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First Grade |
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Authors and Illustrators |
and their books alphabetically or by state. Just click on the map or an alphabet letter below to get started. Then visit our links for more about young readers and writers, authors and books. |
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Dictionary |
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A picture dictionary with over 2000 words--some are linked to more information. |
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Families |
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Do these families look like your family? How are the same? How are they different? |
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Look at photographs of people. How are they the same and how are they different from your family? |
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Folklore |
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Find American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from all 50 states in the USA here. Listen to some of the stories. |
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Practice Reading |
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Play some games to practice reading. |
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Practice reading in the area of the alphabet and early phonemic awareness |
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Read some stories. |
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Stories Online |
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Listen and read stories from the Kennedy Center. |
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Listen to the stories, jokes, riddles available for free. They are very clever and fun. For other books to listen to and read, you have to subscribe to the website. It costs $24.95 per household subscription. |
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International Children's Digital Library Read a book online at this library. The books come from all around the world. |
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Goodnight Stories: Read a Story Write endings to stories, choose different directions within a story, and fill in a "mad lib" structure to make a silly story. |
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Listen to stories told by great American storytellers, read about new books, and play games about books. |
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Listen, read, and sing these silly books. |
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Illustrated stories for children of all ages. |
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This wonderful new version of the Tortoise and the Hare shows what the speedy hare might have been like in the classroom. |
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Read stories and poems, play games, practice tongue twisters at this neat site. |
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Vocabulary |
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Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun Play games like matching, crossword puzzles, hangman, and learn new vocabulary. For all ages. |
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The games, videos, and activities are designed to teach oral vocabulary skills to early elementary students. |
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The games and activities are designed to students with the critical skills they need to learn to read. |
Updated: August 27, 2009