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ENGLISH 6
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Visual Dictionary (Merriam-Webster)
This online dictionary uses illustrations and audio to help you learn new words.
Fractured Fairy Tales (ReadWriteThink)
Make your own version of a fairy tale in this game. Learn about setting, point of view, and plot.
Fun Folk Tales
Read stories from all over the Americas, like folktales, myths, Native American legends, and tall tales. Learn about famous characters like Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill.
How to Write Layered Paragraphs
Join Mrs. Black on teachertube and learn how to connect your ideas, building the perfectly layered paragraph.
What is a Subject?
Watch this video for a short grammar lesson to help you identify the subject in a sentence.
Persuasive Writing (Discovery)
Learn how to write persuasive compositions in this video about the illegal immigration debate.
Words In Context (Toon University)
Click on the dancing duck that has the correct definition of a word.
Clockwords: Act 1
Use your knowledge of spelling to defend a thinking Victorian clockwork computer from an evil inventor.
Read! Write! Now!
This is a great reading kit for families with kids in grades 3-6. Play “In Laughing Order: The Comic Strip” or “Tall Tale Retell,” among other games.
The Noun Neighborhood
Take a stroll into the neighborhood of nouns to discover the importance of this type of word.
Free Rice
Play this fun vocabulary game. For each answer you get right, ten grains of rice are donated to the World Food Program to help end hunger.
Wordle
Generate word clouds from a story or paper that you’ve written. The more you use a word, the bigger that word appears in the word cloud.
Comic Life
Create comic books, photo albums, and all sorts of great looking projects with your own pictures!
Writing Structure (Discovery)
Watch this video about Tokyo's Sky City and learn how to better organize your ideas into paragraphs.
Teen Ink
Like writing poetry or stories, or creating photos or videos? Check out other students’ work or submit your own!
Crossword Puzzles (ReadWriteThink)
Create your own crossword puzzle, or work on a puzzle that is already made.
Blabberize
Blabberize is a unique and humorous tool that allows individuals to record audio and animate a still picture to appear like it is speaking.
Bookshare
A library of more than 90,000 accessible digital books for readers with disabilities. Free for U.S. students with qualifying disabilities.
Short Stories East of the Web
Read classic and contemporary short stories for kids. You can download, print, or read the story online.
Character Scrapbook (Scholastic)
Use this online scrapbook to collect information about your favorite characters.
Poetry Idea Engine (Scholastic)
Use this on-line tool to create haikus, free verse poems, limericks and more!
The Visual Thesaurus
The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
Grammar Ninja
Choose a level, and then aim the ninja star at nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives to win your ninja points!
Glogster
Mash up text, graphics, music, photos, videos and more to create and publish your own poster.
The Newspaper Clipping Generator
Create your daily news and more with this on-line tool. Start with newspaper name, newspaper heading, and add text for your next great article.
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