Cumberland Valley School District
6746 Carlisle Pike,
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
Phone:(717) 697-8261

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Main Ideas Practice
Practice finding the main idea. Choose a shrot biography to read and then answer the questions that follow. Great biobgraphies!
Informational Essay Map
Map out your Informational Essay before you write it! This website prompts you to what you need to include in your essay.
Compare and Contrast map
This site prompts you to what you need for a informational writing that compares and contrasts two things.
Study Island
For assignments I've given in class click here. It's great practice!
Online Thesaurus
Need just the right word for that writing. Need to add descriptive adjectives or lively adverbs. This ling is for you!!!
Solver - Making words
In this game, word clues are coded and you must help decode them. Each six-letter code has been scrambled. Discover as many words as possible that can be made from those letters within a two minute time limit (getting the original six-letter word will give you the highest points!) The only downfall is that it is limited in the number of words it uses.
Anagrams
Mix up the letters in a word, phrase, or even your name and see what you can come up with.
Quotations
The oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994. They have over 26,000 quotations online from over 3,100 authors, and more are added daily.
Interactive Elements of a Story
This site features an interactive explanation of each literary element, which is then followed by a series of activities to enhance students' understanding. Students will be asked to put plot developments into the correct order, select appropriate settings and characters, and sort events and exposition.
Interactive Spelling Bee
Contestants -- that's you! -- in grades 1-8 will listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story. Students in high school will listen to separate sentences and then spell the words from each sentence.
Creative Writing Prompts
Use the creative writing prompts and creative writing ideas to create stories, poems and other creative pieces from your imagination.
Free Rice
For each word you get right, they donate 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger.
Book Covers
Create covers for student-created reports or books with this interactive site. Choose from several styles: front and back, front only or full dust jacket. Templates for covers with text only or text and illustration are included.
Mystery Cube
Biography Maker
This site will walk you through the process of creating an awesome biography. Use it!!!
Learn a language
Provides more than 80 different free foreign language courses on line. French, German, Spanish, Latin, and Russian are included, as well as a huge number of less-studied languages, including Native American, Scandinavian, Eastern European, and Asian languages.
American Sign Language
Find a work, click and learn how to "say" the word in sign language.
Translator
Translate your words to another language. Cool!
American Indian Language
variety of links and resources for American Indian languages, including full courses, grammars, fonts, and other resources.
Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Interactive site with fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Not your typical feel good fairy tales. Sponsored by National Geographic.
By Gosh
Children's classic books are available to read online.
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project
Over 1,200 antique children's books published in the 19th and early 20th century.
International Children's Digital Library
The ICDL is building an international collection of quality children's literature from 27 cultures in 23 languages.
Classic Book Library
Children's Literature has some great online stories.
Aesop's Fables
Includes 38 fables in traditional and modern forms.
 


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