Connect Ed Reading Book: http://connected.mcgraw-hill.com/school/p5a0
I-READY: https://cainc.i-ready.com/
Accelerated Reading: https://hosted320.renlearn.com/195741/
Grammar Crimes: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/14af3ba2d31a36d5?projector=1
6+1 Writing Traits:
A Peak Inside My Writers Notebook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZE3_j6a59w
OWL (Online Writing Lab): http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/teacherlinks/sixtraits/sixtraits.html
6+1 Writing Traits Web: http://www.frontiernet.net/~mblow/6_+_1_traits.htm#sentencefluency
Pete's Powerpoint: http://writing.pppst.com/6traits.html
Grammar Games: http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/language_arts/grammar_park_g4.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/language_arts/grammar_park_g5.html
Grammar Resources: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
Adages and Proverbs
A list with their meanings: http://www.learn-english-today.com/proverbs/proverbs.html
Adjectives/Adverbs:
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/adjective_adverb_language_arts_fifth_5th_grade.htm
Answering Questions In Complete Sentences:
Helpful Hints: http://pmrosen.tripod.com/room207/completesentences1.html
Author's Purpose:
What is it?: http://www.woodland.k12.mo.us/faculty/rgarner/Reading/Authors%20puropse.htm
Online activity: http://fcit.usf.edu/FCAT/strategies/ap/default.htm
Battleship: http://www.quia.com/ba/72070.html
Author's Point of View: (Who's telling the story)
What is it?: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/pointofviewl.cfm
Toy Story Movie Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMecluFs60
Author's Viewpoint: (How does the author feel about the topic)
What is it?: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/ReadStrat9.html
Review with acitivty: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/authorsviewpointl.cfm
Cause and Effect:
What is "cause and effect"?: short intro: http://www.fcatexplorer.com/media/parent/tiplister/flash/tip129a.swf
More info: http://mrsdell.org/causeandeffect/
Study Zone: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/a/hp/causeeffect.htm
More Cause and Effect: http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Readquarium/Comprehension/Cause_and_Effect/
Internet4Classroom: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/cause_effect_language_arts_fifth_5th_grade.htm
Cause and effect online webbing tool: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/readwritethink-webbing-tool-30038.html
Chris Van Allsburg:
Several: http://amykincaidlibrarian.edublogs.org/files/2015/02/1076-Inferring-with-Chris-Van-Allsburg-A-Unit-Plan-11rvigl.pdf
The Stranger:
Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7NSj--t_UQ
Resources: http://houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/thepolarexpress/tg/stranger.shtml#upper
Cinderella Stories:
Grimm's Fairy-tale Cinderella (The Original Cinderella): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO-tv1gATgI
Disney's Cinderella Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e1ax_4ORdc
The Rough Faced Girl (A Native American Cinderella): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuYQhBcyR_8
Yen Shen (Chinese Cinderella): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou0Wy4ucjs&list=PL50B01E86198AF2C9
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXPV35dah8I
Bubba the Cowboy Prince: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sRQgD6wa8o
Combining Sentences:
review and activity: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/compoundl.cfm
shorter sentences to longer sentences: http://www.quia.com/rr/376680.html
and/but/or: http://www.quia.com/rr/60219.html
Commas:
commas in a series or list: http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000070.htm
comma confusion: http://www.childu.com/sample_act/34lang_confusion.html
eats, shoots, and leaves: http://savethecomma.com/game/
commas in a series battleship: http://www.quia.com/ba/38272.html
commas review game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/punctuation/commas/game.shtml
show what you know exercies: http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Commas
Commas when combining sentences: http://mrsdell.org/combiningsentences/
Quia practice: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/combining_quiz2.htm
Commas in Quotes: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/j/commasinaquote2l.cfm
Compare and Contrast:
Online Venn Diagram: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/venn/
Context Clues:
MultipleGames: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/context_clues_language_arts_fifth_5th_grade.htm
Words in context: http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=191
Gamequarium: http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Readquarium/Vocabulary/Context_Clues/context_clues2.html
Millionaire: http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Readquarium/Vocabulary/Context_Clues/
Class Jeopardy Review: https://www.superteachertools.net/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game-from-com.php?gamefile=http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Dec201051/jeopardy1292858459.txt#.VGy4ZjTF81I
Decision Making:
Direct Objects:
What is a direct object?: http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/53.asp
What do you remember?: http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/direct_objects/quiz546.html
Descriptive Writing:
Good and Bad examples together: http://edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_33_35.html
Examples of good descriptive writing: http://grammar.about.com/od/developingparagraphs/a/samdescpars.htm
