reading-tools

= Reading Tools =

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Awesome Stories
This site features stories from history, classic literature, movies, & helps tells the story behind the story with primary sources, videos, documents, & more.

Character Scrapbook
// **Scholastic** //

Character Scrapbook is a reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. On one side of the scrapbook, students will create an image of the character, person or animal. They can also print a blank version to fill in on their own. On the other side of the scrapbook, students can list important character traits. Selecting lists that best suit their character:


 * Ten things I know about _.
 * Ten words that describe _.
 * Ten details about _'s appearance.
 * Ten challenges _ faced.
 * Ten accomplishments _ achieved.

This activity will work with most fiction or nonfiction book, & can be used individually or as a whole class. Help you students form a deeper understanding of a book's characters.

Read-Alike Websites
Many people use the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature on Amazon to find new books based on previous favorites. Read-alike websites offer an alternative with variable parameters to suggest potential new favorites: author, series, genre, title. There are numerous sites with this designation (ex: if you like Janet Evanovich you might also like J. D. Robb, Rita May Brown or Carl Hiaasen). Pay attention to how recently the site has been updated.
 * **Books & Authors**
 * **BookBrowse**
 * **Hennepin County Library - Book Space**
 * **READALIKES**
 * **LINC Tasmania Online** //(Australian library)//

Rewordify.com
The purpose of this site is to help students read complex text passages & rephrasing in simpler, easy to understand terms.

Seussville
Everything related to Dr. Seuss books, videos, games & activities, pick a character to learn more about, learn about the author himself.

Storyline Online
From the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Storyline Online is a collection of video recordings of children’s stories being read by famous actors.

SummarizeThis
A reading tool that summarizes the main points of long text articles.

//Last Updated - April 2014//