| Reading |
| Reading Activities for Emerging Readers |
| | BBC - Words and Pictures
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| | An amazing set
of games and activities from the BBC! You will need Flash and Shockwave
plug-ins for these activities. Activities include:
Crankophone
- Medial Vowel Sounds
Magic
Pencil - Compound Consonants
WordBlends
- Put phonemes together to form words
Poem
Pack - Animated Poems that focus on Long Vowels
Snap
It! - Long Vowel Sounds |
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| | PBS - Between the Lions Games and Activities
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| | Super Shockwave and Flash games for pre-readers from Leona and the gang! |
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| | Learn to Read at Starfall!
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| | An amazing site with books, games and skill practice activities for emerging readers! You will need the Flash plugin for many of the activities. |
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| | Learn to Read - Interactive Books
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| | Fifteen animated, interactive books to help emerging readers! |
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| | Storybear
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| | From the BBC, three
wonderfully animated read-along stories. Also check out interactive
stories from the Tweenies! |
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| | Clifford Read-Along
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| | A great animated story about Clifford, the Big Red Dog, read by Emily Elizabeth! |
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| | Digby Mole - Early Reader Games
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| | From the BBC, a great collection of matching, rhyming and letter identification games!
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| | IPL Story Hour
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| | A series of great illustrated online books for young readers! Check out the following stories - The Tortoise and the Hare, Mousie`s Adventures, Molly Whupple, Kate Crackernuts ... and more! |
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| | Stories - Between the Lions
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| | Dozens of online storybooks from the Between the Lions gang! |
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| | Barney - Storytime
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| | Several interactive online stories from Barney the Dinosaur! |
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| | CBeebies - Stories
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| | From the BBC, a great set of flash-enhanced online stories! |
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| | Search for Mami Storybook - DragonTales
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| | A great English-Spanish online storybook from DragonTales! |
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| | Phoneme Recognition
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| | A great animated activity where young students can explore phonemes and the letters that produce them! |
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| | Alien Scavenger Hunt
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| | A neat animated game that challenges students to "capture" the letters (or letter combinations) from the words they hear. |
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| | Comfy Corner
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| | From the BBC, sit back on a comfy chair and enjoy as the Fimbles read their stories to you! |
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| | Mr. Rogers Storytime
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| | Read an interactive story from Mr. Rogers neighborhood! |
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| | Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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| | A nice illustrated, interactive version of the story! |
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| | Online Stories - Kizclub
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| | A great series of online storybooks that read themselves aloud to your students! |
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| | Jay-Jay The Jet Plane Storybook
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| | From PBS, read along with Jay Jay in this interactive storybook!
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| | Oddball
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| | A great game where young students pick the item that doesn`t belong. |
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| | Story Brook Lane
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| | A great collection of interactive online stories! |
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| | Word Jumbler
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| | A great flash game! Click on Count the Syllables, then click on the correct button for the number of syllables in the word.
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| | Talking Tales
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| | Great animated picture books - complete with sound, pictures, and narration! |
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| | Paw Park - Sassy Seals
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| | A great Flash game where kids can learn to identify consonant sounds. |
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| | I Can Read
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| | For beginning readers - listen to the sentence, and click on the requested word. |
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| | Big Bird Goes Camping
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| | An online game that challenges young students to find the hidden letters! |
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| Online Picture Storybooks |
| | Learn to Read - Interactive Books
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| | Fifteen animated, interactive books to help emerging readers! |
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| | Clifford Read-Along
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| | A great animated story about Clifford, the Big Red Dog, read by Emily Elizabeth! |
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| | IPL Story Hour
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| | A series of great illustrated online books for young readers! Check out the following stories - The Tortoise and the Hare, Mousie`s Adventures, Molly Whupple, Kate Crackernuts ... and more! |
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| | Stories - Between the Lions
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| | Dozens of online storybooks from the Between the Lions gang! |
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| | Barney - Storytime
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| | Several interactive online stories from Barney the Dinosaur! |
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| | CBeebies - Stories
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| | From the BBC, a great set of flash-enhanced online stories! |
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| | Search for Mami Storybook - DragonTales
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| | A great English-Spanish online storybook from DragonTales! |
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| | Comfy Corner
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| | From the BBC, sit back on a comfy chair and enjoy as the Fimbles read their stories to you! |
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| | Mr. Rogers Storytime
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| | Read an interactive story from Mr. Rogers neighborhood! |
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| | Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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| | A nice illustrated, interactive version of the story! |
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| | Online Stories - Kizclub
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| | A great series of online storybooks that read themselves aloud to your students! |
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| | Jay-Jay The Jet Plane Storybook
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| | From PBS, read along with Jay Jay in this interactive storybook!
