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Balanced Literacy




News

The Journal News http://www.thejournalnews.com/westchester/ NY Times News Snapshot http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/snapshot/archive.html New York Times Learning Network http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ Click on a featured article and activate the “knowledge tools,” which link words to a dictionary and geographic terms to a map. Time for Kids http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/index.html Current and archived editions of the Time for Kids magazines. Note, the audio links for the K-1 editions. CNN Student News http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/



Kid News

Headline Spot for Kids http://headlinespot.com/for/kids/ CBBC Newsround - Your stories, your world - first! http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/ Pencil News http://pencilnews.com/index.php
This online newspaper includes all the major sections you'd expect to see in a newspaper, but aimed for a younger audience - and includes quizzes as well! KidsOnline Magazine http://www.kidsonlinemagazine.com/ Kids Report
http://www.kidsreport.com/
KidsReport.Com is an online newspaper for kids. All the articles are written by kids, for kids. KidNews.com
http://www.kidnews.com/news.html
Do you have any news from your family, neighborhood, class, or school? We want to hear from you and what is happening over the globe from Alaska all the way around to Tokyo and everywhere in between! Let everyone know what's happening in your corner of the world.
Literature

Back to top Children's Picture Book Database

http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks
Welcome to our academic website which gives teachers, librarians, parents, and students a place for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects. Our site offers you: abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books; search capabilities for over 950 keywords, including topics, concepts, and skills which describe each book; weblinks for keywords so you can integrate your up-to-date content knowledge with our picture book.

Poetry

Back to top Linda's Links to Literature http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion/LITERATURE/literature_lesson_plans_a.htm AuthorChats http://www.authorchats.com/ Poetry.com
http://poetry.com/ StoryFinder
http://www.litfinder.com/license.cfm?code=wls7&CFID=2518578&CFTOKEN=95764914
Thousands of full-text short stories, explanations, biographies, Genre Navigator, Just Published Stories and pictures. Our newest module. You'll need your Westchester Public library card number to access it. Western Pacific Literacy Network
http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html
Each module includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension. The learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text, and view a short video clip of the story. PoemFinder
http://www.litfinder.com/license.cfm?code=wls7&CFID=2518578&CFTOKEN=95764914
The ultimate poetry reference. 100,000 full-text poems including more than 10,000 copyrighted poems, 800,000 poem citations, Subject Navigator, Explanations, Biographies, Kids' Korner, Year's Best Poetry and pictures. You'll need your Westchester Public library card number to access it. American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included. The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm
The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Poetry4Kids
http://www.poetry4kids.com/
Ken Nesbit's site.

Reference

Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp WordCentral http://wordcentral.com/hallway.html CornerStones http://pbskids.org/lions/cornerstones/index.html
Using a video-based story, Cornerstones is a technology-infused approach to literacy development designed for early elementary children who are deaf and hard of hearing (and that can be used with other students who learn well visually and struggle with literacy).

Standards

Back to top New York State Standards
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/pub/pubela.html
NYC "Standards Based Scope & Sequence for Learning"
http://www.nycenet.edu/dis/scopesequence/index.html CyberGuides
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature

Resources last updated on 10/29/04


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