Archive for the ‘Language Arts’ Category

Write a Fractured Fairy Tale (2009-8-14)

Kids learn about fractured fairy tales and write their own with Read, Write, Think’s Fractured Fairy Tales interactive educational activity.  Read a short version of Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, or The Princess and the Pea. Next, choose what part or parts of the story you want to change – the characters, [...]

Play with Your Spelling Words (2009-8-10)

On the interactive educational website Spelling City, kids practice spelling words by playing online games.  Type in the words you would like to learn how to spell, and then select the game you want to play.  There are many to choose from including: hangman, unscramble, audio word match, missing letter, sentence unscramble, crossword.  Spelling City [...]

Digital Photo Fun (2009-8-9)

On the interactive website Big Huge Labs, kids can design their own magazine covers, make trading cards, put together photo cubes, add text bubbles, create jigsaw puzzles, arrange mosaics, and more with their digital photos.  Try making trading cards about any topic as a class research project.  All ages will enjoy getting creative with their [...]

Kids Can Make Their Own Free Websites (2009-7-27)

Kids can quickly and easily make their own free websites with Wix.  Wix has a simple, what you see is what you get website editor, and also hosts websites free of charge.  Everything is done in your browser, so there is no need to download anything.  Wix comes with many backgrounds, clip art, animations, and [...]

Kids Can Learn to Speak Spanish (2009-7-22)

Kids can learn Spanish on 123 Teach Me’s interactive website Spanish for Kids.  Choose a category to see pictures with their English and Spanish words.  Click on the pictures to hear the words pronounced in Spanish.  This educational website also has Spanish video clips, songs, and games.  Spanish for Kids is recommended for children of [...]

Write Your Own Comic Strip (2009-7-18)

On the interactive website Make Beliefs Comixs, kids can write their own comic strips.  Using the artwork provided, write comics by selecting the characters, emotional expressions, text and thought balloons.  When you are finished, you can print or e-mail your comic strip.  Kids of all ages will enjoy writing with Make Beliefs Comixs.

Play a Word Game (2009-7-16)

Kids practice spelling and vocabulary skills while playing Letter Blocks.  Make 3 or more letter words by linking letters that touch each other in any direction, including diagonally.  Letters will be added to the game at increasing speeds each level.  The game is over when the entire board is filled with letters.  This educational game [...]

Choose Your Own Dog Adventure (2009-7-12)

Journey with Bone the dog on Scholastic’s Choose Your Own Adventure style interactive reading activity A Dog’s Life: Bone Travels On, based on the book A Dog’s Life by Ann M. Martin.  Bone and his sister, Squirrel, were abandoned as puppies.  Help Bone make decisions as he searches for his sister and a home.  Your [...]

Solve Puzzles on Islands in the Sky (2009-7-11)

Questionaut is a fascinating puzzle/quiz game set in a beautiful, unusual fantasy world.  Players lead the hero on a quest for his friend’s lost hat. Solve puzzles on each island to get questions to appear.  Correctly answer questions in the areas of language arts, math, and science to fuel your balloon to take you to [...]

Create a Diamonte Poem (2009-7-9)

Kids can use Read Write Think’s Diamonte Poem Interactive Tool to create their own poems.  A diamonte poem is a poem that is in the shape of a diamond and uses specific types of words on each line.  Try making an antonym diamonte poem that shows the differences between opposite words.  You can print your [...]