Good morning, how are you? I wanted to bring you our series featuring Homeschool Resources: Homeschool Resources: Reading Language, Grammar, Spelling, and Vocabulary. Would you take a look at the resources I’ve shared and let me know if you’ve used these with your students. If do what did you like or dislike about the resources and why?
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Lexiteria LLC: Dr. Goodword’s Word Wizard Club– Grades 1-8, approximately, with parental supervision
This archived website is a language lover’s paradise! The host, Dr. Goodword, has amassed an incredible array of helpful tips and activities to improve grammar, spelling, and vocabulary, along with fun interactive games and quizzes, and links to many other related resources.
Some of the fun language arts activities at the website include:
- Game Closet — Try your hand at the Goodword Junior crossword puzzle. A few years’ worth of puzzles are archived here. All the words for each puzzle are available for you to review before you play. These crosswords can be played online (complete with hints and answers) or printed from the Teacher Resources page and completed offline. *Note: Due to the discontinuation of Flash, you will need to print the puzzles. Also in the Game Closet is a huge collection of language jokes and stories about where English and other languages come from. Can you guess how old English is? You can find out here!
- Miss Spelling’s Spelling Center — Find a fun poem to challenge your pronunciation skills (“Spelling Chaos”), six tips for better writing, lists of commonly mispronounced and misspelled words, and more!
- Reference Shelf — This menu item takes you away from the “kids” section, back to the “mother” page for this website called AlphaDictionary.com, where you’ll find articles about the nature of language, correct usage, and other fascinating linguistic tidbits along with word games and activities for teens and adults.
Use the menu to find an array of items from exploration of English word origins and roots, to fun with puns, to text messaging shorthand and more. You’ll also find:
- Slingin Slang: From the Flappers to the Rappers — Did you know that the slang you use/used in high school and college reveals your true age! Or does it? Try this quiz and see!
- Are you a Yankee or a Rebel? — Take the quiz and find out.
- And more!
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
