Once Upon The Internet

by Vicki Sterling and Linda Venekamp

Resources for Early Elementary Resources for Upper Elementary Resources for Middle School

Resources for Early Elementary
Aesop’s Fables http://www.aesopfables.com 
Mother Goose Online http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/goose/
Mother Goose Pages on the Internet
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes.html
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/
Disney Stories Online http://asp.disney.go.com/DisneyBooks/StoryTime.asp
Clifford’s Interactive Storybooks http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/index.htm
PBS Kids http://pbskids.org/ 
TumbleBooks http://www.tumblebooks.com/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp 
Poem Pack http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/fpoem.shtml 
Theodore Tug Boat http://www.cochran.com/theodore/activities/default.html
Bedtime Stories http://the-office.com/bedtime-story/indexmain.htm#stories
Alphabet Books
StudyWeb ABC http://www.studyweb.com/links/5879.html
Yellowstone http://www.nps.gov/yell/kidstuff/Alphabet/
Dinosaur Book http://www.enchantedlearning.com/dinoalphabet/

Alphabet Books and Activities
http://www.kidsbooks.about.com/kids/kidsbooks/cs/alphabetbooks/
Christmas ABC http://www.monroe.k12.la.us/mcs/showcase/holiday/abc_book/index.html

Letters of the Alphabet http://www.pacificnet.net/~cmoore/alphabet/
Little Explorers Dictionary http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
Sears Portrait Studio http://www.searsportrait.com/
Wacky Web Tales http://www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html 

Bear Sightings
Bob the Backwards Bear  http://www.planetzoom.com/Storybook/Backwards/backb.htm
Enchanted Learning  http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/mammals/bear/Brownbearcoloring.shtml
Ted and Floppy’s Fun Page  http://www.bears.co.nz/games/games.htm
Billy Bear for Kids  http://www.billybear4kids.com/Learn2Draw/sheets/bear.html
National Geographic
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ 

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Resources for Upper Elementary

Stories
Fairy tale pages @ abc teach http://www.abcteach.com/FairyTales/talesTOC.htm
Classic Tales and Fables http://www.rickwalton.com/folktale/folktale.htm#Cannetella
Alice In Wonderland by wotch http://www.wotch.com/funstuff/
SurLaLune http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/index.htm
Absolutely Whootie: Stories to Grow By http://www.storiestogrowby.com/
The Native American Bedtime Stories http://the-office.com/bedtime-story/indians.htm
Native American Stories http://www.campusschool.dsu.edu/library/stories.htm
Storytelling http://www.bluecloud.org/myth.html
LaLorona http://www.lallorona.com/La_index.html
Japanese Fairy Tales http://www.origami-tsuru.com/crane3.htm
Hans Christian Andersen http://hca.gilead.org.il/

Activities
CyberGuide http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
KidReach http://www.westga.edu/~kidreach/index.html
Book Report http://www.members.aol.com/tts009/downloads/bookreport.html
Harry Potter http://place.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp
Listen to Harry Potter http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/rowling/
How To Write A Book Review http://www.pwcs.edu/pattie/admin/howtodoabookreview. htm 
Write A Book Review With Rodman Philbrick  http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/bookrev/tguide.htm 

References
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org
World Book http://www.worldbook.com
Kids Click http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
FactMonster http://www.factmonster.com/ 

Outer Space Sightings

NASA for Kids  http://www.nasa.gov/kids.html
Games to learn about space  http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Puzzles/SolarSystem.asp
Belinus Company has on-line stories including Celtic folklore, fairy tales & fables, & mythologies
http://belinus.co.uk
Story of How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to Dinner
http://belinus.co.uk/fairytales/JJISunMoonWind.htm  

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Resources for Middle School
Poetry
Shows different poetry patterns
http://www.berkeleyprep.org/lower/fourth/writing/poetry_patterns.htm
Rhyming Forms  http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Labyrinth/7091/plessons/frhyme,html 
Holiday Poems  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1133/holidaypoems/
Poetry Webquest  http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/stennille/ST3/poetrywq.htm#Index 
One Hundred Words  http://www.courses.dsu.edu/eled340/Writing/poetry_ex.htm 

Stories
Bartleby’s Great Online Books http://www.bartleby.com/
Bibliomania http://www.bibliomania.com/bibliomania-static/index.html  (need to register)
The Raven http://www.wotch.com/funstuff/
Greatest Moments in Olympic History http://www.wotch.com/funstuff/
Hypertexts http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
Classics @ The Online Literature Library http://www.literature.org/authors/
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccm/prufrock.html

Reference Materials
LibrarySpot http://www.libraryspot.com/
Britannica http://www.britannica.com/
InfoPlease http://www.infoplease.com/
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org
Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com 

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June 12, 2006

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