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Links for Staff
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Things to Do Before/During/After Reading
Jim Burke offers ideas ranging from creating a pantomime to
drawing a map of the story/book setting to interrupted
conversations and many more! |
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The Aesop for
Children
Aesop for Children contains
the text of selected fables, color pictures, video,
and interactive animations, and will be enjoyed by
readers of any age.
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Author
Name Pronunciation Guide
Ever wonder how to pronounce a
children's book author or illustrator's name. Find out here. |
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Author Sites:
Kindergarten -
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Between the Lions: Get Wild
About Reading
National initiative to
support the National Reading Panel's latest research on reading |
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Bookwink
Bookwink's mission is to
inspire kids to read. Through podcasting and web video, we hope
to connect kids in Grades 3 through 8 with books that will make
them excited about reading. |
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Chateau
Meddybemp's Fun with Letters
"When children are taught the
alphabet in school, they are encouraged to learn and imitate one
basic typeface. Yet the world around them uses hundreds. So we
invite you and your child to hunt for examples of each letter.
If your examples appear in several different typefaces, that's
great. Talking with your child about the similarities and
differences you discover helps your child recognize the
characteristics that make an a an a and they will learn that not
all a's look the same -- concepts essential for good reading
skills." |
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Children's Book
Council
Author & Illustrator sites: links to authors
and illustrators of children's books who are published by
member publishers and whose web pages showcase their books. |
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Children's Literature Web Guide
"Internet resources related to books for children and young
adults" |
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Database of
Award Winning Children's Literature
The purpose of this database is to create a
tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to
find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards. |
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FreeReading
Instructional program for teaching literacy in
K-3 |
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Get Ready
to Read
A reading source targeted specifically to
young readers. The program delivers research based strategies to
parents and teachers. Includes many helpful features from a
reading assessment with appropriate games and activities that
are determined by test results to interactive reading games. |
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Guys Read
A great site to help motivate boys to read
more. |
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Harcourt Trophies
Harcourt School Publishers site
Harcourt Trophies
Includes PowerPoint's that go along with our reading units and
even has activities for
SmartBoard
users. There is a key that tells you what is available with
SmartBoard. From
the Kyrene School District in Tempe Arizona.
Harcourt Trophies Activity Pages |
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Harcourt Trophies 2nd Grade
Activities designed to coordinate with the
stories in the second grade book from Harcourt Trophies.
(Harcourt) Second Grade Internet Activities
Activities designed to coordinate with the
stories in the second grade book from Harcourt Trophies. |
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Houghton Mifflin
EduPlace: English
Includes links to Grammar Quizzes, Grammar
Enrichment, Vocabulary, Shape-Book Patterns, Graphic Organizers,
Benchmark Papers, Rubrics, and more. |
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Index to Internet Sites:
Children's & Young Adult's Authors and Illustrators
Includes
Jan Brett's site |
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Johnnie's Story
Page
Includes interactive stories and activities
for beginning and older readers.
SmartBoard |
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The Lexile Framework for Reading
Learn all about Lexiles and
search for the Lexile score for many books at this site. For a
conversion chart from Lexiles to Fountas & Pinnell levels, visit
this site
Lexile - Grade Level Conversion Chart |
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LiteracyHead: The Storytelling Issue
Lessons for teaching literacy through
art |
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Myths &
Legends
Interactive sit for those who like a good
story and for those who enjoy telling a fine story.
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Nancy Keane's
Children's Literature Website
A goldmine of over 5,000 booktalks for K-12 and
links to hundreds of reading lists. |
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Picturing Books
A website about picture books.
Includes all aspects from elements to use. Addresses both a child and
adult audience.
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Reading A-Z
Downloadable materials to teach guided reading,
phonics, the alphabet, and much more. |
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Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets' mission is to
take research-based and best-practice information and make it
available to as many people as possible through the power and
reach of television and the Internet. |
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ReadWriteThink
Features
standard-based lesson plans that integrate technology into
classroom instruction. "Provides educators and students access
to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and
language arts instruction." |
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Regie
Routman
The resource for Regie Routman's reading
strategies and program. |
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Scholastic Teacher Book Wizard
Level books, create book lists, etc. A great
site for guided reading assistance. |
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Scholastic, Reading Counts e-catalog
A source for
Lexile, Guided Reading,
grade point, etc. |
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Share
What You're Reading
Children can read and write book reviews. |
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Story-It:
Language Arts Resources for Children and their Teachers
Games and fun stuff for use with the
SmartBoard. |
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The Story
Starter Jr.
Get a random story-starter sentence. Just one
click of a button and you’re on your way. |
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Storyline
Online
Members of the Screen Actors Guild reading
children's books. |
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Story Starters by Scholastic
Generate a creative story starter, pick a
format, print your story. |
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Teach Them
Poetry
Use Bruce Lansky's funny poetry to encourage students to write their own! |
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TeachingBooks.net
TeachingBooks' mission is to generate
enthusiasm for books and reading by bringing authors,
illustrators and engaging resources about books for children and
teens to every school, library and home. (No username and
password needed at school. For home use, check in the LMC.) |
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Wonderopolis - Wonder of the Day
Provides a quick learning activity every day. |
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VOCABULARY |
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Etymologic: the toughest etymology (word origin) game on the Web
If
you think you know a lot about word origins and etymology, it's the
perfect time for you to try ETYMOLOGIC, a tough and educational word
game ...
http://www.etymologic.com/
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Fake Out!
Choose one of the following words, and guess its definition. Grades K-2.
