Standard Students use spoken, written, and visual language as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.

• The Children's Literature Web Guide
  The Children's Literature Web Guide features rich and varied Internet resources related to books for children. There is an area in this site called “Readers Helping Readers,” where children can participate in different online discussion forums. In Children's Book Conferences and Events, readers can post or be informed of such interesting happenings as Dublin's Summer School on Children's Literature or the New Celtic Mystery Series, among other informative finds. In another Readers Helping Readers subsection, children can share ideas or find tips about books covering everything from time travel to colonial New York, and aspiring authors can learn how to close a contract for a children's book. At Recommend a Web Site, young readers are directed to such areas as A 21st Century Interactive Internet Kid's World or another website that accepts entries for a poetry contest. Under Important Links, visitors are referred to the Internet Book Discussion Groups or to Children's Literature Organizations on the Internet.
  
  
• HP Digital Book Club
  Hewlett Packard, the noted high-tech firm, has created a website that encourages children to read books and then play games or take quizzes about them. There are booklists of recommended titles and writing contests for 5- to 11-year-olds. Interesting areas for adults to explore include the Parents' Place and the Teachers' Lounge.
  
  
• www.thekids.com
  This lovely site has illustrated stories from around the world, including rhymes, fables, adventure stories, and folk and fairy tales. After feasting on these delicious treats, students are encouraged to write stories and share their work with other children who visit the site. There are discussion rooms where writing techniques or one's own work may be the hot subject of the day.
  
  
• Kids' Space
  Here students can publish their writing, artwork, and musical compositions, and share stories and information about their classrooms with peers around the world.
  
  
• Brain Teasers at Houghton Mifflin's Education Place
  “Brain teasers” are entertaining problems that children solve together in a community of playful participants. They are sufficiently challenging to inspire real reading and research. New ones are posted each Wednesday for children at three age ranges, with solutions revealed the following week.