Check the readability level of your writing. Just copy and paste your writing into the window and press calculate. It will tell you the grade level of your audience based on the words you have chosen to use. Be sure to spell check first!
The sentence in yellow is rated at a 7th grade level! What do you think?
Could you understand it?
Should I rewrite it and try to get it to a 3rd grade level?
Suggested Daily Computer Activities
Monday - Post 2 comments - ICQ (I statement, positive comment and a question)
Tuesday - Create a new page called - Story Title , student number (Balto2) Summarize the plot in 3-5 complete sentences.
Wednesday - List 3 main characters by name and describe each of them in 1 sentence. Name the setting of the story on the same page.
Thursday - Grammar Games from the Thursday LA Links page. Free Choice, when finished with previous assignments.
Friday - Type final draft of writing assignment on Neo and post to available computer on a new page in your own folder.
GRAMMAR GAMES - Practice makes permanent!
A great collection of 3rd Grade Skill/Activities
List of pdfs for LA
During Reading/ELA rotations, when you complete assigned tasks, you may explore these sites.
Internet4Classrooms - Grammar and Reading Links
Literacy Games - Loads of them!
http://www.flocabulary.com/teacher_free_songs_videos.html
Cause and Effect
Fact or Opinion
Eye on Idioms
Step with Idioms
Parts of Speech - Nouns
Parts of Speech - Adjectives
Inferences
Context Clues and Animal Adaptation
Main Idea
PREFIX SUFFIX PRACTICE
Fish tank (prefix, base, suffix)
Prefix match
Prefix jig-words
Prefix MatchWord
Crystal Castle (in- and im-)
Flamingo (-y and -ly)
im- prefix
Prefix quiz
Latin and Greek roots and prefixes
Rooting out Words
Suffix quiz
-less or -ment
Suffixes - -less, -ness, -ly, -ful
List of links to ELA Practice from Maize Elementary