Book Reading
&
Storytime

Storytime

100 Best books http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/Best_Books.pdf
Activities for favorite stories http://www.eceportal.com/preschool/activitymap.html
Author studies resources http://www.readingrockets.org/books/authorinterviews.php
Booklets http://nancykeane.com/rl/
Children's Literature http://www.childrenslit.com/
Choosing Children's books http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/choosing.html
Downloadable books for children: http://www.weread.org/kids/indexflash.asp
Jim Trealease The Read Aloud Handbook http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/default.html
Making books with children http://www.succeedtoread.com/makeabook.html
Natural environments http://www.wri-edu.org/literacy/pdf/AgesBooks.pdf
                           http://www.wri-edu.org/literacy/pdf/BookArea.pdf
                           http://www.wri-edu.org/literacy/pdf/StorytimeRev.pdf
Selecting Books for Young Readers: http://www.nwrel.org/learns/tutor/win1998/win1998ss.pdf
Reading to, with and by children http://www.succeedtoread.com/selection.html
Resources http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/general.html
Books for young readershttp://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-young.html

Story starters:
    http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pdf.htm?storystarter_pizza.pdf
    http://www.thewritingparent.com/storystarters.shtml
    http://www.tellingtales.com/Stufftodo/Starters/StoryStarters-Frame.htm
    http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/timefiller/magicpenss.htm

Story maps:
    http://www.everythingesl.net/downloads/story_map.pdf form
    http://www.pasd.com/PSSA/reading/rihand11.htm why use story maps
    http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/pigs/story_mp.html form
    http://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/StoryMap.pdf form
    http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/storymap1_eng.pdf
Story maps for:
    Ginger Bread Man http://www.geocities.com/teachingwithheart/gstorymap.html
    Sylvester and the magic pebble http://library.preservice.org/T0110475/storymap.htm
    Peter and the Wolf http://www.philtulga.com/storymap.html
    Three Bears story map; http://www.selah.wednet.edu/jc/readabook/storymap.html
    Velveteen Rabbit http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/49th_Street_EL/map.html

Story stretchers for older children http://www.kidwriting.homestead.com/TellaStory.html
Biography Maker http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomak2.htm
Storytelling http://mauicc.hawaii.edu/staff/stjohn/publicspeakers/storytelling.html
         http://user.icx.net/~richmond/smsa/resourcelist.html
         http://www.techforlearning.org/storytelling.html
         http://www.nativevillage.org/Libraries/Books,%20Lit,%20Storytelling%20Library.htm
           http://www.wordsthatcook.org/

American Folk Lore by state, historic event, & famous people:
    http://www.americanfolklore.net/hh.html

Native American Folk tales
    http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/loreindx.htmlFolk Tales, Fables, Myths and Legends,
    http://www.wcboe.k12.md.us/mainfold/schoopag/elementary/paramount/class_webs/5/folktales.htm
    http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/index.html
    http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/folktalewshop_index.htm

Fables - includes audi versions
Aesop:
    http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/
    http://www.umass.edu/aesop/contents.html
     http://www.fablevision.com/index.html
Electronic folk tales
    http://www.zensufi.com/story.htm

Research:
The Power of Story Retelling: http://www.nwrel.org/learns/tutor/spr2003/spr2003.pdf
Reading Aloud to Build Comprehension: http://www.nwrel.org/learns/tutor/spr2001/spr2001.pdf
Value of Small Group work: http://www.nwrel.org/learns/tutor/sum2002/sum2002.pdf