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The News Exchange exchanges news and student journalism from around the globe. At Judy Blume's HomeBase students can learn everything they might want to know about this famous children's book author. Judy discusses books written by her, provides writing tips and tells about censorship. There is an excellent discussion on general writing ideas. Time for Kids is similar to the Time magazine format with up-to-date information on current topics. Good interactive games, trivia, timelines and mind-builders. Current topics are changed weekly for students to discuss or examine..i.e. Mars, teenage smoking laws etc. Develop Letter Writing Skills Executive
Office of the President Send email to the President, Vice-Pres. and /or First Lady for practice in spelling, composition
and letter writing skills. Creative Writing-Children In The White House Students read articles about children that lived in the White House.They write stories beginning with "If I was a kid in the White House." The Prince and I Children are helped to be better readers, writers and artists. From the home page, students can take the Queen's tour, which outlines what each section or the site contains. There's a Show and Tell section for students to send photos of themselves and to submit their own stories and artwork. Magic Squares, Rhyme time and Word Scrambles are reading motivators. Inkspot Good creative writing resource links of 75 plus online resources. Anne of Green Gables is part of the Gutenberg project. This site is the full text version in hypertext. Laura Ingalls Wilder is featured at this Frontier Girl home page. Children's Literature gives adults help to find the best children's books available with this online newsletter. Highly qualified individuals review new children's books and provide useful bibliography, subject matter, electronics books and CDROMS. At Treasure Island is for students searching for a quality site for in depth information on the novel, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, find useful information. The International Kids Space is a fun site for Elementary to Middle grade students [5-15] to share their creative abilities for writing with people around the globe. The Kids Space Connection is a related site to the one above. Book review for Middle grades is an intermediate grade (4-6th) research site. There are collections of book reviews that allow students to get information on short reviews of books read and to review the opinions of their peers. Students can evaluate and review books that they have read for their assignments. Filling the Toolbox is a site designed to improve critical thinking and problem solving skills.There is information on "strategies" to assist in "student questioning." This website gives practical, effective activities that shifts the focus of the classroom from teacher directed learnings to the student processing information to create understanding and to improve general problem solving skills. The areas focused on are general problem solving, writing and editing, taking tests skills etc. GOOD TEACHER RESOURCE |
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