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The Reading Corner, a place for students (Grades 3-8) to find good books to read. Reviews of children's books.

Here are folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, myths, legends, magical tales, and sacred stories, plus original fables, humor, fantasy, and historical fiction-all from award-winning author Aaron Shepard. Most of the stories have been published in top children's magazines like Cricket and Australia's School Magazine, while some are from Aaron's picture books and early readers.

Order our Launching Young Readers PBS series Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

Are you teaching the true Thanksgiving story or is the version you're passing on to your students a blend of fact and myth? Ready to set the record straight? "I propose that there may be a good deal that many of us do not know about our Thanksgiving holiday and also about the 'First Thanksgiving' story," says Chuck Larsen in the introduction to Teaching About Thanksgiving.

Arts & Humanities --Language Arts --Dance, Music --Visual Arts Educational Technology Physical Education --Exercise/Movement Students will enjoy this lesson that exercises their bodies as well as their creativity. alpha-bod, alphabet, human alphabet, movement, creativity, imagination Arrange students into groups. (Four might be an ideal-sized group for this activity.)

EducationWorld wants to help you turn your students into the best readers possible. To do that, we have compiled the "Reading Room" a huge list of articles and activities designed to help you teach reading. We start with research-based concepts, ready-to-use tools, and extensions for learning provided by our own "Reading Coach."