ELA Links
NOTE TO PARENTS: I have provided the websites below for educational use by your child. Please take note that because of the nature of the Internet, and the world wide web in particular, it is still possible to access a series of links that may lead to information that is not appropriate for children. In other words, in spite of my efforts to supply appropriate material and links on this page, parents should supervise children while they surf the web. The Marlboro Township K-8 School District recommends that before allowing your children to travel the web, you visit "Parents Guide to the Internet" by the U.S. Department of Education or the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Guide to Internet Safety" with your family.
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| Sample Writing Pieces This site contains samples of various types of writings, ranging from grade 6 to grade 8. Use this to site as a model to help you with your writing. |
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| Grammar Quizzes (Transitions) This website is especially helpful for practicing using transitions. Click on "Connectors" and see if you choose the right transition that belongs in the sentence. |
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| Practice Your Vocabulary & Donate Rice This fun website allows you to test your knowledge of vocabulary words, while donating grains of rice to those in need. |
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| Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary If you're having trouble understanding a vocabulary word, this website is extremely helpful. It allows you to view a word and see its relationship (through a graphic organizer) to another word. |
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| Word Central Go to this website to increase your vocabulary while playing fun games. |
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Quia: Testing Your Knowledge of Analogies
Do analogies confuse you? Use this website to practice choosing the right word for the given analogy. |
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| Word of the Day Poem This website features poems based on a different word presented each day. If you like to write poetry, this is the site for you! You can also submit poems, with teacher and parent permission. See me for details. |
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| Writer's Almanac This website allows you to search for poems by title, author, or date. |
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| Poetry Everywhere Do you want to see poetry come to life? This site offers 12 animated films of poetry made by college students. Seeing the visual pictures and hearing the narrator read the poems aloud truly assists you in understanding the poem. |
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| Knowing Poe This interactive site devoted to Edgar Allen Poe is fun and educational. You can hear his poems read aloud, learn about cryptic messages, and even see your own sentence turned into a secret message! |
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| N.J. Dept. of Education Peruse this website to find up to date information about standardized tests. |
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| American Library Association This site provides various booklists for young adults, most of which contain books that won literary awards. Remember that reading frequently and independently greatly improves comprehension. The more you read, the more you know! |
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| Inferring Riddle Game Try to figure out the riddle by making inferences. This is a fun way to practice the skill of inferring. |
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| Standardized Testing Practice Parents and students, view this website to see sample questions. You can even watch tutorial videos and take a practice test. While the test is no longer PARCC, NJSLA is set up very similar and includes the same concepts for literacy and writing. |
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| Top 150 Best-Selling Children's Books of All Time Looking for a new read? Try one of the books on this list! |
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| Lexile Website If you're looking to challenge yourself, or would like to make sure you're reading novels within your lexile range, use this website. Within a range from 100L below to 50L above his or her Lexile measure, a reader is expected to comprehend the text well enough to understand it, while still experiencing some reading challenge. Please keep in mind, as well as lexile, content, author's style, and figurative language can also determine the level of difficulty of a piece of literature. |
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| Skill Builder Lessons Struggling with non-fiction? Need help with synthesizing? This website has links to various lessons used to assist you. |
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| How to Use Google Drive Includes how to manuals |
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This is the website we first used to test your typing skills. When assessing yourself, it is best to use this one. For practice, use any of the others.
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