Writing Exercise Activities:
http://www.proteacher.org/c/722_Writing_-_Descriptive_Writing.html
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/descriptive.html
Writing With Writers: http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/diary/
Fact and Opinion:
Binky's Fact and Opinion:http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/factsopinions/
Tutorial 2: (has blended sentences with part fact/part opinion) http://users.dhp.com/~laflemm/RfT/Tut2.htm
Practice: http://www.quia.com/pop/12709.html
another game: http://www.toonuniversity.com/aol/5l_fact.html
Quiz: http://www.quia.com/jq/24723.html
Fiction vs Nonfiction:
movie intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KAJ0lJiD6c
Figurative Language:
Multiple games: http://gamequarium.com/figurativelanguage.html
Baseball: http://www.starrmatica.com/standalone/starrMaticaFigurativeLanguageBaseball.swf
Battleship:http://www.quia.com/ba/61460.html
Genres:
Intro movie: https://www.opened.com/video/genres-of-literature/79860
Realistic Fiction: http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/readingliterature/genres/realistic/realisticfiction.htm
Biography: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/221239400415058193/
http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/readingliterature/genres/biography/biography.htm
Greek Roots:
Go for the Gold: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/game.htm#
Homographs:
review video: http://youtu.be/m1Xw3dIph-0
ez.school practice: http://www.ezschool.com/English/Homographs/game.html
Homophones:
there, their, they're: http://www.grammar.cl/english-games/there-their-they-are.htm
or: http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz310462238ae18.html
Mixed Racing Game: http://gotkidsgames.com/hom/4thGrHomophonesGame.html
Idiom Practice:
Everything Idioms: http://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/staff/boldtkatherine/ReadingFun3-6/ReadingFun_Idioms.htm
paint by idioms: http://www.funbrain.com/idioms/
Learning games for kids: http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary_games/idioms.htmlidioms games: http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary_games/idioms.html
Inference/Drawing Conclusions:
Teach: http://www.fcatexplorer.com/parent/4gr/en/tipslister/question_tip_zoo.asp?src=tip207a.swf&skill=Inference
Quia 1: www.quia.com/pop/43335.html?AP
Quia 2: http://www.quia.com/pop/89736.html
Battleship: www.quia.com/ba/41785.html
Riddles: http://www.philtulga.com/Riddles.html
Cow Clues: http://www.sadlier‐oxford.com/phonics/5_6/cows/cows.htm
Drawing Conclusions: http://mrmanko.com/DrawingConclusions.html
Main Idea/Topic/Supporting Details:
What is It? w/practice: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/supportingdetailsl.cfm
What's the idea? http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html
Quiz: http://www.quia.com/quiz/1169917.html?AP_rand=1645858812
Multiple Meaning Words:
Teaching: http://www.teachertube.com/video/multiple-meaning-words-51809
List of multiple meaning words: http://sb058.k12.sd.us/multiple%20meanings/multiple_meaning_words.htm
Quia: http://www.quia.com/cb/6344.html
Myths: http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/index.html
Greek Gods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJCm8W5RZes&index=4&list=PLJuf9HnxGVrxQhBU5Y6OpmzqD1BaXkBW_
Pandora's Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGTTAfwHugY&index=2&list=PL4bDiwIqsawPYCroxWdH432MXMYUr5hBB
Noting Details:
Nouns:
Noun rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfnXUWJz0sE
Tutortial: http://www.ezschool.com/Tutorials/Nouns/Intro.html
Practice: http://www.ezschool.com/Tutorials/Nouns/Game1.html
Common/Proper:
Noun Dunk: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index.html
Paragraphs:
3 Basic Parts: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/para.html
Parts of Speech Review Games:
http://www.brianpcleary.com/words/index.html (Choose Test Your Knowledge)
Word Invasion: http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/invasion/invasion.html
Grammar Gorillas: http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html
Grammar Blast: http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions.cgi?Grade=2&Unit=7&Topic=Adjectives
ToonU: http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=487&engine=2
Clean Up Your Grammar: http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/cleanup_eng_launcher.html
Personal Narrative:
What is it?: http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/writing/personal.htm
Transitions: http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/writing/transitional.htm
Examples: http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/writing/sample_p.htm
Persuasive Writing:
Plural Nouns: Plural means more than 1
Bug Catcher: http://www.ezschool.com/play/english/feed-the-lizard-with-nouns-that-are-in-their-correct-plural-form/Game/180
The Plural Girls: http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/plur.cgi?A1=s&A2=1
Irregular Plurals: http://www.manythings.org/wbg/irr_plurals1-mw.html
Trapped: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/spelling/play/popup.shtml
Concentration Matching: https://jr.brainpop.com/readingandwriting/word/pluralnouns/matching/
Spelling Plurals: http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/la_games.jsp
Partner Game: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/plural/index_pre.html
President pardoning turkey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MVfiSICW2s
Poetry:
Webquest: http://www.stewartcountyschools.net/des/Poetry%20WebQuest.htm
Terms: http://quizlet.com/15503304/poetry-terms-5th-grade-flash-cards/
Poem with Questions: http://english-zone.com/members/reading/rbowpoem.html
