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Ashley Christensen's Elementary School Language Arts' Resources

[|www.eduplace.com] This website provides many different resources for teachers including various activity pages, links to current events, graphic organizers, and monthly themes. The site is easily accesible, easily readable, and extremely helpful for elementary school teachers.

[] While this website has lesson plans and a clip art gallery, the most interesting part of this website is the puzzlemaker. You can create crosswords, word searches, math squares, etc. which is much easier than creating by hand or in Word.

[] This website from the National Endowment for the Humanities offers various lesson plan ideas for Language Arts. This includes plans from Edgar Allan Poe to metaphors to Aesop's fables. You can choose and narrow your search by grade level or subcategory.

[] Perfect for elementary school or middle school literature circles. The site discusses how to choose books, how to organize them, and what students should do during lit. circles.

[] Carl's Corner is a teacher-friendly website geared toward Elementary School Language Arts including links about the alphabet, centers, phonics, poetry, and word families. The ideas are inventive and helpful.

[] Lists multiple activities for students to learn spelling. While some of the ideas are old news, they are creative nonetheless.

[|www.spellingcity.com] The best spelling website around! With at least 10 online games, the ability to print out worksheets, and spelling test capabilities, this website is a great resource for students to practice their spelling words.

[] A link to various poetry ideas and lesson plans. This site includes links to worksheets, poets' websites, and activities for using and writing poetry in the classroom.

[] If you're stuck on finding a read aloud, this is the site for you! Teachers from around the world list suggestions of their favorite books.

[] The Zaner-Bloser webpage for handwriting. Click on "Getting Started" and many worksheets come up to print out for handwriting for multiple grade levels.

[] Lists many different journal prompt ideas. Intriguing questions are listed for students in which to respond.

[] Allows you to search for books if you're interested in finding books' reading level. Another section of the website gives kids suggestions based on their grade level, genre desired, and if the book is fiction or non-fiction.

[] Very similar to the acitivities for website above. Helps you find "just the right book" by grade level, Lexile, and reading level.