MRS. TAYLOR’S

LANGUAGE ARTS FOCUS CLASS

AUTHOR SITES OF BOOKS WE LOVE:

· Andrew Lost!

· Animorphs

· Artemis Fowl

· Bailey School Kids/ Debbie Dadley

· Beverly Cleary

· Black Lagoon Series

· Captain Underpants Series

· Carole Marsh Mysteries

· Charlie Bone

· Chris Rumble/Uncle Stinky

· Dan Gutman Baseball Card Adventures

· Dragon Slayers'Academy

· Garfield

· Geronimo Stilton

· Goosebumps

· Gordon Korman

· Jean Craighead George

· JK Rowling Offical Site

· Harry Potter Site

· Judy Blume

· Kate DiCamillo

· Kate McMullan

· Lemony Snicket Official Site

· Magic School Bus Site

· Mary Pope Osborne/Magic Tree House

· Newbery book site

· Roald Dahl

· Ron Roy A to Z Mysteries

· Sisters Grimm

· Star Wars/Lucas Books

· T.A. Barron/ Merlin Books

· Time Warp Trio

· Tony Abott/Cracked Classics site

· You Wouldn’t Want to Be … site

· Zach Files by Dan Greenburg

NATURAL DISASTERS:

· Inside the Earth

· Toilet Paper Timeline of Earth

· Listening to Earthquakes

· Earthquakes for Kids

· Weather activities for kids

· National Geographic Natural Disasters

· Earthquakes: FEMA for Kids

· Yellowstone National Park

· Volcanoes for Kids

· Tsunamis

· Virtual Volcano

· Online and printable Earth games

· Earth Science games

· Geology.com

· Mah Jong Online

GRAMMAR FUN!

· Action verb game

· Adjectives

· Adjectives and Adverbs millionaire game

· Adjectives BRAIN POP

· Antonym Hangman

· Brain Pop Four Types of Sentences

· Brain Pop GRAMMAR FUN-all topics

· Brain Pop NOUNS

· Brain Pop Verbs

· Capitalization and Punctuation game

· Capitalization BRAIN POP

· Clean up your Grammar verb game

· Clauses BRAIN POP

· Commas in a series game

· Complete Sentences vs. Fragments

· Complete Sentences vs. Run-Ons I

· Complete Sentences vs. Run-Ons II

· Compound Sentences & Conjunctions

· Compound Words

· Conjunctions BRAIN POP

· Context Clues

· Contractions

· Contractions BRAIN POP

· Diagramming Sentences BRAIN POP

· Dialogue BRAIN POP

· Dictionary & Thesaurus BRAIN POP

· Editing game

· Find the verb game I

· Find the verb game II

· Finding predicates game

· Finding subjects game

· Four Kinds of Sentences games

· Fragments BRAIN POP

· Genre Matching Game

· Grand Grammar Game

· Helping Verbs game

· Homograph Jeopardy Game

· Homophones game

· Homophones matching game

· Idioms game

· Idioms BRAIN POP

· Interjections BRAIN POP

· Irregular verb game

· Irregular verbs

· Letter Writing generator

· Linking or action verb game

· Linking Verb game

· Locate the verb game

· Main Idea BRAIN POP

· Noun BRAIN POP

· Noun Challenge

· Nouns

· Palindromes

· Parts of Speech

· Parts of Speech II

· Prefix/Suffix game

· Prepositions BRAIN POP

· Pronouns I

· Pronouns II

· Pronoun BRAIN POP

· Proper Noun battleship

· Punctuation

· Punctuation BRAIN POP

· Reading Skills BRAIN POP

· Rhyming Dictionary

· Run-On Sentence BRAIN POP

· Run-On Sentence game

· Scholastic grammar games!

· Show not Tell BRAIN POP

· Similes and Metaphors BRAIN POP

· Simple Subjects & Predicates

· Singular and Plural Nouns game

· Strengthen Sentences BRAIN POP

· Subjects and Predicates BRAIN POP

· Subject-Verb Agreement

· Synonym Concentration

· Synonym and Antonym BRAIN POP

· Test Taking Skills BRAIN POP

· There, Their, They're, Too, To, Two Game

· Types of Sentences quiz game

· Types of Writing BRAIN POP

· Verb game

· Verbs BRAIN POP

· Wacky Web Tales (MADLIBS)

· Writing Process BRAIN POP

BRAIN GAMES

· Answers to Puzzling Questions

· Awesome Animal Site!

