|
Books
and Literature
 |
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. |
|
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. |
|
Books
for Youth Books by grade level. |
|
Candlelight
Stories Offers message boards, classroom writing
ideas, pen pals, stories and more. |
|
Children's
Bookwatch, The Reviews of hundreds of children's books. |
|
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 |
|
Dr.
Seuss Online |
|
Fairrosa's
Cyber Library of Children's Literature For adults who
study children's literature. |
|
KidPub
WWW Publishing |
|
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. |
|
Reading
Corner, The |
|
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. |
|
Stone
Soup Now in its 27th year, Stone Soup brings young readers
thought-provoking stories, heartfelt poems, and beautiful art by
their peers worldwide. |
|
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'. |
(return to top)
Fairy
Tales
(return to top)
Intermediate
Literature
(return to top)
Listening
& Speaking
|
Ask
ERIC Lesson Plans |
|
Clowning
Around (A Game) The object is to correctly identify
one clown by eliminating the others. |
|
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. |
|
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. |
|
I
Am Unique (Activity) To increase student
awareness of the uniqueness of each individual within the class. |
|
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. |
|
Listening
and Identifying (Activity) Listening for, and
identifying, the key questions that a reporter should include in
his/her newspaper article. |
|
Listening
and Reading Comprehension (Activity) To use the
newspaper to improve student listening and reading comprehension
skills. |
|
Listening
Games |
|
This site offers six listening games for
the classroom teacher to play with the students. |
|
Listening
with Music |
|
This lesson is designed to develop
students' imagery and tone color identification. |
|
Public
Speaking Skills |
|
This lesson is designed to develop
students' imagery and tone color identification. |
|
Weekend
Interview |
|
Children are only permitted to talk to
the child sitting next to them. Their topic is 'my weekend'. |
|
What
Would You Do (Activity) |
|
To develop conflict-solving skills by
having students figure out how to resolve confrontational situations
without the use of force |
(return to top)
Poetry
(return to top)
Primary
Reading & Language Arts
(return to top)
Rhymes
(return to top)
Writing
|
Details
In Writing A two to three week long reading/writing activity
that deals with the planets. |
|
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. |
|
Interactive
Monster Story A fill in the blank monster story created by
your students. |
|
Journaling
This site offers all kinds of ideas for the many different types of
journals. |
|
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. |
|
Photography
& Writing (Activity) |
|
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. |
|
Write
Key System The student will be able to write compositions of
varying lengths by using the WriteKey Symbol. |
|
Writing
Plans Over thirty tried and tested writing plans to be used
by students in your classroom. |
|
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. |
(return to top)
|
