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Reading
 * [|Improving Reading Skills] - What habits should a good reader have?
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 * [|Michigan Department of Education: Helping Children Learn To Read] - Topics include How a Child's Reading Develops, Skills That Characterize a Good Reader, and Raising a Reader.
 * [|The Pennsylvania Assessment System Reading Instructional Handbook] - Here are specific tips to encourage reading in the content area, as well as several prereading strategies.
 * [|America Reads: Early Literacy Development] - Study the phases of early literacy and the list of beginning reading and writing skills.
 * [|Reading Aloud: Is It Worth It?] - Jim Trelease and other educators offer examples of the benefits of reading aloud.
 * == [|Caldecott Medal Winners and Honor Books, 1938-Present] ==
 * == [|Instructional Strategies] for Reading ==
 * [|Between the Lions: Games] - Can you scoop letters from your soup to make a word? There are lots of phonics games to play using Shockwave. (primary)
 * [|Online Practice Reading Tests] - These reading tests for grades 1-8 use multiple choice, short-answer, and long-answer questions. Test tips for students and how to score are included.
 * [|It's Fun To Read]- Click All About Me for some interactive reading about Who Am I? What Is My Pet? And Where Do I Sleep? Have some fun with Bird Riddles and Tongue Twisters. (primary)
 * [|Reading Comprehension] - These stories and follow-up questions teach main idea, inference, and word meanings from context. (intermediate)
 * [|The Reading Zone (For ELL Students)] - The glasses icon indicates easy, intermediate, and advanced reading comprehension activities available to guests. Use the Dolch Word List, or try Reading a Map, Candy Labels, Reading Envelopes, Learn About Dolphins, Aesop's Fables, and U.S. Presidents Chart Study.
 * [|Book Choices for 2003] - Children, young adults, teachers, and librarians vote for their favorite newly published books for the Choice booklists. Published annually by the International Reading Association, students can use these lists to find a book to read.
 * [|25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers] - Get your students excited about reading. Here are 25 activities contributed from Book It! program teachers.
 * [|ReadWriteThink] - The International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English, and MarcoPolo Education Foundation have teamed up to provide educators with quality reading and language arts resources.
 * [|Kids Who Read!] - The largest book club in the world is a virtual book club that allows kids to discuss literature, ask questions, share ideas, and reflect. Children may pose their questions and share ideas with the author of the book they are reading.
 * [|Children's Book Council]- Encourage your students to read! Celebrate this year's Children's Book Week: Free to Read, November 17-23. The Children's Book Council offers a wealth of resources to kick off the event.
 * [|Reading Units] - from Mountain City Elementary School, with many unit studies
 * [|Literacy]
 * [|Authors & Illustrators on the Web]
 * [|Children's Literature Web Guide]
 * [|The Partnership for Reading] - Bringing Scientific Evidence to Learning
 * [|Reading Units] - By Gay Miller
 * [|Terrific Tall Tales]
 * [|Cyberguide book list for middle school]
 * [|Wealth of Reading Resources]
 * [|Reading Resources]
 * [|Reading Quest]
 * [|Page by Page] - Books are cool! Ever wonder how they're made? Everything from the story to the pictures takes lots of work. This fantastic site explores the story "behind the story" -- beginning with where story ideas came from and going all the way to what happens after a book is printed.
 * History of Books - Sit back, relax, turn up the volume and prepare to take a journey back to 50,000 B.C.!
 * Also visit **[|English and Literature]** in the Sabine Virtual Classroom
 * [|Get Wild About Reading With This Great Site] - Each week you'll find new stories that accompany and expand on the new PBS television show "Between the Lions." This site is developed for 4-9 year olds in an effort to help them learn to read.
 * [|The Children's Book Council]
 * [|Kids@Random] - designed for both education and entertainment. The site is alive with color and witty writing. The whimsical illustrations are breathtaking, yet quick to load. This is a joyful, safe place for kids to learn and play in cyberspace.
 * [|The 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. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world.
 * [|CHILDREN'S STORYBOOKS ONLINE] - The links have received our Storybooks Award because they have special appeal due to story creativity, specialized content, educational information, fun activities, or are just downright charming.
 * [|CandlelightStories] -- An interactive environment for children to read stories. Large illustrated buttons make choosing where to go easy for children of all ages. Includes the classics like Mother Goose and Alice in Wonderland, as well as original stories from contributing authors and illustrators. There are even games online to play. K-6
 * [|Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site] - Extensive lists, lesson plans, and information for reading, literature, and history
 * [|KidLit WebSite], designed for kids (mostly) and for adults interested in quality children's literature. We offer all kids an opportunity to see their works published on the worldwide web.
 * [|Aesop's Fables Online Exhibit] - John R. Long has created a Website that will be valuable to a variety of people. You can browse through the 638 fables here-in (it includes many by Ambrose Bierce) or conduct a word search (or even view a java timeline panorama).
