Starfall- read or listen to short stories focusing on vowel sounds
TumbleBook Library Site
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/authors.asp
http://cbc4kids.cbc.ca/general/words/newauthors.html
http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorstudies.jhtml
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/indexes/author.html
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http://www.surfnetkids.com/fairytales.htm
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As both readers and writers, we return to fairy tale themes
again and again, gleaning new meaning from each encounter. These
are stories that survived and evolved for hundreds of years.
Read them again (or for the first time) and discover what makes
them timeless.
AesopFables.com
http://www.aesopfables.com/
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Although not as pretty or as well organized as some of the other
sites, AesopFables.com does have the entire text of 655 of
Aesop's fables and 127 fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen.
And creator John Long isn't done yet: 209 Grimm brothers' fairy
tales are coming soon. Best click for students is Selected
Fables which includes eighty-six Aesop fables "selected for
their ease of reading and concise moral understanding." Look for
the Real Audio logo in the lower right-hand corner of some of
the story pages to hear Long's ten year old daughter read the
fable.
Aesop's Fables
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/
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Each year, University of Massachusetts professor Copper Giloth
asks his Computers in Fine Arts students to illustrate or
animate an Aesop fable, \ along with their own modern retelling
of the story. This collection of nearly forty fables is the best
of that student work dating back to 1994. This fun site is a
must-see, and is a great place to start before creating your own
fables. My personal favorite is "The Jay and The Peacock."
Childhood Reading
http://childhoodreading.com/
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Childhood Reading is a pretty mix of fairy tales, fables and
poetry accompanied by original early-twentieth century
illustrations. The illustrated tales are indexed by both author
(such as Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Louis Stevenson and
Aesop) and illustrator (including Maxfield Parrish and Edmund
Dulac.) It's the simple design and yummy artwork that make this
site special.
Grimm's Fairy Tales: From Folklore to Forever
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/
*****
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German patriots of the early
nineteenth century who set out to preserve their country's folk
tales. The stories were often cruel, but once the brothers saw
how popular the tales were with young readers, they started
making them softer and sweeter. National Geographic serves up a
graphically-rich adventure into twelve "unvarnished" Grimm fairy
tales, some of which include audio. Click on the treasure box
for a biography, resource links, and a kid's activity page.
Scholastic: Myths, Folktales, Fairy Tales
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/
*****
As part of their Writing with Writers series, this Scholastic
project is a multi-grade resource for learning about and writing
myths, folktales and fairytales. Grades one to three explore
fairy tales and meet two authors who have re-written classic
fairy tales: Jon Scieska (author of "The True Story of the Three
Little Pigs") and Diane Good (author and illustrator of
"Cinderella: The Dog and her Little Glass Slipper.") Similarly,
grades three to six dive into folk tales while grades five
through eight learn about myths. There even is an opportunity to
submit your own tales for possible publication on the Scholastic
site.
