Good morning, welcome to our series sharing Homeschool Resources: Homeschool Resources: Reading, Shakespeare & Grammer. I would like to ask you to take a look at the homeschool resources I’ve shared with you and let me know if you’ve used any of these resources with your students.
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It’s Wednesday, May 18, 2022, and time for Language Arts at ClickSchooling!
Barnes & Noble: SparkNotes.com: No Fear Shakespeare
Grades 9 & up approximately, with parental supervision
This ad-supported website, created by SparkNotes whose mission is “to help you make sense of confusing schoolwork,” offers a free translation of Shakespeare’s works into modern-day language. You can actually see Shakespeare’s works side-by-side with a translation into the kind of English people actually speak today.
When you get to the website, you’ll see a list of Shakespeare’s works including:
- As You Like It
- Hamlet
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- The Merchant of Venice
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Taming of the Shrew
- And much more!
Click on any title and a new page opens with the table of contents of that particular work. Click on any Act/Scene and a new page opens displaying the original text and the modern text.
This is a terrific resource tool that promotes understanding and makes this literature more accessible.
GrammarPlanet is a comprehensive and completely online grammar, punctuation, and usage curriculum. GrammarPlanet will help you or your students master the mechanics of English, become a more confident writer, and even prepare for high-stakes testing.
FunBrain: Grammar Gorillas– Grades PreK-8, with parental supervision
As we celebrate National Pet Week, today’s websites are centered around gorillas. It will have your kids swinging on vines…
Did you know that “Grammar Gorillas” is also a term used to describe any feature of grammar that people find particularly challenging? At this site, learn various parts of speech and grammar with this fast-paced, fun, and interactive game called “Grammar Gorillas.”
Most people don’t have pet gorillas. However, in Woodside, California there was a very unusual “pet” gorilla named Koko, who had learned to sign over 1,000 words and could also understand spoken English! Here are a couple of websites that feature Koko and her uncanny ability with language arts:
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
