http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ela4/wwwords1.html -This website lets you create "a making words activity" for the students to play on the computer and print out results. It's nicely laid out and fairly simply to follow.
http://www.webster.comis an amazing place! It's the Merriam Webster site. I've used it with 3rd grade up. It will pronounce words for the students to hear. It is both a dictionary & thesaurus & has bonus features like word of the day, word games. There is a section called the language zone that I found entertaining and educational.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/desktop/index.jsp-An interactive site ivisual thesaurus. It has a 3D interactive interface that shows word relations, antonyms, synonyms, definitions, and the words used in context.
Publishing Opportunities for Students: Crunch http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/crunch/ShowOff.asp- Are you a writer?A poet? Perhaps you're a top-notch muser. Whatever you are, how about sharing that creative genius on-line. Kids Online Magazinewww.kidsonlinemagazine.com- Click on the "Send Us Your Writing Link". Stone Soupwww.stonesoup.com- This magazine is for young writers and artists. Consider sending your work here. Word Dancewww.worddance.com- Word Dance is a quarterly non-profit creative writing and art publication that is 100% for and by kids (K-8th grade). The magazine contains no advertising and is professionally designed. Young Writerwww.mystworld.com/youngwriter- Young Writer (paper edition) is an international magazine featuring the best in English language creative writing from children aged 5 to 18 from around the world. Zuzuwww.zuzu.org - Click on the "Creative Writing" link to read student stories. Then try to submit your own.
http://www.superkidz.com/authors.html - Write to Authors. This teacher has had students write to authors for the past 8 years, and the authors almost always write or send us something back to the students!
