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Elements of a Story. Uses the story Cinterella to teach students about the elements of a story.

Great site to teach elements of a story.

The Elements of a Story site guides students as they create learn about the elements of a story and eventually create their own story.

Cool site for teaching students about the elements of a story. Referred to me by one of my grad students.

Story Mapping Tool is designed to help teachers and students in prewriting and post reading activities. It contains four key elements of the story together with their graphic representations mainly : Character Map, Conflict Map, Resolution Map, and Setting Map.

Stories about time: Interactive timeline tools. This is a helpful resource that outlines a variety of timeline tools that could be used educationally.

This is a cool site to checkout and bookmark the tools that you may be able to use at some point. Timelines are great in that they provide a way for students to organize their thinking about a particular topic. Check out some of the timeline tools outlined in this link.

Free online story books for children.

Fairrosa Cyber Library, maintained by Roxanne Hsu Feldman, features an online reading room with bookshelves of classics, fairy tales and folk tales, and stories and rhymes for students in grades K-8. The site also caontains a Lewis Carroll collection, an annotated list of dragon stories, an index to popular children's authors and illustrators, and related links to children's literature.

This site features an online anthology of children's literature for the elementary school. It includes illustrated classics, short stories, and 101 best loved poems.

Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales feature a collection of short, silly poems and online humorous stories written in verse for elementary school kids. the site also offers holiday poems and tips and materials for teaching poetry in the rhyme time fun section. Teachers can print out the poetry to use in their own classrooms.

"Download a story onto your portable music player or stream an episode from your computer. You can also print the free activity pages that accompany each episode."

Cool free site where you or students can download or listen to pinky dinky do podcast stories. In addition, students can create their own podcasts.

Stories read and written by kids for kids.

Cool site. Children writing and reading stories for kids.

"Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They're curiously fun."

Children can create stories and share them with their families.

Story Jumper is an excellent site for digital storytelling that has lots of educational resources for teachers. It also has a parent link and would be a good site to share with parents.

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A site about all PA History.

Collection of tutorials and teacher stories of Skype use in Education

Collection of tutorials and teacher stories of Skype use in Education

"The Graphic Map is designed to assist teachers and students in reading and writing activities. The organizer focuses on charting the high and low points related to a particular item or group of items, such as chapters in a book, amounts of money spent, events during a day, month, year, or life, or scenes in a play. The Graphic Map creates a graphic representation of these high and low points that displays related images and descriptions. The interactive can be used as a prewriting activity, as students map ideas for an autobiography; as a postreading activity, as students map the significance of events in a story; and as a reflection and assessment activity, as students map the high and low points of their inquiry process."

Family games offers an online fantasy-adventure novel, randomly generated haiku poems and stories (reload for a new versions) and other interactive features for grades 5-12.

This folkloresite, suitable for grades K-6, contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. It also includes lesson plans and teacher resources.

Easy to read: TTJunior.com offers easy-to-read news stories for 2nd Graders, 3rd Graders and advanced 1st Graders, as well as remediation and ESL for all grades. Easy to write: Students can post blog comments that teachers review before publication. Click below to sign up. It's fast, easy and free!

NBC Learn has launched this website called Finishing the Dream. It chronicles the h istory of the civil rights movement. It includes more then 100 stories from NBC News archives. Materials include documentaries on significan events over the course of 60 years, including the Montgomery bus boycott; the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; the Freedom Riders; and more. The content provides the opportunity for community leaders, teachers, and students to discuss the impact of the civil rights movement and to consider related modern issues that affect people today.