English
These sites contain concepts related to language activities. You might want to pick a site based upon what you want to learn more about, or because it has activities to enhance your learning.
Writing Den has a different writing topic each month to help you
improve your English.
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Kids' Place produced by Houghton Mifflin has a collection activities such as; Bright Ideas for Writing, Grammar Blast, Evaluation Station and more for English.
Hobbit Hole is a project developed for Think Quest Junior for the purpose of exploring the works of Tolkien, but also to develop language skills related to: parts of words, parts of speech, use of the dictionary, and games related to language.
The Write Site has been developed as an interactive language arts and journalism project by The Greater Dayton Public Television. A great site to learn how to do your research, find data, learn the history of journalism, and more.
Cartoons are another way to express yourself in writing. Emmett Scott's Cartoon Corner is a site where you can learn to draw cartoons, read a story or a cartoon, or solve a puzzle.
Fake Out! is a site dedicated to building vocabulary as you play a game where you try to
guess the right definition or write your own definition for a word and see how many people pick your definition.
Listen & Write is a great site offering four activities, The Rap Realm, The World of Wonderwords, The
Simile satellite, and showcase.
Words and Pictures offers activities to brush up on your phonics skills through colorful interactive games and activities.
Wacky Web Tales allows you to create your own funny stories by typing in your own parts of speech/words to be inserted into a wacky story.
Grammar
Gorillas tests your knowledge of the parts of speech. Play as a Beginner or as an Advance player as you learn about the parts of speech and correctly identify them in a sentence.
Wild World of Words explores and enriches spelling skills. The site includes activities related to spelling, decoding, word building and word meanings.