HEY! LISTEN TO THIS Stories to Read Aloud

By Jim Trelease

Published by Penguin Books, 1992

ISBN 0140146539, 9780140146530

414 pages Ages 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Jim Trelease's "New Read-Aloud Handbook" led millions of people to discover the special experience of reading aloud to children. In "Hey! Listen to This, " Trelease brings together forty-eight read-aloud stories that parents and teachers can share with children ages five through nine. His choices range from folktales "( Uncle Remus, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and the Indian Cinderella )" to classic favorites by such wonderful children's authors as Roald Dahl "( James and the Giant Peach ), " E.B. White "( Charlotte's Web), " Beverly Cleary "( Ramona the Pest ), " C.S. Lewis "( The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), " and L.Frank Baum "(Ozma of Oz )." In addition, Trelease has written a special introduction to each story and makes suggestions for further reading.

HEY! LISTEN TO THIS

• • CONTENTS • •

TELL ME A STORY

• "The Gunniwolf" retold by Wilhelmina Harper
• "Little Green Riding Hood" by Gianni Rodari
• Wolf Story by William McCleery (novel chapter)

TALES FROM LONG AGO

• "Noah's Friends" by Marc Gellman, from Does God Have a Big Toe?
• "The Tortoise and the Hare" retold from Aesop

SCHOOL DAYS

• "Joe" by Louis Sachar, from Sideways Stories from Wayside School (novel chapter)
• "Ramona's Great Day" by Beverly Cleary, from Ramona the Pest (novel chapter)
• "A Room Without Windows or Doors" by Edith Fisher Hunter, from Child of the Silent Night (novel chapter)
• "Cheating" by Susan Shreve, from Family Secrets

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

• "Bavsi's Feast" by Adele Geras
• "Meet Henry Green" and "A Strange Feeling" by Robert Kimmel Smith, from Chocolate Fever (novel chapter)
• "The Doughnuts" by Robert McCloskey, from Homer Price (novel chapter)

FAMILIES

• "Alexander," by June Epstein
• "Captain Cook," by Richard and Florence Atwater, from Mr. Popper's Penguins (novel chapter)
• "The Pudding Like A Night on the Sea" by Ann Cameron, from The Stories Julian Tells
• "The Fish Angel" by Myron Levoy, from The Witch of Fourth Street and Other Stories
• "Nadia the Willful" by Sue Alexander
• "Greyling" by Jane Yolen

FOLK AND FAIRY TALES

• "Unanana and the Elephant" retold by Kathleen Arnott
• "Brer Rabbit Gets Even" retold by Julius Lester, from The Tales of Uncle Remus
• "The Indian Cinderella" retold by Cyrus Macmillan
• "Ah Mee's Invention" retold by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, from Shen of the Sea
• "The Emperor's New Clothes" retold from Hans Christian Andersen
• "The Search for the Magic Lake" by Genevieve Barlow
• "The Magic Thread" author unknown

ANIMAL TALES

• "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter
• "Before Breakfast" by E. B. White, from Charlotte's Web (novel chapter)
• Bambi by Felix Salten (novel chapter)
• "My Early Home" and "The Hunt" by Anna Sewell, from Black Beauty (novel chapter)
• "Not for Sale" and "I Never Want Another Dog" by Eric Knight, from Lassie Come-Home(novel chapter)
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, (novel chapter)
• Gentle Ben by Walt Morey (novel chapter)

GIGANTIC CREATURES

• "The Story of Giant Kippernose" by John Cunliffe
• "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame
• "The Moon's Revenge" by Joan Aiken

FANTASY LANDS

• "The Girl in the Chicken Coop" by L. Frank Baum, from Ozma of Oz (novel chapter)
• "Lucy Looks into a Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis, from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (novel chapter)
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (novel chapters)

CHILDREN OF COURAGE

• "The Boy Who Stopped the Sea" retold by Louis Untermeyer, from The World's Great Stories
• The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (novel chapter)
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (novel chapter)
• "I'm going to Get Me Some Big Words" and "A Dream Begins to Grow" by Margaret Davidson, from I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.

