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 * Reading**

**Into the Book- Interactive Reading Strategy Activities**  []    Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K–4 students and teachers that focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/index.html# Teaches setting, characters, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax and resolution.
 * Elements of a Story Interactive**

**Character Generator**  []   Create your own characters or analyze characters in books you've read. **Sequencing**  Read a story, then recreate it and finally summarize it. [] **Main Idea Tutorial**  [|**http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcmi1.htm**] [|**http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/GetTheIdea/default.htm**] **Main Idea Interactive Practice**  [|**http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/psmain.htm**] **Sequencing Activities**  [] **Story Scramble**  [] **Tall Tales**  **Paul Bunyan**   [] **Tall Tales- Ghost stories, Legends, Holiday Lore, Urban Legends**  []
 * Get**the idea

**Tomie DePaola**  **Meet Tomie DePaola - includes biography, list of work, interesting facts**   [] **The official website of Tomie DePaola:**

[] Additional information about his childhood and another of his books: [] English Zone.com [] [] [] [] **Sarah, Plain and Tall** Online vocabulary, questions, and activities chapter by chapter, along with other online resources. @http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading3/sarah.htm **Millennium Mystery Madness - History of Mystery, Anatomy of a Mystery, Mystery Scavenger Hunt, etc. - Thinkquest** [] **Charlotte's Web Comics** [] Make your own Charlotte's Web comic strips... YOU decide what happens to Wilbur and his friends.
 * Reading Resources**
 * Reading Comprehension - Free Worksheets**
 * Practice Reading Tests**
 * Books - The Kids' Way: An Online Collection of some of the world's greatest children's literature**