Resources
Writing
Read, Write and Think This site has interactive
activities, lesson plans, and much more.
Writing
Fix Interactive writing prompts, lessons, traits, process,
writer’s workshop
Boom Writer Read, Write, Compete, Get
Published
Lightning Bug An
Interactive site that helps you write a story from beginning to end.
Purdue Online Writing Lab
OWL Everything you could possibly need to improve academic
writing
Tools for English
Anchor Charts This is a
Pinterest of countless excellent Anchor charts for writing and reading
PicLits
You can drag and drop a number of interesting picture to create writing
prompts.
Academic English Cafe
Writing Prompts Galore
Thesis Builder - Online
Persuasive Essay outline builder
Google Lit Trips A different way to look at
literature
BBC
Skillwise Activities
The Writer's Web an excellent hand book that
guides, gives tips, and strategies.
Road to Grammar Games
Quizzes and other interactivity to teach grammar skills.
Great Source I Write
Writing with Writers Get advice from real
authors
Webdoc
Use this tool to create media rich writing. Highly motivational!
Word Counter Want to
see which words you overuse? Try this handy tool.
OhLife This is a
ridiculously easy to use tool for keeping a journal
Biography Maker Leads
you step by step through the process
EngVid Videos of English Lessons by a chap.
Word Cloud Makers
Wordle Use Wordle if you want something
easy
Many eyes Use many eyes
if you want to create clouds with colors and statistical data that you can
explore
Tagxedo
Use Taxedo if you want to make shapes and have much more control over your
word cloud
Word
it Out Similar to Wordle but with more color choices. Text tends
to only go in one direction.
Tagul Also just like
Wordle but this creates tag clouds that link to Google searches of every
word
Tag Crowd Use this application if you want to
see word frequency or have control over what words appear.
Story
Book Makers
Storybird Write and illustrate your own story
books.
StoryJumper
You can create your own children's books on this site too.
Mind
Mapping and Graphic Organizers
Popplet very easy to use graphic organizer
maker
LucidChart
Drag and Drop, Free education accounts.
Spiceynodes Allows for
sound files in the organizer
Drop Mind
Online Collaborative
Writing
(Google Apps for Education is great for this too but in the
absence of that try these excellent tools)
QikPad is super easy to
create and use with real time updates.
TitanPad For the older students
Primary Pad for the
younger students
Online and Desktop Publishing
Issuu Publishes your writing into a free cool
looking flipbook.
Scribd Same here, also free
Moglue Create
interactive e-books and release them as apps for both iOS and DroidFree Online Publishing – Digital Publishing – Yudu
Freedom
Teen Ink publishes art and writing of teens and
tweens
Simple Booklet Easy Booklet maker that also lets
you publish
Figment
an online platform to share your writing with YA Authors and International
Peers
Free E-Books
Project Gutenberg
Hot
Free Books
Social Times Top 25 Free e-books
Sites
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Videos
Spelling
city.com (This has vocabulary games and skill builders
too.)
Spelling TestMe This is
a teacher resources from Spelling city that lets you give tests and they grade
and score them for you!
Got Brainy Funny, smart,
motivational Vocabulary building tool.
Vocabulary dot
com
My Vocabulary a free
resource to enhance vocabulary mastery with Latin & Greek roots
SAT and GRE Vocabulary
Videos
FauxFlash create your
own flashcards, easy simple, and free
Advanced Vocabulary Picture
Cards
Free Bibliography Generators
Easy
Bib
Citation
Machine
Carmun
Bibme
Ottobib
Bibiomatic
Poetry
The Academy of American
Poets a database of more than 1,200 poems
The Poetry Express This site will help you write
poems and explains different types of poems
Poetry Aloud a directory
of audio files of poets reading their work
A Rhyming Dictionary find the rhyme for those
poems
Literature
Reading Rewards Your
teacher or parent can set up an account for you where you earn rewards for
reading excellent books. You can also blog about them and exchange ideas with
other readers.
