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1. Typing Adventure Level 2
2. Typing Adventure Level 1
3. Typing Adventure Game

Online games are an excellent way for ESL and EFL students to learn and review English reading, phonics, spelling, and vocabulary. Kids' games offer the drill and repetition that children need to master new skills. ESL and EFL students will have fun trying to increase their scores and beat the high scores as their English improves. They can try an English vocabulary game for kids, an English puzzle game, a sorting game, and more. These free English games for kids help children learn English and practice reading and are the perfect follow-up to lessons in school, at home, or online.

• Building Big
• Canva
  http://www.canva.com
• Class Marker
  Test taking
• Discovery Kids
  http://discoverykids.com/
• Game On!
  a collection of online activities for middle school language arts
  https://sites.google.com/site/gameonlearning/la-middle-school-games
• Learn a Language
• Lexile Book Finder
  https://fab.lexile.com/fab/wv/
• National Geographic
  videos
• Puzzle Maker
  http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/?CFID=355277&CFTOKEN=12766806
• Quizlet - Parts of Speech
  Parts of speech activities
  http://quizlet.com/4907039/8-parts-of-speech-definitions-flash-cards/
• Sheppard's Software
  games for multiple subjects

• 8 Reasons Kids Bully
  reasons
  http://www.education.com/slideshow/reasons-why-children-bully/uninvolved-parents/
• Be More Than A Bystander
  http://www.stopbullying.gov/respond/be-more-than-a-bystander/index.html
• Bullies: Innocent Bystanders
  http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/bullies/article5.html
• Do Animals Have Language?
  video
• Don't Just Stand By
  http://www.thinktoday.org/dont-just-stand-by/
• Five Ways to Take a Stand Against Bullying
  http://www.serve.gov/?q=servegov-blog-article/five-ways-take-stand-against-bullying
• How Animals Learn Language
  video
  http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,424741717001_2009072,00.html
• School Uniforms
  pros and cons
• Tales of Bullying
  http://npsd.k12.ri.us/sites/default/files/Tales%20of%20Bullying.pdf
• The Bully and the Bystander
  http://www.greatschools.org/parenting/bullying/593-the-bully-and-the-bystander.gs?page=all
• Zoo - Do First - How Can We Help Endangered Animals?
• Zoos: Most Mammals Have a Greater Life Expectancy in Zoos
  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161107112635.htm

• Braingle
  Brain games
• Jigsaw Puzzles
  www.jigidi.com
• Neuroscience for Kids
  brain games
  http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chgames.html?utm_source=Neuroscience+Newsletter+-+Active+Zone&utm_campaign=8986bf5de1-Neuroscience_Newsletter_Issue_96_28_2011&utm_medium=email

• National Geographic
  http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/leatherback-sea-turtle/
• RADCAB
  Your vehicle for information evalutation
• Turtle Time
  http://www.turtletime.org/presentation/index.html
• World Wildlife

• Being Afraid
  Article
  https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/afraid.html?ref=search#
• Fears and Phobias
  Article
• Fight or Flight Brain
  https://goo.gl/images/XbLpjE
• How Do People Get Phobias?
  Article
  http://www.tweentribune.com/article/tween56/how-do-people-get-phobias/
• Phobias
  Article
• Why Halloween Makes Us Scream
  http://www.tweentribune.com/article/tween56/why-halloween-makes-us-scream/

• Grammar Bytes
• Grammar Girl
  http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl
• Grammar Quizzes
  Great practice!
• IXL - 6th Grade ELA skills
  https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-6
• Owl English
  info and practice with grammar and writing

• Health for Kids
  Health info
• Super Tracker
  https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/

• Anne Frank
• Author Avi
  http://www.avi-writer.com/
• Author Charles Dickens
  http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
• Author Lemony Snicket
• Author Neil Gaiman
  http://www.mousecircus.com/
• Author Ray Bradbury
  genre - science fiction
• Author Sharon Creech
  http://www.sharoncreech.com/
• Author Will Hobbs
  genre - adventure
• Cynthia Rylant
  http://www.cynthiarylant.com/
• Giggle Poetry
• Guys Read
  http://www.guysread.com/
• Harry Potter
• Kids Reads
  http://www.kidsreads.com/
• Poet Jack Prelutsky
• Read Kiddo Read
  http://www.readkiddoread.com/
• Shakespeare for Kids

