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Marge Runkle

Classic Short Stories - 3 views

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    The goal of this site is to give a nice cross section of short stories in the hope that these short stories will excite these people into rediscovering this excellent source of entertainment.
karen sipe

byGosh.com - Free illustrated kid's stories, short stories, poems, novels. - 2 views

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    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.
Aly Kenee

LoudLit.org - 5 views

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    committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free.
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    Novels, poems, non-fiction, short stories, children's literature -- read out loud.
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    Novels, poems, non-fiction, short stories, children's literature -- read out loud.
karen sipe

K12 Timed Reading Practice Lite for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

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    25 short, engaging stories for K-4 readers that feature a variety of fiction an dnonfiction and 10 flesh-kincade reading levels
Marge Runkle

Storybird - Your activity - 0 views

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    A service that makes it simple for families and friends to create short, visual stories together that they can share and print. For artists and writers, Storybird is next-generation publishing: global, viral, and instantaneous. * Has an easy tutorial
Michelle Krill

Study: Children Who Blog Or Use Facebook Have Higher Literacy Levels - 1 views

  • 57 per cent of those who used text-based web applications such as blogs, said they generally enjoyed writing compared to 40 per cent who did not.
  • Pupils who write online are more likely to write short stories, letters, song lyrics or a diary, the research revealed.
  • Even social websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users too, claimed neuroscientist Susan Greenfield. “My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.
    • Michelle Krill
       
      Interesting twist at the end. Is it good or bad? Just another new thing to adjust to?
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    "A research by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing."
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