Literacy+Links

Here you will find FABULOUS literacy sites. Just click on the links below. Enjoy! __ Just Great Sites! __  [|Click here for tons of resources!] __ [|Book-a-Week] __ __ [|Holiday Alphabet Books] __ __ Center Ideas __ [|Ideas w/ Pictures] [|Literacy Centers] [|Center Management] [|5 Big Ideas of Reading Centers] __ Comprehension Strategies & Read Alouds __ __ [|Strategies That Work] __ __ [|Read Alouds by Theme] __ [|**365 Read Alouds**] __ e-Books __ __ [|Books Read by Celebrities] __ __ [|e-Books] __ __ [|Starfall Books] __ __ Interactive Games __ __ [|Game Goo] __ __ [|Gamequarium] __ __ [|Starfall Games] __ __ Poems, Rhymes, and Songs __ __ [|Songs and Poems] __ __ [|Build Phonemic Awareness] __ __ [|A Rhyme-a-Week] __ __ Literary Genres __ Historical Fiction: [] [] [] [|Free PowerPoints] [|Smart Notebook Lesson on Fables and Myths] Destination Reading (Riverdeep) Course II: Unit 4 Lesson 1 and 4 - Folk and Fairy Tales Unit 16 Lesson 3 - African Folk Tale Unit 20 Lesson 1,2 and 11 - Tall Tales Realistic Fiction: [] [] Poetry: [|Free PowerPoints] [] (30 days of poetry ideas) [] (poetry to increase fluency) [|Smart Notebook Lesson on Haiku] Destination Reading (Riverdeep) Course II: Unit 5 Lesson 1, 3 and 8 - Nature Poems Speeches: [] Biographies: [] Destination Reading (Riverdeep) Course II: Unit 9 Lesson 2 Unit 14 Lesson 3 Additional Resources: [] []

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__ Drawing Conclusions __ Interactive Websites: [] [] [] Suggested Read Alouds: The Story of Ruby Bridges by: Robert Coles The Art Lesson by: Tomie dePaola Tough Boris by: Mem Fox Koala Lou by: Mem Fox Knots On a Counting Rope by: Bill Martin Jr. Stellaluna by: Jannell Cannon The Stranger by: Chris Van Allsburg The Wretched Stone by: Chris Van Allsburg

__ Making Inferences __ Interactive Websites: [] [] [] [] [] [|Smart Notebook Lesson on Making Inferences] Suggested Read Alouds: Fables by: Arnold Lobel Sitti’s Secret by: Naomi Nye The Old Man and His Door by: Gary Soto Tuesday by: David Wiesner Jumanji by: Chris Van Allsburg The Stranger by: Chris Van Allsburg The Wreck of the Zephyr by: Chris Van Allsburg Fly Away Home by: Eve Bunting How Many Days to America? by: Eve Bunting The Bird House by: Cynthia Rylant Something Beautiful by: Sharon Wyeth Miss Maggie by: Cynthia Rylant Grandfather Twilight by: Barbara Berger The Table Where Rich People Sit by: Byrd Baylor Teammates by: Peter Golenbock Storm Boy by: Paul O. Lewis Encounter by: Jane Yolen Bull Run by: Paul Fleischman Dandelions by: Eve Bunting An angel for Solemon Singer by: Cynthia Rylant The Lost Lake by: Allen Say Annie and the Old One by: Miska Miles

