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| Site | Description |
| Giggle Poetry | Fun poetry site for students! |
| Kids Corner Featuring Beatrix Potter | Great site containing Beatrix Potter stories for students to read. |
| Fablevision Place | FableVision Place has a collection of stories to read, hear, watch, and explore. It offers a variety of traditional and non-traditional fables and stories and encourages students to be readers and writers. |
| Game Goo | This Web-based educational game site, by Cognitive Concepts, offers interactive games for practicing early language and literacy skills. (Grades K-2) |
| Merriam-Webster Online | The Merriam-Webster site features on-line Dictionaries, a Thesaurus, Word Games, a Word of the Day, and lots more for older students! The Word Central sub-site is a fun-filled place where elementary level kids can explore all kinds of fun things to do with words. |
| Listen and Write | This interactive site, created by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), lets students hear poetry, then create their own. Rap, Wonderwords (helped by The Saurus), and Similes are covered in an entertaining manner. Low and High tech versions are available. |
| Wacky Web Tales | Wacky Web Tales, is a fill-in-the-blanks story creator where readers can submit their own tales or read stories created by the publisher Houghton Mifflin. Included are links to Kids' Clubhouse, Teachers' Center, and Parents' Place. The Teachers' Center provides K-8 resources like activities, lesson plans, interactive games, projects and more from the Mathematics, Reading/Language Arts, Social Studies, or Science Centers. |
| Comic Creator | The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue (shown at left). This versatile tool can be used by students from kindergarten through high school, for purposes ranging from learning to write dialogue to an in-depth study of a formerly neglected genre. |
| Garfield Comic Creator | Online activity which allows students to design their very own Garfield comic strip. |
| Spellbound | Online spelling game. |
| Stories from the Web | Great site dedicated to literature for young readers. |
| Jan Brett's Homepage | Lots of great stuff for Jan Brett fans |
Wild Turkeys and Bald Eagles - PowerPoint - provides simple facts about the two.
Wild Turkeys and Bald Eagles Worksheet - Can be used with the above PowerPoint - students must write 5 facts about each of the birds, two things they have in common, and three differences between the two