Good morning, welcome to our Homeschool Resources: Language Arts. I would like to ask you to take a look at the resources below and if you have used them leave me a comment and let me know what you thought of these resources and why.
MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach
MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach is an effective online reading program that improves reading abilities. It permits students with diverse skills and unique needs to learn with control and precision.
Grades 5-12, with parental supervision
This website offers a variety of interactive word puzzles and games that will enhance your Language Arts curriculum.
When you get to the site you will see a menu of word activities that include:
- Word Searches – Find the hidden words themed around topics such as: The Body, Medieval Times, Varieties of Cheese, Horses, The Bible, Winter, Palindromes, Aviation, North American Birds, Car Parts, Calendar, Vowels – and many, many more. Just keep clicking the “next” button at the bottom of each page to see them all.
- Associated Words – Think of a single word that goes with the word given, to form a compound word.
- Word Fragments – Using the word fragment provided, think of a word that contains the fragment — that is, you must form a word by adding letters to the beginning and/or the end of the fragment.
- Garbled Proverbs – In each of these puzzles, a proverb is written with exactly one letter of each word replaced with another. Can you figure out what the original proverb is?
- Cryptograms – Cryptograms are encoded sayings or quotations where each letter has been substituted for another. Can you decode them?
- Language Puzzles – Challenging puzzles about words and language. Put your thinking cap on!
When you are through exploring the “Word Puzzles” portion of the site, you may want to try the “Word Boxes.” Word Boxes are like miniature crossword puzzles, except that each word is filled in across and down the grid.
This site has number and logic puzzles too. In fact, there is so much content here that we were unable to review it all. Therefore, AS ALWAYS, parents should preview the site to determine suitability for their own children.
Reading Assistant Plus uses patented technology to listen as the student reads each word aloud and delivers immediate support whenever a learner struggles with or mispronounces a word.
Easy Fun School – Language Arts
Grades All Grades, with parental supervision
When you get to the site, you’ll see a menu of the free Language Arts & Literature Activities that includes:
- Language Arts, Miscellaneous – Get a list of commonly misspelled words, make a “Book Report Sandwich,” get high-interest activities for reluctant readers and writers of all ages.
- Suggested Reading Lists – Explore the “Best Books” for young adults over the years, books for the college bound, and discover the Caldecott Medal and Newbery Award winners.
- Unit Lessons/Studies and Word Searches – Find an assortment of complete and incomplete unit lessons along with some word searches themed around classic literature including:
- The Swiss Family Robinson
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Alice in Wonderland
- Treasure Island
- Anne of Green Gables
- Bunnicula
- Charlotte’s Web
- The Hobbit
- How to Eat Fried Worms
- James and the Giant Peach
- Johnny Tremain
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Little House on the Prairie
- The Secret Garden
- Velveteen Rabbit
- Wizard of Oz
- Where the Wild Things Are
When you’re through exploring the Language Arts resources, head over to the home page for more free lessons and activities for many subjects including history, art, science, and nature studies.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
