Writing

http://www.funenglishgames.com/writinggames.html

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/explanation/play/ This is great about writing an explanation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/explanation/read/1/ These also have a written mini lesson and a quiz.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/story_plan/play/  About writing a good story.  Adding description, etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/story_plan/read/1/ mini and quiz

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/story_plan/listen/ listen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2_activities/english/planning.shtml more on story planning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english/games?page=3

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/vocabulary/play/  About vocabulary – funny.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/vocabulary/read/1/ mini and quiz

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/recounts/play/  Putting things in order

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/recounts/read/1/ mini and quiz

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/recount/main.html Another game

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/instructions/play/ about writing instructions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/instructions/read/1/ mini and quiz

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/writing/instructions/watch/ movie

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html#teaseq

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/ks2_activities/english/non_fiction.shtml about writing a non – fiction piece

 

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/more/timefiller/magicpenss.htm a bunch of story starters.  This would make a great center.  Have kids pick a story starter and write the story.

 

Grammer

 

Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index.html Noun dunk - this game works on shooting basketballs through the hoop if you correctly choose if the word on the ball is common, proper, or not a noun.

http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Nouns.html  Click on the noun before it goes away, but don't click on other parts of speech.

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/noun/balloon_game/  Click on the balloon that has a noun on it.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/grammar_tutorial.htm Games on Nouns, Adjectives and verbs

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/nouns.htm Games on nouns

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/adjectives.htm Adjective adventures

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/verbs.htm Verbs in Space

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammargames/pandapopPartsofSpeech.htm Panda Parts of Speech

 

Capitals, Commas, and Periods

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/cap_letters_stops/eng/Introduction/StarterActivityPart1.htm  This works on both capitals and periods

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/cap_letters_stops/eng/Introduction/StarterActivityPart2.htm This works on when to capitalize a word and when not to.

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/cap_letters_stops/eng/Introduction/MainSession.htm  More capitals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/hms.shtml  Full stop or periods.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/capitalization.htm Magical Capitals

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/punctuation.htm Commas

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/full-stop-beginner-1.html Periods

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/capital-letter-beginner-1.html Capitals for beginners

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/capital-letter-1.html Advanced Capitals

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/question-mark-1.html  Question Marks?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en29punc-game-put-text-into-sentences Punctuation games

 

Spelling

http://www.spellingcity.com/  This website is all about making spelling FUN.  Teachers sign up for a free account and get their own page where they can enter word lists.  Kids then go to that page and can play games, use flash cards and even take tests in a fun way. 

 

Literature Types 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/english/reading/text_types/activity/  A look at different types of literature, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en03text-game-text-types game about different parts of an informational text.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en03text-game-types-of-text game about different text types.

http://www.poetry4kids.com/  This site has some wild and wacky, lots of fun poetry for kids. 

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/  Use this site to begin to write acrostic poems.

http://www.rhymezone.com/ A rhyming dictionary, helps to find words that rhyme.

 

Language Arts

https://reading.ecb.org/  available in English AND Spanish      http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html?login Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Your class can watch our engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities.  Be sure to sign in so the videos work properly.

Behind the Lesson provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-elements-of-a-story/ This is orally done.  It tells the story of Cinderella and then goes through all the different parts of a story, including conflict, resolution, setting, characters, etc.  It is great for 2 - 5th grade students.

http://www.storylineonline.net/ This site has a good number of stories that are read aloud by different actors.  Loads of fun.

http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html  This is a page with online stories.  There are stories for young children, older children, and young adults.  Some of the stories have a symbol which means that you can listen to the story.

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/index/play.htm?f  Again this page has a large variety of stories that can be read.  Some of the stories are available in the read to me format and some are not. 

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ Loads of wacky tales for kids.

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games.html Reading games for young children.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/picturematch/  Picture match -  match picture beginning, middle or end sound to letters.  Great for K - 2.  

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/kplus_alpha.htm Lots of alphabet matching games for young students K-2.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/abcmatch/  More matching games for young students K - 2.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/index.shtml Lots of fun with sentence writing, full stops, writing questions, using capital letters, writing descriptions, figuring out new words, words that look like they sound, and several other fun things for writing and reading.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/ Games for learning the basic patterns of simple words.  Interactive and lots of fun.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml Read along with any of these three stories.  Have fun and enjoy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dgi.shtml Practice beginning or ending sounds or words that rhyme in this game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/index.shtml Practice your language arts skills on this space journey adventure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/stories/ Stories to read or read aloud about Australia and Paris, France.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/5_7entry/1.shtml A story adventure with all different types of interactive bits for K - 1.  Parts 2 and 3 are also located on home page.  Use the back button.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/7_9entry/1.shtml A story adventure for grades 1 - 3 with vocabulary, map skills as well as reading skills.  Find your way out of the haunted house.  Parts 2 and 3 are also located on home page.  Use the back button.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/9_11entry/1.shtml A story adventure for grades 2 - 5 with all types of skills included.  Have fun visiting Greece and solving this mystery.  Parts 2 and 3 are also located on home page.  Use the back button.

http://funschool.kaboose.com/arcade/language/index.html  All language arts fun game activities to practice and learn from.  Enjoy.  A wide variety is available.  Over 30 activities, so be sure to click on all the pages.

http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp  All kinds of interesting fun activities to participate in.

http://www.thinkport.org/elementary-school-literacy.html Lots LA subject matter activities.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/  Clifford activities and stories for lower elementary.

http://www.starfall.com/  Wonderful activities and materials to help with reading.  Some seasonally based activities as well

http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html  Grammar games and fun.

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/  Fill in the blanks to help create a wacky tale that you can read.  Some instruction about parts of speech.

http://www.funbrain.com/hangman/index.html  Hangman spelling games in all different subject matter.

http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/  Create your own letter.  Enjoy.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/games/levelone/KC_Grab_It.html Beginning sounds with NASA for Kinder students.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/games/information.shtml Find the correct book to provide the information requested.  A fun, short little matching game.

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/spelling.html Loads of links to different spelling games on the web.

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/pounce.html Basic phonics game.

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/effectivedetective/effectivedetective.html How good are you at describing things?  This game will test your ability.

 

Figurative Language