Surfing the Net with Kids: Prepositions
"Other than the occasional correspondence with readers who didn’t like the sentences I ended with prepositions, I never though much about prepositions until my daughter came home with a list of fifty she needed to memorize. I thought the assignment a bit odd, but as I researched today’s topic, I realized how confusing those pesky prepositions can be. Hopefully today’s crop of sites will help both native and non-native speakers with their grammar lessons."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Pen Pals
"My daughter’s second grade class is exchanging letters with a class on the opposite coast. Her excitement over receiving a reply from her new pen pal brought back my own wonderful pen pal memories. Of course, nowadays pen pals aren’t limited to pen and paper. Here are five worthy resources to help you connect safely with email pals from around the world."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Electronic Pen Pals
"Has the art of letter writing been lost? Certainly cell phones, beepers andvoice mail have replaced many letters, but what about the emergence of e-mailand Usenet news groups? Writing skills are still important and these newtechnologies can be forums for children to develop their skills. Introduce yourkids to the thrill of becoming an e-pal (electronic pen pal). Maybe one daythey will publish a collection of their life’s e-mails."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Journal Writing
"They can be written by hand, or typed on a computer. You might keep yours private, or share it with the world. Some call them diaries; others prefer the word journal; and online afficionados often call them blogs (which evolved as a concatenation of the phrase ""Web log."") Finding your voice through journal writing is a skill that improves with practice. Learn how to start with today’s site selections."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Grammar
"My 1979 edition of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style reigns over my workspace from its place of honor on my bookshelf. It’s a slim volume because, like all good writing, the needless words have been omitted. The original, written as a college textbook in 1918 by Professor William Strunk, Jr., is available at . The following recommendations bring the study of grammar into the Internet age with their use of email, forums, and the Web."
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Publish Your Book Reviews
"When you write them at school, your teacher calls them book reports. But when they are published, they magically become book reviews. Harness the power of the Internet to turn your book reports into published book reviews at these five Web sites that accept book reviews from kids. Haven’t you always wanted to be a critic?"
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Surfing the Net with Kids: Blogging Tools
"Writing is essential. And what better way to encourage writing than with an online journal. Whether you call it a blog or a diary, I’ve tested the best of the free options, and created a sample journal in each. Take a look and decide which one is right for you. Remember, not all blogs are written for a family audience, so be careful out there."
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Seminole County Public Library
"Interested in scary books? How about fantasy and time travel? The Seminole County Public Library has pages of recommended kid books, organized by subject, and welcomes reviews on any book on their list. There are hundreds of books listed here, and only a handful have already been reviewed. So jump on in, and tell the world what you thought of that last book."
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SCORE Language Arts: Journaling
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Prepositions: Little Things Mean a Lot
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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