Book Trailers for Readers Students created videos
and Prezi trailers for their favorite books, it is a wiki set up so other
classes can contribute.
Got Books? Ways to
promote and inspire reading in Upper Elementary and Young Adults
Readers Read Thousands
of free online e-books sorted by genre
AdLit Adolescent
Literacy-strategies,resources, and links to encourage 4-12 grade readers
Shmoop Liturature Study Guides for nearly every
important novel
LoudLit Liturature for your eyes and ears;
famous works read aloud along with printed text
Open Culture This site has links to thousands of
great resources to do with language and culture among other things.
Wikibooks thousands of
free e-books
Read Kiddo Read This
site is dedicated to making children readers for life
What Should I Read Next?
Whatcha Reading
Now?
Guys
Read a great site for males of all ages to find cool books to
read.
The Newbery Medal Home Page.
Coretta Scott King
Awards.
LibriVox
a huge collection of books and stories read aloud, you can contribute
too.
Voz Me Need some help reading? Cut and Paste
text into this site and it will read it aloud for
you.
Games
Word Games
BBC Skillwise Games
One Stop English Free
Games These are organized by Beginner to High Intermediate
Levels, All Ages
Learn English Grammar
Games from the British Council
Language is a Virus
Some of these are online and some are ideas to use in the classroom
8th Grade Language Builders Interactive games
and Activities
7th Grade Language Builders
6th Grade Language Builders
Professor Garfield There
are lots of fun interactive literacy tools here!
Scholastic Stacks for Kids
Grammar Ninja
Spelling city.com
Grammaropolis
Grammar
Bites Chomp, Chomp, Chomp fun exercises
Vocabulary dot com
Elementary and
Primary
Please see the middle school resources too!
Many are good for all ages.
Reading
Reading Rewards Your
teacher or parent can set up an account for you where you earn rewards for
reading excellent books. You can also blog about them and exchange ideas with
other readers.
Literacy Symbaloo
Ms.
Black's K-2 Links Symbaloo
Online Children's Books
Symbaloo
Excellent Sites for Young Readers
LiveBinder
Starfall
Outstanding Primary Reading Resource
Storytown Resources
More Storytown Resources
Learning Today Reading
Games GREAT Primary Source!
Reading Bear Free online
video phonics instruction. This is a terrific at home suppliment
Smart Tutor First Grade Reading
Games
Abracadabra fun early
literacy site
Building Language for
Literacy Fun Phonemic Awareness!
Progressive
Phonics
Dolch Sight Words from Spelling
City
Read Kiddo Read This site is dedicated to making
children readers for life
Poisson Rouge This site has over 50 different
interactive elements and teaches every area of the curriculum without any
directions. Just explore. Great for K-2
Alphabetimals The
Alphabet made out of animals
Storyline Don't feel like reading a story today,
have a celebrity do it. This is the Screen Actors Guild's site of stories read
aloud
StoryNory
Free Audio Stories for Kids
LoudLit Literature for
your eyes and ears; famous works read aloud along with printed text
The Story Place
Roy the Zebra Guided Reading and Interactive
games for emergent readers K-2
Mr. Thorne Does Phonics
This Guy from the BBC teaches phonics with cute music videos.
Abracadabra A reading
site developed by Canada's Education System
Imaginary Lands This impressive site is
maintained by a youth services librarian
Literature Learning Ladders Although this site is
more geared towards teachers, kids will find fun things too, especially if they
enjoy reading.
LibriVox a huge collection of books and stories
read aloud, you can contribute too.
Voz Me Need some help reading? Cut and Paste
text into this site and it will read it aloud for you.
Myths
Legends and Folktales
The Encyclopedia Mythica This is the place to
begin research in this area.
American
Folklore a collections of American Folktales, including American
Indian (The First Americans) Tales
Aesop's
Fables This site includes 655 of Aesop's Fables as well as mottos
and audio files
The
Big Myth Cool legends from around the
world
Writing
Read, Write and Think This site has interactive
activities, lesson plans, and much more.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Virtual Sentence Board
This works great with an IWB. Works the way old school sentence strips or
refrigerator magnets did.
