Mrs. Visnosky - 5th Grade
Language Arts
Storytown Links
Theme 1: Finding a Way
Plot: Conflict and Resolution
Sentences: Complete, Declariative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory, Interjections
- Punctuation Paintball - Pick a level. Click on the correct punctuation then click on the part of the sentence that needs changing and fire!
- Sentence Clubhouse- Choose the correct punctuation and correct the sentence
- What is a sentence?- Divide passages into sentences
- Sentence Sort- - Select the correct type of sentences; simple, compound, or complex
- Sentence Structure - Select correct sentence structure
Subjects and Predicates, Complete and Simple Subjects and Predicates
- Subject and Predicate Review- This is a game to help review the difference between complete subjects/predicates, simple subjects/predicates, and compound subjects/predicates
- Complete, Subject or Predicate- Game/Quiz
Theme 2: Common Goals
Sentences: See Above
Sequence
- Sequencing Fun - Many to select from
- Dr. Stripp - Reading Ring - Put the comic strips in sequence, then answer questions about the comic strip
Subject and Predicate: See Above
Theme 3: Go with the Flow
Compare and Contrast
- Compare/Contrast - Online Tutorial and quiz. Pencil and Paper activities can be found at this link.
- Compare/ contrast- interactive whiteboard activities (skip introduction; click on compare and contrast activities)
- A Fishy Story - read story online, then answer questions in Word or on paper
- Compare and Contrast - practice quizzes
- Dig It! - interactive story predicting the outcome
- Compare and Contrast - online practice
Singular and Plural Nouns
- Plural Girls- Type in correct plural form of words
- Fish Tanks- Type in the correct plural form of the word
Common and Proper Nouns
- Rats!- Catch the correct type of nouns in a basket
- Noun Dunk- Decide if the word is a common or proper noun or not a noun
Possessive Nouns
- Possessives and Reflexive Pronouns Quiz - online graded quiz
- Quia- match singular and possessive nouns with their plurals
- Harcourt School Quiz- Possessive Noun
- Softschool- Possessive Noun Quiz
Pronouns and Antecedent
- Pronoun Clubhouse- Choose the correct pronoun to replace the noun
- Personal Pronouns Game- 3 levels of activities
- Grammar Blast!- Pronouns
Theme 4 Dare to Be Great
Making Inferences/Drawing Conclusions
- http://www.iq.poquoson.org/conclusion.html- online quiz
- Drawing Conclusions - Read the story and choose the correct word to complete the sentence
- Drawing Conclusions - Read the story and choose correct answer
- Iditarod Dream
- Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
- Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Seventh Grade
- The Case of the Shining Blue Planet
- The Cricket in Times Square
- The Fun They Had
- We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente
- Theme Park Favorites Draw conclusions about theme parks by analyzing data in tables and graphs.
- Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
- Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Seventh Grade
- The Case of the Shining Blue Planet - Draw Conclusions
- The Cricket in Times Square
- Iditarod Dream
- The Fun They Had
- The Talent Show - Draw Conclusions
- We`ll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente
Subjective and Objective Pronouns
Possessive and Reflective Pronouns
Theme
- http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/plotp.cfm- determine if piece is best associated with setting, theme or plot
- Understanding what you read - Online interactive tutorial and quiz
- Reading Exercises- Multiple passages with questions
Adjectives and Articles
- Rats! Adjectives and Adverbs
- Grammar Blast!
