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Manitoba Authors and Illustrators Bibliography
Manitoba is fortunate to have many excellent authors and illustrators.
Learn who they are using this set of lists.
Read Up On It Kit
The National Library of Canada publishes both a print and an electronic version of its Read Up On It Kit. The kit promotes Canadian literature and reading and covers notable books for children of all ages. Bilingual
100 Things to Do With Books
What should we do when we've finished the book? Here are some ideas.
Whatever you do, have fun!!
Official web site
How-to literacy kit from the NWT.
Helping Your Child to Read
Activities for helping children learn to read.
The Children's Book Centre Online .
Teachers and librarians are often the first people to put a book in the hands of a child. This guide is intended for the use of those teachers and librarians.
More ideas for families to try from the people at Reading is Fundamental, a non-profit organization whose goal it is to foster the love of reading.
Planning a Reading Event
Celebration ideas from NEA's Read Across America
Manitoba Reading Association
I Love to Read activity ideas and title lists
ALA : Teens
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/tipsenc/tipsencourage.htm
Talk with kids about why they select books they choose to read.
Maybe it's one of these reasons
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Speed, Brawn & Beauty:
The History of the Northern Manitoba Trappers’ Festival
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/PM.cgi?AP=cm_search&cmTerms=Manitoba&mark=Search&LM=
CommunityMemories&Referer=CommunityMemories&tab=Exhibits&action=Search&LANG=
English&scope=CommunityMemories&start=1&fl=&page=2
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Saskatchewan River
Highway Through History
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/PM.cgi?AP=cm_search&cmTerms=Manitoba&mark=Search&LM=
CommunityMemories&Referer=CommunityMemories&tab=Exhibits&action=Search&LANG=
English&start=1&scope=CommunityMemories&fl=0&page=3
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Genealogy & Archives
http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/index.html
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html
http://www.genealogy.com/index_n.html
http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/
http://expertgenealogy.com/free/
http://automatedgenealogy.com/
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Online Lifelong Learning Initiative
Council for Innovation and Learning Regina (CILR)
with the generous support of the Government of Canada through the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES)
and other project partners
http://www.cilr.com/olliindex.htm
The Online Lifelong Learning Initiative includes a ten part computer skills literacy series of learning modules. These modules are accessible 24 hours a day 7 days a week via the internet at no charge. The modules are accessible through a standard web browser (requires the free Flash Player) and come complete with sound and text captions for the hearing impaired.
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http://www.FreePatentsOnline.com
These FREE patent searching sites
have US, European, Japanese and WIPO documents.
The documents are fully searchable,
and bulk PDF downloading, alerts, collaboration tools
and other account features are all FREE.
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Job Searching?
find thousands of fresh and relevant jobs throughout Canada
~ completely FREE to users ~
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HOW TO THINK LIKE A KNOWLEDGE WORKER:
A guide to the mindset needed to perform competent work
an e-book available for FREE viewing and downloading at:
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/unpan/unpan031277.pdf
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EBSChost
EBSChost: http://search.ebscohost.com
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EBSChost gives you access to thousands of:
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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Government Links
Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism
Literature Links
Canadian Literature Research Service
National Adult Literacy Database Inc.
Educational Links
Parents' Guide to the Internet
National Research Council of Canada
Big Foot (email addresses)
Health Links
Newspapers
Children and Teen Links
Bettendorf Public Library Teen Page
CBC 4 Kids
Children's Literature Web Guide
Information Please Kids' Almanac
Internet Public Library--Youth Division
Internet Public Library --Teen Division
Little Explorers (Picture Dictionary)
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The Pas Golden Agers
Check their web page for upcoming events!
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Some Family Friendly Websites:
http://www.seussville.com/games/
http://disney.go.com/Disneybooks/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Rhymes.html
http://www.storyplace.org/storyplace.asp
http://funschool.kaboose.com/?kindergarten,p____________________________