• Great Achievers
• Inspirational Stories
  http://inspiremykids.com/
• TEDtalks
  Inspiration for middle schoolers
  http://blog.ted.com/10-inspiring-talks-from-tedyouth/
• TEDYouth
  TED talks for youth

• Citation Machine
  use this site to cite your sources :)
• Knight Cite
  http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/
• Persuasion Map for Argumentative Writing
  http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/
• Pics 4 Learning
  free image library
• ReadWriteThink
  http://www.readwritethink.org/

• Animal Rights Group Loses Copyright Suit Over Monkey Selfies
  listening lesson about a court case involving a monkey and selfies
  https://listenwise.com/students/lessons/331-animal-rights-and-constitutional-law
• Audible.com
  Listen to many stories!
• Brain Injuries and Sports
  https://listenwise.com/students/events/1327-brain-injuries-and-sports
• Should Students Ask Alexa for Homework Help?
  listening lesson for using technology for homework help
  https://listenwise.com/students/events/1309-debate-should-students-ask-alexa-for-homework-help

• Anne of Green Gables
  http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/Anne-of-Green-Gables.pdf
• Book Suggestions for Boys
  https://www.readbrightly.com/books-9-12-year-old-boys-love/?ref=PRH80E13FCFB0&aid=randohouseinc47921-20&linkid=PRH80E13FCFB0
• Book Suggestions for Girls
  https://batchofbooks.com/2018/06/middle-grade-books-for-girls.html
• Planetebook
  Free e-books

• A Floating Device...
  https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/tech/ocean-cleanup-catching-plastic-scn-trnd/index.html
• Garbage Patches
• Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

• Pics4learning
  Free images
• Pixabay
  https://pixabay.com/

• Plato
  tutorial, practice, assessment

• Charles by Shirley Jackson
  a short story for middle schoolers
  https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Jackson_Charles.pdf
• Charles by Shirley Jackson from CommonLit
  narrative with numbered paragraphs and vocabulary assistance
• CommonLit
  https://www.commonlit.org/en
• Family Friend Poems
  many categories; many poems
• Learning from Jackie Robinson
  http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3751764
• More Poetry
• News ELA
  https://newsela.com
• Poem Hunter
• Poems for Middle School
  http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/24-must-share-poems-for-middle-school-and-high-school
• Poetry
  many poets and their poems
• Read Theory
  http://www.readtheory.org/
• Readworks
  vocabulary, articles, questions
• ScholasticGo! and others
  http://wvinfodepot.org/
• Short Stories for Middle School
  http://americanliterature.com/middle-school-short-stories
• Short Story Guide
  Short stories for middle school students organized by theme with summaries
• Sports Illustrated for Kids Magazine
  http://www.sikids.com/blogs/from%20the%20mag
• The Literature Network
  books, stories, poems, and more
• The Story Home
  http://thestoryhome.com/
• Time Magazine for Kids
• Tween Tribune
  https://www.tweentribune.com/category/tween56/
• Two Days With No Phone
  article and text evidence assignment
  http://commoncore.scholastic.com/sites/default/files/ACT-090213-CommonCore.pdf
• Wonder
  novel
  http://www.fmms.mps-al.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_394994/File/Floyd%20Middle%20School%20fro%20Mathematics,%20Science%20and%20Technology/Forms/Teacher%20Forms/Wonder.pdf
• Wonderopolis
  get answers to interesting questions
• Youngzine
  current news and events written for young people
• Storyline Online
  https://www.storylineonline.net/
• Open Library

• Sandwich Paragraph Poster
  poster
  https://www.k12schoolsupplies.net/Learning-Chart-Writing-A-Paragraph-p/t-38238.htm?gclid=Cj0KCQjw-O35BRDVARIsAJU5mQXkpbCGOyakjIuASS2CcmEh5Ejcpc73U6nlp9SzbKN5sNjecq4nTrQaAkE5EALw_wcB&click=9

