Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: 6 Steps to Helping Students Set Strong Reading Goals
This site offers six steps to helping students set strong reading goals. It all starts with inspiring your students to think about who they are as readers.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Guide for Determining Text Complexity
An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.
Starfall
Starfall: Let's Be Pals
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
Starfall
Starfall: Giving
This interactive focuses on giving to others. Children can read independently or click on the ear to have sentences read to them.
Josie's Poems
Josie's Poems: "The Bestest Baboon"
A poem about a baboon who takes a trip to the moon.
Josie's Poems
Josie's Poems: "The Bestest Dog"
A poem about the best dog and all the things he can do.
Josie's Poems
Josie's Poems: "Homes"
A poem about the different types of things and places animals call home.
Josie's Poems
Josie's Poems: "Our World Is Full of Animals"
A poem about many different kinds of animals in the world.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Writing Poems From Dragonfly Facts
In this activity, learners create rhyming poems, first as a class, then on their own, using facts that they have learned about dragonflies.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Memory Game for Kids
Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal memory before writing about it. If they need help with a memory, they can click the magic button to help spark their memory. Their writing should include sensory details.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Wacky Word Game for Kids
In this game, young writers click on the three word buttons producing nouns and verb until they find a combination they like for a creative writing. Students can launch a VERY creative story when some wacky nouns and verbs come together.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Color Game
Click the buttons to get a unique starter for a descriptive piece of writing. You can make up a story, a poem, anything you like.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Idea Game for Kids
How can using your five senses help you tell a better story? Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal topic before writing a story about it. If they need help with ideas, they can click the magic button for story...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix:a Right Brained Writing Prompt: Serendipitous Alliteration: Letter S
Students use the alliteration generator to spark an idea for an alliterative narrative using the letter "S" and focusing on word choice and playing with words. An online page and a word choice checklist are provided for students to type...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A 6 Trait Writing Lesson: Emotional Recipe Write Ups
The writer studies the format of well-written recipes, paying particular attention to the type of verbs used in the paragraph of instructions which always follow the list of needed ingredients. Next, the writer thinks up a story or...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Fern's Poetry Club
An excellent site for children about the definition, examples, and types of poetry. Students can click nodes such as "What's a Poem?", "Read More Poems," or even "Write a Poem."
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Words That Describe Feelings
Read the poem to learn about words that describe the senses and feelings then complete the practice page for extra review.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Plain Words and Fancy Words [Pdf]
Students learn about the differences between words with similar meanings by placing them in the right column of a graphic organizer.
Other
Magnetic Poetry: Original Magnetic Poetry Kit
Move word tiles from the word bank onto the board to create sentences and poetry. Share final poems by emailing them to up to three addresses.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star: Writing Activity
Be inspired to write your own simple story or poem by choosing a picture from this collection of child-centered illustrations.
Other
Play Magnetic Poetry: First Words Magnetic Poetry Kit
Students click and drag the words on magnetic tiles to write poetry. Their are options to add words, start over, and/or save and share their poems.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place Pre School Library: What Color Is It?
Students' are interactively presented with various objects and asked what color the objects are. Students' click on the correct color.
EL Education
El Education: Kids Book of Poetry
Students write acrostic name poems, sensory poems, and how-to poems and compile them into a class book of poetry.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sensory Details
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.