Grades KG-5

Language Arts

Kid Authors
"Kid Authors is a creative place for kids like you. Here you can share your stories and poems with people around the world,
including your friends and family. You can also read stories and poems written by kids around the world."   
Tales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World.
  http://members.nbci.com/darsie/tales/index.html
An archive of folk and fairy tales. The stories in this collection represent a small sampling of the rich storytelling art that is the common heritage of humanity.
The Young Writers Club.
http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/derya/ywc.html  
This club aims to encourage children of all ages to enjoy writing as a creative pastime by getting them to
share their work and help each other improve their writing abilities. The online magazine is called Global Wave.
KidNews.
http://www.kidnews.com/ 
This is a free news and writing service for students and teachers around the world. Anyone may use stories from the service for educational purposes, and anyone may submit stories. It invites comments about the news gathering, teaching, and computer-related issues in the Discussion sections for students and teachers. A tremendous source of all kinds of magazines for student-published work.  
Children's Literature Web Guide 
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown 
The most comprehensive literature guide on the net on children's books 
Learning About the Author and Illustrator Pages.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/author.html Many readers are curious about the creators of the books they like. The more
than 500 links to author/illustrator sites included here will help to satisfy that curiosity.
FablesOnline
http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder
A wonderful site on many of your favorite fables, myths, legends and much much more, drop on by and check this incredible site out!
Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/
Aside from the wonderful access to the dictionary, this site offers words games and a word for the day.
Awesome Stories
What really happened? Using the great stories of history and popular culture as a springboard, this site interactively allows users to examine the actual documents, pictures, graphics, and other primary resources that are the backbone of the story.

Historical Treasure Chest http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/treasure/index.htm
Primary sources such as letters, diaries, photographs, maps and artifacts provide students with authentic materials from the past.  Students examine these sources to formulate their own hypotheses about the time period(s) during which they were created.

Literature Study

Literature online

Online Language Arts Tools

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May 08, 2006