This site provides an index to children's books and Web sites that provide teaching suggestions related to children's books and their creators. (
http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/
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Here you'll find over 500 links to printable pages of lesson plans and activities based on children's books. (
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/stuff/literatu.html
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This site on the Children's Literature Web Ring is designed for children and includes many interesting links. There is an extensive list of links associated with fairy tales. (
http://members.aol.com/aactchbard/kidslit.htm
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From the American Library Association, this helpful resource provides tips for Internet safety, guidelines for evaluating a Web site, and a list of 50 great sites for children and parents. (
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/safe.html
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This site provides access to and online reviews of over 14,000 resources for teachers, librarians, children, teenagers, and parents. Each area of the site is designed according to the profile the user selects. (
http://www.neat-schoolhouse.org/awesome.html
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This site provides an index to children's books and Web sites that provide teaching suggestions related to children's books and their creators. (
http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/
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This site features lesson plans focusing on core works of literature for grades K-12. Each guide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, activities, teacher-selected Web sites, and a rubric based on California Language Arts Content Standards. (
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
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Here you'll find over 40 language arts mini-lessons for grades K-5 from the Columbia Education Center. Each lesson indicates grade level. (
http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/ceclang/ceclang-elem.html
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This guide to making books is categorized by age group and offers suggestions for five types of books to make: group album, songbooks, autobiographies, touch books, and family effort. (
http://place.scholastic.com/ect/builders/curric0298.htm
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Designed as the interior of a school, this site plays with words and language. Highlights include a searchable online dictionary, experimental labs to encode and send words to friends, a word of the day, and an area to create new words and browse others' words and definitions. (
http://www.wordcentral.com/
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This online version of "Mad Libs" is geared for grades 4 and above. Students select a story, some of which are written by students, and fill in the blanks to create their own story. Included is a short guide explaining the parts of speech. (
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
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Here you'll find over 20 scripts adapted from stories from a variety of cultures; tips for scripting, staging, and performing; an e-mail list for discussing Readers' Theater and sharing scripts; audio excerpts of author Aaron Shepard reading from the scripts; and much more. (
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/index.html
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Each month, an author-in-residence leads a writers' workshop, sharing ideas and books, reading student submissions, and offering tips and advice. Students' works may be published on the site. (
http://www.yearofreading.org.uk/writers/
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This online publication features stories written by children from all over the world. Included is a collaborative writing project in which children add the next paragraph to a "never-ending" story. (
http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
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