Motion In Our World: Language Arts


Tell a Tale of Motion:

A copycat Writing/Student publishing activity

Tell a tale of motion gives students a chance to interact with literature and to use the World Wide Web to share their writing with other students. It meets the following objectives (click on the objective to see it in the context of the overall grade level objectives):

Grade 5 Objectives

Grade 6 Objectives

See the Activity

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Also Recommended: Sites on the World Wide Web which have language arts components

Inkspot
 

Middlezine Magazine

Showcases writing by kids in a variety of genres.
 

Children's Literature Home Page

 

Complete works of Shakespeare

The complete works of Shakespeare, very nicely cataloged.
 

CyberKids Home

 

IPL The Internet Public Library

The Internet Public Library is a project of the University of Michigan School of Information. It seeks to "serve the public by finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating quality information resources."
 

IPL Youth Division: Ask the Author

Gary Paulsen, Lois Lowry, and Daniel Pinkwater are just some of the authors who answer email from this site.
 

KIDDIN' AROUND

 

Newbery, Caldecott and other ALA Awards - 1996 Winners

 

The Page at Pooh Corner

 

Project Gutenberg Home Page

Project Gutenberg puts public domain literature on the Web. Here you'll find the complete works of Shakespeare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others.

Purdue University On-line Writing Lab


Questions? Comments? E-mail Jon Margerum-Leys or Bridget Dean