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How the Language Really Works: Novels and Stories
This brief article explains perspective, types of narrators, and the elements of fiction.
Family Education
Family Education: Books for Ages 7 8
Selection of age-apppropriate fiction for seven- to eight-year-old children. Plot summaries included.
Family Education
Family Education: Books for Ages 7 8
Selection of age-appropriate fiction for seven- to eight-year-old children. Plot summaries included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Text Structure
[Free Registration/Login Required] 6 text structures - diary, fiction, nonfiction, biography, fairy tale, fable, mystery, fantasy, historical fiction
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fiction, Non Fiction and Dewey Decimal
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students in the Media Center recognize the difference between Fiction and Non-Fiction books and locate items on library shelves using call numbers.
Room Recess
Room Recess: Author's Purpose
Read short texts and determine whether their purpose is to inform, entertain, or persuade in order to move around the board in this online learning game. Click on video lessons for an understanding of author's purposes including types of...
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Dandi Palmer: Sorcerer's Apprentice
Click through the pages of this beautifully illustrated story book to read about a young sorcerer's apprentice who thinks she can cast spells like the sorcerer in order to get her work done more quickly, but she learns a lesson and the...
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Dandi Palmer: Salvation & the Devil Dancer
Click through the pages of this beautifully illustrated story book to read about a little girl who listens to her grandmother tell a story about two dancers and their performance at a carnival that ended up saving the whole village from...
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Dandi Palmer: Possomly's Bomb
Click through the pages of this beautifully illustrated story book to read about a civilization that travels to a new planet and then destroys it with pollution and war, but a scientist and her two grandchildren escape.
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Dandi Palmer: Griselidis
Click through the beautifully illustrated pages of this story book to read the story of Griselidis, based on the opera by Massenet. Griselidis stands up to several challenges while unknowingly helping her husband win a bet against the...