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English Games, Activities, & Worksheets!

June 5th, 2013

Hi!  It’s Wednesday,  June 5, 2013, and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

FunEnglishGames.com

Age Range:  5-10 (grades K-5 approximately, with parental supervision)

This ad-supported website offers free English language games, activities, worksheets, quizzes and more! Designed for classroom and ESL teachers, you’ll find learning activities and resources that can easily be used for home learning.

When you get to the website, you’ll see a brief introduciton and some highlighted features.  Use the menu at the top of the page to access:

Games – Play interactive games that help kids learn and improve upon reading, writing (including debate!), grammar, vocabulary, and spelling skills.

Activities – Enjoy a line-up of fun online language arts games based on familiar board games and television game shows.

Worksheets – Get printable worksheets and activity pages that reinforce language arts skills.

Quizzes – Test your knowledge on grammar, parts of speech, spelling, and more.

You’ll also find videos that  include songs, nursery rhymes, and short instructional clips for learning English.

Because this website contains randomly generated advertisements, parents (as always) should preview the site and supervise all Internet activity.

 

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Free Spelling Games & Activities for K-12!

April 3rd, 2013

Hi!  It’s Wednesday, April 3, 2013 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

Vocabulary Spelling City

Age Range: 5-17 (Designed for grades K-12, but most of the activities are geared for elementary grade students.)

This ad-supported website offers free activities and games to help students improve their spelling and vocabulary skills. The activities include audio recordings so you can hear every spelling word pronounced, and also hear it used in a sentence. You can use the word lists provided at the site, or enter words from your own spelling list to generate teaching games and quizzes.

In addition to the freebies, the site offers a “Premium Membership” for a fee – but you don’t need to purchase a thing to access the following:

*Spelling Test Me – Take quizzes to test your spelling skill  on words covering myriad topics such as science, math, history, etc. Try spelling contractions, Dolch Sight Words, SAT Vocabulary and more.

*Spelling Teach Me - Students can choose from predetermined word lists or enter their own spelling words, and then engage in a classic spelling learning method that includes visual and auditory modalities in each lesson.

*Spelling Games and Activities – Play word search, word unscrambles, word matching games and more – that are generated from word lists available at the site or customized from your own word lists.

You’ll also find free, printable handwriting worksheets, and games that teach concepts such as alphabetizing and sentence structure.

Students will naturally intuit how this site works. Parents may find the FAQs helpful in understanding how the site works, and the many features it offers.

Again, you can access the basic games and activities absolutely free without registration.  If you want to save your word lists, then you must register for an account (at no cost). You can also purchase a “Premium Membership” that includes a variety of “extras” that you can learn more about at the website.

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Foreign Language Learning Games

March 16th, 2013

Hi!  It’s Saturday, March 16, 2013 and time for Foreign Languages at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Digital Dialects

Age Range: All (with parental supervision)

This website offers a variety of interactive online games that help foreign language learners acquire basic language skills in a relaxed and fun way. Audio files have been incorporated into some of the animations so you can hear the correct pronunciation of the words and sentences.

As explained at the website, you’ll find “The world’s major languages, with a cross-section of languages from diverse regions,” represented including:

  • Arabic
  • Bosnian
  • Cantonese
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Farsi
  • French
  • German
  • Gree
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Maori
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swahili
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Vietnamese
  • And many more!

When you get to the site just click on the language of choice. A new page opens with a selection of games. Some languages have more than others and the menu may include:

  • Animals
  • Clothing
  • Colors
  • Days and Months
  • Food
  • Fruits & Vegetables
  • Numbers
  • Phrases & Greetings
  • Units of Time
  • Verbs
  • Verb Conjugation
  • Vocabulary

Geography games that help familiarize learners with the locations of cities in countries are included for just a few of the major languages.

This is a terrific educational tool to enhance learning foreign languages.

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Creative Writing Worksheets & Much More!

December 5th, 2012

Hi! It’s Wednesday, December 5, 2012 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

TLSBooks.com: Free Worksheets

Age Range: 4-11 (grades Pre-K to 6, with parental supervision)

This ad-supported website offers a wide array of free, printable Language Arts worksheets that provide creative writing prompts and activities for students from Pre-K through Middle School.

When you get to the site, just scroll down the page to see the creative writing worksheets that include:

*Themed Acrostic Poems – Use these worksheet outlines to write poetry about the seasons and months of the year.

*Quotation Worksheets – Read a quote by a famous person from literature or history (i.e., Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Helen Keller, Abigail Adams, Ben Franklin, etc.), and write about what it means to you.

*Miscellaneous Creative Writing Worksheets – Write a story to go with a picture, and use worksheets with writing prompts.

You can also print out stationery and thank you notes to use at will.

Be sure to use the menu in the left margin to access free Language Arts worksheets that help students learn and practice:

  • Alphabetizing
  • Rhyming
  • Dictionary Skills
  • Vocabulary

And do Word Search puzzles that teach punctuation, vowel sounds, literary terms, and more. You’ll also find “Handwriting” and “Spelling” worksheets on the menu too.

A big plus to this site is that it also offers free worksheets for all of the following subjects:

  • Foreign Language
  • Geography
  • History
  • Math
  • Music
  • Science
  • And more!

Bookmark this one – you’ll want to return often.

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Free, Fun Etymology Games!

November 28th, 2012

Hi! It’s Wednesday, November 28, 2012 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

I thought it would be fun to play some games that teach the origin of words – which can be very helpful when it comes to honing spelling and vocabulary skills.

Recommended Websites:

See Below

Age Range: Varies (with parental supervision)

Funbrain: Rooting Out Words – Uncover the meaning of root words with this fun game for kids. Levels: easy, medium, and hard.

QUIA: Greek & Latin Root Words Match Game – Like the game “Concentration” just match the root word with its meaning.

Etymologic: The Toughest Word Game on the Web – In this challenging etymology game for advanced wordsmiths, you’ll be presented with 10 randomly selected etymology (word origin) puzzles to solve. Choose the correct answer to score a point for that question. As explained at the website, “Beware! The false answers will often also seem quite plausible, and some of the true answers are hard to believe!” This is a goodie for those preparing for SAT exams!

And of course, I couldn’t forget this popular word game that we’ve featured on ClickSchooling previously…

Free Rice: Define Words and Feed the Hungry! – At this website, you can take a multiple choice quiz to define words and feed the hungry at the same time! It doesn’t cost a thing to learn vocabulary and help end world hunger!

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Literacy Through Greek Mythology!

October 24th, 2012

Hi! It’s Wednesday, October 24, 2012 and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

MythWeb

Age Range: 9 and up (with parental supervision; younger children may enjoy aspects of this site))

This commercial website offers many free resources to help students learn about Greek mythology! Learn about the gods, creatures, and heroes from ancient Greece that equip kids to understand vocabulary and references in literature, poetry, the newspaper, blogs, and all forms of communication and entertainment. Consider these basic examples provided at the website:

  • In tribute to Hercules and his Labors, a huge or heroic task is said to Herculean.
  • The Midas touch, or the gift of profiting from whatever one undertakes, is named for a legendary king of Phrygia.
  • A book of maps gets its name from Atlas, the Titan who supported the heavens on his shoulders.

You’ll find many more examples in the “Teachers” section of the website that you can access from the home/landing page. It also includes free suggestions for mythology-themed activities and lesson plans designed to build skills in creative writing, vocabulary development, and art appreciation, along with two free downloadable ebooks titled, “The Heroic Myths” and “The Illustrated Odyssey.”

When you get to the site you’ll see a main menu that includes:

*Gods - Learn about 12 deities that dwelt on Mount Olympus through engaging text and colorful graphics.

*Heroes – Read the comic-book-style biographies of Jason, Hercules, Bellerophon, Theseus, Odysseus and Perseus – in English or Latin! Print them out to read offline too!

*Today – Find out how the Greek myths are relevant today.

*Encyclopedia – Get definitions and descriptions of various characters, places, and events in Greek mythology.

You’ll also find links to other websites with more in-depth information about Greek mythology.

This website is actually a commercial site that offers a CD-ROM of a Greek Mythology game for sale. However, that is one small aspect of this mostly free educational site.

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