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Scholastic

Scholastic: Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables With Jon Scieszka

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this resource students will have an opportunity to learn about fractured fairy tales and fables with the help of Jon Scieszka. This site also features a writer's workshop where students can write their own fractured tale and publish...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999: Gunter Grass

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the life and writing of Gunter Grass -- the recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature -- through this multimedia website, which provides video clips, primary texts, images, and resources.
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Harvard University

Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Comparison of Chaucer and Ovid

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of John Dryden's (1631-1700) Preface to The Fables (1700), the English poet's translation of Chaucer texts from the middle English. Dryden compares the styles of Ovid, Chaucer, and Boccaccio.
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Harvard University

The Harvard Chaucer Page: "Flower and the Leaf"

For Students 9th - 10th
John Dryden's (1631-1700)translation from the middle English of a poem once attributed to Chaucer. Preface to The Fables (1700)Modern English translation by John Dryden of Chaucer's "The Flower and the Leaf."
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Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...

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