F. Use technology to locate, evaluate and collect information from a variety of sources across the curriculum

Electronic Building Blocks: Examining Electronic Sources
This lesson is a step towards the students completing a written report on a state symbol. The students will examine and rate the relevance of electronic sources, not only learning another part of the research process but also experiencing it first hand.

Pencil Pages: Getting to the Point When Researching Information
Students examine the website The Pencil Pages! and compare and contrast the site's organization with print text structure conventions, noting the similarities between the subtopics on the site and the use of chapters in a book.

Reference Resources Online:  A list of sites that include online dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs, telephone directories, and Internet searches to locate information. Also learn about primary sources and where to find them.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:  This site offers a free online dictionary and thesaurus.

Kidspace at the Internet Public Library: Story Hour:  Online books

Kids' Lab: Main Idea:  Online interactive readings and quizzes 

Ranger Rick:  Ranger Rick's online magazine provides cross-curricular activities.

Cool Websites for Kids:  These are cool sites for kids covering a variety of subjects. The sites include interactive games, hands-on practices, audio and video clips.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) 

E/B: Create pictures, lists, charts, and graphic organizers to illustrate characteristics of fictional short stories.
E/B: Demonstrate the sequence of events from an illustratively supported short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one or two word responses.
E/B: Respond to orally presented, simple, factual questions about an illustratively supported short story and express nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one-to-two-word responses, simple spoken or written sentences.
E/B, D: Respond to simple factual questions about simple literature and express with simple spoken or written sentences.
E/B: Identify key characters in a short illustrated story nonverbally (i.e. pictures, lists, tables, graphic organizers) or with one or two word responses, or simple spoken or written sentences; D: Identify key characters in simple literature with simple spoken and written sentences.
E/B: Distinguish between fantasies, legends, and fairy tales when read aloud by using simple spoken sentences; D: Read different and simple literature (fantasies, fables, myths, legends, fairy tales) and orally identify each genre and its basic qualities with simple spoken and written sentences; E: Describe most characteristics of fantasies, fables, myths, legends, and fairy tales.
E: Identify the main events of a plot and the impact of each event on the plot.
E: Identify actions of characters in fiction and relate to the plot or theme.
E: Identify and generally define figurative language, including similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification.
 

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