Authors / Illustrators Creation Station - Stories Author Search Site Authors & Illustrators on the Web Children's Literature Web Guide - Author Search Jan Brett ~ Hegie Blasts Off! Mimi Carpenter ~ What the Sea Left Behind Roald Dahl ~ Magic Finger, Esio Trot Tomie DePaola ~ Bill & Pete Patricia MacLachlan ~ Sarah, Plain and Tall Mary Pope Osborne ~ Thanksgiving on Thursday Dr. Seuss ~ The Cat in the Hat Shel Silverstein ~ The Giving Tree Richard Thompson ~ Cold Night, Bright Light Kate Waters ~ Lion Dancer Classic Fairytales.com - Choose from a dozen plus stories to have read to you! Create Your Own Adventure! Funbrain Reading: Madlibs Junior!  - (interactive) Madlibs Online Meddybemps Story Starters Stories From the Web K-1 - Post your own stories on the Net. Wild & Wacky Stories Wacky FunBrain Tales Wacky Web Tales Writing Sparks General Interactives BrainPOP - Movies and quizzes Enchanted Learning How Stuff Works - Game Works KidsReads.com - Meet Booker T. Worm! Learn English Kids Magic Tree House Read~Write~Think Venn Diagram (Interactive) Writer's Window Academic Skill Builders - Choose between Word Frog, Word Invasion, or Verb Viper as your game. Bembo's Zoo - See how the letters of the alphabet can do more than just make words! Building Language with Literacy - Naming, Identifying, Rhyming CVCMaker - Play "word play" or challenge yourself to "word match" and see what kind of a speller you are. Compound Words - Complete the closed compound words by dragging the colored missing half to the correct place on the gray labels. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Study Activities Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Study Activities Kerpoof! - Pick out a scene then add characters and props.  A great way to brainstorm ideas for creative writing. Label the Scene "The Teddy Bears Picnic" - Use the list of labels to label the picnic scene.  Can you find where ALL the labels go? Learn to Write - Letter practice, writing and pronouncing The Magic Key Adventures - Learn about periods, capital letters, sentence patterns, and more! Phonics Interactivities (PreK-K) - Includes memory cards, an alphabet zoo, and more! Phonics Interactivities (Gr. 1-2) - Includes high frequency words, diphthongs, and more! Phonics Interactivities (Gr. 3-4) - Includes digraphs, homonyms, and more! Sesame Street Presents: "Cookie Monster's Corner" Sherston Interactives - Word recognition, adjectives, nouns, and more. Spin and Spell - Challenge yourself or a friend to spells words with the help of the alphabet spin wheel! StarFall - A great interactive website that uses phonics to teach spelling and reading. Stories From the Web K-1 - Read, write, play games, and much more! Stories From the Web 2-3 - Read, write, play games, and much more! The Story Vine Word Order Gr. 1&2 - Can you put all of the words into alphabetical order? Word Order Gr. 3&4 - Can you put all of the words into alphabetical order?  Watch out, some words are tricky! Word Wheel 1 - Spin the word wheels to try and make a word that matches the picture provided. Literacy Tools Poetry Dictionary.com Reference.com Thesaurus.com Word of the Day Venn Diagram (interactive) Fizzy~Funny~Fuzzy Poetry - Read & listen to a variety of poems online Giggle Poetry.com - Fun poems for kids Kids' Poetry Page - Magnetic Poetry Poetry4Kids.com Scholastic Poetry - For Grades 1-8 Sesame Street Presents: "Elmo Rhyming" Reading Television Readers BookPALS - Storyline Online Reading KidsSpace - Toronto Public Library Learn English Kids: Read-Alouds - (interactive) PeaceKIDz Story Center - Online Picture Books! Stories From the Web K-1 Arthur - Your friend from PBS! Between the Lions - Wild reading from PBS The Magic School Bus - From Scholastic