Organizations of Interest to Teachers
Children's Book Council
12 W. 37th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10018-7480
http://www.cbcbooks.org

International Reading Association
800 Barksdale Road
PO Box 8139
Newark, DE 19714-8139
http://www.reading.org

National Association for the Education of Young Children
1509 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036-1426
http://www.naeyc.org

National Council of Teachers of English
1111 W. Kenyon Road
Urbana, IL 61801-1096
http://www.ncte.org

Full-Text Literature on the Web

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
http://megabrands.com/alice/indexx.html

Project Gutenberg
Hundreds of texts from which to choose, including many suitable for elementary-school readers.
http://www.gutenberg.net/index.shtml

Fairy tales
This site also includes links to several other archives of folk and fairy tales.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Fiction/FairyTales/

Reliable Sites to Recommend for Student Research

Appalachian Educational Laboratory
http://www.ael.org

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov

Home of LOCIS, the Library of Congress Information System database.
NASA Quest
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.ncrel.org

The Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu

Communications

Book Rap
http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/projects/book-rap/index.html

An Internet site designed to help children discuss literature with other children.

Cyber Mentoring
http://depts.washington.edu/wctl/cybermentor.htm

Information about cyber mentoring projects that make use of videoconferencing technology.

Kidsphere
An electronic mailing list. Teachers or students must subscribe to the list by sending an e-mail to kidsphere-request@vms.cis.pitt.edu. Subscribers receive all messages sent to the list until they unsubscribe by sending an e-mail to the same address. Users can post messages to all other subscribers by sending them to the Kidsphere e-mail address:
kidsphere@vms.cis.pitt.edu.

Interactive Internet Projects

Education Place
http://www.eduplace.com/index.html

The Project Center portion of this site has a list of Internet projects for schools.
Hewlett Packard E-mail Mentor Program

Ink Spot
http://www.inkspot.com/young/

An Internet site where young writers can find resources to expand their writing abilities.

International Telemento Program
http://www.telementor.org/

Facilitates electronic mentoring relationships between professional adults and students worldwide.

Global Schoolhouse
http://www.gsn.org/

and
Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connection
http://www.iecc.org/

Two sites for teachers looking for collaborative Internet projects with schools in other countries. Global Schoolhouse is a resource for permanent, ongoing Internet projects.

Kidlink
http://www.kidlink.org

An organization focused on enhancing global communication among children through the secondary school level.

Stories from the Titanic
http://sp.uconn.edu/~djleu/titanic.html

Internet workshop.

WebQuest
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

The WebQuest page, from San Diego State University, freely makes available examples and information about using WebQuests.

Television and Videodisc Resources

Television
-The following Public Broadcasting (http://pbskids.org/) shows can be helpful in literacy instruction:
Between the Lions
Reading Rainbow
Storytime
Wishbone
RIF Exchange

-Booknotes, on C-Span, (http://www.booknotes.org/home/index.asp) is another helpful program.

-Cable in the Classroom (http://www.ciconline.com) is a service aimed at in-school audiences that provides schools with free basic cable service and commercial-free television programming each month.