English/Language Arts
Click below to see some of the sites students will be using in our classroom. You are encouraged to use these sites at home with your children.
Bookopolis.com (www.bookopolis.com) - Online reading log and book recommendation site for Elementary and Middle School Students.
FreeRice.com (http://www.freerice.com/) - Helps improve students vocabulary.
Knoword.org (http://knoword.org/) - Vocabulary Game that allows students to practice matching definitions to terms
Vocabulist.com (https://vocabulist.com/) - Allows students to upload a document and the program extracts the words and adds the definitions to the words. Students can adjust the definitions if they are not correct.
Thesaurus.com (http://thesaurus.com/) -Help find the best words for your assignments.
Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/) - Quickly find the correct spelling for a word.
Vocabulary.com (http://www.vocabulary.com/lists/40039#view=note_s) - 6th Grade Common Core Vocabulary Termsca
Big IQ Kids http://www.bigiqkids.com/SpellingVocabulary/Lessons/wordlistVocabularySixthGrade.shtml
Reading Lists
Suggested Reading Lists for Middle Schoolers(http://www.phschool.com/curriculum_support/reading_list/middle_school.html) - Pearson Prentice Hall has posted a list of suggested books for Middle School students.
North Carolina Young Adult Book Awards (http://www.ncslma.org/ncyaba) - We will be adding these books and introducing the book awards in our classroom this year to encourage reading outside of class.
*Please be advised that I have explored all portions of the websites above for which I have provided links. However, I have not explored any links that originate from outside of these sites.
Revised on 7-19-16