· Bill Nye the Science Guy

· Brain Booster Fun

· Brain Food Puzzles

· Brain Games

· Chess

· Cool Math Trick

· Daily Jigsaw Puzzle

· Fact Monster!

· Funology

· Funschool

· Giggle Poetry Fun

· Hoagie's Site for Gifted Kids

· Hidden Pictures!

· Kids' Mysteries and Magic Tricks

· Kids Read Site!

· Left/Right Brain Test

· Magic Eye Optical Illusions

· Make a Graph!

· Mensa Arcade

· National Geographic for Kids

· Online Coloring

· Pokemon educatational site

· Puzzle Site

· Run Your Own Business: Virtual Lemonade Stand

· Scholastic Online Book Fun

· Scholastic Games and Contests

· Science for Kids!

· Tangrams

· The Yuckiest Site on the Internet (science)

· Time for Kids

· Treehouse Games

· Traffic Jam Online

· Volcano World

· Weekly Brain Teasers

· Word Brain Games

A CHRISTMAS CAROL SITES

· A Christmas Carol Picture Scramble

· Charles Dickens Timeline

· Condensed Read Aloud Version

· Dickens & Christmas

· Dickens' London

· Famous Quotes from A Christmas Carol

· Original version of A Christmas Carol with illustrations

· Parlor Games

· Victorian Christmas site

· Victorian England Game

· Charles Dickens BRAIN POP

· TRY THE BOOK ADVENTURE QUIZ ON CHRISTMAS CAROL!

AMERICAN HISTORY SITES:

· Our America Scholastic Site

· If You Were President game

· Viking Quest

· Viking Trading Game

· Write your name in Runes!

· Age of Exploration Game

· Explorer battleship game

· Explorer Games

· Continents BRAINPOP

· Christopher Columbus activity

· Columbus BRAINPOP

· Native Americans BRAINPOP

· Native American quiz game

· Early Settlements/Pilgrims BRAINPOP

· Pocahontas activity

· Jamestown Online Adventure for Kids

• Could you survive at Jamestown?
• Pocahontas Brainpop
• Thirteen Colonies BRAINPOP
• Causes of American Revolution BRAINPOP
• American Revolution BRAINPOP
• Declaration of Independence BRAINPOP
• Bill of Rights BRAINPOP
• US Constitution BRAINPOP
• Branches of Government BRAINPOP
• George Washington BRAINPOP
• Ben Franklin BRAINPOP
• Westward Expansion game
• Our America Scholastic Site
• If You Were President game
• Civil War battles
• Civil War Causes BRAINPOP
• Civil War BRAINPOP
• Civil War battleship game
• Causes of the Civil War game
• Civil War quiz game
• Civil War matching game
• Battles of the Civil War hangman
• People of the Civil War hangman
• Abraham Lincoln BRAINPOP
• Reconstruction Quiz game
• Reconstruction hangman
• Underground Railroad BRAINPOP
• Underground Railroad Simulation Game
• Slavery BRAINPOP
• Harriet Tubman BRAINPOP
• Women’s Suffrage BRAINPOP
• World War I BRAINPOP
• Cause of Great Depression BRAINPOP
• Great Depression BRAINPOP
• New Deal BRAINPOP
• Causes of World War II BRAINPOP
• World War II BRAINPOP
• Holocaust BRAINPOP
• Anne Frank BRAINPOP
• United Nations BRAINPOP
• Segregation BRAINPOP
• Civil Rights BRAINPOP
• Martin Luther King BRAINPOP
• Vietnam War BRAINPOP
• Communism BRAINPOP
• Cold War BRAINPOP

WESTWARD EXPANSION!

· Gold Rush BRAINPOP

· Westward Expansion game

· Vanishing Frontier game

· Native Americans BRAINPOP

· Native American quiz game

· Mark Twain BRAIN POP

ANCIENT CHINA SITES

· CHINESE INVENTIONS!

