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Librarians

• BookPALS
  This Storyline Online website features professional actors from the Screen Actors Guild making favorite children's books come alive through their reading. Books are selected by BookPALS National Program Director Ellen Nathan, a former teacher and librarian, and each of the books on this site has an accompanying lesson plan and activity guide.
• Effective Comprehension Instruction
  A powerpoint presentation for Nevada Reading First, January, 2004, by Nell Duke , Michigan State University.
• Games
  This site of interactive activities includes making words, vocabulary, concept of word, phonics, alphabet knowledge, phonemic awareness, and others.
• Go to Paivi�s Library
  This site features stories that focus on different sounds. Categories include broad o, consonant blends, consonant digraphs, long and short vowels, silent letters and tricky endings, and others.
• Reading is Fundamental
  This website provides ideas for parents to encourage reading at home. Topics include motivating kids to read, choosing good books, reading aloud, literacy-rich homes, and school connections.
• Songs
  This site features video and audio clips of songs to reinforce early literacy acquisition and phonics concepts.
• Stories
  This Web site is for parents or teachers and their kids to surf together. It contains both printable versions of stories as well as stories to read on line.
• Take Me To Your Readers
  This website was developed as part of Vanderbilt University�s �Young Children's Literacy Project.� The project is in its tenth year of research on the development of children's reading and writing skills - funded under a 1999-2003 grant from the IERI consortium of the National Science Foundation; the Department of Education; and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The project developed and tested new print and technology-supported tools to improve the reading skills of children in grades K - 2, targeting word-recognition skills and the development of literacy habits.
• Where Children Love to Learn and Learn to Grow
  This site is created for helping teachers and parents. There are lessons plans and units, presented by grade level.