Laurie Keller Website

The **Laurie Keller Website** is an Internet website featuring everything created by Laurie Keller. This website was created sometime in 2008. As of May 2020, her website can't be viewed anymore her website domain expired by GoDaddy. As of June 2020, her domain is for sale. Since Laurie Keller’s old website is for sale by GoDaddy her website has a new url http://lauriekellerbooks.com.

The website can be viewed in Archive's Wayback Machine.

As of today, not much of lauriekellerbooks.com has changed. No new books have been announced.

## About

The Laurie Keller Website features everything created by Laurie Keller from children's books to greeting cards.

### Menu Buttons (2008 website)

* About Me
* News
* Books
* Illustrations
* Fun & Games
* Contact
* School Stuff

## Scrambled States Stuff from the 2008 Website

### Home Page

Ohio andNew Jersey appear among the truckload of Keller's characters, as animated by Flash Player (which is currently unsupported since 2021).

### Under Construction Page

Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Utah are featured. This is from Page 9 of the Talent Show book.

### School Stuff

#### The Scrambled States of America

##### Scrambled States Activities

* Unscramble State Names
	+ For this activity, you must unscramble all 50 states' names. Every state is listed randomly.
* Scrambled States Quiz
	+ You must answer 12 questions based on the book. For example, when "Who is not feeling happy at all?" is asked, Kansas is the answer.
* Unscramble The Storyline
	+ Unscramble the events of the story by numbering the events in order from 1 to 9.
* Identify The States
	+ For this activity, each of the 50 states give facts about themselves; their capital, their nickname, what their name means in a certain language, etc. For example, New York's state fact is: "The Statue of Liberty lives on me."

##### Exercises

1. For this exercise, you must write a report of your state in a first-person narrative. Examples are located in the Identify the States Activity.
2. For this exercise, you must write stories by each state telling about his/her experiences switching spots with another state.

##### Put On a Scrambled States Play!

* Download the Script
	+ The script is no longer available via Wayback.
* See photos from previous shows!
	+ This page shows photos of different Scrambled States plays. One of them is done by The Reading Reptile Players (The Reading Reptile Bookstore, Kansas City, MO) on October 5, 2005 at 6:00 pm.
	+ At the bottom of the page, there's a button leading to another site of another Scrambled States play by Ms. Ciolfi and Ms. Singer's 3rd grade classes from Hastings Elementary School in Lexington, MA. This is done in winter 2000.

#### The Scrambled States of America Talent Show

##### Host Your Own Talent Show!

* How to Plan a Talent Show Guide
	+ This guide shows the instructions for planning a talent show for a school classroom.
* Invitations
	+ This is a set of four cut-outs "admit one" talent show invitation templates. Each features a picture of Sam.
* Poster
	+ Same as the invitations, but it bigger to fit-to-page and there is only one.
* Certificate of Achievement
	+ This is a template of a talent show certificate of achievement.

##### Activities

* Matching Sheet
	+ For this activity, you must match 20 state names to their capital city. The states depicted in the activity are shown below:
		- Oregon
		- Utah
		- Minnesota
		- Iowa
		- Missouri
		- Kansas
		- Kentucky
		- Idaho
		- Vermont
		- Nevada
		- Mississippi
		- Indiana
		- Texas
		- Maryland
		- Arkansas
		- California
		- Alaska
		- Montana
		- Arizona
		- New Mexico
	+ Meet Your State!
		- Meet the great state of... pick a state and write out that state's facts and symbols.
* Unscramble Storyline
	+ Unscramble the events of the story by numbering the events in order from 1 to 10.
* Word Find
	+ In this word search, you must find the names of America's 13 original colonies, including five bonus words: scrambled, states, America, talent show, and Uncle Sam.
* Teacher's Guide

##### State Trading Cards

Here, you can find all 50 states by their appearance, name, capital, bird, flower, song, nickname, and statehood date and number. You can also print them out and make them into cards.

##### Coloring Pages?

Coloring pages should be coming "this spring", but they didn't make it.

### Fun & Games

#### Scrambled States

* The Scrambled States of America DVD
* The Scrambled States of America Talent Show DVD
* The Scrambled States of America Game
* The Scrambled States 2

#### Other Stuff by Keller

* Open Wide, Tooth School Inside DVD
* Arnie the Doughnut DVD
* Do Unto Otters DVD
* Time Flies Game

## Newly Updated Website

The 2018 update only featured Keller's books, along with the Scrambled States Game and Puzzle and a plush of Arnie the Doughnut.