Resources for the CRCT
Words & Word Origins
Words & Word Origins
Learning Games
- Roots and Their Families
- Greek & Latin Roots Skills
- Short Circuit: Stems Practice (Flash Animation Game)
- Feast of Homonyms
- Commonly Misused Words & Phrases
- FunBrain: Rooting Out Words
- Free Rice (uses knowledge of stems for educated guessing)
- Etymologic; the toughest game on the Internet
- WordWorks: Suffix, Prefix Word Game
- Game Ideas (for the classroom)
Assessment
- Printable Quizzes: Houghton Mifflin
- Notorious Confusables
- Homonym Quizzes
- BBC Homophone Quiz
- BlueBook Grammer Quizzes
- Quiz 1: Confusing Words and Homonyms
- Quiz 2: Confusing Words and Homonyms
- Word Pairs (quiz)
Research Links & Printables
- Context Clues: Kids Lab
- Homonyms: Definition/explanation and a list
- BBC Factsheet Homophones
- WordOrigins.org
- Online Etymology Dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com/
Grammar & Punctuation
Grammar & Punctuation
Learning Games
- Eats, Shoots, & Leaves: Punctuation Game
- Rats! (LearningPlanet.com)
- Go Grammar: Basic Skill Practice Games
- Grammar Games: British Council
- FunBrain: Grammar Gorillas
- FunBrain: Parts of Speech (click on any of the Madlibs)
- Alien Word Mine (try the Intermediate level)
- Scholastic: Maggie's Earth Adventures
- FunBrain: Verb Tense Agreement
- Punctuation--Fullstop
- Punctuation Paintball
- Commas Game: BBC Skillswise
- Apostrophes Game 1: BBC Skillswise
- Apostrophes Game 2
- Power Proofreading
Assessment
- @School: Punctuation
- Interactive Quizzes (look under "punctuation," "capitalization," and "basic parts of a sentence")
- Grammar Bytes!
- ElfNet Grammar
- Printable Quizzes: Houghton Mifflin
- Grammar Blast: Punctuation 1
- Grammar Blast: Punctuation 2
- Grammar Blast: Punctuation 3
Research Links & Printables
- Dialogue: Punctuation, Capitalization
- Punctuating Dialogue (page 16-23 only)
- Dialogue & Punctuation Rules---blah, blah, blah
- Grammar Guide: Quotation Marks
- Grammar Guide: Apostrophe
- Grammar Guide: Semicolon
- Grammar Rock (song lyrics)
Net Trekker Research Links (works at school only)
Sentences & Transitions
Sentences & Transitions
Learning Games
- Sentence Sort: Harcourt
- BBC Compound/Complex Sentences Activity
- BBC Compound/Complex Sentences Revision Bite
- BBC Skillswise: Putting Sentences Together
- BBC Language Structure Activity
- Go Grammar: Basic Skill Practice Games
- Power Proofreading: Houghton Mifflin
Assessment
- Quiz 1: Sentence Combining
- Quiz 2: Sentence Combining
- Quiz 3: Combining Sentences
- BBC Skillswise Homepage
- BBC Quiz: Compound/Complex
- BBC Quiz: Language Structure
- BBC Skillswise: Putting Sentences Together
- Quiz A--Compound & Complex Sentences
- Quiz B--Compound & Complex Sentences
Research Links & Printables
- Factsheet: Making Sentences
- Factsheet: Putting Sentences Together
- Net Trekker Research Links--Transition words and phrases (works at school only)
- Compound Sentences--Explanation
Figurative Language & Poetics
Figurative Language & Poetics
Learning Games
- Earobics: Wizards and Pigs
- Idiomania: online practice
- Poetry BBC Activity
- Poetry BBC Revision Bite
- Fling the Teacher
- Drag and Drop Metaphor
- Quia: Flashcards
- Eye on Idioms (RWT)
Assessment
- Quiz Yourself on Figures of Speech
- Poetry BBC Quiz
- Idiom Quizzes
- Quia: Figurative Language Quiz
- Poetry Terminology Quiz
- eLibrary--Fig. Lang. Quiz
- Literature--Determining Meaning
- ThinkQuest--Fig. Lang.
Research Links & Printables
- Features of Poetry BBC
- Quia List of Poetic Terms
- What is Figurative Language?
- Poetry as We See It
- Quia: Definition of Poetic Terms
- Glossary of Poetic Terms
- Poetic Techniques & Figurative Language
- RhymeZone.com
- Figurative Language, examples and definitions (BBC)
- Figurative language, more examples
- Figurative language: Shakespeare Insults (pdf document)
- Figurative language: Shakespeare Compliments (pdf document)
- Figurative language: Graphic Organizer (pdf document)
- Brain Pop: What's the difference between homonyms, antonyms, synonyms
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