Language Arts Grades 4-6
Read, Write, Think
ReadWriteThink, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
Book Report Formats
Tired of the same old book report formats? Do your students grumble every time you mention the words book reports? Spice up those old book reports with some new ideas. Education World presents 25 ideas for you to use or adapt. In addition: Ideas for cyber book reports!
Graphic Organizers
This site has been prepared by the Schools of California online resources. This is a site that contains pre-made printable Graphic Organizers for teacher and student use including the following and more: Venn, Storyboard, Compare/Contrast, Chain of Events, and Clustering. The site also contains pre-made printables for Journaling for both teacher and student including the following and more: Reflective, Response, Metacognitive, and Double Entry.
More Graphic Organizers
More graphic organizers for students to use, this site is presented by Houghton Mifflin.
How to Search the Internet
How to Search for Information on the Internet. This site provides a great tutorial on Keyword Searches. This page allows students to do Keyword Searches using 5 different child safe search engines. The site also has links to tutorials on advanced search strategies.
Database Tutorial
Very basic tutorial that you and your students can use to learn how to create a database using AppleWorks.
Scrambled Stories
This site has several familiar stories that children can read, have read to them, and interact with while they practice recognizing different parts of speech. The graphics in the story change with student input and the completed story can be printed out.
Bookpals
This site produced by the Screen Actors Guild presents streaming videos of of books being read to students by famous actors. Each book presented includes a book summary, several age appropriate activities, information about the author, and information about the reader. Teachers can also download a complete lesson plan to use with the book. The list of books appropriate for your grade on this site are as follows: Brave Irene written by William Steig, read by Al Gore Me and My Cat written by Satoshi Kitamura, read by Elijah Wood My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother written by Patricia Polacco, read by Melissa Gilbert A Bad Case of Stripes written by David Shannon, read by Sean Austin No Mirrors in my Nana's House written by Ysaye M. Barnwell, read by Tia and Tamera Mowry Thank You Mr. Faulker written by Patricia Polacco, read by Jane Kazmarek The Night I followed the Dog written by Nina Laden, read by Amanda Byrnes Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge written by Mem Fox, read by Bradley Whitford.
Political Cartoons
A catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Suess: Dr. Seuss Went to War. The Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, contains the original drawings and/or newspaper clippings of all of these cartoons. This website makes these cartoons available to all internet users. The cartoons have been scanned from the original newspaper clippings in the UCSD collection. Teachers should preview this extension collection that contains the following subjects: People, Countries/Regions, War/ Domestic Issues and Battles and Battlefields.
Scholastic News
This page contains age appropriate news stories for students.
It also includes lesson plans, reproducibles, teacher aids and more for teachers.
Reading Methods
The SQ3R Reading Method Strategies page. Survey! Question! Read! Recite! Review.
Grammar Skills
Grade 6. A site from Houghton Mifflin English that reviews many basic grammar skills such as prepositional phrases, complex sentences, modifiers, clauses and many others.
Proofreading Practice
Proofreading skills interactive practice for grades 2 through 8 in all areas of English, such as plurals, sentence structure, verbs, possessive nouns, past tense and too many more to list.
Sequence Worksheets
Pre-made Order of Sequence Worksheets that teachers can print out to have students practice chronological order and sequence skills.
Essay Worksheet
Essay Planner Worksheet teachers can print out to help students organize their essays.
Infoplease
Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, Infoplease places the resources of an entire reference information center at students fingertips. This web site continuously updates and refines this enormous body of information as well as adding new discoveries and identifying trends so they have the most reliable and authoritative information.
Analogies
This site provides online interactive practice students solve 34 simple Analogies.
Myths
Scholastic has put together a great site Myths, Folktales & Fairy Tales. This rich resource can be used to learn about and write in these genres.
Topic Sentences
This is a good site that provides interactive practice on finding the Topic Sentence and Main Idea in a paragraph. Exercises are prepared in groups of five paragraphs students must write in the topic sentence containing the main idea for each selection. Students then submit their answers for grades. Students can route results information to you. You may pre-set information BEFORE student use or supply students a valid e-mail address for students to send results to.
Worksheet for Creating Writing
This printable worksheet is a Creative Writing Self Evaluation form for student use.
Worksheet for Journal Writing
This printable worksheet is a Creative Writing Journal Self Assessment form for student use.
Alliteration
Alliteration Lesson Plans and Resources for upper elementary students.