Reading/Literature Links

Novel Help      Literature Help     Reading Help   

Online Reading Stories     Fables/Myths    

Poetry Help  Publishing Student Work

Literature Help for Elementary Teachers:

1. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Guide

2. Children's Literature Web Guide (University of Calgary Alberta, Canada)

3. Classics for Young People

4. Doucette Index (provides access to books and websites that contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books)

5. I Know That

   1. 4th Grade Language Arts activities

   2. 5th Grade Language Arts activities

   3. 6th Grade Language Arts activites

6. National Geographic

7. Novel Study Resources (Gander Academy)

8. Read Write Think  (student materials)

9. Scholastic.com (Web Guides for Language Arts... All type of literature links)

10. S.C.O.R.E's complete list of cyberguides (for novels k-3,4-5,6-8,9-12)

On-line Stories/Books/Magazines:

1. Online Lessons- Reading Skills

2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (sound/text)

3. Candlelight Stories  ( Interactive stories for children)

4. Light Up Your Brain

5. Mary Cavaraugh's Children's Stories ( Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, Interactive Stories, and Holiday Stories)

6. Mighty Book

7. On-line Book Adventures (reading with quizzes for prizes)

8. On-line Classics for Young People ( Children's Literature Web Guide)

9. On-line Contemporary Writings For Children (Children's Literature   Web Guide)

10. Scholastic Book Central ( Babysitters Club, Magic School Bus, Goosebumps, Animorphs web links)

11. Story OnLine

12. StoryTime Online

13. Stone Soup Recorded Stories

14. Stories of the Dreaming

15. Story Place (a children's digital library)

16. Weekly Reader on-line

17. Winnie the Pooh On-Line

Fables/Myths/Folktales:

1. Aesop Site

2. Aesop Fables (U of Massachusetts)

3. Aesop's Fables Online Collection (some with sound)  Scroll down page to see links

4. Animals, Myths, and Legends (wonderful collection of "why" stories)

5. Fable Vision Place

6. Mythology

   1. Greek and Roman Mythology (from Fact Monster)

   2. Mythology ( from University of Michigan)

   3. Roman Mythology

   4. Greek Mythology 

7. Moonlit Road (folktales from American South)

8. The Mythology, Folk Lore, and Legend Encyclopedia  

Publishing Student Work:

1. Student Online Publishing (full page with lots of different links)

2. Writer's Window

3. Stone Soup

4. International Kids' Space

5. Cyberkids

6. Crunch (Online magazine by National Center for Education Statistics)

Poetry:

1. Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus 

Compare and Contrast Activity

Reading Help:

1. Reading Matrix

2. Information about the Iditarod

   1. The Iditarod (full page of links)

   2. Official site of the Iditarod  

   3. Alaska (full page of links)

4th Grade Novels       5th Grade Novels       6th Grade Novels

4th Grade for Dist 111:

• Locomotion

  • Jacqueline Woodson's Site

  • Kid's Wings suggested activities for Locomotion

   

  
   

• Dear Mr. Henshaw

  • King's Butterfly Online extension for Dear Mr. Henshaw  

  • Dear Mr Henshaw ... cyberguide

• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson  

  • In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson -- cyberguide 

  • Black History Stamp for Jackie Robinson

  • China... links from KidsClick

• Little House in the Big Woods... Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • King's activity for Little House in the Big Woods 

  • Little House in the Big Woods ...   cyberguide

  • Pioneer Life
    • Pioneers
    • A Day in the Life of a Young Pioneer Girl   (click on Frontier Girl)
      
  • Laura Ingalls Information
    • Laura Ingalls information site
    • Information about Laura Ingalls Wilder (from White House for Kids)
      
      

• Mr. Popper's Penguins

  • King's Penguin Online extension for Mr Popper's Penguins  

  • Mr Popper's Penguins ... cyberguide

• Night of the Twisters

  • King's Tornado Online extension for Night of the Twisters  

  • Night of the Twisters ... cyberguide

5th Grade for Dist 111:

• Al Capone Does My Shirts

  • Ed Helper

  • Escrapbooking: Project

  • FAQs by Gennifer Choldenko

 

 

• Meeting Mr. Henry

  • Black Baseball

  • History of Black Baseball and the Negro Baseball Leagues

  • Negro League Baseball

  • Negro Leagues History

  • Negro League Baseball Association

   

• Caddie Woodlawn

  • Caddie Woodlawn.. cyberguide

  • Catskill Mountain Information

    • Catskill Center

    • Online Catskill Archive Guide

• Islands of the Blue Dolphins

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

  •   Island of the Blue Dolphin ... cyberguide

• Sign of the Beaver

  • Sign of the Beaver ... webquest

  • Sign of the Beaver ... cyberguide

  • King's Native American Indians Information Links
     

• Jacob's Rescue  

  • King's Holocaust Links 
     

• Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

  • King's activity for: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.Frankweiler 

  • From the Mixed-up Files... cyberguide

  • Games to go with the Mixed-Up Files...
     

• My Side of the Mountain

  • King's activity for My Side of the Mountain 

  • My Side of the Mountain ... cyberguide
     

6th Grade for Dist 111:

• The Boy Who Saved Baseball

  • Teacher's Guide

  • John Ritter's site

 

 

• The Egypt Game

  • King's web page links about Egypt

  • The Egypt Game ... cyberguide                   
     

• Hatchet

  • Hatchet  (online questions and activities for each chapter)

  • Hatchet ... cyberguide

  • Survival Information

    • Wilderness Survival

    • Equipped to Survive

• The House of Dies Drear

  • King's Underground Railroad links

• Number the Stars

  • Number the Stars Resources for Teachers/Activities for Students

  • Online Questions for each chapter (plus links to other resources)

  • Number the Stars Activities 

  • Number the Stars Webquest

  • Review and Activities for Number the Stars

  • Study Guide for Number the Stars

  • Teacher Guide for Number the Stars

  • Lesson Plans for Number the Stars

  • Number the Stars character jeopardy 

  • King's Holocaust links

• Where the Red Fern Grows

  • Where the Red Fern Grows (Online Quizzes and student acitivites) 

  • Where the Red Fern Grows... cyberguide

  • Dog Links

    • Select a Pet

    • A to Z Dog Breed Information

    • Dog Breed Profiles

    • Choosing a Dog

    • Dog Breeds Alphabet

    • Taking care of your dog

    • Children and Dogs

    • Dog Breeds

last update 09/21/07