Reading and Writing
Reading for Literary Experience
- Fifth Grade Reading - (PDF) (Click to get to the site you want)
- Variety of Stories Online:
MSA Practice
Reading to be Informed
Poetry and Figurative Language
- Scholastic Poetry
- Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky
- Poetry Writing with Karla Kuskin
- Poetry Writing with Jean Marzollo
- Figurative Language (PDF)
- Idioms Activity (PDF)
- Metaphor Activity (PDF)
- Similie Activity (PDF) Click View, Toolbar, Formatting to be able to underline
- Jack Prelutsky's Webpage
- Shel Silverstein's Webpage
- Poetry 4 Kids
- The Children's Poetry Archive
- Giggle Poetry
- Whootie's Stories to Grow By
Fables and Fairy Tales
- Aesop's Fables
- Aesop's Fables
- More Aesop's Fables with Questions (What is the moral?)
- Animated Fables, including:
- Tortoise and the Hare
- A Lesson for Foolish Crow
- The Fox and His Shadow
- The Lion and the Mouse
- Classic Fairy Tales
- Andersen Fairy Tales
- Grimm Fairy Tales
- Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables with Jon Scieszka
Medieval Period
- A to Z Kids Stuff - Middle Ages
- Exhibits Collection--The Middle Ages
- Middle Ages
- Middle Ages for Kids
- Middle Ages for Kids - Medieval Europe
- Middle Ages - Medieval Resources