“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow…”

Here are some links and ideas to encourage summer writing, spelling and vocabulary skills:

Keyboarding practice sites:

11 Sites and Games to Teach Kids Typing the Fun Way

Typing Club

 

Story Jumper!    Wonderful site where students can create and write books online for free.  If you choose, you can also order hard copies of books your children write.

Fun site that helps you come up with some creative writing ideas—check it

out…Let’s Get Creative: http://www.brucevanpatter.com/funstuff.html

Writing Bugs: Get some fun writing ideas, and print out pages to write them on.

4th Grade Language Arts Skill builders 

Practice grammar, punctuation and spelling skills using Every Day Edits:

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml