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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
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