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 Visit
The
Art of Researching the Web for fun lessons on how to
use the web for research and learning support, how to complete
effective searches, tours of great sites, and practical safety
tools and tips. Kids can even take a safety quiz to earn a
Safe Surfing License .
For
great reading tips for parents and teachers, visit
Between
the Lions on the PBS Site. Click on the link for
Parents and teachers and you'll find lists of books
to read aloud, tips for reading with children, how to choose
good
 books, and all around great ideas for raising readers!
Click on the Read Across America logo to the right to go
directly to the site. You'll find hundreds of reading
resources and tips including Teacher's
Top 100 books for Kids and Kid's
Top 100 books for Kids.
You
can also visit the California Department of Ed site for lists
of recommended reading by grade level when you're
looking for good books. For reviews that come straight from
kids you might want to visit Carol
Hurst's Children's Literature Site. For books that are
especially good for students ages
6-12, visit KidsReads.com.
Candlelight
Stories is a site filled with stories and E-books
for Kids. One section of the site requires a fee, but
they have a tremendous amount of activities for free. You can
click on the e-books and read them aloud or to listen as they
are read to you.
 You
won't want to miss the indredible projects housed at the Scholastic.com
website. There are sections for families
(you can even click on your child's grade level for
specific help and information!), teachers,
and kids.
You can enter contests, find pen pals, join book discussions,
interview famous authors, read current news, write historical
fiction stories, or participate in opinion surveys just for
kids.
 Do
your children love music? They can practice their
reading skills at the NIEHS
Kid's Pages by choosing a song to sing. The lyrics
will appear on the screen while the music plays in the
background so kids can sing along.
The
Book Adventure Web Site has lists of great books for
students to read as well as fun online quizzes students may
take after reading!
The
PBS Reading Rainbow site has book reviews, games,
activities, and The Young Writers and Illustrator
contest. Activities that support and extend the learning
from the daily TV program, Reading Rainbow, are also included.
 International
Kid's Space is a wonderful site where kids can read
stories, write stories, and share stories with kids around the
world.
The
BBC Words and Pictures site has a huge amount of
resources for young students to practice phonics skills at
many levels. Kids love the bright colors and fun games.
The
EFL Playhouse is a great site for phonemic awareness
chants written by teachers for young English Language
Learners.
The
Phonics Game Show is an online game to help students
learn the "rules" of the English language for
spelling and reading.
 Peregrine
Falcons, Tower City/Cleveland, Ohio. The Ohio
Division of Wildlife and APK.net have teamed up to
present one of the most exciting real world science projects
online. Students have a rare opportunity to develop
literacy skills as they read posts, complete research
projects, and record observations of the mating, nesting,
hatching, and parenting behaviors of peregrine falcons.
Students who may struggle with inference in literature
selections, may learn inference instead from watching and
journaling about the behavior of falcons on a web cam and
later analyzing those recorded observations. As the same
students compare their personal observations and inferences
with those made by professional biologists, they will
naturally begin to develop new skills and abilities for
interpreting written materials. Raptors
in the City provides excellent additional resources to
make this project an outstanding real world learning
experience. Additional resources and ideas can be found on the
PUSD
"Falcon Quest" project page.
 Fun
Brain has hundreds of games for students to play to
learn math concepts. To see the list categorized by topic and
grade level, click here: Topic
and Grade Level for Math Games. Check
out the Change Maker for practice using money. (Funbrain
Math Games Site)
Multiflyer
is a GREAT site for anyone who wants to practice
multiplication facts. Students can save the solar system by
answering multiplication problems correctly. At the completion
of each game, students can print out records that highlight
facts they've mastered and those they need to practice. There
is also an option to print practice sheets.
For
multiplication practice you can also download Grey
Olltwit's Guide to the Times Tables game.
Quia
is one of the
best sites for students to practice math facts, from basic
addition to alegebraic terminology, at varying levels of
difficulty. This site has matching games, flashcard games, and
a Math Journey Around-the-World game.
Maths MagNet Meenie Minus has some GREAT instructional
games for elementary students exploring multiples, even/odd,
logic, and more!
 A+
Math JAVA Flashcards has flashcards for addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division, rounding, and square
roots, as well as an option to create your own custom cards.
All
Math.com Flashcards This site lets you set different
options to individualize the flashcard games you play. It even
keeps score for you.
Education
for Kids Flashcards is another flashcard site that
gives you options for individualization. You can practice
addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or addition
and subtraction together.
Fleet
Kids Money Practice At this site you'll find an
entire section of games that are all related to money in some
way. Most of the games are real-world problems and some
include rewards for a student's school.
Great Links for Learning to Tell Time at CyberBee Time
Teacher:
At this site
you'll find links to many games students can play online as
well as practice sheets and other activities to reinforce a
student's ability to tell time. One especially helpful tool
is the
Time Clock Game at Primary Games.com.
For
additional math resources, visit the
Technology
Resources for Math Page.
Ranger
Rick of the National Wildlife Federation is a site
filled with fascinating stories, experiments and fun with
science. Kids love reading the articles on this site and
joining the projects. There is even a section describing how
to keep a nature journal.
Students
can practice
spelling at FunBrain.com. Click on FunBrain.com
for links to ALL of their online games, sorted by topic.
If
you're looking for an easy way to remember specific spelling
rules, you can always visit the Musical
Spelling Rules site to learn songs that highlight
spelling rules!
Scholastic.com's Homework Hub has a tremendous
amount of resources to help students learn to organize
assignments, write research papers, practice spelling or
math skills, and even prepare for tests. Parents will even
find advice for handling homework challenges.
RefDesk.com
has resources, references, and experts to help with nearly
any homework challenge you will ever encounter. Be sure
to try the
Visual
Thesaurus in the Search Thesaurus section and Homework
Helper and Kids
Stuff in the Site Map listings at the bottom of the
page. The Homework Helper Page and Kids Stuff page have links
to hundreds of other outstanding resources for kids too!
BJ
Pinchbeck's Homework Helper site on the DiscoverySchool.com
site has great links organized in a helpful structure to make
it easy to find the information you need.
 Multnomah
County Library Homework Site is another outstanding
reference site for students.
The
Little Explorers Picture Dictionary with Links
(PreK-3) is a valuable resource for young students to find
definitions, illustrations, and even links for more reading
and information about specific words.
The
Internet Picture Dictionary (Spanish, English, French,
German, Italian) is a valuable resource for students learning
new vocabulary words, especially if they are learning them in
a new language.
Linda
Foote
Instructional Technology Specialist
Poway Unified School District
13626 Twin Peaks Road
Poway, CA 92064
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