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Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
This website was designed to give information and technology to paretns, teachers and administrators. It's focus is on the goal of all children reading by the end of third grade.

Weekly Reader Galaxy
This site has sections for kids, teachers, and parents. It has articles about current events, stories, contests and a weekly opinion poll geared to elementary school children. Areas to specific grade levels and age groups provide fun and information.

World of Reading
The goal of this site is to encourage kids to read and write through the use of electronic communications. It is a safe, challenging, educational web site. Kids can read book reviews written by other children and see their own submissions published! It also provides links to reading/writing related sites.

CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide
Librarian David K. Brown gathers and categorizes Internet resources related to books for children and adults. Some of its resources include teaching ideas for children's books, children's book awards, authors on the Web, stories on the Web, and reader's theater, just to mention a few.

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
This site provides information on collections of books and activities about different subjects, curriculum areas, and themes. It provides reviews for books for kids and how to use them in the classroom. It has an extensive table of contents which makes it easy to find resources.

America Reads
This is an outstanding site with resources for kids, families, educators, and communities. Among its wealth of information are games and activities to help and encourage readers of all ages.