Soffie, thanks for forwarding this resource Our community can benefit from
it.  I'll forward it to the GAC members.

Chi Jaama

Joe


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>Subject: Chicago Parent | Screen time=reading time
>Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:59:25 -0500
>
>I thought you might like to see this information from the Chicago Parent
>Web site.
>
>I hope the article comes through - it will be of interest to parents of
>elementary and middle school children.
>
>Soffie
>
>
>_________________________________________________________________________
>Screen time=reading time
>
>HTTP://www.chicagoparent.com/main.asp?SectionID=10&subsectionID=30&articleID=529
>Jane Huth
>Article :
>
>
>I love to hold a book in my hand and turn the pages, and so do my children.
>Yet, I spend a huge amount of time sitting in front of a computer screen
>reading. My children spend their computer time playing, but I'd like to
>change that.
>Now that my children are reading, I've been pushing them toward Web sites
>that offer books online. They aren't easy to find, as most are ads for
>particular authors' works, but more and more children's books are appearing
>on Web sites.
>No, reading pages on a computer screen is not the same as curling up with a
>good book. But reading is reading, and I'm all for encouraging reading as
>much as possible. Plus, I want my kids to know the computer is more than a
>toy.
>Many Web sites offer online access to children's books. Some sites are
>so-so; others are excellent. Some offer only excerpts and others feature
>scanned versions of the actual books. A few charge as much as $40 per year,
>a great idea if they had thousands of books (easier than driving to the
>library), but a bit pricey for access to fewer than 100 books.
>Here are five free Web sites my children and I like. Bookmark your kids'
>favorites, and let them read to their heart's content.
>
>INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DIGITAL LIBRARY, www.icdlbooks.org.
>If you don't have time to make it to the library, or if your child reads
>one of nine languages-including Chinese, Hebrew and Arabic-visit this site.
>Sponsored by the University of Maryland, the International Children's
>Digital Library is an online library of hundreds of published books for
>children ages 3 to 13, all in their original languages. Some of the books
>are old and out of copyright; others are published with permission from the
>publisher and author. The books are grouped by age: 3 to 5, 7 to 9 and 11
>to 13. When I looked at the site it offered 727 books, but new titles are
>added all the time. Each month the site features books in different age
>groups. Recently my 8-year-old read Axle the Freeway Cat by Thacher Hurd, a
>clever book about a cat who lives in a car. It would be nice if the books
>were read aloud, but that's a small complaint about this useful, ad-free
>site.
>
>BARTLEBY.COM, www.bartleby.com.
>Kids in middle school and older will enjoy reading classic poetry and
>fiction on this site. I found it a little strange to read a book such as
>H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man on a computer screen, but kids used to
>reading just about everything on the screen won't miss a thing.
>Included is the Harvard Classics collection of essays, plays, biographies
>and other works, such as Grimms' Fairy Tales and Aesop's Fables. The
>Harvard Shelf of Fiction offers complete books by Jane Austen, Charles
>Dickens, George Elliott, Guy de Maupassant, Tolstoy and many others.
>The site also has an excellent collection of classic poetry, nonfiction and
>reference books, including Fanny Farmer's famous 1918 cookbook and Emily
>Post's 1922 classic, Etiquette.
>
>CLASSIC READER, www.classicreader.com.
>While not strictly for children, this site includes the text of many
>classic books for children by authors such as J. M. Barrie, Beatrix Potter,
>Jules Verne and Lewis Carroll, among others.
>A few of the books, including Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, are
>illustrated; most are not. The site includes a few ads, but nothing I found
>offensive. For older kids, there are also collections of Shakespeare,
>poetry, drama and short stories.
>
>WIRED FOR BOOKS, www.wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm.
>Beatrix Potter's books are all over the Web, since the cute illustrations
>of Peter Rabbit and the author's words are now out of copyright and in the
>public domain. This site from Ohio University offers downloads of Potter's
>works in English, French, German and Japanese, and illustrated text in
>English and Japanese. It also includes audio with modern illustrations of
>the complete Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, selections of Grimms'
>Fairy Tales and of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, and Charles Dickens'
>A Christmas Carol.
>
>STARFALL, www.starfall.com.
>My son used this well-designed site to read easy books when he was in first
>grade. For nonreaders, the books are read out loud. Emerging readers can
>read by themselves, but click on words they don't know to have them read
>aloud.
>The site, a public service from a greeting card publisher, has four levels
>from preschool through second grade, although it is aimed primarily at
>children in first grade. The easiest level teaches letter sounds, and the
>hardest level, for advanced beginning readers, includes Chinese folktales
>and Greek myths, as well as plays, comics and fiction.
>
>It's simple to navigate, and the books are easy to read and full of bright
>graphics. There are lots of stories, so kids can return again and again to
>the site without getting bored.
>Jane Huth lives in the north suburbs with her husband, a second-grader, a
>kindergartner and a baby.
>
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