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[Original booklists] [Project-based curriculum resources] [Theme-related curriculum resources] [The Genres] [Literary enrichment activities] [Social Studies timelines for reference] [Book Awards] [Children's Literature and Authors] [Boston Frameworks] [Reference Resources] [Writing Domains] [Theories of Learning] [Balanced Literacy Models] [Lee Ongoing and Past Projects]

Original

Booklists

  1. Regional USA titles from states A-M and states N-Z
  2. Native American experiences
  3. Asians in picture books
    [Japanese-Americans in WW II]
  4. Titles from Central and South America
  5. War experiences in books
  6. Immigrants in literature and URL immigration resources.
  7. Booklist of 1600s colonial America resources
  8. American Revolution Period books of the 1700s.
  9. Resources for Native American contact with early colonists.
  10. Slavery-related and early African-American contribution resources.
  11. Underground Railroad, Abolitionist, Fugitive Slaves mid-1800s.
  12. Click on "challenge" under each Westward Expansion topic for frontier category-related URL and book suggestions.
  13. Cinderella versions
  14. American, regional tall tales
  15. A booklist of mythology and legends
  16. Ancient Civilizations of Egypt, China, Mesopotamia resources
  17. Books composed in diary format.
  18. Theme of lobsters
  19. Rainforests

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Project-based
Curriculum
Products
  1. Student Colonial Writings
  2. Student westward expansion journals
  3. Student slave narratives


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Theme-related
curriculum
challenges
  1. Colonial simulation
  2. Revolutionary Period Index - ELA and Math activities
  3. Activity - Use of 1600s Passenger Lists to colonies
  4. Original colonial town meeting simulation based on "My Brother Sam Is Dead" by Collier
  5. Westward Expansion activities
  6. Abolitionism activities

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The Genres
  1. Realistic fiction
  2. Fantasy
  3. Mystery
  4. Biographical sketch and Interviews
  5. Historical Fiction - key questions
  6. Nonfiction
    • Newspaper format applied from a Harry Potter challenge
  7. Picture Books - Looney Letters
  8. Alphabet Books - Colonial Alphabet Book | Alphabet Books prepare for the Phantom Tollbooth
  9. Student Poetry - Sharing | "War Is . . . " | Ballad of Looney | Rainforest Acrostics
  10. Thematic poetry
  11. Tall tales
  12. Songs of the USA

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Literary
Basics
and Enrichment
Activities
  1. Readers Workshop
  2. The potential of Literature Circles
  3. Storytelling
  4. Drama
  5. Creative Dramatics
  6. Choral Reading - Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee
  7. Readers Theater - Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too | Yeh Shen
  8. Puppetry
  9. Music and Songs - Parody - "Yankee Doodle"

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Writing
Domains
  1. Narrative/descriptive
    1. Modeled on What If
    2. Modeled on Free to Be . . . . You and Me
  2. Practical/ informational
  3. Analytical/Expository (challenges)
    1. based on . . . If You Lived in Colonial Times
    2. based on Valley Forge
  4. Sensory/descriptive

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Social
Studies
Timelines
for
reference

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Book Awards; Literature Sites Newbery Awards
Caldecott Awards
Coretta Scott King Awards
Pura Belpre Awards

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Children's Literature
and
Authors 		Carol Hurst site
Children's Literature Web Guide
Children's Literature Gopher
Children's and Young Adult Authors
Penguin authors online
Harper Collins
Author biographies - - Internet Public Library (Ask the Author)
Author links IPL
Authors
Authors' birthdates
Bibliographies of Biographies and Autobiographies of Children's Book Authors
Children's Authors on Yahoo
Children's illus on Yahoo
Database for Children's Literature

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Boston
Frameworks 		Literacy
Science
Social studies

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Lee
Online
Projects 		Mrs. Barbour's Berry, the Bog Frog project | Ms. McEachern's "Flat Stanley" traveling buddy project | Ms. Duby's Looney Lobster | One Hundred Days Celebration ! !

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Balanced
Literacy
Models 		Cunningham's Four Blocks Literacy Model | Four Blocks
Discussion - Balanced Litercy
What Is Balanced Literacy?
CIERA
Matching Books to Readers

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Theories
of Learning and classroom protocols 		Theories of Piaget, Rogers, Skinner, Gardner, DeBono, Guilford and others | At Harvard Graduate School of Education - Project Zero and ALPS and ENT | Collaborative Assessment Conference (Seidel) | Quickstart Thinking Alignment Menu

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Reference
Resources 		Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus
Semantic rhyming dictionary
Information Please
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Reference Desk
Online newspapers
Graphic organizers

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