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Language Arts, Language and Art Links English Language Arts: Houghton Mifflin Wacky Web Tales Young children can create a wacky tale. SET Game Crossword Puzzles Concord Review: Get Published! A publication accepting gifted students' history essays. Useful Tips and Resources for Creative Thinking Spark Notes Spark Notes are online study guides for a variety of novel and plays commonly taught in middle and high schools. CRAYON: CReAte Your Own Newspaper Children's Literature Web Guide Daily Grammar Register for this free service to receive five daily writing lessons via e-mail each week. On the sixth day, you'll receive a quiz. Return to the top of the page Art Links: Art Adventures Virtual van Gogh: The extraordinary genius of Vincent van Gogh is on full display at "Vincent". An information gallery that spans 2,880 images and 3,140 pages. Includes paintings, sketches and letters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Met): This extensive virtual museum features many famous and classical pieces of art. The Met offers an impressive array of images along with a variety of learning activities. Smithsonian American Art Museum: This museum, with a focus on American artworks and artists, provides in-depth presentations of the collection and features creative, interesting, and informative multimedia exhibitions. Playbill Online: "Playbill" offers the definitive listing for current theater productions showing on and off-Broadway, in regional theaters, and in national touring shows. Animation Projects Return to the top of the page Other Language Links: Web Page and Interactive Text Translators Scroll down to either the Interactive Text Translator or to the Web Page Translator. Enter the text or URL of your choice into the box, select the language pairing (Enlish, French, Spanish, German, Italian or Portuguese) and then simply click the translate button. Sign Language and Braille Translate individual German words: With German, you must be careful of one problem: the Germans like to run several words together to make a phrase. If you get 'no such word' type responses, you may have to divvy the word up into its component parts to get partial translations. German Stories: This is a site from UCLA where you can print off stories in their original German and in the English translation. Keep in mind that grammatical differences mean that it is difficult to translate word for word because the verb will be in a different place, etc. Oral Pronounciation This site allows you to play the audio version of a word. A great way to work on learning pronunciation. Covers many different languages. Online Dictionaries: Some of these dictionaries work, others don't. Return to the top of the page Back to CABC's Main Page  Children's Page CABC's Events Programs/Conferences Gifted Organizations in Canada Noteworthy Links Membership Information