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Word study resources

Choosing a book

Literature Study

Writing

Fun and Games

The key for this year is to be a "word nerd"

Word Study and Help...

• Word Central Student Dictionary
  •    This is a good one for kids!
• The Visual Thesaurus
• The free Dictionary.com
  • This has lots of information, including a thesaurus and etymology (word history)
• Yahoo Reference Online Dictionaries etc.
• Commonly misspelled words
• Vocabulary .com (online quizzes, word lists, puzzles. Try the root word puzzles!)

National Geographic Link

Current Game

This is the website for more exploration after you have read the magazine. Games, more articles, pictures and other fun stuff!

	Online Reference Dictionary, Encyclopedia & more
Word:
by:	Word Starts with Ends with Mentions

Prefix Matching Game

Suffix Matching Game

Greek and Latin word roots and affixes for word study (these are some extensive lists that I have found on the web)

• From the Kent School District
• From the Boise School District
  • Essential Roots

National Geographic Explorer Link

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Choosing a Book can be a challenge

These sites have some excellent resources for genre, authors, and award winners...

Nancy Keane's link page

Carol Hurst

ALA Newberry winners

King County Library kids booklist

Our Library Links

Kids Reads (more current advertising focus)

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Literature Extension Links.

Use some of these to think more or do projects related to your book. Use your journal to write what web sites you explored, when you went there and what you did or learned about. Click here for other ideas about what kind of projects you can explore on your "jet ski."

Island of the Blue Dolphin links:

Explore the island

About the author

More to explore

Research Links and projects

Study guide

Vocabulary quiz

Vocabulary Page

Hatchet Links

Project ideas and research links

Information about the author Gary Paulsen

Comprehension activities

Vocabulary page

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Writing Stuff

For "Grammar Geeks":

• Grammar Link  
  • Comma's ( a very cool power point on this page!)

• Parents guide to the 6 traits
• Graphic organizer for Pre-write
• Drafting help
  • This site has some great ideas to help you after you have begun your draft
• Rubrics
  • narrative
  • persuasive
  • expository
  • report writing
  • One awesome example!
  • Our Personal Narrative writing project assignment sheet from the fall ('06)

Student Web Link Extensions:

from last year...

• a quick web quest for Amelia Earhart  information compiled by Jeremy and Colter
  • A MYSTERY FROM HISTORY
• Soujoung's extensions:
  • World War II Link
  • Coelophysis

Directions for using the shared folder are here

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Some content from an outside provider. Let me know what you think!

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Look here in the future for some poetry resources...