Below is a listing of websites that you might helpful throughout the year; some are for help with homework while others are games that will help sharpen your grammar and spelling skills. A few of the websites are related to topics that we will cover this year like poetry. There are also links to Scholastic and Barnes & Noble's teen book sections. These links are meant to be useful tools so please use them and add them to your own bookmarks 
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Games & Homework Tools:
New York Times Student Crossword Archives: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/student-crossword-archive/
Homework Spot- Middle School English: http://www.homeworkspot.com/middle/english/
Funbrain: http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html
Parts of Speech Games: http://www.gamequarium.com/partsofspeech.html
Vocabulary Games: http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
Reading & Books:
Scholastic: http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/
Barnes & Noble Teen Books: www.barnesandnoble.com/u/teens-teen-books/379003056/
Grammar & Reference:
Rhyming Dictionary: http://www.rhymezone.com/
Self-Study Grammar Quizzes: http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html
Grammar Bytes: http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm
Commonly Misspelled Words: http://www.esldesk.com/vocabulary/misspelled-words
Poetry for Kids: http://www.42explore.com/poetry.htm