Language Arts Links
Reading Links
Lots of books available to listen to and see online!
This link will take you to our Ottawa Public Library website. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “TumbleBook Library (English interface)” link.
Features well known actors reading storybooks online.
Learn about tricks used in advertising.
Thunderwheel and Thunderwheel Sports Edition
Try to answer as many questions correctly as you can and get in the Top Ten on our high scores list!a general knowledge game targeting all curriculum categories of Grades 1-4. The game encourages your child to develop inquiry skills and touches on the following areas of the Ontario Curriculum.
Test yourself with these brain melting riddles. Be careful not to melt your brain.
Writing Links
An extensive list of sites and software to help practice touch typing.
“Welcome to Dance Mat Typing, an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 – 11 years. Each of the 4 levels are divided into 3 stages. Begin at Level 1 and build up your skills gradually through to Level 4.”
Solve a mystery and write a news story at the same time.
Make your own comic strip!
Poetry Links
It has hundreds of poems to read, write and rate.
Grammar Links
Identify Parts of Speech- Beginner (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)
Identify Parts of Speech- Beginner (nouns and verbs)
Various online graded activities dealing with 5th grade grammar skills
Identify word’s part of speech.
Complete each exercise correctly and collect all 3 coins!
Vocabulary Links
Choose correct meaning of given word to swing in jungle
Find matching pairs
Improve your vocabulary while playing this classic game.
This time you’re a mouse trying to steal cheese from under a cat’s nose. Apparently there are over 7000 words at this site. There are also wordsearches, crosswords and quizzes here as well.
Capitalization and Punctuation Links
Edit sentences with grammatical mistakes
Correct these sentences by typing in correct grammar.
Spelling Links
Spelling Bee List for June 15, 2007
Look, Cover, Write, Check: An effective way to practice spelling.
Choose the correct spelling for each of these commonly misspelled words.