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| | Story Brook Lane
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| | A great collection of interactive online stories! |
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| | Talking Tales
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| | Great animated picture books - complete with sound, pictures, and narration! |
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| The Alphabet |
| | Alphabet Fun!
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| | Click next to each letter to see pictures starting with that letter. |
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| | Alphabet Animals
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| | A fun animated site - see the animals by clicking on each letter! |
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| | Paw Park - Kangaroo Confusion
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| | A great game where kids need to match uppercase and lowercase letters. Hoe do kangaroos fit in? Click to find out! |
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| | Animal Alphabet Book
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| | From the National Park Service, a different animal illustration for each letter of the alphabet. |
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| | Alphabet Action
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Learning Planet, a cool game where kids click on letters to see an animated
word display! Also check out ABC
Order, where kids can learn how to sequence letters in alphabetical
order! |
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| | Alphabet Connect the Dots
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Funbrain.com, a neat game where kids connect-the-dots in alphabetical
order to see a picture! Also check out Funbrain's Sign
The Alphabet activity! |
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| | Dinosaur Alphabet
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| | From Enchanted Learning, learn about dinosaurs and the alphabet at the same time! |
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| | InfoStuff Animated Alphabet
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| | An interactive, illustrated alphabet for young children! |
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| | Practice Your Capital Letters
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| | From The Magic Key, a great Flash-game where kids can practice matching capital and lower-case letters. |
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| | Enviro-Alphabet
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| | From the EPA, a great alphabet page with one environmental tip for each letter! |
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| | Letter and Alphabet Activities
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| | From Enchanted Learning, dozens of activities, worksheets and games that help young writers learn to read and produce letters and words! |
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| Online Poetry for Young Students |
| | Poetry Wizard
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| | A fun online game that helps students learn the basics of poetry! |
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| | BBC - Poem Pack
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| | A collection of 10 poems, each focusing on different vowel sounds!
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| | Gigglepotz - Poems for Kids
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| | Nine great illustrated poems for younger students! |
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| Fables & Fairy Tales for Young Students |
| | Classic Fairy Tales
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| | An incredible Flash-enhanced site with multimedia versions of several fairy tales: Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Grimm Fairy Tales, and many more! Each story features audio, animations, and interactive activities! |
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| | Fairy Tales - Scholastic
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| | Explore fairy tales and look at many ways of re-telling classic tales. |
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| | Aesops Fables
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| | An amazing collection of Aesops Fables … over 600 stories in all, many of which you can listen to in Real Audio format! One of the best Sites on the Web!