Grammaropolis
Hacker
Handbook Resources interactive lessons that are a fun way to
practice skills
Grammar Helper Provides students with links to
the best interactive help and quizzes.
Wacky Webtales Similar to Madlibs a fun and funny
way to practice the parts of speech
Word Tamer This is a
highly Interactive site that helps students Grades 3-5 improve their use of
vocabulary in writing.
Publishing
KidPub a wonderful collection of stories written
by children.
Cyberkids This is a quarterly online magazine
written by kids for kids
Stone
Soup The website companion to the children's magazine. You can
also listen to stories read aloud
Games
Word Games
BBC Skill Wise this is also an excellent math
and language arts learning and game resource by age level.
ABCYA Grade level games of math, language arts,
science, and technology
Primary Games Arena For
grades K-6 All Subjects Standards based games 1,352 games and counting.
Learn English Games and Interactive
activities
Kindergarten Interactive Skills Builders
1st Grade Interactive Skills Builders
2nd Grade Interactive Skills Builders
3rd Grade Interactive Skills Builders
4th Grade Interactive Skills Builders
5th Grade Interactive Skills Builders
e-learning for kids Lots of graphics and
interaction
Whiz Kid Games This site is good for early
literacy/tech skills and for students with autism
Game Classroom Grade level games and homework
help in math and language arts
Kaboose Fun School More
great learning games!
Poisson Rouge This site
has over 50 different interactive elements and teaches every area of the
curriculum without any directions. Just explore. Great for K-2
Boola and Kwala 818
Games, 96 songs, Lots of fun, K-2
Game Goo Weird but
great games for teaching literacy skills from Earobics
Arcademic Skill Builders Fun skill building
standards based games
Primary Interactive
School
Time Games Language Arts Fun skill building standards based
games
Mr.
Nussbaum Thousands of games in all areas of the curriculum
Kids
Spell
Spelling
city.com
Prongo
Games
Grammaropolis
Read, Write and Think This site has interactive
activities, lesson plans, and much more.
Writing
Fix Interactive writing prompts, lessons, traits, process,
writer’s workshop
Boom Writer Read, Write, Compete, Get
Published
Lightning Bug An
Interactive site that helps you write a story from beginning to end.
Purdue Online Writing Lab
OWL Everything you could possibly need to improve academic
writing
Tools for English
Anchor Charts This is a
Pinterest of countless excellent Anchor charts for writing and reading
PicLits
You can drag and drop a number of interesting picture to create writing
prompts.
Academic English Cafe
Writing Prompts Galore
Thesis Builder - Online
Persuasive Essay outline builder
Google Lit Trips A different way to look at
literature
BBC
Skillwise Activities
The Writer's Web an excellent hand book that
guides, gives tips, and strategies.
Road to Grammar Games
Quizzes and other interactivity to teach grammar skills.
Great Source I Write
Writing with Writers Get advice from real
authors
Webdoc
Use this tool to create media rich writing. Highly motivational!
Word Counter Want to
see which words you overuse? Try this handy tool.
OhLife This is a
ridiculously easy to use tool for keeping a journal
Biography Maker Leads
you step by step through the process
EngVid Videos of English Lessons by a chap.
Word Cloud Makers
Wordle Use Wordle if you want something
easy
Many eyes Use many eyes
if you want to create clouds with colors and statistical data that you can
explore
Tagxedo
Use Taxedo if you want to make shapes and have much more control over your
word cloud
Word
it Out Similar to Wordle but with more color choices. Text tends
to only go in one direction.
Tagul Also just like
Wordle but this creates tag clouds that link to Google searches of every
word
Tag Crowd Use this application if you want to
see word frequency or have control over what words appear.
Story
Book Makers
Storybird Write and illustrate your own story
books.
StoryJumper
You can create your own children's books on this site too.
Mind
Mapping and Graphic Organizers
Popplet very easy to use graphic organizer
maker
LucidChart
Drag and Drop, Free education accounts.