ORPHANS OF THE STORM

• Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett (novel chapter)
• "The Story of Holly and Ivy" by Rumer Godden
• "Aunt Harriet Has a Cough" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, from Understood Betsy (novel chapter)
  

CLASSIC TALES

• "The Golden Touch" retold from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book
• "The Pied Piper" retold from Joseph Jacobs and Andrew Lang, with poetry excerpts from Robert Browning
• "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" retold from Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book

10 Unique Resource Sites for Educators

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Ten Unique Resource Sites for Educators

Those of us who spend a great deal of time online often stumble across valuable Web sites that contain unique resources we think many educators would like to know about. The list below represents nine of those sites; online resources guaranteed to save you time and effort as you search for new ways to integrate technology into your curriculum. Included: Nine Web sites that provide a gold mine of useful education resources.

According to the Web Characterization Project, a study done by the Online Computer Library Center, the World Wide Web contained more than 9 million unique Web sites in 2002 -- representing a 231 percent increase in the number of Web sites since 1998.

Real Time Data Sites
The Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). This Web site offers links to real time data in a number of science related categories, including weather and meteorology, space and astronomy, the environment, earth science, animals, oceanography, and world time zones. The sites, which provide information from satellites, Web cams, laboratory experiments, and recently updated reports and surveys, also includes a section on Internet projects that use real time data.

4 2 eXplore
The philosophy of this site is "When you're learning about something new, it's nice to have more than one resource to explore." The site's title is somewhat deceptive, however; way more than the four promised resources are provided for each listed topic! The site, provided by eduScapes, introduces a new topic each week. The current eclectic list of more than 200 topics.

Digital Saskatchewan
This is a small site with limited resources -- most of them related to Saskatchewan -- but the idea has so much potential that I had to include it. The site provides "free images, movies, and sounds from Saskatchewan and around the world." All the media resources provided may be used in lessons, projects, reports, and so on, by educators and students free of charge as long as the resources are properly credited. Although most of the 3,732 resources currently available

Online Newspapers.com
Expand your students' perspectives and perceptions by exposing them to some of the thousands of online newspapers listed at this site! Short of a world tour, there's no better way to introduce your students to the culture, politics, climate, and life style of their neighbors -- both near and far.

Hotlist of K-12 School Sites
Educational CyberPlayGround provides this hotlist of K-12 school Web sites from across the United States. Simply click a state on the U.S. map to find a list of elementary, middle, and secondary schools with an online presence. Click a school's name to go immediately to its Web site.

Library in the Sky
The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory provides this database of more than 1,600 useful educational Web sites. Sites are categorized into 14 Departments, including Arts and Music, Early Childhood, Foreign Language, Math, Science, and Vocational, and 12 Materials, including Educational Games, Lesson Plans, Professional Development, and Tutorials. Each Department is further divided into subjects. The Web sites listed include resources for both teachers and students. Some are well known to educators; many, such as 1001 Periodic Table Quiz Questions and Arctica are tiny educational gems you might not come across anywhere else. This is definitely a library that demands browsing!

GEC Computers in the Classroom
The WebQuest locator, for example is worth its weight in gold, no matter where, what, or who you teach. This extensive list of WebQuests can be accessed by division (primary, junior, intermediate, or senior), by subject, or by curriculum area. Best of all, the links to all 730 WebQuests in the database have been recently verified!

My favorite site feature, however, is the monthly Computers in the Classroom Newsletter, which is e-mailed to subscribers free of charge. The lengthy newsletter, written in friendly, easy-to-read language, contains lots of worthwhile information for teachers interested in incorporating technology into their classrooms, including tips on using a variety of technology tools, suggestions for creative lessons and activities, and links to terrific Web site discoveries. All past issues are archived on the site.

Numbers from 1-10 in more than 4,500 languages
OK, you can count to 10 in English, Spanish, French, and German. But can you count to 10 in Bijago, Chinook, Aleut, Middle English, or Russian? This site, which includes the numerals from 1 to 10 in at least 4,000 languages I've never even heard of, is sure to stimulate your students' interest in geography or history and to provide a fun activity to extend almost any social studies activity. Unfortunately, the site provides little pronunciation guidance -- but then, who will know the difference?