• All About Animals
• Butterflies and Moths
  http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org
• CSI Web Adventures
• Dynamic Dinosaurs
  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html
• Earthquakes for Kids
• Edheads
  http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.shtml
• Engineering - Go For It!
• Glaciers
  http://explore.glacierworks.org/en/
• Goosebumps: The Science of Fear
• Interactive Simulations
  https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new
• NASA
• National Geographic for Kids
  https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
• Saving Wildlife
  Text, images, and videos of wildlife
  https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/highlights-collection-saving-wildlife/sHkn7DbbkuRpWiUU?spMailingID=30244670&spUserID=ODI1MTA2NDE5NzAS1&spJobID=1102152095&spReportId=MTEwMjE1MjA5NQS2#r
• TEDYouth - tiny robots
  studying insects to make tiny robots
  https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_bergbreiter_why_i_make_robots_the_size_of_a_grain_of_rice
• The Hubble Telescope
• The National Zoo
  http://nationalzoo.si.edu/
• The Ocean
• The Sierra Club
  http://www.sierraclub.org/
• The Why Files
  answers to science related questions
• Women of NASA
  http://women.nasa.gov/

• BrainPOP
• CNN News
  http://www.cnn.com/
• CNN Student News
  10 minute news segments
• Desert USA
  http://www.desertusa.com/life.html
• Google Earth
  explore the world
• iCivics
  https://www.icivics.org/
• Learn a Language
  learn foreign languages
• Library of Congress
  https://www.loc.gov/
• MSNBC News
• National Geographic for Kids
  https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
• National Museum of American History
  https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/subjects
• Newseum - A Museum in Washington, D.C.
  Explore one of Mrs. Dillon's favorite museums!
• Presidents
  https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents
• Rock Art and Ancient Discoveries
• Scholastic News
  http://magazines.scholastic.com/
• Social Studies for Kids
• Teaching Tolerance
  focuses on reducing prejudice and learning about all people
• The Civil War
  http://www.civil-war.net/
• This Day in History
  select a date in history to learn what happened on that day
• Travel
  http://www.lonelyplanet.com/places
• What Was There?
  Put history in its place!

• Patriot Paws
  website for warrior performance task
• Warrior Canine Connection and Patriot Paws Connection Videos
  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/special-visit-wounded-warrior-dogs-22894475

• Interview: Ana Dodson
  source for step 2 and 3
  http://www.girlshealth.gov/spotlight/2008/2008_1.html
• Video: Mikey Carraway and Young Person Website 3
  source for steps 2 and 3
  http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/04/living/cnnheroes-young-wonders/index.html
• Young Person Website 1
  source for step 4
  http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/genius-great-111101.htm
• Young Person Website 2
  source for steps 4 and 5
  http://myhero.com/go/directory/page.asp?dir=child

• Artsology
  art games
• Classics for Kids
  http://www.classicsforkids.com/
• Disney Music
• Huntington Museum of Art
  http://www.hmoa.org/
• Leonardo da Vinci
  http://legacy.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
• The Met - It's Not Just Art!
  explore a famous museum in NYC

• Nitro Type
  competitive typing
• Start here! Typing.com
  learn how to type correctly and to increase your speed
• Typing Adventure
  http://typingadventure.com/

Typing Adventure Level 2

• Free Rice
  vocabulary activity
• Language Arts Games - Sheppard Software
  https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm
• List 4 Vocabulary - 8th Period
  Practice for List 4
• List 5 Vocabulary - 8th Period
  https://quizlet.com/405097978/list-5-8th-period-flash-cards/
• Prefixsuffix.com
  prefix and suffix info
• Quizlet
  https://quizlet.com/
• VocabGrabber
  create vocab lists from text
• Vocabtest.com
  https://www.vocabtest.com/
• Vocabulary Pinball
  http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/membergames/pinball/pinball.php?d=1246
• Vocabulary.com
  see how many words you know
• Wacky Web Tales
  http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
• Word Puzzles
  http://lovattspuzzles.com/online-puzzles-competitions/daily-wordsearch/
• Word Twist
  It's the online version of Boggle
• Your Dictionary
  http://www.yourdictionary.com/
• Vocab Ahead
  videos of vocabulary words

Typing Adventure Level 1

• Compare/Contrast Map for Essay
  http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/compcontrast/map.html
• Essay Map
  Guide for writing essays
  http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/essaymap/
• Quill.org
  Interactive Writing Practice
• StoryboardThat
  https://www.storyboardthat.com/
• Venn Diagram
  http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/venn_diagrams/

Typing Adventure Game

• Dialogue Rules
  rules to remember when writing dialogue
• How to Write Dialogue
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvl6yoHuk6Y