Bates Cook Language Arts

More Language Arts Practice and On-line Resources

Nouns
• School House Rock Audio
• Noun Basketball
• Noun Town
• Grammar Gorillas
• School House Rock Noun Video
• School House Rock Pronoun Video

Sentences
• Newspaper
• Kung Fu Sentences
• Types of Sentences
• Silly Sentence Machine
• The Game Show
• Roy Sentence Games

Contractions
• Match the Contraction
• Column Matching
• Apostrophes
• Matching
• Rags to Riches

Context Clues
• Floppy and the Puppies

Homophones
• Homophone Song Video
• Matching
• Lesson

Adjectives
• Mad Libs
• School House Rock Adjectives Audio
• Fraser the Eraser
• Good Better Best

Punctuation
• Punctuation Paintball
• Alien Punctuation
• Roy Games
• Dewey Dragon

Sequencing
• On Top of Spaghetti
• In Common

Fact or Fiction
• Tina's World

Compound Words
• Hangman
• Concentration
• Drag and Drop
• Word Search
• More Matching

Spelling
• Catch That Spelling
• Spelling Wizard

English
• Games for Parts of Speech
• The Grammar Page: Practice for just about anything you need in english
• 4 Types of Sentences Practice
• Lots of English Skills Practice Online
• Prefix/Suffix Games Online

Reading
• Book Adventure: Over 6,000 Quizzes
• Fun Online Reading Activities For Kids
• Story Elements Online Quiz
• Beverly Cleary Home Page

Research
• NetTrekker

Graphic Organizers
• Hot Interactive Organizers to download and print!!!
• Online Flips Books (Kids can create labels, draw, and write up to 10 flaps. REALLY COOL!)

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Spelling & Reading List

These lists contain the reading words required for report card assessments - 50 additional words each reporting period. They are in the order that appear most frequently in print, and are used to promote more accurate Reading, Spelling, and Writing. These lists are formatted to be used as practice flashcards. (These same words are formatted in lists of 100 on the Reading Word List, at top right.)

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 1-10

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 11-20

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 21-30

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 31-40

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 41-50

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 51-60

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 61-70

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 71-80

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 81-90

Download Reading-Spelling Flashcards 91-100

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Online Reading

Starfall.com offers leveled reading skill practice, from idenifying letters and their associated sounds to online books that feature folk tales, myhs and fables. There is an audio feature available to support students as they encounter new words.

BookPALS Storyline Online offers popular children's literature read by members of the Screen Actors Guild. There suggested activities for response to the text to help children get meaning from the stories. Book titles offered are updated periodically, so check this site often!

Light Up Your Brain offers audio for some old favorites and some new stories. Text is available, but may not have illustrated pages to accompany it.

Book Adventure "is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning."

Children's Storybooks Online Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages.

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