities.
Strategy for improving Reading Comprehension skills.
Online tools that teachers are using to construct original classroom literacy activities that enhance reading comprehension.
Article on correlation between vocabulary instruction and reading comprehension.
Powerpoint presentation about Guided Reading.
Ideas for parents to help their children improve reading comprehension.
Spelling
300 words that make up 65% of written material.
Search engine that allows you to enter the clues from your crossword to help you find the word you need.
Spelling lists and games.
Lesson on word association and exploration.
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.
Talking/Listening
Site devoted to listening skills.
List of links for debating.
Ten currently popular icebreakers and links to more than 100 additional icebreakers.
It is not always students who need to improve their listening skills. Here are some tips for teachers.
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.
Writing
Online tool that allows students to map persuasive ideas for their writing.
Links to sites for teaching current affairs using television, newspaper and magazines.
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories provide a great stimulus for student writing.
Site for children to publish their stories. Over 11,000 stories submitted.
Collection of stimulus ideas to help K-6 students get started with their writing.
Extensive list of writing lessons on various themes.
Creative writing and oral storytelling activities with handouts for use with students of all ages.
Discussion and links to creative writing sites.
Strategies for teaching aspects of narrative texts.
Instructional writing framework worksheet.
Around 300 links to recipes suitable for children.
Several ideas for responding to literature in the classroom.
A list of ideas for response writing.
Reading
Chart that identifies characteristics of proficient readers.
Good reading means building frameworks for connecting words to thoughts.
Article explores relationship between Spelling, Writing, Reading and Comprehension.
Vocabulary is a weak area for many students, but much "vocabulary instruction" ends up being handwriting practice.
Project that examines the roles that technology plays in improving reading skills of students with learning disabilities.
The complex processes involved in reading comprehension are explained in three categories.
Instructions for a wide range of comprehension strategies. Includes worksheets.
These reading comprehension activities focus students' attention on the various ways of reading a text.
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