Matching lower case and upper case:

Have some fun! Try these websites!

Israel, Judaic and Hebrew Studies

Special Links Used in Our Skokie School

Beginning Language Arts Resources

Advanced Language Arts Resources
Math

Other Valuable Websites to Visit

Searching the Web

Israel, Judaic and Hebrew Studies


Hebrew Verbs
http://www.hebrew-verbs.co.il/

Hebrew Keyboarding Tutor
http://www.zigzagworld.com/HKTutor/hten.htm

A family friendly site about Israel
http://babaganewz.com

Informational site in Hebrew-best viewed with a Hebrew enabled computer
http://www.galim.org.il

JewishVirtual Library
http://www.us-israel.org

Torah Tots
http://www.torahtots.com/home.htm

Israel
http://israel21c.com

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Special Links Used in Our Skokie School

Skokie Solomon Schechter Learning Center-Search our holdings using Alexandria online

http://10.2.1.14

BrainPop! This is a subscription site-our UserName and Password are only to be used at school but you can set up a home account if you’d like.

http://www.brainpop.com

Answers.com

http://www.answers.com

Inventions

http://inventionatplay.org/index.html

Skills practice across the curriculum

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise

Use this site to learn to draw pictures (you will need a piece of paper and a pencil)

http://unclefred.com

Library of Congress American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml

Dictionary Resources

http://www.dictionarylink.com/

Book Reviews

http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/gallery/reviews/intro.htm

The Skokie Public Library

http://www.skokie.lib.il.us/

The Children's Book Council

http://www.cbcbooks.org

Award Winning Children's Literature

http://www.dawcl.com/

Pics for Learning

http://www.pics4learning.com

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BEGINNING LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCES

Practice names and sounds of letters at:

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f

Play memory match with letters at:

http://www.dositey.com/language/mgamelet.htm

Match lower case and upper case letters at:

http://www.netrover.com/~jjrose/abc/alpha1.htm

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/zoo_a/zoo1x.htm

Practice beginning sounds at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dg2.shtml (three levels)

Practice ending sounds at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dg1.shtml (three levels)

Practice blending beginning and ending sounds at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/blender/index.shtml

Identify pictures of words that start with different letters at:

http://www.kiddonet.com/gb/flash/phonics/Intro.html

Listen to a word and click on the written word that matches:

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/pounce.html

Practice rhyming at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dg3.shtml

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/reggie/index.htm

Fill in the missing letter of the alphabet at:

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/abcow2.html

Practice alphabetical order at:

http://www.little-g.com/shockwave/library.html (put the books away in the library)

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/dots.cgi (dot to dot)

Practice missing letters in words at:

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ears.html

Practice letter sounds in words at:

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f

Practice long vowels at:

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/long_vowel_grk1_nav.htm

Practice short vowels at:

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/name_pict/name_pic1.htm

Practice word families at:

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_1st_lang.htm

Practice reading high frequency words at:

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/high_fre/hifreq1.htm

Print or work online to complete different levels of crossword puzzles at:

http://www.smartcrosswords.com/

Match pictures of compound words at:

http://www.getreadytoread.org/games/game3/shell.html

Complete the rhyme at:

http://www.nelsonthornes.co.uk/primary/phonics/game_c_3.htm

Identify words as common nouns, proper nouns or not nouns at:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/basketball/index_pre.html

Practice end of sentence punctuation at:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g1c26/nadia.htm

Identify the type of sentence and correct punctuation at:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/clubhouse/index_pre.html

Build sentences at:

http://fen.com/studentactivities/WallOfWords/wow19.html

http://www.myschoolonline.com/page/0,1871,34898-119831-38-47337,00.html

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ADVANCED LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCES

Unscramble nursery rhymes at:

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nursery.htm

Practice words with suffixes at:

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/suffixes/suffix.htm

Create compound words at:

http://www.quia.com/mc/123083.html

Practice antonyms at:

http://www.quia.com/mc/3974.html

Practice homonyms at:

http://www.funbrain.com/whichword/index.html (two levels)

Match synonyms at:

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/matchgeneric.asp?filename=kderittesynonyms

Practice proofreading at:

