Language Websites

Read, Write, Now At this site you can submit a book review or read book reviews written by other kids.	How to Study Tips on how to become a better listener, improve reading skills, taking notes, and using index cards for vocabulary, research papers, and oral presentations. The site is designed for students of all ages as well as adults.
Merriam-Webster's Word Central On-line dictionary with English experiments, a daily buzz word, a coding chamber where you can encode or decode a message, a verse composer, and you can even build your own dictionary.	Vocabulary Enhance your vocabulary with these free vocabulary puzzles. You can choose puzzles by level or type of activity. They even have theme puzzles and lesson plan vocabulary exercises.
Handspeak An online sign language dictionary for kids of all ages as well as adults.	ABC's of the Writing Process "The purpose of this site is to provide a user friendly online resource, for students or teachers, no matter what they are being challenged to write." This site offers ideas to help you with prewriting, writing, revising, editing, and publishing.
Spell Check This is a great game to help you improve your spelling. You will receive twenty sets of four words, place a check next to the word that is spelled wrong and then spell the word correctly in the box. If you answer all twenty questions right you can put your name on their leader board! The game has two levels: easy and hard.	StudentsWrite.com This is a great online guide for young writers! You'll find articles on writing, poems and short stories by students and recommended books. Check back often because the editor is adding a markets and links section.
ArtEdventures This site offers online interactive games for students and teachers. With these fun activities you'll learn how great artists made their works of art and you'll also find tips and techniques for creating your own art! Each activity has an accompanying teacher resource.	Symbolic Language of the Ancient World Here you'll find information, samples and activities related to languages of the ancient world in Greece, Rome, China, Native America, Hungary and Egypt.
Sign Language If you want to learn basic sign language then this is a good site to check out. You'll learn the history of sign language and how to sign each letter of the alphabet.	Alpha Dictionary Dr. Goodword Improve your vocabulary by playing games, doing puzzles and more!
Clifford's Interactive Storybooks Fun interactive games ask students to identify letters, sounds, and words.	I Know That! - Language Arts Great interactive language arts games for Pre-K through 6th grade.
Learn to Read at Starfall The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.	Online Rhyming Dictionary A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.
Reading Rainbow At this site you can read books written by young authors, listen to book reviews for popular children's literature, have an adventure, enter contests and play games and even check out the TV schedule to see when this popular program can be seen.	Children's Storybooks Online Here you will find illustrated and sometimes animated stories for children and young adults.
Magnetic Poetry Here kids can become creative by making up a story using magnets on a fridge!	Book Adventure Don’t know what book would interest you? Try this website out that will match you up with a book you will love to read!
Read, Write, Think This is an excellent source for teachers to find engaging activities that incorporate Language Arts.