Spiceynodes Allows for
sound files in the organizer
Drop Mind
Online Collaborative
Writing
(Google Apps for Education is great for this too but in the
absence of that try these excellent tools)
QikPad is super easy to
create and use with real time updates.
TitanPad For the older students
Primary Pad for the
younger students
Online and Desktop Publishing
Issuu Publishes your writing into a free cool
looking flipbook.
Scribd Same here, also free
Moglue Create
interactive e-books and release them as apps for both iOS and DroidFree Online Publishing – Digital Publishing – Yudu
Freedom
Teen Ink publishes art and writing of teens and
tweens
Simple Booklet Easy Booklet maker that also lets
you publish
Figment
an online platform to share your writing with YA Authors and International
Peers
Free E-Books
Project Gutenberg
Hot
Free Books
Social Times Top 25 Free e-books
Sites
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Videos
Spelling
city.com (This has vocabulary games and skill builders
too.)
Spelling TestMe This is
a teacher resources from Spelling city that lets you give tests and they grade
and score them for you!
Got Brainy Funny, smart,
motivational Vocabulary building tool.
Vocabulary dot
com
My Vocabulary a free
resource to enhance vocabulary mastery with Latin & Greek roots
SAT and GRE Vocabulary
Videos
FauxFlash create your
own flashcards, easy simple, and free
Advanced Vocabulary Picture
Cards
Free Bibliography Generators
Easy
Bib
Citation
Machine
Carmun
Bibme
Ottobib
Bibiomatic
Poetry
The Academy of American
Poets a database of more than 1,200 poems
The Poetry Express This site will help you write
poems and explains different types of poems
Poetry Aloud a directory
of audio files of poets reading their work
A Rhyming Dictionary find the rhyme for those
poems
Literature
Reading Rewards Your
teacher or parent can set up an account for you where you earn rewards for
reading excellent books. You can also blog about them and exchange ideas with
other readers.
Book Trailers for Readers Students created videos
and Prezi trailers for their favorite books, it is a wiki set up so other
classes can contribute.
Got Books? Ways to
promote and inspire reading in Upper Elementary and Young Adults
Readers Read Thousands
of free online e-books sorted by genre
AdLit Adolescent
Literacy-strategies,resources, and links to encourage 4-12 grade readers
Shmoop Liturature Study Guides for nearly every
important novel
LoudLit Liturature for your eyes and ears;
famous works read aloud along with printed text
Open Culture This site has links to thousands of
great resources to do with language and culture among other things.
Wikibooks thousands of
free e-books
Read Kiddo Read This
site is dedicated to making children readers for life
What Should I Read Next?
Whatcha Reading
Now?
Guys
Read a great site for males of all ages to find cool books to
read.
The Newbery Medal Home Page.
Coretta Scott King
Awards.
LibriVox
a huge collection of books and stories read aloud, you can contribute
too.
Voz Me Need some help reading? Cut and Paste
text into this site and it will read it aloud for
you.
Games
Word Games
BBC Skillwise Games
One Stop English Free
Games These are organized by Beginner to High Intermediate
Levels, All Ages
Learn English Grammar
Games from the British Council
Language is a Virus
Some of these are online and some are ideas to use in the classroom
8th Grade Language Builders Interactive games
and Activities
7th Grade Language Builders
6th Grade Language Builders
Professor Garfield There
are lots of fun interactive literacy tools here!
Scholastic Stacks for Kids
Grammar Ninja
Spelling city.com
Grammaropolis
Grammar
Bites Chomp, Chomp, Chomp fun exercises
Vocabulary dot com
Elementary and
Primary
Please see the middle school resources too!
Many are good for all ages.
Reading
Reading Rewards Your
teacher or parent can set up an account for you where you earn rewards for
reading excellent books. You can also blog about them and exchange ideas with
other readers.
Literacy Symbaloo
Ms.