 * [|Reading Better and Faster] - For most people, it is easy to learn to read faster. Your reading rate is often just a matter of habit. Tips for improving your reading speed.
 * [|The Bookstore]
 * [|WELCOME TO CHILDREN'S HOUR] -- A CHILDREN'S BOOK EMPORIUM
 * [|Reading] - Yahoo reading links on the web
 * [|Tailing the Samurai's Tale] - Bonita Vista Middle School teacher Dan Fickett created a WebQuest to enhance his students' reading of Erik Haugaard's
 * [|School-Home Links Reading Kits] -- kindergarten through 3rd grade 400 LEARNING ACTIVITIES for strengthening children’s reading & writing skills.
 * [|Children's Book Council] - The CBC's online Book Week materials include Activities A to Z.
 * [|Choices Booklists] - A project of the International Reading Association and the Children's Book Council, these annual annotated reading lists present new books young people will enjoy. The 100 books in each list are chosen by 10,000 participating children each year!
 * [|AuthorChats] - Chat live with a featured author or read the archived chats with previous authors. Click Chat Now and participate in an Online Literature Circle discussion.
 * [|BookSpot] - Especially for reading teachers, BookSpot provides online books, book reviews, reading lists, author information, and links to related resources.

Writing
 * [|Using Picture Books to Teach Characterization in Writing Workshop] - Need a great picture book to stimulate better narrative writing among your students? Learn some different ways to develop story characters with this lesson and bibliography.
 * [|Tracy's Ten Prewriting Exercises for Personal Narratives] - Use these exercises with the traditional journalist's questions before beginning writing.
 * [|Composition Patterns: Narrative and Descriptive] - Study descriptive elements in narrative writing and then read examples by well-known authors.
 * [|Standards for Evaluating Composing, Skills for Narrative Writing] - Use this rubric to assess the structure of students' writing.
 * [|The Five-Paragraph Essay] - The Five Paragraph Essay, an online writing tutorial for high school students, provides the following sections: Getting Started; How to Write the Essay; Editing, Revising, and Evaluating; and Writing Prompts.
 * [|Global Story Train] - Kids can write the next chapter of a story started by other kids around the world. Encourages multicultural communication and sharing of ideas.
 * [|Workout Room: Writing Prompts] - These writing prompts, organized by grade level, encourage students to use their spelling and proofreading skills.
 * [|Bright Ideas for Writing] - Try some writing topics that include photos for added inspiration.
 * [|Writing: Prompts] - Learn about the modes of writing and suggested assignment styles. Check out the narrative/imaginative, informal, and persuasive prompts.
 * [|Journal Writing Every Day: Teachers Say It Really Works!]- Teachers share their best experiences with classroom journals in this article that includes several writing prompts.
 * [|Story Starters] Here are 50 ideas to get the creative juices flowing. Click Writing Process at the bottom of the page for help with brainstorming, graphic organizers, the first draft, revising, editing, and the final copy.
 * [|6-Trait Writing] - The Kent School District provides examples of six writing traits: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. This site also offers writing samples and lesson plans based on materials from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.
 * [|Creative Writing Process] - This site guides students through brainstorming, webbing, outlining, revision
 * [|Discover Writing with Barry Lane] - Barry Lane, author and educator, features dozens of revision lesson plan ideas. Go to Kids Click Here for a place to publish student work.
 * [|Purdue University Online Writing Lab: Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling] - Find handouts, PowerPoint presentations, and exercises for learning Grammar (adjectives and adverbs; nouns; prepositions; and pronouns). The Spelling section includes sound-alike words; noun plurals; and suffixes. The Punctuation review covers apostrophes and quotation marks; commas; and hyphens.
 * [|The Big6] - Use this research method to assist with homework and writing reports. Steps include: Task Definition; Information Search Strategies; Location and Access; Use of Information; Synthesis; and Evaluation.
 * [|Revision: Cultivation with a Critical Eye] __-__ This site offers distinct definitions of the various stages of revision: large-scale revision, small-scale revision, editing, and proofreading.
 * [|Writing links] __- ZES__
 * [|Handwriting]
 * [|Grammar and Writing]
 * [|Graphic organizers]
 * [|Research and Writing]
 * [|Trait scoring (as used in Nevada) and links to more detailed traits rubrics]
 * [|6+1 TRAITS of Writing]
 * [|Generating Ideas and Content]
 * [|The Writing Process]
 * [|Inspiration]
 * [|Writing prompts are ready to print] off for use in class.
 * [|Worksheets to go]. Generate your own or use from their "bank."
 * [|Free worksheets for lower grades from Beginning Reading]
 * [|Free graphic organizers] (like fact/opinion chart)
 * [|Free teacher made resources on an easy to select matrix]
 * [|Expository writing prompts] ready to use (print out each for student use)
 * [|Narrative writing prompts]
 * [|ABC Teach of free teaching ideas for reading.] Quite a collection of ideas.