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Rosetta Project
Contains a collection of nearly 2000 antique children's books online..
Aesop's Fables
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A total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. Included are Real Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables, and Search Engine. Recently added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen. .

Baglan's Big Books
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Great Books for Beginning Readers



Beantime Stories
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Lots of stories for young readers and listerners.

grouped by topic

Animated Stories
from Room 108


Robert Munsch Stories
Some of Robert Munsch's books are available for listening to on this website.
Children's Audio Stories & Kids Games
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Nice selection of audio stories. This site also has fun games and music.

Wired for Books
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Well done dramatic audio production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll free online.



Stories from the Web
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This site encourages children's participation with their own stories, reviews and Web club. Cute site with lots to do.

grouped by topic

Big Books from NatureGrid

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Great books to read on-line.

BookPop
Books written and narrated by Steven Cosgrove.
Fablevision
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Contains great stories and activities for all ages. Use the Library to locate stories. Don't miss North Star. It's available in both English in Spanish. Some stories can be downloaded for use later. Everything from picture books to chapterbooks are available for free.

Internatinal Children's Digital Libray
from the University of Maryland

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Scanned picture books from around the world.



Kennedy Center's Storytime on LIne
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Audio & visual stories, includes Brothers of the Knight, Harlem: A Poem, and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

grouped by topic

Chunky Monkey
Between the Lions
A new story & adventure
each week
Alphabet Animals
Mother Goose Express
Kids Farm
farm animals
TheCase.com for Kids
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Mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks and contests
Free Story Books to Read to Young Children
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Free Story Books to Read to Older Children
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Free Story Books to Read to Young Adults
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Sounds
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FunBrain
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Fun games with educational value

FunSchool
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Excellent games -- many are educational. This site has pop-up banners
Giggle Poetry
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Hundreds of poems to read and rate. Accepts original poetry from children
kid-e.tv
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Has fun animation to entertain young children. Highly recommended.
Academy of Achievement
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Huge collection of illustrated information about leaders, discoverers and creators who shape the world.Ê
Learning How to Draw
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ILLUSTRATED LESSON NOTES FOR TEACHERS

Alphabet Action
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Cute site for young children. Click a letter of the alphabet to hear its name and see a picture.
Lycos Zone
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Type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more.
Up-to-10 Internet for Kids
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Excellent animated games that are educational as well as entertaining. French and Spanish versions also.
The Nine Planets
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Beautiful. A multimedia tour of the solar system for older children/young adults.
Draw and Color with Uncle Fred
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Unique and wonderful site. Fred Lasswell, famous cartoonist of the "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" cartoon strip, teaches children how to draw simple cartoons that they can color.

Enchanted Learning
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Fabulous for teachers. Includes science pages, Mother Goose rhymes, great music pages, activities, and printouts - Asks for $20 (or donation) as a voluntary membership fee to support the site.
PBS - Dragon Tales
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Dragon Tales coloring book to print and color.
Sesame Street Coloring Pages
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Print and color pages with numbers, letters and Sesame Street charactersÊ
TheColor.com
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Lots of free pages to color online or print out.
On-line Stories and More
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Great links for children learning to read. Lots of alphabet help.

Book Adventure
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A free reading motivation program for students in grades K-8 created by Sylvan Learning Center.
Children's Books Central
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Has internet resources related to books for children and young adults. A meta site for the writers, readers, collectors, illustrators, librarians, teachers, parents, publishers, printers, storytellers and kids.
Dolch Word Games
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Print and color pages with numbers, letters and Sesame Street charactersÊ
Anchor Framework Game to Teach Retelling Stories
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Story retell with a fun interactive game.
Student Time Scheduler
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Heighten your student's awareness of how much time they have to complete tasks! Try these countdown timers which visually let kids see how much time they have to finish their work. The timers come with sound cues that alert kids to the time left to finish.

Smart Board Resources
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Check out these highly interactive lessons for teaching on your Smart board!
StoryLine on Line
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The Screen Actors Guild developed this site to bring you StoryLine on Line, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading childrens books alound! Each book includes aaccompanying activities and lesson ideas.
E-Books / Web Books
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Electronic Books and / or Web Books to read on-line.

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