Authors and Their Books
Communication - Writing - Pen Pals
- Cyberkids: Students can chat with other students, visit an art gallery, and read children's writing.
- Epals: Find epals based on age, grade, geography, curriculum, language and more.
- KidLink: Invite another school anywhere in the world to participate in a project that your clas is working on. Voice opinions at the "Kids Cyper Cafe."
- Kids' Space Connection: This kid friendly site has a penpal page.
Creative Writing
- Crayon: Students sample the current events on this page as they create personal "newspapers" on the web.
- Rhyme Zone Type in a word and the site will search for rhyming words!
- Stone Soup: This student created magazine includes articles and art by young people.
- Weekly Reader: Weekly Reader creates weekly polls in which your students can participate. It's a good math project to keep track of the polls.
- Young Writer's Clubhouse: If students want to be published, this is the place to get started.
Fables and Fairy Tales
- Aesop's Fables: These tales are illustrated with traditional and comtemporary drawings by students.
- Encyclopedia Mythica: This site names, illustrates and defines everything about mythology and folklore.
Grammar
- A.Word.A.Day: Subscribe to A.Word.A.Day and have a word sent to you via computer every day.
- Biography Maker: This is a step by step process on how to write a biography that is interesting for others to read.
- UIUC Writer's Workshop: An online writing guide to help stuents during the editing process. Grammar, writing process, punctuation, summaries, and how to write a bibliography are included.
Homework Help
Literature
- Alex's Scribbles - Koala Trouble: Students can write and publish their own stories about a koala named Max.
- Bedtime Story, for Busy Business Parents: A collection of bedtime stories that are organized by age group.
- Candlelight Stories: This site showcases works from emerging authors.
- Children's Storybooks: Original stories to motivate students to write their own stories.
- IPL Story Hour: The Internet Public Library is full of wonderful tales to read.
- Kids Clubhouse: kids Site sponsored by Houghton Mifflin with reading contests and other activities.
- Kids Corner: Stories for beginning readers, kindergarten to grade 3.
- Kids Read: Play games, answer trivia, and read reviews on all kind of great books.
- Mr. Flibby: Mr. flibby's comical messes make funny stories.
- Reading Room: The Reading Dimension is a place to read and talk about books with other kids in grades 3-8. Come on in and check out their latest books.
- Stories by Ika Bremer: Short, funny stories for students. Your students can publish a story of their own.
Poetry
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