Hello,
Thank you to all who responded. You made my life easier. Some great sites are
listed below:
From Diane Norby:
Miscellaneous sites:
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
http://www.chompchomp.com/
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
http://www.dailygrammar.com/
http://www.grammarbook.com/
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
http://englishplus.com/grammar/
http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/
http://www.grammarnow.com/
http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/help/grammar_help/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
http://www.drgrammar.org/
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/grammar.html
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~kpokoy1/grammar1.htm
http://www.engl.niu.edu/dhardy/grammarbook/title.html
http://grammar.englishclub.com/
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/wg.htm
http://www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw/
Longman Dictionaries Home Page
You'll find a range of word games for kids (and adults). There's also a section of
teachers' lesson plans and worksheets.
Approximate Grade Level: 7+
http://www.awl-elt.com/dictionaries/home.html
Adjective? What's an Adjective?
This activity gives students the opportunity to think creatively and work in small
groups. It helps build students' knowledge of adjectives or descriptive words and
their use in creative writing.
Approximate Grade Level: 5+
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/lang/ceclang/ceclang086.html
Basic Grammar Review Using "Jabberwocky"
The purpose of this activity, used at the beginning of the year, is to help
students identify where they are weak in their grammar skills (in a fun fashion).
From there, the teacher can choose to emphasize the various areas of grammar that
need to be strengthened.
Approximate Grade Level: 7+
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/lang/ceclang/ceclang004.html
Sentence Mix 'n Match
This activity explains how you can get your students to mix and match subjects and
predicates to create wacky sentences.
Approximate Grade Level: 5+
http://www.score.kaplan.com/activities/activity53.html
Untangling a Not of Hare
Homophones often pose problems for kids (and some adults) who are learning to
spell. This activity turns the challenge into a fun word game in which students
invent funny homophone pairs.
Approximate Grade Level: 5+
http://www.score.kaplan.com/activities/activity47.html
Vindicating Verbs
This activity offers a way for kids to recognize and practice irregular verb forms,
with a slightly competitive twist.
Approximate Grade Level: 6+
http://www.score.kaplan.com/activities/activity30.html
Grammar Rock
Here are nine songs that all focus on the parts of speech brought to you by the
well-known Grammar Rock television series and software. Kids can read them or
listen to them online with the appropriate browser plug-ins.
Approximate Grade Level: 5+
http://genxtvland.simplenet.com/SchoolHouseRock/grammar.hts?hi
Merriam-Webster Online: The Language Center
Not only can you search their dictionary and thesaurus, you can play a daily word
game and have fun with a word a day and more.
Approximate Grade Level: 5+
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
This online rhyming dictionary lets you enter any word and look for precise or
close matches. For example, you can look for words that just rhyme on the last
syllable. You can also use the search feature to look for definitions in the
Merriam-Webster Dictionary, find words that have similar meanings, or even
spell-check the word.
Approximate Grade Level: 5+
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html
Cobuild Idiom of the Day
Every day this site displays a random entry from the Cobuild Dictionary of Idioms.
Approximate Grade Level: 7+
ESL Idiom Page
Quite simply gives definitions and usage for hundreds of idioms.
Approximate Grade Level: 5+
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/Idiom.html
Guide to Grammar and Writing
In addition to being an online grammar source, there are nearly 100 online grammar
quizzes and an "Ask an Expert" page where you can submit your grammar questions and
the answers will be posted online.
Approximate Grade Level: 7+
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Strunk's Elements of Style
The granddaddy of all grammar/style resources and a solid teacher's resource.
Teacher's Resource
http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
Grammar Help
The first two sections on each help page contain help written by a teacher and her
students. The last section contains a wealth of information gleaned and linked from
a variety of Web sites.
Approximate Grade Level: 7+
http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/help/grammar_help/ Wacky Web Tales
This is a great site to get your students learning and using grammar. In addition
to playing mad-lib tales online, children can write and submit their own tales for
publication on the site. And if your kids submit a tale, they'll have a good chance
of getting it posted if they say they're from Westford.
Approximate Grade Level: 3+
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
Big Dog Grammar
http://gabiscott.com/bigdog/index.htm
Here is a site that lists lots of links. I looked at a few
http://teacherpathfinder.org/School/Subjects/EnglLA/writing.html
The OWL site from Purdue University has some nice handouts. Some things are a
little advanced for the kids, but many of the examples look useable.
Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
This has one link on the right hand side for supporting students with
disabilities for a research paper, and on the left side, there's a grammar link
with a list of links on grammar.
From Deb Waters:
Try "Grammar Bytes" www.chompchomp.com. We just used it with our 10th graders and
they loved it. Make sure they have headphones. THe sound effects are fun.
From Sara Katz:
This is a great grammar site:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
From Kris Cobb:
Just heard about this one yesterday, and heard it was great!
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
From Narda LaClair:
This is a site that our Honors English teacher is using:
http://ccc.commnet.edu/sensen/index.html
From Katie Bailey:
Take a look at this Grammar Webquest: http://www.berksiu.k12.pa
us/webquest/yingling/default.htm I did a www.google.com search on the words grammar
and webquest. Found
several that might interest you! Good luck! This site looks good, too!!
http://www.yuhsg.org/library/general_grammar_webquest.htm K Katie Bailey
kbmusic@cfl.rr.com www.folkfiddle.com
From Jeanne Claridge:
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/richardmitchell/thirtywebsites.htm
Thank you!!!
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