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Folk Literature

Aesop's Fables

http://www.umass.edu/aesop/
Tall Tales

http://www.hasd.org/ges/talltale/talltale.htm
Creating Tall Tales

http://pbskids.org/cgi-registry/lions/tales.pl/games

Information Sources

Rhyming Dictionary

http://www.rhymezone.com/
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/webster.form.html
Roget's Thesaurus

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
Visual Thesaurus

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?vt&ad=mwcom.728x90.1.55

Newspapers

Captions Help Tell a Story

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=2&act=4&que=1
Read All About It!

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=2&act=2&que=1
Reading Headlines

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=2&act=3&que=1
Take Notes

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=3&act=3&que=1

Text Features

Looking For the Fine Print

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=5&act=2&que=1
What's On a Map

http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=8&act=2&que=1
Reading Maps & Charts

http://www.fcatexplorer.com/Parent/4GR/en/tipslister/question_tip_space.asp?src=tip115a.swf&skill=Reading%20Maps%20and%20Charts

Research

Organizing Info for Research

http://www.fcatexplorer.com/Parent/4GR/en/parent_tip_list.asp?gs=2

Interactive Notebooks

Possible notes & practice sheets

http://www.fcatexplorer.com/Parent/4GR/en/parent_tip_list.asp?gs=2

Mass Media

Buying Smart

http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/buyingsmart/
Behind the Scenes

http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/entertainment/
Advertising Tricks

http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/

Movie Maker

Movie Maker Tutorial for beginners

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx

Punctuation

WhadDaYa Know Quiz show

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=QuizGame&Topic=Language+Arts