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www.englishtips.org

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I’ve found this site seems nice

http://www.ziggityzoom.com/onlinebooks.php?book=mylittlepirate
ed.

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Hey Thanks,
their online games are amazing, I cd not believe my 3 yr old learnt to operate the computer mouse, amazing achievement.
I recommend all to use this site.
Garima

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a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible e-books on a wide range of topics and in various languaes. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled:
www.tarheelreader.org
Enjoy!

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Read hundreds of children´s fiction and non fiction picture books online. The ones from members are always free, for others you need to pay a small fee but every week they offer some commercial books for free: http://www.biguniverse.com/

Enjoy!

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Wow!!! very interesting!!! my baby loved to play on it.

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Hi Isapabi,

Can you please tell me howto download the books from tarheelreader? I do not see an option for that. And when i tried to register, it is asking for an invitation code…Can you please help.

Thanks,
Questers.

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Sure, I too didn´t see it at the beginning.
What you need to do is click on one book like you wanted to start reading it (cover page shows in big) and then you get options for the voice on the left hand side. You need to click on “setup” above the voice options, this will take you to where you can choose if you want to download it in powerpoint, flash, adobe etc.

Hope this helps. If not, please ask again!
ISA

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Thanks Isapabi…It works, I was able to download…! :slight_smile:

I am looking for classical stories or aesop fables in downloadable powerpoint…Shorter versions would be fine…Does anybody know any links for that?

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The Harvard Classics is one of my favorites…

Here is a short description in their own words:

“The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.”

This is found on http://www.bartleby.com/

This is the the easiest to search, well organized site. There are reference, fiction, poetry and non-fiction divisions. I used this resource in my classical curriculum in the private christian school that we managed in South America, as well as in some english teaching and found it helpful.

And here are just a few ideas to start with:

Æsop

Legendary Greek fabulist. According to Herodotus, he was a slave who lived in Samos in the 6th cent. B.C. and eventually was freed by his master. Here is collection of his 82 fables - tales of caution veiled in the actions of animals and other character types.

Fun and educational, you can make plays out of these ones

http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/

Hans Christian Andersen

1805–75, Danish poet, novelist, and writer of fairy tales. His sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity contributed to his mastery of the genre. Among his many widely beloved stories are “The Fir-Tree,” “The Little Match Girl,” “The Ugly Duckling,” “The Snow Queen,” “The Little Mermaid,” and “The Red Shoes

http://www.bartleby.com/17/3/

Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

Translated by Edward William Lane
Revised by Stanley Lane-Poole

The desperate entertainments of a wife delaying execution by her husband, this translation of 42 stories from a much larger collection has become the most well-known of folk tales for younger readers: Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp, the Voyages of Sinbad, and Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves.
http://www.bartleby.com/16/

John Bunyan

1628–88, English author, b. Elstow, Bedfordshire.… Bunyan wrote nine books, his masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come, published in 1678

http://www.bartleby.com/people/Bunyan-J.html

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1547–1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, and poet, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, b. Alcalá de Henares.
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Cervante.html

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

1785–1863, German philologist and folklorist, He is best known for his work on German folk tales, known as Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812–15), which he collected with his brother, Wilhelm Grimm, 1786–1859, and which did much to encourage the romantic revival of folklore

http://www.bartleby.com/17/2/

William Shakespeare

Here is collection of his works. I used some excerpts for young students about 11-12 years, the trick was to keep it short and fun, we actually watched some excerpts from plays and then read some… and acted

http://www.bartleby.com/70/

Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850–94) Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, b. Edinburgh. At an early age he had begun to write, and gradually he devoted himself to literature.… His first popular books were Treasure Island (1883), a swashbuckling adventure story of a search for Captain Kidd’s buried treasure, and the fantasy Prince Otto (1885). A Child’s Garden of Verses appeared in 1885

http://www.bartleby.com/188/ , some other works you can get from Project Guttenberg

Mark Twain

pseud. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910, American author, b. Florida, Mo. As humorist, narrator, and social observer, Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. His novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a masterpiece of humor, characterization, and realism, has been called the first (and sometimes the best) modern American novel. You can get it from Project Guttenbergs site…

Another good one, but I don’t think you can find it for free on line, as it is a later edition is the Christian Mother Goose Big Book by Marjorie Ainsborough Decker. Some of our nephews and nieces were raised on these poems, and it was highly recommended to me by my husband’s mom ( and she has very high standard for children’s reading materials). I just found it, and was looking through some of the poems, – really good quality ( gives children a sense of good rhyme), but at the same time with very good high morals ( most of the poems not just make sense ( differently from original Mother Goose) but also have some really good lessons.

These are just a few ideas. Depending on what you are looking for, you might find some of them helpful. And I am sure, others will have some other great ideas to share

Hope it helps.

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You are a very kind person! God bless you!! Thanks.

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Thanks a lot Skytlark great resource !!!

Thanks

Gloria

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I thought some of you might like this.

“ESL Writing Wizard
Make handwriting practice worksheets for children learning to write the alphabet. Create writing practice sheets in D’Nealian or Zaner-Bloser style, in print or cursive form. All for FREE!”

http://www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com/handwriting_practice_worksheet_maker.html

"The Math Worksheet Wizard is a FREE resource for teachers and homeschooling moms and dads. You can make an unlimited number of printable math worksheets for children, for the classroom or for homework, simply by clicking a button. What makes this site unique is that every time you create a worksheet, you get different, randomly generated problems. New worksheet wizards are being added all the time, and so far, there are enough to cover the curriculum for kindergarten through most of third grade. "

http://www.mathworksheetwizard.com/

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Hi!
this is the new version of our link-library,
for everyone it’s ok to download word file with all sections and sites?
ed

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Fantastic,
this is getting better and better.
this will be very handy.
I dont know if you have added ziggityzoom and funschool site
Garima

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once again thanks ed. K to you.

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I have to delete some repetition links from this file,
but now it’s working better I hope :slight_smile:
ed

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Hello everybody, do u know if these dvds are good?
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Thanks at all.

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http://www.knowmag.ca/
This is a great site for older kids. It has a lot of interesting science facts and experiments.

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Dear ed,

Thanks a lot, it’s useful!