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Books and Literature
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Children's Literature Web Guide, The This site is a good place to start from when looking for internet resources related to children's books. |
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Booklist For more than 90 years Booklist has been the librarian's leading choice for reviews of the latest books and more recently, electronic media. |
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Books for Youth Books by grade level. |
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Candlelight Stories Offers message boards, classroom writing ideas, pen pals, stories and more. |
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Children's Bookwatch, The Reviews of hundreds of children's books. |
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Classics for Young People A growing number of children's literature classics are out of copyright, and are among the books available in full-text on the Internet. Here are some of the more popular and interesting titles that are available in HTML format |
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Dr. Seuss Online |
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Fairrosa's Cyber Library of Children's Literature For adults who study children's literature. |
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KidPub WWW Publishing |
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Little House on the Prairie This is the first home page devoted to Laura Ingalls Wilder and her nine Little House books, and is the most comprehensive. |
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Reading Corner, The |
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Reading Recovery Reading Recovery is a preventative one-on-one tutoring program developed by Marie Clay, a New Zealand child psychologist. The program targets first-grade students whose reading skills place them in the lowest 10 to 20% at their school. |
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Stone Soup Now in its 27th year, Stone Soup brings young readers thought-provoking stories, heartfelt poems, and beautiful art by their peers worldwide. |
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Stories on the Web If you like books and stories then come on in to 'Stories from the Web'. You can read stories, email authors, write reviews and even write your own stories. It's all here at 'Stories from the Web'. |
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Fairy Tales
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Intermediate Literature
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Listening & Speaking
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Ask ERIC Lesson Plans |
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Clowning Around (A Game) The object is to correctly identify one clown by eliminating the others. |
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Getting to Know You (Activity) Students interview classmates and then introduce their partner to the class. Discuss and note the differences between direct and indirect quotations. |
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How Can Parents Model Good Listening Skills Parents can model good listening behavior for their children and advise them on ways to listen as an active learner, pick out highlights of a conversation, and ask relevant questions. |
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I Am Unique (Activity) To increase student awareness of the uniqueness of each individual within the class. |
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Learning Strategies Database Activities that direct students to reinforce only good concentration strategies. In other words, don't reinforce learning behaviors that represent poor concentration strategies. |
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Listening and Identifying (Activity) Listening for, and identifying, the key questions that a reporter should include in his/her newspaper article. |
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Listening and Reading Comprehension (Activity) To use the newspaper to improve student listening and reading comprehension skills. |
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Listening Games |
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This site offers six listening games for the classroom teacher to play with the students. |
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Listening with Music |
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This lesson is designed to develop students' imagery and tone color identification. |
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Public Speaking Skills |
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This lesson is designed to develop students' imagery and tone color identification. |
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Weekend Interview |
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Children are only permitted to talk to the child sitting next to them. Their topic is 'my weekend'. |
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What Would You Do (Activity) |
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To develop conflict-solving skills by having students figure out how to resolve confrontational situations without the use of force |
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Poetry
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Primary Reading & Language Arts
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Rhymes
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Writing
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Details In Writing A two to three week long reading/writing activity that deals with the planets. |
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English Teacher Assistant This website is sponsored by The English Teacher's Assistant, a periodical designed for ESL and EFL teachers who wear many hats--teachers who want fresh ideas and activities for teaching conversation, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. |
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Interactive Monster Story A fill in the blank monster story created by your students. |
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Journaling This site offers all kinds of ideas for the many different types of journals. |
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Paragraph A Week Paragraph a Week is a yearly writing program designed to give your fifth- and sixth-graders practice with writing various types of paragraphs. |
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Photography & Writing (Activity) |
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Write A Real Book This is a killer writing project. We've completed this project in 5 schools around the country. It shows you how to write, illustrate, market, publish and have fun creating a 32 page color, children's picture book. |
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Write Key System The student will be able to write compositions of varying lengths by using the WriteKey Symbol. |
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Writing Plans Over thirty tried and tested writing plans to be used by students in your classroom. |
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Writers Resources and Links This is one of my favorite sites for writers. Many links on the subject of writing can be found in here. |
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