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This site is excellent for teaching reading to pre-kindergarten through primary grades.
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Phonemic Awareness Activities
online books at Learn-to-Read |
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Approximately 30 online, animated books categorized for young children, older children and young adults. |
Be sure to check out the Award-winning Links section for more online stories. |
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This site has good ABC's and phonics resources. There are areas to print and listen to stories and also craft projects for thematic units. |
The Stories Link has books that highlight each word as it is read. Each story can be printed. |
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This site provides stories that are linked to primary sources. Imbedded in each story are pictures, maps, and more that illustrate the story. Stories are arranged by topic and categories. The resources are free for educators. Sign up under Academic Membership. |
There is a good section devoted to biographies. Each story is hyper linked to pictures, historical documents and other aides to comprehension. |
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This MarcoPolo website developed by the International Reading Association, the NCTE , and the Verizon Foundation, offers standards-based, web content for all content area teachers. |
Use From Fiction to Facts to help students learn questioning techniques to identify factual information about animals. |
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BookSpot.com is a free resource for anything to do with books. This includes best seller lists, groupings by authors, genres, and discussion groups. Click on Children's Books. All sites are reviewed by the site's editors. |
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CyberGuides are excellent, online standards-based units for an extensive list of books for each grade level. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.
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My Brother Sam is Dead
This unit for 5th grade provides resources for this book that explores the period of the American Revolution. |
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Many of the articles on this site have an audio file that can be downloaded. Students can read the article and listen to the audio at the same time. When people are quoted, the recording has their actual voices. The link goes to the USA region. Some districts may block the streaming. |
This article discusses the government's decision to allow offshore drilling. Click on the podcast section to find a section for English learners. The pace is ideal for elementary students. |
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This area of the Internet Public Library is a wonderful resource. The Reading Zone provides links to online stories and information about books and authors. |
The Adventures of Sydney is an interactive story that offers students a choice on each page. |
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News Snapshot features a newsworthy and thoughtful photo from The New York Times, along with the basic who, what, where, when, why and how questions." A teaching unit is designed around this photo. |
The decision to remove manatees from the endangered species list is one of the archived snapshots. This lesson is for grades 3-5. |