Possessive Nouns: Possessive means ownership
Learning Activity:
Rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6J37GXJVcg
Tic‐Tac‐Toe (Can You Beat the Teacher?): http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/possessive_noun/index.html
Quia (3 games): http://www.quia.com/jg/67716.html
Quiz:
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g3c10/nadia.htm
Plural or Possessive: Cave Game: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/exploring_possessives/index.html
Predicting Outcomes:
Predictions:
Digger the Dog: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity_collections_preview/predict_outcomes/3_predict.html
Prefixes, Root Words and Suffixes:
root words: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/activity/it%E2%80%99s-greek-me-word-roots-game-go-gold-activity
rooting out words: http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain/roots/index.html
Short Circuit: http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/shortcircuit_eng_launcher.html
Jigword: http://www.manythings.org/wbg/prefixes‐jw.html
Other activities: http://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/staff/boldtkatherine/ReadingFun3-6/ReadingFun_PrefixesSuffixesRoots.htm
Various Games: https://sites.google.com/site/easygrammar4kids/prefixes-and-suffixes
Preposition:
Introduction: http://mrswarnerarlington.weebly.com/prepositions.html
Grammar Bytes: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/preposition.htm
Preposition Game:
http://www.englishmedialab.com/GrammarGames/football/prepositions/prepostions%20penalty%20game.html
Spin the Wheel: http://www.eslgamesplus.com/preposition-interactive-grammar-game-for-esl-wheel-game/
Identify the prepositional phrase: https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-5/identify-prepositional-phrases
Quiz: http://www.softschools.com/quiz_time/language_arts/preposition/theme156.html
Primary and Secondary Sources:
What is it?: http://www.slideshare.net/arisbx/primary-secondary-sources-14970608
Class Game: http://www.slideshare.net/kmcclai2/primary-and-secondary-source-game
Review What is It?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqXHO7bTPnw&nohtml5=False
Games:
Quia: https://www.quia.com/rr/107632.html
Jeopardy: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/primary-and-secondary-sources2
Online Quiz: http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/9OoHbeu/Primary-versus-Secondary-Sources
Problem Solving:
Pronouns:
Car Rally: http://gotkidsgames.com/hom/pronounAgree.html
quia: http://www.quia.com/quiz/281066.html
pronoun clubhouse: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pronoun_clubhouse/index_pre.html
grammar blast: http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions6-8.cgi?Grade=6&Unit=6&Topic=Pronouns
possessive pronouns: https://www.turtlediary.com/game/possessive-pronouns.html
possessive pronouns jeopardy: https://www.quia.com/cb/722325.html
Proofreading Practice:
Power Proofreading: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/
Dan's copy: http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/editdan_eng_launcher.html
Makes Perfect: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/pmp/interactive_guide/g03/g03home.htm
Quotation Marks:
Games:
Edit Dan's Copy: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar2.htm
Quiz: http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/quotation_marks/quiz1632.html
Sentences:
Combining Sentences:
review and activity: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/compoundl.cfm
shorter sentences to longer sentences: http://www.quia.com/rr/376680.html
and/but/or: http://www.quia.com/rr/60219.html
Complete Sentences:
Answering Questions in Complete Sentences:
Sentence Fragments:
What are they?: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/editingfragments5l.cfm
Finding them in short passages: http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Fragments
Run-on Sentences:
What are they?: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/editingrunonsl.cfm
Types of Sentences:
What are they?:
Whole Class Practice: Add Punctuation/ID Type- http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sentence_trail/index.html
Individual Practice:
Review with examples: http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n21.htm
Quia 1 with puncuation: http://www.quia.com/quiz/106467.html
Quia 2 without punctuation marks: http://www.quia.com/pop/35934.html?AP_rand=1403749523
Sentence Clubhouse: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/clubhouse/index_pre.html
Types of Sentences:
Whole Class:
Brain Pop Video: http://www.brainpop.com/english/grammar/typesofsentences/preview.weml
Individual Practice:
Review with examples: http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n21.htm
Quia 1 with puncuation: http://www.quia.com/quiz/106467.html
Quia 2 without punctuation marks: http://www.quia.com/pop/35934.html?AP_rand=1403
Sentence Review- All Types:
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/sentence_structure_language_arts_fourth_4th_grade.htm
Simple, compound or complex sentence?:
What are they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98OcAe5O0Ws
review game: http://www.ezschool.com/EZSheets/English/SentenceTypes/ws2.html
Sequencing Events:
Cinderella Story: http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/cinderella.html
Online Timeline Creator : http://www.softschools.com/teacher_resources/timeline_maker/
Singular and Plural Nouns:
Tutorial: http://www.ezschool.com/Tutorials/Plural/Intro.html
Subjects and Predicates:
What are they: http://mrswarnerarlington.weebly.com/subject--predicate-practice.html
Complete subject/predicate class practice: http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/55.asp
