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Finding Units with Trade Books
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Great Literature Websites
The Literacy Web http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/
Teach-nology: Children's Literature
URL: http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/child_lit/
Jim
Cornish's Novel Study
Resources on the Web
URL: http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/novel_study_connection.htm
Mrs. Smith's Author Page
URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~jesmith/Authors.html
Kathy Schrock's Guide for
Literature and Language Arts
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html
CLWG: Children's Literature Web
Guide
The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the
growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
American Literacy Classics - A Chapter a Day
This site features online books such as The Wizard of Oz, Moby Dick, and a Connecticut in
King Arthur's Court set up so that your students can read a chapter a day. You can read
the current featured novel or return to the archives for previous featured books at
American Literacy
Classics - A Chapter a Day Archives
KidPub
WWW Publishing
KidPub is a place for children to publish stories on the World Wide Web and to read
stories published by other children.
Carol
Hurst's Children's Literate Web Site
This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the
classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum
areas, themes and professional topics. They've taken many of Carol Hurst's back articles
and sections from her professional books for teachers and librarians and reformatted and
interlinked them to create an interactive collection of information.
Random
House Teacher's Resource Center
Random House Teacher's Services: teachers' guides and more resources for primary,
secondary and post-secondary educators. Looking for new ideas about ways to teach
award-winning books? Seeking exciting ways to bring literature alive for your students?
Interested in hearing authors, such as Lois Lowry and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, talk about
writing and their newest books? The Teacher's Resource Center is for you!
Doucette Index K - 12 Literature - Based
Teaching Indas: An Index to Books and Websites
The 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. The books indexed are those held by the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, but
many of these books will also be available in other libraries.
Scholastic's Response to
Literature section at
http://teacher.scholastic.com/ilp/index.asp?SubjectID=1&SubheadID=3&TopicID=
57 (in addition to the many other great links along the left side of this page
related to literature and reading skills/strategies lessons)
Harper Children's.com at http://www.harperchildrens.com/
Annette Lamb's Literature Learning Ladders at http://eduscapes.com/ladders/index.html
has great lessons/guiding questions for Newbury and Caldecott Award Winners, thematic
units, etc. A good example (because not all books are resourced the same) is the
connecting lessons for Lois Sacher's Holes at http://www.eduscapes.com/newbery/99a.htm
)
If you do author/illustrator themed studies,
Houghton Mifflin Reading is a great place to start at http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/index.html
The Web English Teacher's Reading Index by author
at http://www.webenglishteacher.com/readingmain.html
is a great place to link to author/book related discussions.
Reading Rainbow
Program schedules, book descriptions, and activity suggestions can be found for the
Reading Rainbow Series. Also stories from the Second Annual Young Writers and Illustrators
Contest can be found on this site.
Book Adventure A free online reading incentive
program with over 60,000 registered users, challenges students to read more and understand
more with the first-ever Book Bonanza reading contest. The Book Bonanza was designed to
generate more enthusiasm about reading and to reward students for their literary success.
Children (K-8) create personalized book lists from over 4,000 recommended titles, take
quizzes on the books they have read at school or at home, and earn prizes for
understanding the books they have read.
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Author
Sites
The
following web sites are ones I have found that have good activities you may want
to try after reading books by the authors.
Welcome
to Jan Brett's Home Page
Jan Brett is the author of:
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
TOWN MOUSE, COUNTRY MOUSE
THE HAT
THE MITTEN
This sight includes many hands on activities for you to print and use with the books.
The Official Eric Carle Web Site
Eric Carle is the author of:
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
THE GROUCHY LADYBUG
BROWN BEAR BROWN BEAR WHAT DO YOU SEE?
This site has a bulletin board where teachers and parents using Eric Carle's books in
creative ways can submit their ideas. A large number of these ideas are on the site for
the viewer to read.
The Official Berenstain Bears Website
This site includes activities, a theater, information about the characters, and a library
feathering Stan and Jan Berenstain's bears.
Peter
Rabbit Home Page
Many of the wonderful pictures are reproduced on this site. You may visit two sections.
One for Beatrix Potter and another for Peter an his friends.
Cyber Seuss
This site contains quizzes, games, and information about Dr. Seuss, the author who created
the Lorax, Horton, and the Cat in the Hat.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Website
Learn about the Oz Book Series through this site.
Lewis
Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on line.
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