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Scholastic
www.scholastic.com

This web site has many good resources for parents, teachers and kids. I really liked the author biographies.
 

 

 
Fun With Words
http://www.fun-with-words.com

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.
 

 

 
The Fact Monster Web Site
http://www.factmonster.com/

To Fact Monster

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.
   
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.
   
Quotations Home Page
http://www.theotherpages.org/quote.html

The Quotations Home Page

One of the largest and longest-lived text collections on the Web.
   
American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/

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Closing the Gap
www.closingthegap.com
changing lives with assistive technology
   
Crayola
www.crayola.com
 
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. 
   
AAA Math
www.aaamath.com 
 
Great site for math teachers.  It has an unlimited practice in all math topics and different games like Sudoku.   
   
Kids Click
http://www.kidsclick.org

KidsClick!

Web Search for Kids by Librarians
   
smART kids
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/smartkids/
 
A cartoon guided way through artists, artistic mediums, is very interactive, has a parents and teachers area as well.
   
The Learning Page
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/
 
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 Over 7 million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings as well as ways to use them in the classroom.
   
Games for the Brain
http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/
 
With so many games out there that do nothing for your brain, this is fun!
   
PBS Kids
http:///www.pbs.org/teachers/
 
This is a 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.
   
Handwriting Without Tears
http://www.hwtears.com
 
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. 
   
Yucky Discovery
http://yucky.discovery.com
 
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.

 

 

 

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