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A: acronyms
Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/   From Tourbus recommendation.

A: Analogies
analogies 1    analogies 2    anologies 3   

B: Books, making
Making Books
http://www.makingbooks.com/whoami.html
This is a commerical site, for workshops or a book, I think. The link goes to an interesting "about me" book that would be good for early in the year.

B: Books, online
Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com/
BOOKS ONLINE!

B: Books
The Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
This is the site for the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources. Searchable for THEIR collection, but may be useful in categorizing or looking for thematic books.

C: Close Procedure
The Close Procedure
  http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/library/literacy/glossary/cjJ296/vao1736.htm
a reading technique

D: Dewey Decimal System
Do We Know Dewey?
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5002/  A Winning Thinkquest presentation by middle schoolers. Nicely organized.

E: Early Literacy
Between the Lions
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/lions/index.html
PBS early reading program. Lots for K and grade one.

F: Folktales   Folktales to teach Cooperation
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson172.shtml  Education World Article.

F: Fun
Fun With Language
http://bennyhills.fortunecity.com/billmurray/532/language/language.html
A collection of good stuff, from Bandit's site.

G: Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/notes/graphicorganizers/
from The Curry School of Education. Site has lots more. Check a truncated URL. Link from Marcia G. Check later!

H: Harry Potter
Harry Potter Lesson Plans
http://www.connectingstudents.com/lessonplans/potter/
from "Connecting Students." Look into this site further.

Home-School communication
Links to Literacy for Second Grade
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/table2.html
PDF pages for use at home. Look into this further.

L: Literature
A+ Literature
http://www.mcdonald.k12.oh.us/es/A_PlusKidLit/a+.htm

L: Literature Circles
An introduction to Literature Circles   http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/mla/circle/intro.html
Liturgical site.

M: Myths and Legends
Myths and Legends
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html  Christopher B. Siren's enormous listing, categorized links.

P: Phonetic Spelling
NuSpell
http://www.nuspel.org/index.html
Interesting...found when searching for homographs source.

P: Poetry
Poetry by C.J.Heck
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/8356/
Written from the viewpoint of a child.

P: Poetry
Moontown Cafe
http://www.moontowncafe.com/critters.html
Site for children's poetry. Searchable.

R: Reading
NEA Read Across America
http://www.nea.org/readacross/
Read Across America main site.

R: readers theater
title
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/readerstheater.htm  A Treeful of Pigs, Miss Nelson is Missing, Little Red Hen, etc.

R: Reading Lists
RIF and ALA Lists
http://www.udel.edu/ETL/RWN/ReadingLists.html#rif

R: Reading Lists
101 Out of the World Books
http://als.lib.wi.us/MRList.html
Arrowhead Library System

R: Reading Lists
Marilyn Burns's Children's Classics
http://www.hbook.com/childclass1.shtml

R: Reading Lists
Carol Hurst's List
http://www.beyondbasals.com/bestbooks.html
(Quoted on another site)

R: Reading Lists
Grade 1 & 2 Reading List
http://www.edu4kids.com/reading/1-2.html
describe it!

R: Reading Lists
Grade 3 and 4 Reading List
http://www.edu4kids.com/reading/3-4.html

R: Reading Lists
Scholastic's Ultimate Summer Reading List

All of the above reading list URL's from the mailring. S:Six Writing Traits
6+1 Writing Traits
http://www.nwrel.org/eval/writing/  Official Site.

S: Stories
Internet Public Library Story Hour   http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/StoryHour.html
Online stories, slow to load, varying quality, but does include "Do Spiders Live on the Wide World Web?"

S: Summer Reding
Scholastic Booklist
http://teacher.scholastic.com/bookclubs/usrl/ultimatelist.htm
Got this link from the mailring.

T: Tongue Twisters
title
http://www.fun-with-words.com/tong_example.html
From the mailring, FunWithWords.com.

W: Weekly Reader
title
http://www.weeklyreader.com
Weekly Reader Online is supposed to have book suggestions from kids.

W: words How many words in the English Language?
http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/por/features/97/language.html

W:Words
The Wacky World of Words
http://members.home.net/teachwell/  lots of lists.

W:Worksheets
100 Reading Worksheets  http://www.geobop.com/Eco/KS.htm
description.


Bookmarks for Specific books:


A: Arthur Books
PBS site http://cgi.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/tv/stories.html
Listing of all of the stories and plots. Very useful!

C: Charlotte's Web
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/charlotte/
Great site with a quiz made up by kids.

H: Harry Potter
http://www.harrypotterfans.com/