Black's K-2 Links Symbaloo
Online Children's Books
Symbaloo
Excellent Sites for Young Readers
LiveBinder
Starfall
Outstanding Primary Reading Resource
Storytown Resources
More Storytown Resources
Learning Today Reading
Games GREAT Primary Source!
Reading Bear Free online
video phonics instruction. This is a terrific at home suppliment
Smart Tutor First Grade Reading
Games
Abracadabra fun early
literacy site
Building Language for
Literacy Fun Phonemic Awareness!
Progressive
Phonics
Dolch Sight Words from Spelling
City
Read Kiddo Read This site is dedicated to making
children readers for life
Poisson Rouge This site has over 50 different
interactive elements and teaches every area of the curriculum without any
directions. Just explore. Great for K-2
Alphabetimals The
Alphabet made out of animals
Storyline Don't feel like reading a story today,
have a celebrity do it. This is the Screen Actors Guild's site of stories read
aloud
StoryNory
Free Audio Stories for Kids
LoudLit Literature for
your eyes and ears; famous works read aloud along with printed text
The Story Place
Roy the Zebra Guided Reading and Interactive
games for emergent readers K-2
Mr. Thorne Does Phonics
This Guy from the BBC teaches phonics with cute music videos.
Abracadabra A reading
site developed by Canada's Education System
Imaginary Lands This impressive site is
maintained by a youth services librarian
Literature Learning Ladders Although this site is
more geared towards teachers, kids will find fun things too, especially if they
enjoy reading.
LibriVox a huge collection of books and stories
read aloud, you can contribute too.
Voz Me Need some help reading? Cut and Paste
text into this site and it will read it aloud for you.
Myths
Legends and Folktales
The Encyclopedia Mythica This is the place to
begin research in this area.
American
Folklore a collections of American Folktales, including American
Indian (The First Americans) Tales
Aesop's
Fables This site includes 655 of Aesop's Fables as well as mottos
and audio files
The
Big Myth Cool legends from around the
world
Writing
Read, Write and Think This site has interactive
activities, lesson plans, and much more.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Virtual Sentence Board
This works great with an IWB. Works the way old school sentence strips or
refrigerator magnets did.
Grammaropolis
Hacker
Handbook Resources interactive lessons that are a fun way to
practice skills
Grammar Helper Provides students with links to
the best interactive help and quizzes.
Wacky Webtales Similar to Madlibs a fun and funny
way to practice the parts of speech
Word Tamer This is a
highly Interactive site that helps students Grades 3-5 improve their use of
vocabulary in writing.
Publishing
KidPub a wonderful collection of stories written
by children.
Cyberkids This is a quarterly online magazine
written by kids for kids
Stone
Soup The website companion to the children's magazine. You can
also listen to stories read aloud
Games
Word Games
BBC Skill Wise this is also an excellent math
and language arts learning and game resource by age level.
ABCYA Grade level games of math, language arts,
science, and technology
Primary Games Arena For
grades K-6 All Subjects Standards based games 1,352 games and counting.
Learn English Games and Interactive
activities
Kindergarten Interactive Skills Builders
1st Grade Interactive Skills Builders
2nd Grade Interactive Skills Builders
3rd Grade Interactive Skills Builders
4th Grade Interactive Skills Builders
5th Grade Interactive Skills Builders
e-learning for kids Lots of graphics and
interaction
Whiz Kid Games This site is good for early
literacy/tech skills and for students with autism
Game Classroom Grade level games and homework
help in math and language arts
Kaboose Fun School More
great learning games!
Poisson Rouge This site
has over 50 different interactive elements and teaches every area of the
curriculum without any directions. Just explore. Great for K-2
Boola and Kwala 818
Games, 96 songs, Lots of fun, K-2
Game Goo Weird but
great games for teaching literacy skills from Earobics
Arcademic Skill Builders Fun skill building
standards based games
Primary Interactive
School
Time Games Language Arts Fun skill building standards based
games
Mr.
Nussbaum Thousands of games in all areas of the curriculum
Kids
Spell
Spelling
city.com
Prongo
Games
Grammaropolis