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Doucette Index: K-12 Literature-Based Teaching Ideas
This site provides an index to children's books and websites that provide teaching suggestions related to children's books and their creators.
( http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/litindex/ )
Reading Rainbow
Teacher's guides are available for this popular television series that can now be used in the classroom.
( http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/ )
The Children's Book Council Web Site
The Children's Book Council, 568 Broadway Suite 404, New York, NY 10012.
( http://www.cbcbooks.org/ )
Children's Literature Web Ring
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://r.webring.com/hub?ring=kidlit )
Readers' Theater
Gander Academy's site related to Readers' Theater includes a collection of scripts.
( http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/langrt.htm )
Fifty Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know
A list compiled by the Children's Cooperative Book Center.
( http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=42 )
The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids
From the American Library Association, this helpful resource provides tips for Internet safety, guidelines for evaluating a website, and a list of 50 great sites for children and parents.
( http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatsitesbrochure.pdf )
Awesome Library
This site provides access to over 14,000 reviewed online 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 )
CyberGuide
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 websites, and a rubric based on California Language Arts Content Standards.
( http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html )
Language Arts Mini-Lessons
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 )
Merriam-Webster Word Central
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/ )
Wacky Web Tales
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/ )
Readers' Theater
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 )
KidPub
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/ )
Children's Literature Navigator
An extensive listing of children's literature resources on the web.
( http://childlitnavigator.imaginarylands.org/ )







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