Websites

Scholastic.com's Interactive Holes Website

Holes by Louis Sachar | Scholastic.com. (2014, January 1). Retrieved October 16, 2014, from http://www.scholastic.com/holes


Children’s book publishing company Scholastic has created an interactive website for the book Holes. The website features games with book characters and plot lines, movie tie-ins and pictures, author information, and even an recipe for a important food in the book. Students will utilize this website throughout the unit for a multimedia, multimodal incorporation of the book. It can be used as a ‘fun’ way to interact with text for readers with multiple intelligences. Students can mimic the games on the website, like the matching game, to create their own game based off of a character, plot line, or legend mentioned in the novel. This website gives ample opportunities to teach Internet safety and have guided practice on how to use a website for fun and learning.

American Folklore 

Paul Bunyan. (2014, June 11). Retrieved October 18, 2014, from http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/paul-bunyan/

American Folklore is a folklore website created by author S. E. Schlosser of the Spooky Series. This particular section of the website focuses on Paul Bunyan and gives seven brief tales about Paul Bunyan and his famous traveling companion, Babe the Blue Ox. The stories are short and are excellent examples of the characteristics of folktales (i.e. nature, something magical happens, animals as characters). Students can utilize this website when researching ideas for their own folktale. They will have already read one Paul Bunyan story with the class and discussed the elements of a folktale. They can use the website to look up other types of famous folktale characters and storylines.