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S. Dimoff
Sporting Hill Elementary School
210 South Sporting Hill Road
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
(717) 761-5052
site last updated: 11/18/09
Cumberland Valley School District
6746 Carlisle Pike,
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
Phone:(717) 697-8261
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| Mrs. Dimoff's Favorite Book Links | |
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| Junie B. Jones |
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| Magic Tree House |
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| Roald Dahl Author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and so much more!!! |
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| Tomie de Paola Author of Strega Nona, Bill and Pete, and so much more! |
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| Arnold Lobel Amazing author of the Frog and Toad series! |
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| Jan Brett Jan Brett wrote and illustrated The Mitten, The Gingerbread Baby and many other amazing picture books. |
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| Dav Pilkey Wacky author of the Captain Underpants series! |
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| Gail Gibbons One of the best author's of non-fiction for kids around! |
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| Magic School Bus Pay a visit to Ms. Frizzle! |
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| Little Bear I love this series and so do kids! |
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| Eric Carle Author of the Very Hungry Caterpillar and a wealth of other delightful children's books! |
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| Don & Audrey Wood Author & Illustrator of The Napping House, Quick as a Cricket, Piggies, and countless others. |
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| Curious George |
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| Amelia Bedelia My favorite in this seris is "Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia". |
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| Judy Blume I loved the Fudge series since I was a kid! |
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| Reading Games | |
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| Word Confusion Here's a fun way to help your child understand homonyms-words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
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| Wall of Words This is a fun way for your child to practice creating sentences with proper punctuation. |
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| Starfall Excellent website full of great ways to help your first grader become an independent reader! |
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| Word Work Games This site is full of fun games which will help your child to work with words! |
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| Between the Lions! This site was created by PBS and has lots of fun reading-oriented games for kids to play! |
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| Fun with Clifford Clifford the dog will take your child on a fun reading adventure! |
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| Help with Fine Motor Skills | |
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| Activities for Fine Motor Skills Try these activities with your child if they are having difficulty acquiring fine motor skills-handwriting, cutting with scissors, etc. |
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| More Fine Motor Activities Tons more great ideas for ways to help your child! |
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| Math Web Sites | |
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| Rainforest Math This web site was created in Australia. It uses British currency and metric measurement. |
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| Motivating Your Child to Write | |
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| Wacky Web Tales Remember Mad Libs? This site allows your child to create fun stories of their own-while helping them practice the parts of speech. Try it-it's fun! |
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| Magnetic Poetry Have you seen those cool kits full of magnetic words that you can use to make poems? This site allows your child to create poetry using an on-line magnetic poetry kit. Cool! |
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| National Geographic Cartoon Fill-ins This fun site will encourage your child to write-and they won't even realize it! :) |
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| Multi Subject Web Sites | |
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| ABC'ya This site has math and language arts activities. It also has games that are just for fun. |
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| Good Stuff for Your Kids | |
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| Good Stuff for 1st & 2nd Graders Full of lots of great things to do at home to help your child learn to read! |
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| Great books for your Growing Gator | |
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| 1st Grade Gators This link will lead you to a great list for your first grader. The books are organized so that you can choose the books that are closest to your child's current reading level. |
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| More Books for 1st Graders The books in this link are listed by genre:Adventure, Mystery, Folk Tales, etc. |
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| 3rd Grade Gators This link will send you to lists of books for your 3rd grader. The lists are organized to help you choose books that are closest to your child's current reading level. |
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| Do you like green eggs and ham? I do! | |
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| Complete list of Dr. Seuss books |
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| All about Dr. Seuss Read all about the man who created all of the amazing Dr. Seuss stories. |
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| March 2: Dr. Seuss's Birthday |
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| Seussville Great Dr. Seuss games for your gator to play! |
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| Seussville University Seussville University, where you can have "lots of good fun that is funny" while learning basic reading, math, science, and reasoning skills. Your favorite Seuss characters will serve as your guides in this brand-new interactive learning environment. |
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| Motivating Your Child to Read | |
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| Time for Kids Is it difficult to get your child to pick up a story book and read? Try this site: It has short non-fiction articles that are perfect for kids who want to learn more about the world around them. |
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| Book Adventure Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning. |
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| Reading is Fundamental Great ideas to motivate your child to read at home! |
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| On-line Books | |
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| Toon Books A fun way for your child to interact with text! |
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