Independent Practice: http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/quiz/mquiz.asp?filename=msmith5complsubpred
Review:
School House Rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdUXxdmhIsw
Fling the teacher: http://www.cccs.k12.in.us/userfiles/10/Subject%20and%20Predicate.swf
Rags to Riches: http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html
Subject Speedway: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/subject_speedway/index.html
Predicate Whirlwind: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/predicate_coaster2/index.html
Synonyms and Antonyms:
Word Frog: http://www.abcya.com/antonyms_synonyms_homonyms.htm
Quia Jeopardy: https://www.quia.com/cb/213396.html
Synonyms and Antonyms Sentence Match: https://www.education.com/exercise/synonyms-and-antonyms-2/
Text Features:
Intro to both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j92OBf2czjk
Fiction:
Quiz: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/test_tutor/build19/grade3/skill14/index_pre.htm
Whole Class Practice:
Cinderella http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/index.html
Individual Practice:
Name that element(middle school level): http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/game/play.phtml?dest=Lit_v52.dcr&width=500&height=300&ini=lesson2.ini&height2=296
Story element Matching: http://www.quia.com/jg/245140.html
Plot, Setting, Theme: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/setting.cfm
or http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/plotp.cfm
Online stories: http://storylineonline.net/
Nonfiction:
Text features:
5 Day Plan Activities: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=109
Whole Class:
Introduction: http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/2010/05/01/nonfiction-text-features/
Wayside Story movie with wrap:
Review Jeopardy: http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Nov201044/game1288922616.php
Individual practice:
Fling the Teacher Practice:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~EXCELLENCE1/Text%20Structure%20Text%20Features.htm
Newspaper: http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/literacy/newspaper.php
Text Structure:
Review of ways: http://www.westrusk.esc7.net/TextStructures.html
Theme:
The boy that cried wolf: http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=WqOPp_66z2o
Just keep swimming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBtc254NIMc
Using songs:
Hakuna Matata: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRF6N2L4OLY
Man in the Mirror: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5vz6iwV38U
Ain't no Mountain High Enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGBXIK5TZjs&list=RDEGBXIK5TZjs
Stronger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf43LCtGrj4
Time of your life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwnoNVOj1Fs
Let It Go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU
Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-6DJFyVN6M
Zero to Hero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl5MAxwv7dM
Compare/Contrast Themes:
The Lunch Date: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuTZigxUY8
vs. For the Birds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJzQiemCIuY
Verbs:
What is a verb?
Action Verb: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/525584218987186532/
Types of Verbs: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/187180928233903601/
Main Verb and Helping Verb Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e10jJmdTA8
Finding main verb and helping verbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ3p5byovL8
Finding Verbs:
Simple Verb Balloon Pop: http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/verb/balloon_game/
Verbs in Space: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/verbs.htm
Ice Cream Talk (choose Verbs): http://www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm
Multiple Games: http://www.turtlediary.com/games/verbs.html
Verb Tense:
Lesson to teach verb tense: http://www.create.cett.msstate.edu/create/classroom/lplan_view.asp?articleID=75
Treasure Hunt: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/tenses/getting_the_right_tense/flash0.shtml
Past tense starship game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/blastrocket.shtml
Past tense of irregular verbs:
quia: http://www.quia.com/cb/8111.html
quia 2: http://www.quia.com/mc/20459.html
past tense irregular verbs matching w/partner: http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past1-mw.html
lilly pad game: http://www.english‐online.org.uk/games/pasttense.htm
Verb Worksheets: http://superteacherworksheets.com/actionverbs.html
Linking Verbs:
2Bee or nottoobee: http://www.funbrain.com/verb/index.html
Subject Verb agreement:
Intro:http://www.rapides.k12.la.us/schooltech/mcnease/subjectverb.htm
Class Practice: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/sentencebasics/verbsubjectagreement/flash0.shtml
Spaced Out: http://gotkidsgames.com/sv/sv.html
2 Bee or Not 2 Bee: http://www.funbrain.com/verb/index.html
Verb Viper: http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/viper/viper.html
Got Kids Games: http://www.gotkidsgames.com/sv/sv.html
Quiz 1: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/sv_agr_quiz.htm
Writing:
Writing Process: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/o/writingprocess5l.cfm
Extra Resources:
http://www.ezschool.com/Grade5ESheets.html
flip book: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/flipbook/
Skill practice: http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listcompreheta.html
MO Online Testing Info for Students: https://wbte.drcedirect.com/MO/portals/mo