UT Library Online
This extensive list of links to maps and map sites is the answer to a social studies teacher's prayer. The site, maintained by the University of Texas at Austin, contains links to general map sites, as well as to sites containing country maps, state maps, city maps, weather maps, historical maps, and outline maps.

In addition, the site's Cartographic Reference Resources section provides links to gazetteers, distance calculators, time zone guides, sun and moon rise/set calculators, tide predictors, map projections, map scale calculators, and glossaries and map guides. If you can't find the map you want here, chances are you won't find it anywhere!

Way Back Machine
Surf the more than 10 billion pages stored in its Web archive. And it really works! Remember those dead links at the real time data site above? Enter the URL of the one you were hoping to find into this site's search engine, click Take Me Back, and watch the Way Back Machine find it for you. Even if the search is unsuccessful, this archive locator will promise to find the lost site on its next crawl through cyberspace!

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Investigating the Renaissance

Investigating the Renaissance

Examining material aspects
of three Netherlandish paintings
using digital imaging techniques

http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/

100 Most Popular Children's Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies

By Sharron L. McElmeel

Edition: 5, illustrated

Published by Libraries Unlimited, 1999

ISBN 1563086468, 9781563086465

495 pages

Students can learn more about their favorite authors
and find plenty of reading materials they'll enjoy
with this affordable biographical work and ready-reference.
Featuring 100 beloved and celebrated children's book authors,
McElmeel offers engaging biographical sketches, photos,
and selected bibliographies and lists of related information sources.
Included are such long-time luminaries as Beverly Cleary
and Marguerite Henry as well as many new emerging writers.
McElmeel's focus is on contemporary authors
and those whose works are still in print. A more current
and affordable alternative to multivolume publications,
this book is a great collection development tool and
resource for author studies. Students will enjoy using it
for their reports and research papers.

Reviews

Gr 6-9-This handy resource provides fairly extensive biographical information about writers enjoyed by elementary and middle school children. Authors of contemporary and classic novels and nonfiction titles are included. For each entry, several pages of background are followed by a selective, sometimes annotated book list of the person's works and several titles for further reading. This inconsistent use of annotations is bothersome. Occasional Web sites are also given. Clearly, depth of coverage can't be as complete as the multivolume Something about the Author (Gale) or the Biography Today: Author Series (Omnigraphics), but McElmeel more than adequately covers each writer's life and work. "Most popular" is always open to interpretation, and obviously not everyone will agree with this designation. Many of the writers are also found in Bernard Drew's The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors (Libraries Unlimited, 1997). There are black-and-white photos of fewer than half the entries. Helpful genre and general indexes conclude the volume. For libraries owning any of the biographical sets, this is not a first purchase. However, its accessible format will make it the preferred title to answer general questions. Useful for collections serving teachers and students.-Peg Glisson, Mendon Center Elementary School, Pittsford, NY ... more » Cahners Business Information (c) 1999

Kids' Catalog Web
http://martsubhub.lib.wv.us:8000/kcweb/kcHome

Great c o l o r s and a Robot appears while you wait for a search!

This is a bountiful resource for research,
pre-school through young adult.

At the HOME page, choose from
EXPLORE, TYPE SEARCH, BEST STORIES,
ABC FIND IT!, OR EVENTS

EXPLORE has 18 subjects for amusement or homework,
or more serious research, like Kid's Problems.
Here are 24 topics. Under Feelings is a list of 57 books,
and 75 WebPages to explore, sorted by topic.

TYPE SEARCH has a search window and
AUTHOR, TITLE, and SUBJECT BUTTONS.

BEST STORIES has Awards - 18 types,
from ALA Notable Books to Young Reader's Choice.
Picture Books - 24 Types
Beginning Readers (Gr 1-3) - Starting to Read, Reading Lots,
Reading More, and True Stories
Chapter Books (Gr 4-6) - 20 Topics
Young Adult - 27 Topics

ABC FIND IT! has Alphabetical Tiles
in each of 4 choices: Subjects, Authors,
Series, and Famous People.
If nothing is available, you are directed to a Librarian
or offered a Web Pages Button

EVENTS was empty today.

This page is linked to the Martinsburg-Berkeley County (WV) Public Library.