Visit Narnia,
the land created by C.S. Lewis in his 7 book series, The Chronicles of
Narnia. The site includes interactive maps, illustrations, character
sketches and even a short quiz about each of the first six books . The
Illustrating Narnia section contains information about various
illustrators of the books, from Pauline Baynes to Chris Van Allsburg.
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| Was Harry Potter among the favorite reading of some of your
students? See how a teacher in Arkansas developed
lessons and activities around the Harry Potter
Stories. |
Looking for
specifics:Eric
Carle, Jan
Brett, Dr.
Seuss, Marc
Brown, Mem
Fox, Nancy
Carlson, Pat
Hutchins, Allen
Say, Gail
Gibbons, Patricia
Polacco. |
| Check for Children's
Authors
web pages through Yahooligans. |
Scholastic
Books has an Invite
an Author program
as well as an extensive
list of children's authors.
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For
Kids Who Love Books is a great resource for books,
author information and links to author webpages. Created and maintained
by a school librarian from Canada.
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| Creative
Writing and Poetry |
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| Creative
Writing for Kids has
lots of specific writing ideas including poetry, letters, prefixes and
suffixes and more. |
Visit Giggle Poetry and
find fun poetry to read and share. |
| Investigate
the Monster
Exchange project
where classrooms connect using reading, descriptive writing and
creativity. |
This is a great
collection of
poetry by Kenn Nesbitt. "The Funny Forty" provides a good
"task computing" opportunity as the poems are short, fun to
read and change frequently |
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Magnetic
Poetry – Not a great deal of keyboarding practice, but the
opportunity to create poetry with a selection of words available.
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Create your own play using “create
your own scenario”.
Characters from Poppy Hill provide the players.
You fill in their dialog and try it out to see if it works.
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| Fun with Words |
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A great way to
make the computer invisible but have the kids participate is to use Word
of the Day
or Brain
Teasers of
the Day . Have children look them up and post them or explain them each
day.
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Find great sites for
fun with words at Word
Play
Have students visit Word
Wonders and do some online practice with homophones, antonyms, etc.
Would work as lab or task computing activity. |
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Find
great interactive reading activities at Starfall.
These activities are arranged to focus on
short and long vowel sounds and are great for young children. You
need Flashplayer to display pages. If you don't have it you
can download
the free player.
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Have your students explore parts of speech
using Mad Libs.
Would be fun to do as a class to help them get started!
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| Folk
Tales and Legends |
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| .Check
below in the Native American section to find Native
American Legends
and Storytelling links. |
Here are clear
definitions of folk
tales
and legends
as well as examples from other countries and cultures.Find many fairy
and folk tales from around the world at Stories
to Grow By . |
| Special
Resources |
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| Random
House has
a great teacher resource page with book titles listed by author, grade
level, theme. Includes a synopsis of the story, grade level
recommendations, as well as connected interdisciplinary activity ideas. |
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| Find wonderful, specific
examples of how you and your students can use Inspiration in graphically
organizing your
writing, your lessons, your research. |
A terrific picture
dictionary for early childhood can be found at Little
Explorers.
Available in French, German, Portuguese and Spanish as well as English. |
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Museum
of Minnesota
has some fabulous connections between literature and science, social
studies, math and more arranged in "theme clusters".
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I
am a Hero provides good, kid friendly biographical information. |
Blanchard Memorial Elementary
School