- Interactive Whiteboard Activity- Picture of elephant- student list describing words and then write sentences (easily replicate in Kidspiration)
- iKnowthat.com- SuperNova Sentence Puzzlers with Jupiter Jane (Adjectives)
- Easy Articles
- Easy to Medium
- Difficult
Main and Helping Verbs
- Verb Phrases - Find the complete verb phrase
- Verb Practice - Many student tasks and online tests practicing verb usage
- Linking Verbs - Identify types of verbs in this online quiz
- To Be - Present and past tense online quiz
- Be - Verb usage online quiz
- Irregular Verbs - Jeopardy type game for two players
Theme 5- Making a Difference
Morse Code Translator: Lesson 19
Author's Purpose
Literary Devices (Reading Rocket and Test Tutor from Harcourt)
- My Side of the Mountain - Literary Devices: Figurative Language
- My Side of the Mountain - Literary Devices: Point of View
- The Summer of the Swans - Literary Devices: Point of View
- Trapped by the Ice! - Literary Devices: Figurative Language
Answering Questions
Action and Linking Verbs
Verbs: Present Tense, Past Tense, Future Tense
- Jupiter Jane- Primary (G1-3)
- Jupiter Jane- Intermediate (G4-6)
- Grammar Blast Verbs Game
- Grammar Blast Verbs Game 1
- Simple Present Tense
- Helping Verb Test
- Go for Gold- helping verbs
Forms of Be
- Quia Game: Irregular Verbs I Play this game by yourself or with a partner and test your knowledge of irregular verbs
- Quia Game: Irregular Verbs II Try these Flashcard and Concentration games to learn more about irregular verbs
- Irregular Verbs Quiz 1
- Irregular Verbs Quiz 2
- Irregular Verbs Quiz 3
- Irregular Verbs Quiz 4
- Look, See or Watch
- Regular and Irregular Verbs Can you tell irregular verbs from regular ones? Complete these sentences on the whiteboard
- Go for a Grammar Gold Play this quiz and try to get a grammar gol
Perfect Tense
- Say What?- quizzes
- Present Perfect
- What have they just done? Present Perfect
- Quia- Present Perfec
Subject and Verb agreement
- Quia
- Treasure Hunt- BBC Skillwise
- Quiz- BBC Skillwise
- Capital Community College- PowerPoint to download and three quizzes at bottom
Theme 6- Feats of Daring
Summarize and Paraphrase (Reading Rocket and Test Tutor from Harcourt)
- Black Frontiers
- Flood
- Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi
- Folk Tales from Asia
- How to Babysit an Orangutan
- I'm in Charge of Celebrations
- Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary
- Nights of the Pufflings
- Old Yeller
- Papa Tells Chita a Story
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
- Woodsong
- Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope
- Black Frontiers - Summarize and Paraphrase
- Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi - Summarize and Paraphrase
- Folktales from Asia - Summarize and Paraphrase
- How to Babysit an Orangutan
- I`m in Charge of Celebrations
- Look to the North
- Nights of the Pufflings
- Old Yeller
- Papa Tells Chita a Story - Summarize
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People`s Ears
- Woodsong - Summarize and Paraphrase
Fact and Opinion (Reading Rocket and Test Tutor from Harcourt)
- Boom Town
- CyberSurfer
- Dive! My Adventures in the Deep Frontier
- Leah`s Pony
- Satchmo's Blues
- The Secret Life of Trees
- William Shakespeare & the Globe
- Boom Town
- CyberSurfer - Fact and Opinion
- Dive! My Adventures in the Deep Frontier - Fact and Opinion
- Leah`s Pony
- Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox - Fact and Opinion
- Satchmo's Blues
- William Shakespeare & the Globe - Fact and Opinion
Irregular Verbs- see above
Contractions
- Type in the Contraction
- Contraction Games Play these contraction games
- Concentration/Matching Learn contractions while playing the Matching or Concentration game
- Go For Grammar Gold Read the explanation of contractions and negatives, then try the interactive quiz
- A Bed Full of Cats interactive quiz
- Fly By Game Test your knowledge of contractions with this interactive game
Adverbs
- Adjectives/Adverbs - Change adjectives into adverbs in this online quiz
- Adverb Quiz
- Quia: Adverb Battleship Game
- Quia: Rags to Riches
- Jupiter Jane Adverbs- grades 1-3
- Jupiter Jane Adverbs- grades 4-6
- Comparing with Adverbs
- Adverbs
