Area: English Language Arts    Grade: Grade 6   Unit: Unit 2: Fiction: Realistic Fiction
Name: Old Yeller
Description: Background info, online quizzes and "test yourself" activities for each chapter for students' use during Old Yeller
Activity:     GLE:     Type: Interactive Site   Focus: Student
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0211900/yeller/old_yeller.htm  

Area: English Language Arts    Grade: Grade 6   Unit: Unit 2: Fiction: Realistic Fiction
Name: Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Description: List of contemporary realistic fiction books/novels to use in your classroom or suggest for students to read independently.
Activity:     GLE:     Type: Online Information   Focus: Both
URL: http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/realbib.html  

Area: English Language Arts    Grade: Grade 6   Unit: Unit 2: Fiction: Realistic Fiction
Name: Realistic Fiction Genre
Description: Details of a typical realistic fiction story and book suggestions from real fifth graders.
Activity: 01   GLE: 10a, 16e, 42b,    Type: Online Information   Focus: Both
URL: http://www.palos118.org/east/media/realistic.html  

Area: English Language Arts    Grade: Grade 6   Unit: Unit 2: Fiction: Realistic Fiction
Name: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting
Description: This is a good site to use when explaining the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing and when each should be used.
Activity: 01, 02   GLE: 11b   Type: Online Information   Focus: Both
URL: http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/sumparquo.html  

Area: English Language Arts    Grade: Grade 6   Unit: Unit 2: Fiction: Realistic Fiction
Name: Literature Maps
Description: Students can choose from character, setting, conflict, or resolution maps to type in information. Students can print them directly from the site as well. Students could use these to map details from activity 3 of unit 2.
Activity: 03   GLE: 04b, 04d, 10a,48, 45a   Type: Interactive Site   Focus: Student
URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/index.html  

Area: English Language Arts    Grade: Grade 6   Unit: Unit 2: Fiction: Realistic Fiction
Name: Read-Write-Think
Description: This Read, Write, and Think site has an activity that is appropriate for writing letters.
Activity: 04, 05   GLE: 20a   Type: Interactive Site   Focus: Both
URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=5  

Area: English Language Arts    Grade: Grade 6   Unit: Unit 2: Fiction: Realistic Fiction
Name: Story Map
Description: Printable story map; could be used with historical fiction as well as for brainstorming original fiction creations.
Activity: 04, 05   GLE: 04, 10a, 11, 33, 44   Type: Handout   Focus: Student
URL: http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/TM/WS_storymapws.shtml  

Area: English Language Arts    Grade: Grade 6   Unit: Unit 2: Fiction: Realistic Fiction
Name: Idiomsite.com
Description: Huge list of idioms and their origins. Why do we say what we say?
Activity: 07   GLE: 01d, 02, 03,    Type: Online Information   Focus: Student
URL: http://www.idiomsite.com/