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Warwick Neck and John Greene Elementary Schools' Library Media Center Website |
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Warwick Neck and John Greene Elementary Schools' Library Media Center Website |
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Language Arts |
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Alphabet, spelling, vocabulary, keyboarding games. |
Poetry |
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Funny poems, poetry theater, Ask the Poet, fill in the blank poems... |
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Drag "magnetic" words onto the refrigerator or locker door to create your own poetry to print or submit to the website to be posted. View others' poems. |
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Poet Kenn Nesbitt shares funny poems, writing tips, games, contests, a rhyming dictionary, poetry links and more. |
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Scholastic's Poetry website has links to many poets, poetry information and games like I Spy and the Interactive Poetry-Making Machine. |
Reading |
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250 interactive games and stories—all aimed at reinforcing the literacy mission of the PBS series. Each television episode has its own mini-Web site with a read-along story and related games. |
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FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning. |
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BookPALS Storyline Online - streaming video featuring famous people reading 21 children's picturebooks. You have the option to show captions. From Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Superpages.com. |
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This site promotes quality reading through book reviews, related games, author biographies and interviews, and more. Students can also find out how to set up a successful book club, along with discussion guides for select books. |
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Learn-to-read website designed for the emergent reader. Online games, activities, books offer explicit instruction in letter-sound relationships, word recognition skills and reading comprehension strategies with opportunities to apply and practice these skills. |
Writing |
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Kay Vandergrift has compiled a list of print and online publishing opportunities for children's writing. |
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The place to get ideas for writing, practice the writing process, and learn the grammar tips and tricks that will make your writing shine. Includes a grammar handbook. From Great Source. |
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Students choose one of over a dozen pictures featuring PBS characters and compose a story alone or with prompts. The book can then be printed or emailed. |