Typing Adventure Com



Learn how to type and play free typing. We keep track of the keys that you miss often here, so you can practice them and improve. We need you to get some more progress under your belt first though.

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

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.


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A Mixed Bag
  • 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
Argument Essay Sources
  • 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
Brain Food
  • 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
Evaluating Sources Using RADCAB
  • 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
Fear Unit
  • 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/
Great Grammar
  • 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
  • Health for Kids
    Health info
  • Super Tracker
    https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/
I Love Literature!
  • 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
Inspiration and Motivation
  • 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
Lessons and Interactives
  • 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/
Listening Lessons and Audiobooks
  • 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
Novels
  • 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
Ocean Garbage Patches
  • 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/
Pics and Images - Free
  • Pics4learning
    Free images
  • Pixabay
    https://pixabay.com/
Plato
  • Plato
    tutorial, practice, assessment
Read All About It
  • 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
References
  • Sandwich Paragraph Poster
    poster
    https://www.k12schoolsupplies.net/Learning-Chart-Writing-A-Paragraph-p/t-38238.htm?gclid=Cj0KCQjw-O35BRDVARIsAJU5mQXkpbCGOyakjIuASS2CcmEh5Ejcpc73U6nlp9SzbKN5sNjecq4nTrQaAkE5EALw_wcB&click=9
Typing Adventure Com
Science
  • 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/
Social Studies
  • 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!
Sources for Warriors and Canines
  • 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
Sources for Young Wonders Performance Task
  • 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
The Arts
  • 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
Typing
  • Nitro Type
    competitive typing
  • Start here! Typing.com
    learn how to type correctly and to increase your speed
  • Typing Adventure
    http://typingadventure.com/
Word Play

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

Writing
  • 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/
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YouTube

Typing Adventure Game

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