Language+Arts+Ideas

[|Gr2 Contractions]
 * Grammar**

[|JGB The Black Hen's Egg] [|JGB The Quangle Wangle] [|JGB Nail Soup]
 * Junior Great Books**

Online Stories (AOL site) Online Stories (Mighty Books)
 * Listen to Reading**

[|'swap and stop'] resources for teachers, by teachers Personal D5 [|handbook]by a 2nd grade teacher who uses it (and maintains a blog!) __LWS Signs__: [|Literacy Work Stations Passport.pdf] [|Big Book Task Cards.doc] [|sight words for help folders.docx] Dolch sight words formatted to fit 2 to a file folder: [|Special Spelling.pdf] Book of words for special spelling: More [|ideas] Centers from [|Sherri Sloan] More [|centers] Mrs. McDowell's [|centers] Mad Libs:
 * Literacy Work Stations (LWS)**
 * [|Work on Writing.pdf]
 * [|Wordwork.pdf]
 * [|Readtoself.pdf]
 * [|Partnerrdg.pdf]
 * [|Listentordg.pdf]
 * [|Bigbook.pdf]



[|Cat on the Mat] [|Dots at the Museum] [|The Little Red Hen's Diary] [|Cooking With the Little Red Hen] [|Amazing Grace Main Idea] [|Belling the Cat - new ending] [|Gingerbread Man New Ending] [|Gr2 Fables] [|Gr1 Main Idea Details] [|Book Report Form]
 * Literature and Reading Comprehension**

Starfall, great for SmartBoard, includes printables [|Word Ladder]
 * Phonics**

Poetry Authors and Ideas Poetry Center [|ideas] Beginning of Year [|I Look In the Mirror] October [|October's Colorful Friends]
 * Poetry/Poems**
 * Poems**

Spelling City Word List Generator. [|Spelling Train] [|Make a Word Search] [|Words in Words] [|SpellingComics] [|Rainbow Words] [|Telephone Words]
 * Spelling**

[|ABC Words] [|Flip Words] [|Word study] from Literacy Connections, working and playing with words [|Activities]from Words Their Way Word Work [|center] Blends Activities
 * Word Work**

[|Storybird.com] looks like it has some huge potential for us. They describe their site as "collaborative storytelling." Kids write stories online, which they 'illustrate' with artwork, and then can email or share it with others. It's very exciting. Check out the tour [|here].
 * Writing**