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm

Practice prefix, base word and suffix at:

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/cgi-bin/phonics/wbw/fishtanks.pl?pre=&base=&suf=&Submit=Continue&ind=0&lastright=true&correct=0&wrong=0

Practice analogies at:

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/analogies/analogiesx.htm

Practice word meanings at:

http://www.fekids.com/kln/games/wordjungle/ (click on “word jungle” and pick your grade level)

Practice contractions with an online crossword puzzle at:

http://www.abcteach.com/wordpuzzles/onlinecross/contractions.html

Play four levels of grammar at:

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html

http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/preview/harcourt_language/grammar_park.html

Identify parts of speech (beginner and advanced levels) at:

http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html

Identify sentences as simple, complex or compound at:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index_pre.html

Practice subject-verb agreement at:

http://www.aliscot.com/bigdog/agrsv_exercise.htm

Identify subject and predicate at:

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g2c2/nadia.htm

Play inference battleship at:

http://www.quia.com/ba/41785.html

Practice identifying texts as descriptive, persuasive, informative or instructive at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/typesoftext/game.shtml

Practice drawing conclusions at:

http://www.iq.poquoson.org/conclusion.html

Evaluate six advertisements to determine what they are selling at:

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=4&act=2&que=1

Practice reading a passage and answering questions at:

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/main/reading.html

Identify the main idea of a passage at:

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=11&act=4&que=1

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/rosie/skill_pre.html

Match samples of writing with the author’s purpose at:

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/term/matchgeneric2.asp?filename=kderitteauth

Identify the purpose of a passage at:

http://www.citycol.com/basic_skills/Quizzes/Purpose/reading_purpose.htm

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MATH

Quia

http://www.quia.com/shared/math/

Educational Java Programs

http://arcytech.org/java/

Illuminations

http://illuminations.nctm.org/

Interactivate

http://shodor.org/interactivate/

Rainforest Math

http://www.rainforestmaths.com

Virtual Manipulatives

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/grade_g_2.html

Math activities and games (works best in Explorer)

http://www.coolmath4kids.com

Math activities

http://www.mathplayground.com

Eduplace Math

http://www.eduplace.com

321 Know

http://www.321know.com

A Plus Math

http://www.aplusmath.com/

AAA Math

http://www.aaamath.com/

Graphing

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/

Cyberchase

http://www.pbskids.org/cyberchase/games.html

Multiplication

http://www.multiplication.com/

Houghton Mifflin Math-a-Rama at: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/index.html

Opportunities to practice grade-level skills in the following ways:

Extra practice gives questions related to different topics covered in the grade.
Extra help provides auditory and visual lessons in the different subjects covered in the grade.
E-games give students a chance to practice important concepts in fun ways.
Brain Teasers give students a chance to extend their thinking in the different topics covered in the grade.
E-manipulatives give students a chance to use online manipulatives to solve problems. Students can use this for the extra practice, games or brain teasers.
Weekly Reader Connections offer students a chance to look at connections from their math work to science, music, social studies, art and more.

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OTHER VALUABLE WEBSITES TO VISIT

General Resource

http://www.askforkids.com/

Online Keyboarding: Touch Typing (Click on "English Regular Keyboard" to start)

http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/

Puzzlemaker

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Science Activites

Edheads.org

http://www.edheads.org

Internet4Classrooms at: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm

Choose grade level skill practice in the areas of Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies.

Funbrain at: http://www.funbrain.com/

Choose a grade level and play Math and Language Arts games.

Local Libraries’ Children’s Reading Lists

Northbrook - http://www.northbrook.info/lib_kids_booklists_links.php
Skokie - http://www.skokielibrary.info/s_kids/kd_booklists/index.html
Deerfield– http://www.deerfieldlibrary.org/babr.htm
Glenview – http://www.glenviewpl.org/booksandreading.htm
Winnetka-Northfield – http://www.wpld.alibrary.com/youth/lists.asp

SEARCHING THE WEB

Ask http://www.ask.com

Encarta http://www.encarta.msn.com

Pics4Learning http://www.pics4learning.com/ Copyright-friendly source

Picsearch http://www.picsearch.com/ Family-friendly picture searching

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