Table of Contents Reading, Writing and Family Life Nora's Story Music in the Family Willy and Joseph Home-Grown Writing Culture Reading With Sadie Stories Keep Connections Strong Not Allowed to Read? Busy With Books Ten Books a Day Mom G and Mary Between Two Cultures Reading Adventures Stories to Live By Unfinished Business: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ANCSA at 30 Listen to the Other Guy's Story The Story of Alaska's Flag "Why Brown Bears Are Meaner on the Other Side of the Inlet" The Origins of "Tlingit Moon and Tide" Alaskool Web Site Northern Star: Alaska Quarterly Review CIRI's Native Pride Program KNBA: Vitality of Cultures The Alaska Native Heritage Center Hunik Zoo' Means "Good News" The Alaska Native Oratory Society's Annual Contest Every Person Should Leave a Legacy Life Stories Getting an Education Took a Lot of Grit Writing Truth, Three Generations Native Rights Started in a Freezer Helping the Nation Find a Conscience Inside the Circle of a Story My Father's Legacy: The Lion on the Mountain Koyukon Language, Past and Present Our House Was Different "She's a Native, Isn't She?" Writing for Her People I Usually Flew Straight The Father of Military Construction in Alaska 51 Hours and 19 Minutes The Heroine of Wrangel Island Out Loud Read Another One! Father and Son Team Produce Rodent Radio The Shopping Cart Ladies A Secret Life Unfolds Through Poetry The Birth of a Songwriter Through Poetry What They Didn't Do Storytime in the Garden Reading Favorites: Kids Pick 'Em Anchorage's Reading Rendezvous On the Same Page: Alaskans Reading Together On Rereading Siddhartha A Bookmark to a Love of Reading A Constant Adventure! Reach Out and Read Reading and Learning Reading With Feeling Attention! Godmother of the Alaska Center for the Book Excerpts From a High School English Teacher's Diary Exploring New Worlds: RSVP Volunteers The Anchorage Reads Program The Anchorage Literacy Project Emergent Literacy and the Head Start Program Thoughts From a School Librarian Learning to Read by Writing Pass the Word Writing and Empathy: Reflections on the Special Olympics New Voices Writing Rendezvous Sitka Symposium Perfect World Alaska Quarterly Review Celebrates 20 Years Valdez Theatre Conference Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference Tending a Tribal Fire Writing a Constitution Making a Cookbook Showcase of New Writers LitSite Alaska's Postcard Contest Gallery of Selected Entries University of Alaska Anchorage / Anchorage Daily News Creative Writing Contest Pencils Full of Stars Letters About Literature Featured New Writers Poetry Out Loud Professional Perspectives Introduction to Narrative and Healing Using Stories for Growing and Healing Writing as an Adjunct to Medical Therapy Narrative Medicine Writing, Emotions and Memory Writing Can Improve Working Memory Sandplay: Stories Told Without Words Why Write Personal Narratives? Coping With Leisure in the Twenty-First Century Writing Rings Around Death Healing Narratives How My Dog Died The Final Night Medication and Me Programs Floating Bookmobile Flat Stanley Visits Fairbanks, Alaska Reading Fun: Lapsit at the Library Alaskan Children: The New Literary Critics Getting Kids to Read Library Book Clubs 'Top Drawer' Keeps Homer's Books in Circulation There Are Stories Here: Heritage Library Museum Finding the Stories: The Children's Exhibition Program People Jane Baird Jerri Nagaruk Elaine Griffin Patricia Kennish Barbara Jorgenson Emily Blahous Michael Catoggio Stetson Momosar Sharon Palmisano Julie Niederhauser Patience Frederiksen Marit Vick Denise Halliday Resources Children's Literature Sites Abound Notable Alaska School Sites Statewide Library Electronic Doorway Alaskana for Children Alaska State Library Genre Sites: From Crime to Romance National Library Links Literary Reference Sources Photo Gallery Beyond Words: Celebrating America's Libraries Bookmark Gallery Historic Library Photos Bookstore Features Borders Cook Inlet Book Company Cyrano's Book Store Homer Bookstore Old Harbor Bookstore in Sitka Waldenbooks Northway Mall Bookstore Guide Bookstore Descriptions Alaska Bookstores From A to Z Reading Workbook Multiple Skill Levels Teaching Reading Through Poetry Teaching Reading Through the Use of Students' Writings How to Read a Short Story The Newspaper: A Living Textbook Useful Websites for Teachers, Parents, and Students Elementary Different "Versions" and Comic Fun Looking at Books Through First Graders' Eyes Biography Exercise Readers Theater for Bilingual/ESL Students Using Jazz Chants for Bilingual/ESL Students Lesson Plan for "Tlingit Moon and Tide" Middle School Corralling Reluctant Readers at the Ranch Newspapers in Education -- Middle School Reading Literature Circles Text Interpretation Exercise High School 'Angel Card' Discussion Technique Newspapers in Education -- High School Reading Four Reading Strategies for High School Students Four Vocabulary Strategies for High School Students Writing Workbook Multiple Skill Levels Dictation Exercise Writing about Place The Dictionary Game Exercises in Discovering a Subject, Storytelling, and Nature Writing Masked Writers at Mat-Su Alternative School Writing a Letter to an Author Poetry Scavenger Hunt Exercise Elementary Animal Body Exercise Books vs. Bytes Exercise Imaginary Zoos Creative Writing Exercise -- Anchorage Reads Program Newspapers in Education -- Writing About News Photos We Make Masks! Weavers of Words: Mask and Legend Exercise Writing Myths Write About a Pet Four Elementary Bilingual/ESL Exercises Creating a Newspaper Book Report Middle School Important Things, Classroom Book Project Writing With Traits Newspapers in Education -- Middle School Writing High School Creation Myth Writing Exercise Newspapers in Education -- High School Writing Book Report Exercise Justice and Freedom Exercise Exercises on Writing With Empathy War Poem Lesson Plan Cultural Adaptation of a Classic Play Peer Work Index Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Visual Art LitSite Alaska University of Alaska Anchorage litsite@uaa.alaska.edu Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006. All rights reserved. University of Alaska Anchorage
Stories to Live By
Life Stories
Out Loud
Reading
Reading and Learning
Pass the Word
Showcase of New Writers
Professional Perspectives
Healing Narratives
Programs
People
Resources
Photo Gallery
Bookstore Features
Bookstore Guide
Reading Workbook
Multiple Skill Levels
Elementary
Middle School
High School
Writing Workbook
Peer Work Index Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Visual Art
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