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scroll down to see the extensive list of practice/study links for grammar, reading, writing, and thinking skills!
General Links
Brainpop - available daily until 5:30 p.m.
Common Core Georgia Performance Standards for Language Arts
More information about the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards
Study Skills Resources and Videos (Cornell University)
Common Core Georgia Performance Standards for Language Arts
More information about the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards
Study Skills Resources and Videos (Cornell University)
Grammar
***State-recommended practice
6th-Grade Language Arts Study Guide
Grammar Bytes practice (recommended as part of the Common Core Standards)
Grammar Bytes presentations
Practice with Sentence Fragments and Run-On Sentences
Rags to Riches: Simple Subject and Simple Predicate
What Is an Appositive?
Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences
Rags to Riches: Sentence Structure
Using Pronouns
Pronouns
Pronouns - OWL
Pronouns: Shifts in Subject and Person
David Appleyard's Comprehensive Guide to Grammar and More - Grammar Glossary, Words Often Confused (homophones), spelling rules, regular and irregular verbs, and downloadable literature.
The University of Ottawa's HyperGrammar
Free Rice - Testing your vocabulary skills is especially fun!
6th-Grade Language Arts Study Guide
Grammar Bytes practice (recommended as part of the Common Core Standards)
Grammar Bytes presentations
Practice with Sentence Fragments and Run-On Sentences
Rags to Riches: Simple Subject and Simple Predicate
What Is an Appositive?
Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences
Rags to Riches: Sentence Structure
Using Pronouns
Pronouns
Pronouns - OWL
Pronouns: Shifts in Subject and Person
David Appleyard's Comprehensive Guide to Grammar and More - Grammar Glossary, Words Often Confused (homophones), spelling rules, regular and irregular verbs, and downloadable literature.
The University of Ottawa's HyperGrammar
Free Rice - Testing your vocabulary skills is especially fun!
Reading
Check your reading material's Lexile level
Lexile.com: Find a book
Using Lexile at home
Reading Comprehension Practice
More Reading Comprehension - grades 1-8
Finding a Paragraph's Main Idea
Determining Tone and Mood
Combining Sentences - quizzes are at the bottom
More-Advanced Sentence-Combining Practice - practice is at the bottom
Connotation and Denotation
Story Elements PowerPoint
Short-Story Elements - CCGPS
More About Figurative Language
Figurative Language Hangman
Dictionary.com - look up words online and hear their pronunciations!
Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Free Rice - Vocabulary
Vocabulary - SAT words (and other languages)
Summer Reading Lists for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades
Quia context-clues games:
Game 1 Game 2 Game 3
Taylor Swift interview with Scholastic
Usher interview with Scholastic
Lexile.com: Find a book
Using Lexile at home
Reading Comprehension Practice
More Reading Comprehension - grades 1-8
Finding a Paragraph's Main Idea
Determining Tone and Mood
Combining Sentences - quizzes are at the bottom
More-Advanced Sentence-Combining Practice - practice is at the bottom
Connotation and Denotation
Story Elements PowerPoint
Short-Story Elements - CCGPS
More About Figurative Language
Figurative Language Hangman
Dictionary.com - look up words online and hear their pronunciations!
Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Free Rice - Vocabulary
Vocabulary - SAT words (and other languages)
Summer Reading Lists for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades
Quia context-clues games:
Game 1 Game 2 Game 3
Taylor Swift interview with Scholastic
Usher interview with Scholastic
Writing
Purdue Online Writing Lab
What is a thesis statement?
OWL APA Style and Formatting Guide
APA Template (5th ed.)
MLA Style
Transitions
What is a thesis statement?
OWL APA Style and Formatting Guide
APA Template (5th ed.)
MLA Style
Transitions
Research
Spelling
Other useful links
Propaganda Video with examples
Analogies - game for one or two players
More Analogies - game for one players
How do I dress for success?
Analogies - game for one or two players
More Analogies - game for one players
How do I dress for success?
Project Tools
_Chartgo - make all sorts of charts and graphs online
Timetoast - make a timeline
Blabberize - choose a character to convey your message or information!
Weebly - make your own Web site
Comic Creator - design your own comic strip
Book Cover Creator - design a new cover for a book you have read or for your own book
Make a Flip Book
Make a Stapleless Book
Timetoast - make a timeline
Blabberize - choose a character to convey your message or information!
Weebly - make your own Web site
Comic Creator - design your own comic strip
Book Cover Creator - design a new cover for a book you have read or for your own book
Make a Flip Book
Make a Stapleless Book
Just for Fun
Parent and Teacher Links
Griffin-Spalding County School System - dress code, handbook, discipline handbook and code of conduct, plus much, much more
Rehoboth Road Middle School
Infinite Campus Parent Portal
Performance Matters
GSCS e-mail
Infinite Campus (Teacher Login)
Aesop
Rehoboth Road Middle School
Infinite Campus Parent Portal
Performance Matters
GSCS e-mail
Infinite Campus (Teacher Login)
Aesop