Comm Arts Links

Tools and For Fun

• Rewordify --change words and text to easy to read and understand.
• Visuwords --Online graphical dictionary
• Word Central Dictionary --thesauras and rhyming words too
• Hidden Heroes --interesting facts and information on everyday inventions
• Quoteland 

Stories

• The Landlady --Roald Dahl
• Complete Text
• Alfred Hitchcock video
• My Ending to the Story

Poetry

• Poetry Dictionary
• No Water River:  Video library of poems read by authors
• The Raven
• The Highwayman
• Metaphors in Poetry Lesson -  Don Quixote
• Mark Smith Poetry Slam
• Poetry 180 - Poem for every day of the school year
• Imagery in Hamlet - lesson on writing a poem

Reading

• ReadWorks -database of text and lesson plans aligned to CCSS
• Elements of a Short Story 
• Shakespeare - contains the full text of many of Shakespeare's plays, including Romeo and Juliet.
• Shakespeare Uncovered --lesson plans and videos

Non-Fiction Text:

• Stories of the Civil War
• Prologue Magazine - stories based on the rich holdings and programs of the National Archives
• Waste and Recycling - 32 pg PDF file that explains the advantages of waste reduction.
•  Cartoons in the Classroom  - Students submit their own headline
• Digital History
• Unforgivable Blackness:  Jack Johnson
• Library of Congress
• Teacher's Guide to Analyzing Texts  - from Library of Congress

Writing

• Comic Strip Creators 
• StoryJumper
• Little Story Bird Tales:  book creator
• Wordle  --Creating word clouds
• Writing Radio Plays
• Write It Memoirs  Memoir Rubric

Unit/Theme

• Cowboys -- (eTheme link) differences from various countries, poetry, songs 
• Debate Topic:  Year Round School
• Funeral Customs:  History, Military and other Countries
• Iditarod
• Ships an Shipwrecks
• African American Sports    (Guilded Age- eThemes)

Grammar

• Wacky Web Tales