... More Words. Choose one of the words below, and write your own fake
definition. ...http://www.eduplace.com/fakeout/
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FunBrain.com - Kids Center
[Quiz Lab]. Word Confusion Do you know the difference between these
words? ... Infoplease Word of the Day Strengthen your vocabulary. ...
http://www.funbrain.com/words.html
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Funster multiplayer word games
Funster multiplayer word games- fast-paced and addictive! Compete, chat,
and become friends with others online. ... Funster Multiplayer Word
Games. ... http://www.funster.com/
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Merriam-Webster
Online
Merriam-Webster provides a free online
dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word
games, and other English language resources. ...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/game/
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Solve Word Puzzles and Play Interactive Word Games On-Line
Free on-line interactive word games, boggle, anagrams, puzzles,
crosswords, cryptograms, cryptoquotes, jumble. Play and solve word
games. wordplays. ...
http://www.wordplays.com/
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Vocabulary, Free Word Puzzles and Activities
Vocabulary University participants learn English vocabulary in context
(grades 5-12) with free word puzzles. Thematic word games and creative
activities. ...
http://www.vocabulary.com/
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Vocabulary.com
[Level 1 - High Elem] [Level 2 - Jr. High] [Level 3 - SAT/College Prep]
[Thematic] [Word Activities] [VU Campus] [Classic Texts] [Registration].
... http://syndicate.com/
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Vocabulary
University
Site of vocabulary puzzles intended to "enhance vocabulary
mastery." |
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Word Games
... 9, WORD GAMES. things to do, So many words, so many ways to
play with them! ... If you can't get enough of word games then
Word Well is right up your alley.
http://www.bonus.com/bonus/list/n_wordplay.right.html
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WordCentral.Com - Dictionary - Daily Buzzword - Word Games ...
Merriam-Webster's Word Central offers kids a student dictionary, Daily
Buzzword, and interactive word games. Includes homework help ...
http://www.wordcentral.com/
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Working
With Words
Working With Words is an activity
that helps students understand how
words work. It helps them work with
articulation of words, segmentation of
words,
sequencing of letters and sounds in words, and word patterns and
chunks. It is better than
traditional phonics instruction because it engages the child in the
slow articulation of words and sorting letters to make the words.
The activity is always linked to
literature or a theme unit the class is
doing. |
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WRITING AND SPELLING |
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6 + 1 Scoring Guide
Analytic model for writing assessment. |
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6 + 1 Writing Process
"The 6+1 TraitTM
Writing framework is a powerful way to learn and use a
common language to refer to characteristics of writing as
well as create a common vision of what 'good' writing looks
like." |
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Bubble US
Simple to use and easy to learn tool to
help people organize their ideas in a way that makes sense
to them. |
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Cowbird
Allows students to keep an
audio-visual diary of their life, and to
collaborate with others in documenting the
overarching sagas that shape our world
today. Sagas are themes and events that touch
millions of lives and shape the human story.
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Inkless
Tales: Animated Alphabet, Online Stories and More
A site that includes great opportunities for students and
teachers
SmartBoard Friendly |
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Interactives: Elements of a Story
A fun and interactive way to learn the
elements of a story.
SmartBoard Friendly |
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Kerpoof
Easy to use technology that allows children to create and
publish their own stories. |
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KidsWwwrite
A place for students to publish their
writing online. Includes a book review section. |
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Myths,
Folktales & Fairy Tales by Scholastic
Activities for writing with tips from the best authors. |
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Poetry Theme
Unit
Part of the EdHelper site. You need to
register in order to view the unit. |
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Shadow Poetry
"...Examples of different types of poetry.
Most of the definitions have at least one example of each
particular type of poetry for better understanding. All
examples were provided by the members of Shadow Poetry or
previous Egroup. More definitions for related poetry items
may be found in the Shadow Poetry Handbook (link located
above). As a bonus, we feature poetry forms created by
selected poets as new and challenging writing styles. Try
not only the traditional forms, but some of the rewarding
invented formats as well." |
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SpellingCity
Designed to help with spelling tests. Has
over 35,000 spelling words and eight spelling games.
Thousands of free spelling lists. Students and teachers can
save their own. |
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Spellingtime.com
Free interactive spelling tutorial resource. Take
a week of spelling lessons from Monday to Friday and
integrate this site into your classroom. |
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Storybird
Storybirds are short art-inspired stories
you make to share, read, and print. Read them like books,
play them like games, and send them like greeting cards.
They're curiously fun. |
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Welcome to Writing Fix
Site full of ways to fix writing for everyone. Includes 6
Traits, writing prompts, journal ideas, etc. |
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Welcome to Great Source iWrite
"The Write Source is a
development house of teachers and writers who specialize in
handbooks for students of English and writing at elementary
school, middle school, junior high, and high school levels." |
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Will You
Type With Me?
Allows for simultaneous, real-time editing by multiple
users. Each user's contributions are color-coded, and a time
slider at the top of the page provides a second-by-second
timeline of the document's progress. |
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WORD CLOUDS
ABCya Word
Clouds for Kids
Tagxedo
Wordle |
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Writing Fun
An interactive writing help site that
includes downloads to save for off-line use. |
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The Writing Process
The purpose of this site is
to provide a user friendly online resource, for students or
teachers, no matter what they are being challenged to write. |
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The Writing
Teacher
Educators wanting ideas and feedback on how
to help students become better writers can look here. |
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Zoo
Burst
Create 3D pop-up books. This is a digital storytelling tool
that is designed to let you easily create your own
customized virtual pop-up book. |
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