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| | Swahili Folktale
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| | An online story about Swahili PRINCE SADAKA. To find his brothers, he has to complete three tests - and YOU can help him. |
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| | Traditional Stories
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| | A collection of Classics, including Robin Hood and Little John, Sing a Song of Sixpence, and many others. |
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| | Traditional Fables
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| | A group of fables, from India, Ancient Greece, and Japan. |
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| | The Cinderella Project
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| | This site has the full text and images of the original pages of a dozen versions of Cinderella (beginning with one from 1792!). |
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| | The Little Red Riding Hood Project
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| | This site has the full text and images of the original pages of a dozen versions of Little Red Riding Hood (beginning with one from 1729!). |
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| | The Jack and the Beanstalk Project
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| | This site has the full text and images of the original pages of a dozen versions of Little Jack and the Beanstalk (beginning with one from 1820!). |
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| | Snow White
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| | Hypertext version of Snow White, with links to over 36 versions of the story, and (for educators) some scholarly documentation of different versions and interpretations! |
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| | Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
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| | A nearly complete collection of Hans Christian Andersens works online! |
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| | Hans Christian Andersen Center
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| | Review the life and works of this incredible author! |
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| | Annotated Versions of Fairy Tales
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| | Includes illustrated fairy tales, their histories, similar tales from other cultures, bibliographies, and other materials. Tales include:
Beauty and the Beast,
Bluebeard,
The Brave Little Tailor,
Brother and Sister,
Cinderella,
Diamonds and Toads,
Donkeyskin,
East of the Sun and
West of the Moon,
The Frog King,
The Gingerbread Man,
Goldilocks and the Three Bears,
The Goose Girl,
Hansel and Gretel,
Jack and the Beanstalk,
Little Red Riding Hood,
Princess and the Pea,
Puss In Boots,
Rapunzel,
Rumpelstiltskin,
Six Swans,
Sleeping Beauty,
Snow White and Rose Red,
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
The Three Billy Goats Gruff,
The Three Little Pigs,
The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
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| Myths & Legends for Young Students |
| | American Folklore
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| | This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. You can read about all sorts of famous characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and many more. |
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| | Myths and Legends of the Sioux
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| | A collection of legendary tales from the Sioux Tribe. Stories include: The Forgotten Ear Of Corn, The Little Mice, The Pet Rabbit, The Pet Donkey, The Rabbit And The Elk, The Rabbit And The Grouse Girls, The Faithful Lovers, and many more. |
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| | Myths of Mystery
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| | Several mythological stories from Japan, India, Africa, and Central America.
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| | Folk Tales of Japan
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| | Read the stories that every Japanese kid grows up listening to. This site takes you on a journey to a fairy-tale world of boy heroes, terrible ogres, animals matching wits, and more.
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| | African-American Tales
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| | Dozens of folktales from generations of African-American oral tradition. |
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| | Animals, Myths & Legends
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| | Myths and legends tell us many things about the relationship between animals and peoples including different interpretations of: How the world began,
How people came to be, and
How the sun first came to the world. Experience some mythical tales here! |
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| | Johnny Appleseed
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| | A beautifully illustrated re-telling of the life and times of Johnny Appleseed! |
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| | The Story of John Henry
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| | A great exploration into this American legend! |
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| | Paul Bunyan
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| | An illustrated online book with the tall tale of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe. |
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| Understanding Poetry - Grades K-2 |
| | Forms of Poetry for Children
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| | A tremendous collection of rhymes and poems for young students!
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| | Reading Poetry
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| | A great animated introduction to reading poetry - from the BBC! |
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| | What is a Poem?
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| | From PBS, join the "Poetry Club" hosted by Fern from the "Arthur" TV show. Find out about different types of poems, and write your own! |
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| | BBC - Poem Pack
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| | A collection of 10 poems, each focusing on different vowel sounds!
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| | Grandpa Tucker - Rhymes and Tales
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| | From the site: "Here are funny stories that deliver a message, silly poems that will bring a smile and allow you to share some thoughts. Let's put the family together to enjoy a suggested language project. Enjoy!"
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| | Funny Poetry for Kids by Bruce Lansky
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| | A great site for first- and second-graders! Poet Bruce Lansky has lots of poems and poetry activities for kids at this site!
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| Book Awards |
| | Newbery Medal Book Awards
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| | From the site:"The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." View current and past winners online! |
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| | Caldecott Medal Book Awards
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| | From the site: "The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children." Check out current and past winners here! |
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| | Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
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| | From the site: "Now in its 35th year, this national award is sponsored by the Boston Globe newspaper and the Horn Book, Inc. It annually honors authors and illustrators of outstanding children’s and young adult books in these three categories: Fiction and Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book" |
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