Language Arts Support
for Teachers and Students

Mrs. H-B’s links to SUCCESS

DICTIONARY

 

 

Webster’s Online Dictionary

Word games

Word of the Day (has audio)

Word for the Wise (has audio)

BUZZZZZ WORD

WORD FUN, BUILD YOUR SONG AND MORE

 

 

Online demonstrations provide helpful lessons on improving your:

Understanding What is a  Resume

Writing Your Resume

Writing a Cover Letter

Writing an Acceptance Letter

Ability to Convince People  to Listen

Ability to decide when "not speaking” is best

Ability to use Power Point as a communication-tool

Journalist Style of Writing~ Selecting a Subject and beyond

 

 

Standards

National Academic Standards


INDIANA ENGLISH ACADEMIC PROFICIENCIES- GRADE 8

INDIANA ENGLISH ACADEMIC PROFICIENCIES-GRADE 7

INDIANA’S READING LIST GRADES 6-8

 

Indiana’s English Scope and Sequence
across grade levels
(PDF format)

 

Teachers and Students May Want to Use:

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Great site to review sentence structure, parts of speech, and more.

On-Line Grammar Index   index provides meanings to many literary and language arts terms.


GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

EXPLANATION ON USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS (INCLUDES SAMPLES)

PRINTABLES (GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS)

Need a Quotation?                

Power Point Demonstrations by OWL on:

General Writing skills

Business Writing Skills

Improving Mechanics

Conducting Research ~ How do I do that?

Research and Documentation

Complete online support and downloadable worksheets for improving (interactive online):

Planning for writing

Process of Writing

Effective Writing

Revision and Editing

Learning and writing different writing genres

Additional information and sites

Evaluating internet sources

All aspects of your grammar

Purdue’s OWL Index

Learning Strategies: includes various writing & studying styles

Do you need help writing a specific type of essay?

o       5-paragraph Essay

o       Admission Essay

o       Argumentative Essay

o       Cause And Effect Essay

o       Classification Essay

o       Comparison Essay

o       Critical Essay

o       Deductive Essay

o       Definition Essay

o       Exploratory Essay

o       Expository Essay

o       Informal Essay

o       Literature Essay

o       Narrative Essay

o       Personal Essay

o       Persuasive Essay

o       Research Essay

o       Response Essay

o       Scholarship Essay

o       Persuasive Writing

o       Write a Compare/Contrast Essay

o       Interactive Site for Creating Your Essay

o      
Guide to writing a Basic Essay
beginner level

o      
Writing skills when analyzing literature

o       Great website for middle and high school students learning how to write basic compositions.

o       How to write a college essay

10 steps to writing an essay.  Interactive site for learning how to write top notch essays.  You can try your skills on samples and have immediate feedback.

 

 

TECHNOLOGY RELATED

Inspiration Software

Can only be used via MCCSC workstations. Be Creative and Create Webs to Visually get Your Ideas on Paper.

READING STRATEGIES?

SQ3R

 

What’s new in young adult literature?

AWARDS IN READING

 

CHECK OUT THE TITLES BELOW
CLICK AND VIEW REVIEWS

   

 

MORE HELPFUL LINKS

 

WHAT IS PLAGARISM?

POETRY ANYONE?


Poetry.com

 

Book reviews on hot titles.

 

Need song lyrics?

 

 

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