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Reading & Writing Links

Reading for Literary Experience

• Fifth Grade Reading - (PDF) (Click to get to the site you want)
• Variety of Stories Online:
  • Storyline
  • One More Story
  • Mysteries
  • Greek Mythology

MSA Practice

• Brainchild
• 5th Grade Reading 
• CRCT Language Arts
• Harcourt

Reading to be Informed

• Kids Planet
• National Geographic for Kids
• Identifying Text Features
• Science Online
• Scholastic News 
• Time For Kids 
• SIRS Discoverer 
• TeachingBooks.net
• NewBank 
• Kids Post (Washington Post)

Poetry and Figurative Language

• Scholastic Poetry 
• Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky
• Poetry Writing with Karla Kuskin
• Poetry Writing with Jean Marzollo
• Figurative Language (PDF)
• Idioms Activity (PDF)
• Metaphor Activity (PDF)
• Similie Activity (PDF) Click View, Toolbar, Formatting to be able to underline
• Jack Prelutsky's Webpage
• Shel Silverstein's Webpage 
• Poetry 4 Kids 
• The Children's Poetry Archive
• Giggle Poetry
• Whootie's Stories to Grow By

Fables and Fairy Tales

• Aesop's Fables 
• Aesop's Fables 
• More Aesop's Fables with Questions (What is the moral?)
• Animated Fables, including:
  • Tortoise and the Hare
  • A Lesson for Foolish Crow
  • The Fox and His Shadow
  • The Lion and the Mouse
• Classic Fairy Tales 
• Andersen Fairy Tales
• Grimm Fairy Tales
• Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables with Jon Scieszka

Last update: February 2012 | Maintained by Jennifer Smith