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The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ This site is geared towards helping students how to write more effectively and properly.

Humanities http://www.edsitement.neh.gov Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this website offers lesson plans and links to websites for the following categories: Art & Culture, Literature and Language Arts, History and Social Studies and Foreign Language. This is a fantastic site for middle and high school resources. Vocabulary Games http://www.vocabulary.co.il/index.php Interactive games. Match games, word searches, sat-prep games. K - 12

Vocabulary http://www.vocabulary.com/ This is a great site for students and teachers that offers word lists, puzzles, lesson plans, and help for preparing for tests.

Starfall [|www.starfall.com/] This website would be helpful for students at the preschool - 1st grade level. It teaches letters and sounds through interactive games. This program is user friendly even for young children. Students will be able to work independently.

Reading Lady http://www.readinglady.com/ This is a great resource website for teachers. It can be used to help children ages k-5 in reading. There are lots of printable posters and worksheets that are all free!! Six traits writing, poetry, comprehension skills, and ways to assess children in reading are all part of this informative website.

Noodle Tools http://www.noodletools.com/ This website helps students generate citations in APA and MLA format.

Fun Brain Reading http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html This website has a ton of games for students K through 8 play games while working on their reading skills.

Fun With Grammer!! http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html This website is good for K-2 grade because it helps with grammer and fun ways to learn them!

Quick Search Guide http://www.usingenglish.com/ This website is great for gramatical purposes and learning to use different styles of grammer and word usage**.**

Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com/quizzes/spelling/1.html This is an online spelling quiz.

Up To Ten http://www.uptoten.com/kids/uptoten-features-search-searchpageresult.html This website is free for any home or school environment. It offers games and various educational activities for students. The website uses characters that students will love. All lesson plans and activities are free to use without an ads popping up. They even have a great tutorial on how to use the computer with practice games associated with it.

English exercise = Past tenses http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-33431.php This website will help teachers teach kids who to write sentences in past tence. it has the kids take a few words and build a sentence in the past tense with it.

Web English Teacher http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ This website offers a plethora of links to English teacher lesson plans for K-12. Some interesting ones are for 3rd-5th grade students to deconstruct media advertisements as well as other media-based lesson plans. Some other interesting and unique subject areas are science fiction, journalism, mythology and some inter-disciplinary lesson plans.

Giggle Poetry http://www.gigglepoetry.com/index.aspx Provides lessons in teaching different styles of poems; from fill-in the blanks, to limericks, to rap poetry. Fun with lots of ideas to make your students smile.

Learning Planet.com http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids0.asp Has games that cover subjects such as english, math, and Social Studies. Does have pop ups, but they are just annoying, and aren't innapropriate. The site covers different age groups, Pre-school-K, 1st-3rd, and 4th-6th.

Education Place http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ Has a variety of graphic organizers that you can print and copy for classroom use such as story maps, Venn Diagrams, time lines, and many more.

Tools for Reading, Writing, and Thinking http://web000.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Tools/Index.htm A website that provides teachers with graphic organizers to assist students with reading and writing in all content areas. There are a plethora of graphic organizers listed and PDF versions are provided. Examples of some of the graphic organizers are: Cause and Effect, Character Study, Decision Mak