English

Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature compiled and indexed by Lisa R. Bartle, Librarian.

Brain POP The more you know, the more you know. English movies and quizzes.

Brain POP Jr for K-3 Reading movies teach kids educational topics like comprehension, story elements, books, genres, language, authors, and phonics.

Sent free to your email daily with quiz on Saturday, Daily Grammar is a fun supplement to learning parts of speech. Archives of lessons available on their site also.

Enchanted Learning You can find many worksheets for various grades on all sorts of subjects.

English worksheets grades Pre-K to 5.

Mrs Donn’s language arts lesson plans and activities.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center has resources for language arts.

Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. Simply choose a word list and an output style.

The Growler Tapes Audio Adventures! Sophisticated Storytelling for kids 4-12 on audio tapes & cds.

KidPub Children’s Publishing Read any of over 49,000 stories written by children. For $12.95/year, post as many of your child’s stories as you want.

Letters, stamps and postal history from the National Postal Museum for various age ranges are available for download in pdf. Letter writing, historic letters and more.

Verbs. Helping verbs are verbs that are used in a verb phrase (meaning, used with a second verb) to show tense, or form a question or a negative. Helping verbs are used to show the perfect verb tenses, continuous/progressive verb tenses, and passive voice. Helping verbs are always followed by a second verb.

Stone Soup the magazine by young writers and artists has a website where you can order the magazine and read and listen to stories and see artwork like what you’ll find in their magazine. You can download a sample issue

Word Plays is a fun online interactive word game site. You can play Boggle and also translate from English to Pig Latin.

World Book Typical Course of Study View your child’s grade to view general curriculum standards.

K-12 Structured Language Arts Curriculum. Daily lesson plans.

6-12 English English Resources has hundreds of free resources to download for teaching and revising English Language and Literature.

Children’s Book Awards

Children and Young Adults Book Awards
Caldecott Medal
Coretta Scott King Award
Governor General’s Literary Awards (Canada’s national literary awards)
Mark Twain Award
Michael L. Printz Award
Newbery Medal
Pura Belpré Award
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award will be given annually beginning in 2006
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
Young Reader’s Choice Award

Dolch Sight Words

Dolch Kit has free printable games and more for students to use as they learn the Dolch 220 high frequency words.

Jan Brett Dolch word lists feature her lovely drawings that you can print for free.

Barbara Pratt has printable games and more to learn the Dolch words.

Personal Educational Press lists Dolch in preprimer, primer, etc that you can print in various forms.

Various free materials for Dolch sight words

Fonts

Download free PreCursive Fonts. Use these TrueType Fonts to create worksheets and teaching visuals for your K5 through second-grade students. The PreCursive New Dashed font provides letters for the child to trace, and the PreCursive New Arrow font gives directions for forming the letters. Available for both PC and Mac.

These fonts mimic the style of type used to teach print and cursive handwriting skills.

Handwriting

Handwriting For Kids Check out the animated instructions and the free printable practice sheets. Choose from handwriting styles such as print, De’Nelian, or cursive to make custom handwriting worksheets.

Type your own manuscript worksheets.

Idioms

English-Zone.Com: Idioms Zone.

Find out the origin of idioms and common sayings at the IdiomSite.

Self-Study Idiom Quizzes Study English with quizzes, crossword puzzles and other activities.

Language

Language Links A collection of over 100 links, reference works about words and language.

PreK-8 Language Arts Stapleless Book Fun Language arts Activity.

Literacy

Literacy Matters Resources for for the early years to Year 6.

Family FUNdamentals Learning Activities from Michigan Department of Education has free pdfs for literacy.

Phonics

ABC’s-Printable Activities provides lots of educational activities in language arts for preschool and elementary age children, including phonics.

Reading Lists

Monroe Woodbury Central School District High School Reading List for grades 9-12.

National Education Association Read Across America you can chose by reading level or genre.

Reading Skills

Compact for Reading and School-Home Links help to increase student skills and achievement in reading.

Learn to read naturally. Accounts of unschoolers and how their reading developed.

Magazines from Cricket Media aid in reading skills: Ladybug(grades 1-2), Spider(grades 2-3), Cricket(grades 4 and up), and Cicada(grades 8 and up).

Starfall Printed materials were developed specifically for the K-2 emergent reader to develop phonemic awareness, build vocabulary and improve comprehension. Contains exciting interactive books and phonics games. Visit their download center for printables and activities.

Spelling

Free 30 unit spelling course.

Virtual Books

BookPop has virtual books for grades 2-5.

Vocabulary

Great vocabulary builder! Try Vocabulary Cartoons for kids or adults. Each word has a funny cartoon to help you understand and remember it.

Writing Skills

Strunk & White Elements of Style Every writing student should have a book like this.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant Free, clear, writing instruction for you and your teen.

WriteAtHome provides online writing classes for homeschoolers in grades 6-12. Students are assigned personal Writing Coaches who provide positive and corrective feedback on every assignment. They offer a variety of classes that include weekly lessons and assignments.

Homework Helper: Writing Skills You’ll find tips on writing essays, research papers, biographies, book reports and other topics.

Writing Strands The Perfect Tool to Develop Successful Writing Skills.