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Reading Planet is a website promoting reading and writing to kid. It is sponsored by Reading is Fundamental, a non-profit children’s literacy organization. It has four main sections to the website: the Activity Lab, Game Station, Book Zone, and Express Yourself. In the Activity Lab, kids can select from a variety of activities including picking a story to print and illustrate, printing bookplates for their books, write a poem inspired by a painting, and color a picture online. The Game show more Station provides a number of fun games involving reading and writing, including matching English words to their translations in French, Spanish, Swahili, and Navajo, a bilingual grocery shopping game where you have to find the items on your list, and an alphabet soup word search available in English and Spanish. With the Book Zone, kids can watch and listen to animated songs and stories, read author and illustrators question and answer sessions, rate and review books, and view booklists. Lastly, in the Express Yourself area, kids can choose to help write a story, e-mail a postcard, write to the website’s mascot, and read an interview with this month’s reading superstar (Natalie Portman, currently) and past reading superstars. The website is brightly color as well as animated in place to appeal to kids. While RIF claims the site is designed to kids age 5-15, it seems more likely to be used by the younger kids ages 5-10. show less