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Children's Literature
Random Useful Tidbits
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Favorite Curriculum Links:
Awesome Library!
Bembo's Zoo- wonderful alphabet site, letters turn to critters
Biographical Dictionary
Booklists and Genre Suggestions for teachers and librarians
Butterfly Site for kids
Carl's Corner- curriculum links and plans
Can Teach- elementary curriculum links
Discovery School- very cool
Department of Justice Links

A Multicultural Calendar
Calendar - fun dates for teachers
Kathy Clay's Literature Calendar
Countries of the World Information, Maps, photos and more! (some info requires membership)
Literature Circles
More literature circle help
Graphic Organizers 1, 2 and 3
Geography links around the world
Firstgov for kids- US government kids' links
Fairy Tales Around the World
World Folk Tales and Fables- Aesop's Fables, Hans Christian Anderson, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Folk and Fairy Tales Around the WORLD, Regional folk and fairy tales, even more tales from around the world,Scholsatic's tales around the world, Euro stories: read and write stories European roots! Japenese folk tales, Fairy tales, poems and more
Fables and Myths- multicultural, Fractured Fairy Tales , Folklore (American) Fairy tales, poems and more
Grade level skills lessons
Idioms
Information timeline, magazines, newspapers, periodicals
International Reading Association
AASL Information Literacy Standards
Information Literacy Standards, Eduscapes
Information Literacy- Noodleteach
Links to Learn
Kinder and early childhood lessons
Kidzone- facts, lesson plans and more
Wordless Picture Books 1
Wordless Picture Book Site 2
More Wordless Picture Books and Plans from RIF
Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves
Project Based Learning
PPT by theme- here!
Read Write Think, interactive teaching tools
Science, Spitzer Telescope More great links on the Science Page!
Science Netlinks- AAAS Lessons, Interactive links and more
Spring Branch School Resources
Suzy Red, Reading, writing, curriculum links for every area!
300 Sight Words
Science Learning from the Franklin Institute upper grades
Teacher's Corner
Timelines
Turn off the TV Week in April
Understanding Multiculturalism- a ppt
Harry Wong's First Days of School
Writing, examples of literary devices in books, personal narrative examples
  Lesson Plans
100 Days of school
A to Z Teacher Info
Abc Teach
ALA Great sites for Kids
Busy Teacher sites
Bailey School Kids Series Ideas for Teaching
Bulletin Board Ideas
Complient Day Activities
Core Knowledge Foundation
Comic Strip Creator
Dept of Education- lesson plans!
Education World- lesson plans!
Education Planet- Lesson plans and more!
Elementary Science Help for Teachers
Hispanic Heritage Month
Holiday Zone, Holiday links and ideas!
International Reading Association Literacy Links
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Kidzone- facts, lesson plans and more
Kinderlessons, lessons for Kinderteachers, Kinderart
Kindergarten lessons and themes
Math and lesson ideas for picture books
Mikikids lessons and plans K-5
Learning Styles, Spring Branch resources
Looking at Student Work(evaluation)
Reading Rockets
Proteacher -Lesson plans
PBS for Teachers
Six + Trait Writing Links
Teacher Created Lesson plans- free
Teachers First- lesson plans and more
Teaching k-8
Trees of the World Lesson Plans
Winnie the Pooh's Birthday-January 18th- History of the famous bear, watch the FIRST Winnie in a video clip,  Pooh stories, Interactive Pooh Story Hear Tigger!, Silly Pooh fun, coloring pages, which Pooh character are you most like? Characters from the  stories and quotes,Pooh quiz. Teacher plans for POOH
Library Links
The dissemination of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of civilization. - John F. Budd
100 Great Picture Books
101 Things to do with a book
Awesome Library!
American Library Association
Bookwink- advertising children's books by a librarian
Book Week at Tobias, 2006
Calendars: Library and Books, ReadWriteThink calendar, Holiday celebrations, theme units,
Demco's library calendar, Teachercorner, Multicultural calendar, this day in History, Kinderteacher ideas,
Science History,Enchanted Learning, Earth Calendar, Butlerwebs unique holidays
Children's Books - Digital Library
Collaborative Lesson Plans
Center for Books in Spanish
Dewey Decimal Browse- look at websites by Dewey classification
Dewey- Teaching the classification, a librarian's lesson
Decorating kids' spaces
Elementary Citation for Research
Language, translate any language
Literature Units
Library Catalog Lesson
Library of Congress
Library Instruction - lessons, Hanover Libraries lessons,
Library Spot
Library Research Service
Library Sources by P. Laurita
Libweb: Library Servers via WWW
Library Media Specialist Resources
Library Sparks online resources
Georgetown Libraries Scope and Sequence
Hanover Lessons for Library
Information and Technology skills
New York Public Library
N. Carolina Library Resources
Research Models
Pathfinders ppt
PPT activities
Peter Milbury's School Librarian Web Pages
Proquest Educator Links
The Purple Crayon
Random Library Quotes
Read-aloud of the week- Trelease
Richardson ISD Library TEKS
Round Rock Library links
More Quotations about libraries
Northside ISD Library Scope
School Library Standards
Scholastic for librarians
Sunlink- links for librarians, resources and research
TEA School Libraries
Teen Libraries- creating a space for teens
Teacher Librarian Website of the Month
Wiki for Library Intruction 1 and 2

Copyright
Always important: Fair Use and Copyright
Interactive Q and A!
Fair Use for Multimedia
Creative Commons, things to share
Copyright friendly clipart: Pics for learning, Barry's clipart, free clipart.com, clipartheaven
Research/Internet Use
Cyberethics for kids
Cybersmart Lesson PLANS
Disney's Surfswell Tips
Formula for Evaluating the Internet
Great sites for Kids ALA
Internet for kids- basic computer skill introduction
Looney Toons teach the Net
Netsmartz for kids
SurfFast.com
Tobias Library Research Sources for Kids
Tech How To's- Webdesign and more

Children's Literature
Awesome Library, elementary literature
Boys and Reading- here!
Bookpals - SAG reads books to you!
Carol Hurst's Literature Guide
Chateau Meddybumps - great stories, games and more
Children's Literature Webguide
Children's Picture Book Database
Childlit- a wiki and search engine
Database of Children's Literature- search for the right book!
International Children's Literature
Nancy Polette's Children's Literature
Jim Trelease- the importance of reading!
Reading Corner- books, authors, links
Storyplace- Children's Digital Library, preschool selections
Stories and Fairy Tales
Storytelling Connection
Suzy Red's Favorite Dr. Seuss Sites
Trelease's Favorite Reading Sites
Weather Channel

Random Useful Tidbits
Austin Wired for Youth- great links!
Internet Index Guide
Games and Songs- Learn letters through songs! PBS
Holidays on the Net - lots of them!
Rubistar- Free rubrics
PBS Bookfinder- search book titles and find one that's just right!
Jan Peck- resources for authors and illustrators
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