This Webliography consists of web sites that, because of length considerations, could not appear in Technology for Literacy Teaching and Learning. You may wish to explore these sites for possible use in your own professional development and teaching.



A to Z Teacher Stuff
This is a web site at which you can find lessons about phonics and other language arts topics. You can submit your own lesson ideas to this site.

Free Worksheets (Comp Ed, Inc.)
You can locate and print worksheets dealing with phonics, language arts, reading, sentences and writing, and thinking skills at this site.

Letter of the Day
A letter is introduced, pronounced, and then words with the letter (in color) are read in sentences. This is an example of how you can make an audio presentation about letters. The site offers just the example.

Owl & Mouse Educational Software
Many free downloads are available here, including software for letters, letter sounds, and more that are interspersed among products that are for sale.

Short and Sweet Lessons
Short and Sweet Lesson #29 is "Creating Your Child's List of Sight Words," containing advice to parents in creating individual sight word lists for their children.

TampaReads.com
This site offers phonics worksheets that you can print, or you can see activities that you might want to create for yourself. There are reading activities and worksheets for K-4 students.

TeachersNet Lesson Bank
This site has a variety of lessons for reading/writing, literature, language, and more across all grade levels.

Teachers Net Lesson Bank #1258 Musical Chair Phonics
This lesson suggests combining flash cards with the game of musical chairs.

Acronym Finder
Type in an acronym and you are likely to discover that more than one definition appears.For instance, "ASAP" not only stands for "as soon as possible," but it is the acronym for the "American Society of Advertising and Promotion" among other things.

Sheppard Software
High school students can join a contest and test their knowledge of vocabulary at this site.

Teachers.net Lesson Bank #126
A "Go Fish" card game for recognition of vocabulary words is presented at this site.

Teachers.Net Lesson Exchange #50 Vocabulary Review
A vocabulary activity for middle school students appears at this site.

Thesaurus.com
This site contains puzzles, a dictionary, and a "Word of the Day."

Word Detective, The
This is an online version of a feature that appears in many newspapers. The archive of word origins is excellent and could evoke much interest by students in where words originated.You will not get "flummoxed" at this site, but you will learn what this word means.

Word of the Day
A word of the day is listed, defined, given in an example sentence, and spelled phonetically for users of this site.A "Did You Know" paragraph further explores the word, and the archive contains other interesting words.

Word Roots and Prefixes
The site contains lists of roots and prefixes, their meanings, and examples of each. Number prefixes are included.

Language Experience Approach
This site describes the author's steps for making and using a dictated story.

Guess the Carols
Each illustration is used to help people guess the title of a Christmas carol.

Humanities Software
Kids Media Magic, the Reading, Writing, Multimedia Machine is available for purchase from this company.

The Philadelphia Campaign 1777 Rebus Game
This page shows examples of rebuses people created in the 1700s. A reproduction of a rebus letter and its transcription appear, also.

Rebus Puzzles
Try to decipher as many of the rebuses as you can in three minutes.They are not easy!

Rebus Puzzles
You can see a few clever rebuses in the game room about money at this location.

Rozie's
Rozie's presents explanations about ways to understand rebuses.

Writing with Symbols 2000
This company produces software that can be used to make rebus stories and activities.

www.BillsGames.com
This site contains online games, mazes, and puzzles.

The Rep Entertainment Guide
This (and other newspapers) is a rich source of word activities as well as feature stories to read.

Welcome to the Ellis Family Homepage
The family enjoys words.Look at their lists of heteronyms ("words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently" such as "tear" meaning rip or a tear from an eye,and antagonyms ("a word that has meanings that contradict each other" such as "assume" meaning to actually have versus to hope to have).

Word Central
Here you can look up word definitions, learn a new "buzzword," and help build a dictionary by supplying words and definitions."Blufic" and "puffenlooper" are two entries submitted by students the day I last visited the site.

Ask Jeeves
Got a question? Type it in and get an answer. Ask Jeeves for Kids! is a companion site for younger students.

Dictionary.com
Type in English words and have them translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish or vice versa.

Familiar Quotations ... By John Bartlett
This site presents quotations from this familiar reference's 10^th edition.

InfoPlease.com—Browse the Almanacs
This is a major source of information.Find a topic in the "Almanac Index" for sports, entertainment, people, the world, and more.

Intellicast—Weather for Active Lives
You can get the weather and forecast for cities around the world at this site.

K, 1, 2
This site has links to other sites appropriate for K-2 classrooms.

KidSpace
This site contains The Smart Resources Encyclopedia that students can access in class or at home.

Open Directory
This is a jumping off place to find information about the arts, references, computers, games, and more.

States and Capitols
At this site you can learn about USA states, commonwealths, and territories and their capitols. You can learn about state flowers, flags, governors, and you can print out a state income tax form.

U. S. Gazetteer
This is the U. S. Census Bureau's site where you can find the last census figures for your city and see a map of the area.

The Universal Currency Converter
You can find out how much your country's money converts to in another country. This site can be helpful when you are doing collaborate Internet projects with teachers and children from another country.

The World Factbook 1999
You can find statistics and excellent maps of the countries of the world at this site.If your students have e-pals in other countries, this would be a fine site to help them learn about them. The site is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Cloze Activity
You can experience reading a cloze passage at this web site.