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03/04/2005
- American Writers: Language Arts, American History - A searchable database in which students can select writers and literature by period or works by region. Site also contains video archives, a book club and a chat room for those who want to discuss what they've read.
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Language Arts - Federal Resources
- Legends
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CyberGuides - CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature.
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Word Weaver - Kick-start young writers' creativity with these exciting pages from Hewlett Packard. Pick western, sci-fi or fantasy. Click boxes for a random story setting, a magical item and two random characters, each with a special characteristic. Kids can print a sheet to write the story or type it out on their computers. A 2nd-3rd grade western example: barbershop, fancy hat, crazy train robber and anxious butcher. Click on the Student Center for more grade levels and other cool activities!
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A Social Studies and Language Arts Activity - Primary sources such as letters, diaries, photographs, maps and artifacts provide students with authentic materials from the past. By looking closely for details, students can draw conclusions about the items and formulate their own hypotheses about the time period(s) during which they were created. Further research, using secondary sources, will either confirm or challenge their ideas.
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LITTLE EXPLORERS TM Picture Dictionary with Links
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Children's and Young Adult Literature At this site there are three areas of interest: History of Children's Literature, Children's Literature, and Young Adult Literature. Each section is designed be thought provoking and to provide a wealth of background information complete with pertinent articles and extensive bibliographic references. Key questions are listed towards a full exploration of the field of children's and young adult literature. An extensive list of web links to author and illustrator sites is available at http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/author.html "Vandergrift's 100: List of Young Adult Authors and Titles" is available at http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/100list.html
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Beatrix Potter Stories Peter Rabbit, Two Bad Mice, and other stories can be read online here by turning virtual pages for the original text and illustrations. Young children can glimpse the ways of childhood long ago while practicing their interactive skills.
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Children’s Picture Book Database This database offers abstracts of over 4000 children’s picture books (preschool to grade three), suitable for those who design interdisciplinary curricula for elementary schools and library programs.
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School-Home Links Reading Kits --kindergarten through 3rd grade 400 LEARNING ACTIVITIES for strengthening children’s reading & writing skills are now available in an easy-to-use format on U. S. Department of Education website.
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Sesame Street - A is for apple. B is for Bert. C is for Cookie Monster. There is a printable page to color for each letter, and accompanying collections of the same for numbers and shapes.
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Language arts literature instruction - CyberGuides are supplementary units of instruction based on core works of literature, designed for students to use the World Wide Web
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Tales of Wonder - This is a collection of folk and fairy tales from throughout the world, beautifully presented for children.
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Learning Websites For Middle School Students - Designed for a variety of learning levels and learning styles, this site consists of a variety of language arts, lessons, activities, and ideas you can use to integrate the Web into your curriculum
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Building Clauses - Learn the rules and practice interactively, to become a fine sentence-writer.
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Animal Myths & Legends - From around the world and out of the past, this is a collection of delightful stories for young readers.