Scholastic
www.scholastic.com |
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has many good resources for parents, teachers and kids. I really liked the
author biographies. |
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Fun With
Words
http://www.fun-with-words.com |
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This web site states that it "is dedicated to
amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language:
wordplay. Playing with words and language is both entertaining and
educational. Here you can have plenty of fun with words with over 500
pages of word puzzles, games, amazing lists, and fun facts. |
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The Fact
Monster Web Site
http://www.factmonster.com/ |
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| This website
has topical sections with all sorts of facts. Some of the areas are: Word,
United States, People, Sports, Science and more. It also has a homework
center on all subjects, timelines, almanacs, atlas, dictionary, and
encyclopedia. |
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Roy the Zebra
http://www.roythezebra.com/ |
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| The site is
home to a package of interactive games, stories and resources that have been
developed to help emerging readers learn to read. The site can be
used at school or at home. |
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Quotations Home Page
http://www.theotherpages.org/quote.html |
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| One of the
largest and longest-lived text collections on the Web. |
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American
Library Association
http://www.ala.org/ |
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Closing the Gap
www.closingthegap.com |
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changing lives with assistive technology |
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Crayola
www.crayola.com |
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Good site for teachers,
kids, parents who are willing to try new things with kids. In this site you
will found a lot of crafts activities to get kids involve in the different
classes. |
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AAA Math
www.aaamath.com |
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Great site for math
teachers. It has an unlimited practice in all math topics and different
games like Sudoku. |
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Kids Click
http://www.kidsclick.org |
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Web Search for Kids by Librarians |
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smART kids
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/smartkids/ |
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A cartoon guided way through artists, artistic mediums, is very interactive,
has a parents and teachers area as well. |
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The Learning
Page
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ |
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The learning page from the Library of Congress. The “front door” to more
than 100 American Memory Collection. Over 7 million historical documents,
photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings as well as ways to use them
in the classroom. |
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Games for the
Brain
http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/ |
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With so
many games out there that do nothing for your brain, this is fun!
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PBS
Kids
http:///www.pbs.org/teachers/ |
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wonderful website with standards-based teacher resources with a variety of
subjects. Once linked to the subject, one can select an appropriate grade
and topic to select a useable lesson. There are also further links to
correlating books, links, and other media. I also like that there is a
dedicated Early Childhood Educator section on this website. The site is very
helpful and easy to navigate through. I will keep this site as a resource to
use in the future. |
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Handwriting
Without Tears
http://www.hwtears.com |
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A curriculum used by
educators and therapists in teaching and remediating handwriting and its
difficulties through a multisensory approach. It is a developmentally based
curriculum that follows the natural progression of hand control, grip, size
awareness, textures, straight and curved forms, print and cursive writing. |
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Yucky Discovery
http://yucky.discovery.com |
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This site offers interactive components for learning about the “yucky”
components of the human body, bugs, and worms through interactive games,
questions, and audio noises for further explanation. |