READING & LITERACY

• Syvum Technologies Online Educational Activities
  Math and Language Arts skills can be honed using the online games and activities on this site. When a child completes a quiz or activity, an e-mail can be sent to a parent or teachers spreading the good news.

• bibliomania
  Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts.

• Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Book
  "Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Bookis a complete and free introduction to the basic syntactic structure of Modern English and the most common prescriptive errors in formal writing and how to avoid them."

• www.grammarlady.com
  "The purposes of the site are to be helpful, to raise consciousness about correct language use, and to remind everyone to have fun with the language."

• abcteach.com
  This is a great site for teachers of young children with many ideas for classroom use. March is National Reading month, so the site includes a reading chart that encourages students to read different types of books as well as signs, cereal boxes, and a variety of different types of material. For creating books, there are shapes that can be printed, copied, and cut out for shape books where students can write a story. Printable research cards are available for students to use when they are learning basic research skills.

• FunBrain.com
  FunBrain.com produces kids learning games for K-8 kids and teachers, although games are sorted by age. The focus is on providing teachers, parents, and kids with the tools they need to succeed.

• The Realm of Books & Dreams
  This site consists of stories, nursery rhymes, fables, fairytales, and poetry. Also has links to coloring and activity pages.

• AltaVista Translations
  AltaVista runs this website translation service. By typing in text or a URL address you want translated, you can convert it from English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish into any of the other languages.

• The Wacky World of Words!
  Lots of different word games can be found here which will be very useful for fun word level work.

• Research-It!
  Search through various dictionaries and thesauri, look up acronyms and quotations, translate English to French or Japanese and back again, use the word search, look up maps, and on and on.

• Webtime Stories
  Webtime Stories is a hotlist of online stories, book and author resources, and online activities for people who love children's literature.

• Common Errors in English
  Commonly misspelled words ... pairs of words that are often mixed up ... poor phrases ... phrases that are correct, but often thought to be wrong. You can find all of these, and more, on this link.

• American Library Association
  Find good books to read, including Newbery & Caldecott Award Winners. Information about authors, and educational games can also be found.

• Children's Literature Web Guide
  Internet Resources Related to Books for Children and Young Adults. The page includes discussion areas, quick references, and additional links to such areas as recommended books, and authors on the web.