Reading and Language Arts at YouthPlay.org

This entertaining and educational site for kids, is loaded with fun, interactive stories, games, crafts, activities, and much more. This website is designed for beginners and those parents who are willing to get them started early--designed for pre-Kindergarten the Grade 3. Easy to navigate.

American Literary Classics (Grades 5 thru 12+)

Features "A Chapter a Day" reading. Makes reading these really wonderful American and English works a little less intimidating.

Bartleby.com — Free Literary Resources (Grades 5 thru 12+)

Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students and researchers with free unlimited access to books and information on the web.

Contains a selection of colorful, online books with a focus on nature. Books such as The Swan Story use photos to show how swans hatch and develop in spring. Other titles include In the Autumn, Pond Web, Sebastian's Rhyme, and Sebastian's Waddle.

Common Errors in Engish (Grades 6 thru 12+)

Paul Brians' tool is dedicated to errors in usage--not with grammar in general. The site asserts it is concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, literate executives and personnel officers. Good links to other helpful web resources.

Crunch (Grades K thru 12) Writing!

The National Center of Educational Statisics CRUNCH is an online magazine encouraging student writers to fill its pages. CRUNCH accepts feature articles, art and technology reviews, and creative writing.

Duke University's Writing Studio is a resource designed to assist the university's undergraduate and graduate students with improving their writing skills. But the site contains wonderful tutorials and handouts that can benefit students in any high school or college with improving their writing skills.

Writers' Window is a site for school aged young writers (aged from 5 to 18) to publish their writing. Writer's window will publish all writing that complies with their guidelines. Categories include short stories, poetry, research papers, and television, book and movie reviews. There are also continuous stories that young writers can add to.

FrenchAssistant.com

A free online French teaching tool. Learn and practice using online French language lessons and unique question generator.

Guide to Writing a Basic Essay (Grades 7 thru 12+)

Examines four simple steps designed to guide the essay writing process: 1) decide on your topic; 2) prepare an outline or diagram of your ideas; 3) write your thesis statement and; 4) write the body.

Presented by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, this site offers tips, interviews with professional journalists, career guidance, lesson plans for teachers, and even a journalism skills quiz. Includes a links to high school newspapers around the country, journalism resources, and scholarship information.

This page is designed for youth in Kindergarten through 5th grade. The the site provides creative writing ideas as well as tools for you to test how well you did!

How-to-Study.com (Grades 4 thru 12+)

Simple, cut-to-the-chase guidelines for improving study skills. Designed for adults and youth in elementary grades through college.

This library features books for 3 to 13 year olds in their original languages. A wonderful place to learn about the world. This is a project of the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive.

The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. In addition to KidSpace, the website features a TeenSpace section.

All books are either out of copyright or the copyright holder has allowed free electronic distribution. That's the Litrix Reading Room provides books free of charge to readers. Recommend parents screen books for appropriateness.

This site is the home of an actual classroom in Manassas, VA. In addition to a variety of information on 7^th grade Reading and Language Arts, the website also provides many links to other Reading and Language Art resources for young people of all ages.

Access online encyclopedia, dictionary, maps and several other learning resources. In addition, read great articles on education and learning.

Features fun activities to help young kids develop reading and learning skills. Website also features Fun for Older Kidz section.

A free online Spanish tutorial featuring pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, verb drills, travel helper and cultural notes curriculum.

Provides and authoritative source of information about people, places, events, institutions and many other topics related to the state of Georgia.

The National Film Board of Canada makes movies and they put-together mind-bending websites. This is one of them. Fun and educational place to visit. Kids even get to try their hand at putting together a movie.

Features learning and fun activities for several age groups: Webtots-- Children under six; Webkids--ages 7-9; and Webtweens--ages 9 through 11. Also offers homework help resources.

Simple, clear, and concise website designed to help students construct research papers.

A collection of essays and tips assembled by Doug White. Among the features: "Effective Editing," "An Ethics Checklist," "Succeeding in Broadcast," "Photojournalism Tips," "Creating Good Design," Writing the Editorial," and "Diversifying Your Coverage." Includes a Q&A in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist talks about a humorous article he wrote for his high school newspaper about a drunken game called "Loadball."

Handouts and practice exercises for students aiming to improve their writing and grammar skills. Although certainly targeting college students, this is an excellent development tool for high school students preparing for college.

A learn-to-read website offered free as a public service. Also provides writing journals and books for purchase that can be used with the website or separately. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.

This flash-driven website features a set of original games and interactive mysteries designed to foster literacy and problem-solving. Created by children's book author Peter H. Reynolds and his creative team at Emmy Award-winning FableVision.

Free self-paced, interactive vocabulary puzzles designed to enhance vocabulary enhancement.

An interactive language arts and journalism project for middle schools developed by ThinkTVNetwork, Dayton, Ohio.

KidsCom Write Me a Story invites young people to try their writing skills, share their imagination, read fun stories and maybe even get published on the Internet! Each week kids are challenged to write a story with the character, prop, and place provided by KidsCom. Two works from each age group actually end up in Stunningly Stupendous Stories every week.

WritingDen (Grades 6 thru 12) Writing!

Designed for students in grades 6 through 12 seeking to improve their English reading, comprehension, and writing skills. WritingDEN is divided into three levels of difficulty: Words, Sentences and Paragraphs.

The Young Writer's Club aims to encourage young people of all ages to enjoy writing by getting them to share their work and help each other improve their writing abilities. This site is by kids, for kids. There are interactive storybooks where you can take part in storytelling and there are writing activities such as "Autobiographies" or "Wishes" that you can submit to win "megabyte points" towards becoming "Member of the Year".

The PBS television series and website ZOOM wants your art work, science experiments, media reviews, recipes, plays, brainteasers, home movies, brainteasers, jokes and craft ideas. Some of the work submitted is published on the website and some of it actually makes it to the television show.

We couldn't have made it easier touts ZUZU! And we agree. ZuZu is driven by the contribution of young artists, photographers and writers. The website offers instant submission opportunities for young visitors.

Reading & Language Arts

The best resources on the web for

improving reading, language arts and writing skills.

Alfy -- The Web Portal for Kids (Grades Pre-K thru 3)

Bartleby.com — Free Literary Resources (Grades 5 thru 12+)

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