__ Figurative Language __ Interactive Websites: [] [] [|Free PowerPoint Presentations] [|Smart Notebook Lesson on Simile and Metaphor] Suggested Read Alouds: Similes/Metaphors: Brave as a Mountain Lion - Scott Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon - Williams Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin Like Jake and Me - Jukes Old Jake’s Skirts - Slonim Owl Moon – Yolen Quick as a Cricket - Wood Song and Dance Man - Ackerman Swamp Angel – Zelinsky The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses - Goble Personification: Call Me Ahnighito- Conrad Giving Tree – Silverstein If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff Officer Buckle and Gloria – Rathmann Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig Velveteen Rabbit - Williams Onomatopoeia : Heron Street – Turner That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler ZZZng! ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale - Gershator Alliteration: Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein Animalia - Base Dinorella - Edwards Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish - Obligado Four Famished Foxes - Edwards Some Smug Slug - Edwards Wacky Wedding - Edwards What Pete Ate from A – Z – Kalman Worrywarts - Edwards Idioms : Amelia Bedelia - Parish Dog Breath - Pilkey In a Pickle, and Other Funny Idioms - Terban My Momma Likes to Say Oxymorons: Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And other Oxymorons – Agee

__ Main Idea __ Interactive Websites: [] [] [] [] Suggested Read Alouds: Chair for my Mother - Williams Fables - Lobel Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka Great Kapok Tree – Cherry The Important Book - Brown Keeping Quilt – Polacco City of Snow: The Great Blizzard of 1888 by Linda Oatman High Artic Lights, Arctic Nights by Debbie S. Miller The Boy on Fairfield Street by Kathleen Krull How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning by Rosalyn Schanzer When Marion Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan

__ Summarizing __ [|PowerPoint Presentation on Summarizing] [|Video Clip on Summarizing] [|Graphic Organizers for Summarizing] [|Graphic Organizers for Summarizing]

__ Fact or Opinion __ Interactive Websites: [] [] [] Lesson Plans: [] [] Suggested Read Alouds: Like Jake and me – Jukes Perfect Puppy for Me – O’Connor & Hartland Popcorn Book - de Paola 641.6 Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies Stellaluna – Cannon Verdi – Cannon

__ Text Features __ Interactive Websites: [] Lesson Plans: [] []

__ Cause and Effect __ Lesson Plans: [] Suggested Read Alouds: Across the Stream - Ginsburg Comet’s Nine Lives - Brett Encounter – Yolen If Up Take a Mouse to the Movies - Numeroff If You Give a Moose a Muffin – Numeroff If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Numeroff If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff Napping House – Wood River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz Sierra – Siebert That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema 398.2 Why the Chicken Crossed the Road - Macaulay __ Comprehension__ Read Alouds [] [] []

Reading Strategies []

Activities - Great for Centers Sentence Structure/Monitoring for Meaning/Main Idea/Summarizing [] Narrative Text [] Expository Text [] Text Structure [] Monitoring for Understanding []

__ Fluency __ Reader's Theater Scripts [] [] Songs and Poems [] [] [] [] Famous Speeches [|www.americanrhetoric.com] [|www.biography.com] Activities - Great for Centers Letter and Sound [|http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/pdf/F_Final.pdf] Letter and Sound [] Words [] Phrases and Chunked Text [] Connected Text [] __ Vocabulary __ Roots/Stems/Affixes [] [] [] [] [] Games [] Lesson Plans & Strategies [] [] [] __[]__ PowerPoint Presentations [|Prefixes and Suffixes] [|Multiple Meaning Words] [|Synonyms] [|Antonyms] [|Contractions] Activities - Great Center Ideas! [|Word Meaning] [|Word Knowledge] [|Word Analysis] [|Words in Context]

__ Phonemic Awareness __ Interactive Websites/Games [] [] [] Great Site! Rhyme a Week [] Great Site! Free Songs for Teaching Phonemic Awareness [] ABC and Sound PowerPoints [] [] [|http://languagearts.pppst.com/phonics.htm][|l] Great Center Activities! Rhyme and Alliteration [] Syllables and Onset and Rime [] Phonemes [] [] [] [] __ Writing __ __ Poetry __ __ [|Formula Poems] __ __ [|Holiday Poems] __ __ [|Poetry Resources] __ __ [|30 Days of Poetry] __ __Genre Writing__ [|Multiple Genres]

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