Language Arts Resources and Activities

by Mr Kurt S Candilas MAE English 2 February 14, 2014

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1. Turnitin.com
is an excellent tool for guarding against plagiarism in college and high school classrooms. Both student and teacher utilize the database of more than one million student-generated papers to determine the amount of material that may be considered plagiarism.

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2. paperrater.com

is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics

professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing.

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3. vocabulix.com provides numerous free tools for learning Spanish, German, or English. Vocabulix can be used to create quizzes or take quizzes online. Vocabulix provides dozens of drills and activities designed to help students learn Spanish, German, or English.

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4. Smart.fm is a free service designed to help you learn languages, mathematics, and history independently. At it's most basic, Smart.fm provides a flashcard-like service for learning languages, learning formulas, and learning facts. You can hear the flashcards read to you, read the flashcards, and play games based upon the flashcards you're studying.

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5. Forvo.com can best be described as an audio wiki for word pronunciations. One of the problems with learning to speak a language that is not phonetic is trying to figure out how to pronounce the words. It hosts hundreds of recordings of word pronunciations by native speakers. Currently there are nearly 200 languages supported on Forvo.

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6. makebeliefscomix.com is a free comic strip creation tool that provides students with a variety of templates, characters, and prompts for building their own comic strips. Make Beliefs provides students with a pre-drawn characters and dialogue boxes which they can insert into each box of their comic strip.

Language Arts Activities

1. Pick a stick Each student comes up and picks a stick out; they have to place the word in the right cup. Then, after all sticks have been sorted, students can choose one stick from each cup and create a sentence using all three words. A great informal assessment!

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2. Writing Prompt Craftivities: Jungle Animals is a fun way to add a craft to a writing prompt. There is a craftivity for each of the following eight jungle animals: zebra, monkey, toucan, giraffe, hippo, snake, tiger, and lion.

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3. Prepositions: Vocabulary for Beginning Readers Students will pick an action figure from the collection and take pictures of that figure in places that demonstrate different prepositional phrases, i.e. under my desk, then they will write the caption for each picture using the correct prepositional phrase.

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4. Our Bubble Bursting Gum These project turned out to be a fun & creative way to share several of the major standards. The project incorporated the following: Timeline (The History of Gum) /Facts/Opinions/How to Writing (Written by students for parents to follow)/Compare/Contrast (Types of gum).

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5. Identifying idioms through pictures Examples: Head over heels in love To pull someones leg

References
Byrne, R. (2010). Free Technology for Teachers. Retrieved February 11, 2014 from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/05/10-resourcesfor-esl-and-foreign.html#.Uvl89vmSyVr http://www.pinterest.com/mickibranden/language-artsactivities/