Explore poems, games, puzzles, lessons, activities, event kits, drawing and activity booklets, and e-cards, all to do with Shel Silverstein. There???s also a link to a never before published poem “Cuttin’ Kate” — download the activity book for this poem, including pages for children to draw their own illustrations, make their own bookmark and way …
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Nancy McArthur
If you’re a fan of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks series, this site is for you! Read the author’s biography, check out Frequently Asked Questions, and get ideas in Fun Stuff to Do. Teachers, the author has shared some favorite ideas for using these books in your classroom.
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Marcia Thornton Jones – Monstrously Fun Activities!
Marcia Thornton Jones – Monstrously Fun Activities!
Here are some ideas on fun activities for some of the books in the Bailey School Kids series and other books by Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadey.
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Teachers@Random
This is a great site for teacher resources. Get lesson plans and worksheets for hundreds of Random House books for all grades K-12 and biographies for authors and indexes of award winning books and authors. Books are indexed by grade, theme and curriculum subject. There are classroom clubs for the following series: Junie B. Jones, Magic Tree House, …
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The North Star
“Get ready for a very special story.” Choose a character and follow him/her through a journey. You can choose to have the book read to you as well.
Subject: Reading Zone–Reading Zone Resources For Teachers & Parents; Reading Zone–Picture Books
Helping Your Child Learn to Read
Helping Your Child Learn to Read
This publication, by the U.S. Department of Education offers hints, tips, and “activities for children from infancy through age 6.” It includes information on how to get kids started reading, and what to do to help them to keep reading. The activities that this page describes are about both reading and spending time together. In Spanish or in Eng …
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Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics
Resources for Tolkienian Linguistics
This site gives detailed instructions for finding more information about the languages invented by Tolkien and used in his famous books. Resources for information on the formation, grammar, and meaning of the Quenya and Sindarin Languages.
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MyVocabulary.com
The “Home of Vocabulary University”, this site for teachers offers word games to build vocabulary skills, grade level puzzles,and theme activities.
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Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Success in Reading
Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Success in Reading
View this book online for free. “Starting Out Right” is the popular version of the authoritative book “Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children” that captured so much media attention in 1998–from the New York Times to the LA Times–as it heralded the end of the ‘reading wars’.
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Through the Looking Glass Children’s Book Review
Through the Looking Glass Children’s Book Review
An online children’s book review magazine.
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Leo Lionni Resources for Teachers
Leo Lionni Resources for Teachers
This site includes websites on the author/illustrator, names of articles and links to lesson plans for some of his books.
Subject: Reading Zone–Reading Zone Resources For Teachers & Parents
Laurie’s Bookshelf
The author of Speak and Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson has created pages about her life, works and her own web site recommendations.
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Sample Book Ideas fromYoung Readers Choice Awards Handbook
Sample Book Ideas fromYoung Readers Choice Awards Handbook
Suggestions for teachers and librarians about introducing recent novels.
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Helping your Child Use the Library
Helping your Child Use the Library
This site gives great ideas about getting your child acquainted with the library. Also talks about different services libraries provide for children.
Subject: Reading Zone–Reading Zone Resources For Teachers & Parents
Learn English: Kids
Just starting out or been speaking English for years, improve your English skills with games, songs, stories, and lots of other activities.
Subject: Our World–Languages Around The World–English; Reading Zone–Reading Zone Resources For Teachers & Parents
Inkless Tales
Listen to cool stories online, build a beast in the game section, read poems, and have lots of fun at this amazing website. Games, stories, poems, and music – Inkless Tales has it all. Check it out! Awarded an American Library Association “Great Web Sites” Recommendation.
Subject: Reading Zone–Poetry & Rhymes; Reading Zone–Short Stories; Reading Zone–Reading Zone Resources For Teachers & Parents; Reading Zone–Picture Books; Computers And The Internet–Online Games; Fun Stuff–Fun Stuff Resources For Parents & Teachers
Ghost Forest
Enter the “Ghost Forest” website to learn all about the prize-winning adventure tale, ???Ghost Forest??? a story for children. Written by Zlatko Enev, a Bulgarian-born writer living in Berlin, Germany, “Ghost Forest” tells about the adventures of a small girl who enters an enchanted game world. You can read the site in English, French, German, Chi …
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Fifty Famous People
Part of the Baldwin Project, a volunteer-run online library that provides the texts and illustrations of out-of-print children’s books at no charge, this collection is a companion to “Fifty Famous Tales Retold”. It is a collection of not strictly factual stories about real people in history, retold by James Baldwin at the beginning of the last cen …
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Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
Part of the Baldwin Project, a volunteer-run online library that provides the texts and illustrations of out-of-print children’s books at no charge, this collection of thirty stories is for children ages 7 to 9, offering a more advanced vocabulary and extensive plot than the other two books in the series. These not strictly factual tales were reto …
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Fun With Spot – Grownups
This section of the Fun With Spot site has information especially for parents and teachers. There is a biography for author Eric Hill, information about the series and links to other sites. You can switch between territories: United States, United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
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