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
- I can read and summarize a paragraph/story.
- I can find supporting details of a paragraph/story.
- I can identify small changes in the setting of a paragraph/story.
- I can identify small changes in the mood of a paragraph/story.
- I share my writing with others.
- I write for a given audience.
- I publish completed pieces for a variety of audiences.
Grade 6 Objectives
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- Inkspot
- Showcases writing by kids in a variety of genres.
Children's Literature Home Page
- The complete works of Shakespeare, very nicely cataloged.
- 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."
- Gary Paulsen, Lois Lowry, and Daniel Pinkwater are just some of the authors who answer email from this site.
Newbery, Caldecott and other ALA Awards - 1996 Winners
- 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.
Questions? Comments? E-mail Jon Margerum-Leys or Bridget Dean