· Adventure in Ancient China

· All about Ancient China

· All about China

· All about the Great Wall of China

· Amazing Chinese Accomplishments

· Ancient China News

· Ancient China Picture of the Month

· Ancient Chinese History

· Ancient Chinese Technology

· Art of China

· Calligraphy in Ancient China

· China Bridge

· China the Beautiful

· Chinese Calligraphy

· Chinese Dragons

· Chinese Dynasties

· Chinese Folktale Activities

· Chinese Folktales

· Chinese Foods

· Chinese Gods and Goddesses

· Chinese Mathematics

· Chinese Mummies

· Chinese Music (listening site)

· Chinese papercutting

· Chinese Poetry

· Chinese Proverbs

· Chinese Stories

· Classic Chinese Paintings

· Dragons in Ancient China

· Explore Ancient China

· Famous Ancient Chinese People

· Feng Shui

· FIRST EMPEROR- Discovery Channel site

· Folktales from China

· Four Chinese Philosophies

· Great Wall of China

· Great Wall Photos

· History for Kids: Ancient China

· History of China

· I Ching (the oldest book ever written)

· Maps of Ancient and Modern China

· Moon Festival

· Mount Everest NOVA Site

· Mulan

· Music in Ancient China

· Portraits of Chinese Emperors

· Secrets of the Lost Chinese Empires

· Silk Road

· Social Studies for Kids: Ancient China

· Splendors of Imperial China (Art)

· Terra Cotta Soldiers

· The Great Wall

· Timeline of Ancient China

· Topic: Ancient China

· Traditional Chinese instruments

· Yellow River

· More about the Yellow River

· Yangtze River

· Photos of the Yangtze River

EGYPT SITES

· African animal information

· All About Ancient Egypt

· All about Mummies

· Ancient Egypt Unit

· Ancient Egypt Webquest

· Clickable Mummy

· Dictionary of Ancient Egypt

· Discovery Channel - Egyptians

· Egypt for Kids

· Egyptian Games

· Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

· Egyptian MadLibs & Other Fun

· Egyptian Mummies

· English/Egyptian Dictionary

· Explore the Pyramids

· Hieroglyphics

· Hieroglyphics Memory Game

· Egyptmania!

· Math Cats … Ancient Egyptian Fractions

· Mummy Maker

· National Geographic Kids Egypt

· PBS Egyptian Pharaohs

· Pharoahs

· Pyramid & Sphinx Webquest

· Pyramid Challenge Game

· Pyramid Memory Game

· Pyramids

· Race to Ramses

· Riddle of the Sphinx game

· Seven Wonders of the World

· Virtual Egypt

· Virtual Mummy

· Wild Egypt On-Line Safari

· Your Name in Hieroglyphics

MIDDLE AGES SITES

· Books about medieval times for all ages

· Castle Weapons

· Castles for Kids

· Castles In Europe

· Coins of the Middle Ages

· Defending a Castle and Quiz

· Destroy a Castle

· Diagram of a medieval manor

· Explore a Castle

· Explore a Medieval Castle

· Glossary of Medieval Foods

· Guide to the Middle Ages

· Heraldry game

· Jesters 

· Journey Through the Middle Ages

· Knight Life

· Life in the Middle Ages

· Medieval ballads

· Medieval Castles and Quiz

· Medieval Clothing and Quiz

· Medieval Feudalism and Quiz

· Medieval Feudalism and Village Life

· Medieval Food and Quiz

· Medieval History Timelines

· Medieval Houses

· Medieval instruments

· Medieval manor information and game

· Medieval Question of the Day

· Medieval Serfs and Farming and Quiz

· Medieval Starter Quiz

· Medieval Times Links

· Medieval Towns and Villages

· Middle Ages

· Old English Sample

· Old English/Modern English Glossary

· Plague Quiz

· Punch and Judy Site

· RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL SITE!

· Take a Knight's Quest

· The Jester Pages

· This Day in Medieval History

· Virtual Tour of a Medieval Manor

· What would your job be in the Middle Ages?

· Who's Who in Medieval History

ANCIENT GREECE SITES

· Acropolis map

· Acropolis Map 2

· Aesop's Fables

· Ancient Greece for Kids

· Athens Olympics 2004

· Daily Life in Ancient Greece

· Glossary of mythical creatures

· Gods/goddesses

· Greek columns and architecture

· Greek gods family tree

· Greek Heroes

· Greek Mythology 

· Homer

· More on gods/goddesses

· More Solar System

· Mythology hangman game

· Odysseus 

· Olympics quiz & movie

· PBS - The Greek Empire

· The Myth Man and the myth of the month

· The Olympians

· The Solar system and mythology

· The Titans

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