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Elementary Literature

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1. Involving Students

Books

1. -Books Online (Ockerbloom)
   Provides the complete text of 14,000 books online. Search by title, author, or subject.
2. Books for Children and Teens (Children's Literature Web Guide - Brown)
   Provides an alphabetic list of classics available online, by author. 11-01
3. Dickens - Charles: A Christmas Carol
4. Grimm - Cinderella
   Provides a dozen versions of this classic story with text and pictures.
5. Grimm - Little Red Riding Hood
   Provides text and pictures from 16 different versions.
6. Prize-Winning Books Online (Ockerbloom)
   Provides the complete text of prize-winning books online. Most of the books are in the public domain because their copyrights have expired. In other words, they are older books.
7. Stevenson - Robert Louis: Treasure Island
   Provides "everything you could want to know" about the story, author, and characters in Treasure Island.
8. Stringfairy Partners: Story of the Stringfairy

Lesson Plans

1. By Book Title (Donn)
   Provides hundreds of lesson plans, listed alphbetically by book title. 1-00

Lists

1. -Children's Literature Web Guide
2. Books (Powell's)
   Provides one of the largest listings of new and used books in the USA.
3. Books - Children's Books (KidsClick)
   Provides resources compiled by librarians.
4. Children's Picture Books Search - Preschool to Grade 3 (Miami University - Ubbes and Millard)
   Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University provides short descriptions of over 4000 picture books for children through a search by keyword, subject, author or title. Does not provide the books or pictures of the books.
5. Homework Helper (Pinchbeck) 2-01
6. Legends and Myths by Country (Siren)
7. Puppetry Home Page (SageCraft Productions)
   Provides a comprehensive set of resources on puppets and puppetry. 10-99
8. Stories and Fairy Tales (Lindy)
   Provides sources of stories and fairy tales from different cultures. This is part of the Whootie Owl site. 10-99
9. Stories for Children (KidsClick)
   Provides resources compiled by librarians.

Materials

1. Children's Stories Collection
2. ERIC: Reading, English, and Communication
3. Online Children's Stories
4. Parents and Children Together Online
5. Puppetry Home Page
6. Story Resources available on the Web 10-99

Multimedia

1. Adventures of Mira - The
2. IPL Story Hour With Sound (Internet Public Library)
   Provides nine stories. 2-01
3. Read-along Stories (With Sound)

Papers

1. Authors - Motivations to Write (IPL)
   Provides an interview with Lois Lowry, author of the award winning book, The Giver.
2. Book Reviews by Grade Level
3. Book Reviews by Reading Level (Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County - BookHive)
   Provides reviews of books for children, including younger children. 5-00
4. Books to Read With Your Kids (applesforhealth)
   Scholastic Inc., the publishing and book vendor, has concocted a list of recommended books. 02-25-00.
5. Dewey Decimal System (Nettleton - Wallace)
   Provides information on Melvil Dewey, quizzes and puzzles, and the development of the Dewey Decimal System.
6. Kipling - Rudyard: How the Leopard Got His Spots
7. Legends and Myths(World Design InterActive)
8. Multicultural Book Reviews (Mele)
   Provides reviews organized by ethnic group. Provides title author, publisher, date, illustrations, ethnic group, protaganist sex, genre, review, grade level, and then a reviewer's grade for the book. Mostly contains books at the middle and high school levels. 2-00
9. O Henry - The Gift of the Magi
   Provides links to definitions for key difficult words. No pictures are provided.
10. Old Indian Legends
    Provides 14 legends involving animals.
11. Reviews of Children's Books
12. Stories (Aaron Shepard)
    Includes folktales, hero tales, sacred tales, legends, original tales, beginner tales, and grown-up tales.
13. Stories and Fairy Tales - Whootie Owl's Stories (Lindy)
    Provides stories and fairy tales from different cultures. Organized by the themes of cooperation, courage, creative thinking, friendship, generousness, honesty, justice, kindness, learning, love, regret and recovery, respect for nature, self-awareness and selflessness. Also listed by type of story and the place of origin. Provides questions for children to answer about each story.
14. Stories for Children - Aborigine (Australian Museum)
    Provides 20 stories from the Australian Aborigine cultures. 2-01
15. Stories for Children - Aborigine (Dreaming Online)
    Provides a few stories from the Australian Aborigine cultures. 2-01

Periodicals

1. By Grade - Galaxy (Weekly Reader) for Kids
2. Galaxy (Weekly Reader)
3. Readers Digest World
4. Stone Soup Magazine of Children's Works

Projects

1. Environmental Stories for Young Children (Dodo Land)
   Provides interactive stories for young children to help them appreciate the need for taking care of the environment. 2-01
2. Puppet Show Rubric (Rubistar)
   Provides printable forms and selectable content for creating rubrics to evaluate preparation and presentation. 5-01
3. Stories and Theater (Shepard)
   Provides Reader's Theater Editions, multicultural stories that can be performed by children or simply read. 2-00
4. Winnie the Pooh - Places on the Map to Visit
5. Word Puzzles
6. Word Puzzles by Grade Level (Syndicate.com) 3-01

Purchase Resources

1. Books - New and Bargain Books (Amazon.com)
   Searches a large inventory of books that may be purchased online. 12-99
2. Books - New and Bargain Books (Barnes and Noble)
   Searches a large inventory of books that may be purchased online. 12-99
3. Books - New, Used, and Rare Books (Powell's Books)
   Searches a large inventory of books that may be purchased online. 12-99
4. Books - Sources (Awesome Library)
   Provides search engines for books from Amazon.com, Powell's, and Barnes and Noble.