Many of the links on this site were provided by several teachers including Ms.
Godiska and Mrs. Bothwell, Ms. Votral. Thanks for sharing!
* Note
This site provides links for PSSA practice tests in Math and Reading.
Standardized Test Preparation
PSSA terms review - Reading/Language Arts. Thanks Kathy Corpora
Reading and ELA - PSSA Type Tests
Poetry Link
Biographical Stories and Poems - Middle School Language Arts Lesson Ideas
Grammar Slammer
Power Proofreading
Parts of Speech Games
Wacky Web Tales
Book Adventure
Includes the following:
Writing Process, similes and methaphors, public speaking, parts of speech.
It also includes antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms.
BrainPop - A few free sites
A step by step writing online activity from Scholastic
Persuasive Writing
Idioms
FunBrain - Language Arts Games
Image Grammar - Thanks Mary Bowen
Grammar Book
English - Zone
Quizzes - On nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions etc.
Wacky Words
Contains example of introductory paragraph, body paragraphs, and conclusion.
Also contains
motivator, theses sentence, topic sentence wth three specific supports for
each topic sentence.
Thanks Ms. Votral for sharing.
Structure of the Five Paragraph Essay
Interactive Guide to Grammar
Context Clues in Reading
School Newspaper Hosting
Online Standards - Based Assessment
Newspapers and News Medial Guide from around the world.
ABYZ News Links
Idiom of the Day
Language Arts - Go Grammar
Persuasion Map
Glossary of Grammatical Terms
Biographical Stories and Poems
ELA Best Practices
Venn Diagram - Interactive
Basic Skill Practice Games
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/release/index.html
Interlink Language Centers
Houghton Mifflin English Grades 6-8
Grammar Blast
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3
Lit2Go
Interactive Grammar Review
Grammar Bytes!
New blog helps educators teach writing skills to students
Learning with online newspapers.
Lehigh Valley Live
American Literature: Literary Classics and Short Stories
NCTE
Strategies for teaching reading in the middle years.
MyRead
50-online-reference-sites-for-teachers.
Other Resources