Web Sites for Children
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Gamequarium -an online portal for collections of online learning games and activities classified in 25 categories

StarFall

ABC Order

WordMaker

BookNuts Reading Club

GameGoo - High graphic educational games for kids. Challenges reading writing and spelling skills.

Power Proofreading - A really cool interactive way to practice proofreading skills.

Book Hooks - A place to publish illustrated book reviews

Page by Page - Tells how a book is made.

Listen and Write - Interactive audio pages help students create, write, and submit poems with this online exercise. They will learn all about rhyming and similes while practicing both creative writing and keyboarding skills.

Bo Bear - Dress and feed a teddy bear.  Teaches reading of object names and spelling.

  I'm Done, Now What?  - Educational games for children

Toon Center

Crayola Coloring Pages - Free coloring page print outs and tons of fun activities.

Letter Writing Sheets - Printouts for children that can be used for practicing how to write letters and numbers.

Grammar Gorillas - A grammar game that helps players to recognize parts of grammar within a sentence.

Summer Reading Lists - A list of summer reading lists from libraries and schools systems all over the U.S.

I Know That  - This free site for kids features fun learning activities that use Shockwave.  Try the phonics quizzes.   2-12)

Scrambled Sentences - A sentence writing activity where players click and drag words, pictures, and punctuation to out them in order.

Between the Lions - Stories, games, printouts, and songs.

Read Aloud with Random House   - A weekly broadcast program featuring the authors of children's books.

We Read - a web site dedicated to making reading and writing fun and entertaining for children! The site has many fun and exciting activities like E-Stories, E-Coloring, E-Poems, and E-Safe-Surfing!  Even parents can enjoy the Modern Parent section of the site. 

Book Adventure - A reading motivation program for children in grades K-8.  Kids can take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary success.

Kid Bibs - A resource for helping children become good readers, writers, and learners.


World of Reading - Book reviews by kids, for kids.

Online Educational Games - Online learning and interactive education activities.  Includes math, geography, chemistry, English, French, Spanish and holiday activities.

Reading Scene - Reviews of childrens books.  Grades 1-8.

Tongue Twisters - Try ten tough tongue twisters.  Tongue twisters can help you practice speaking clearly.  

Just for Kids Who Love Books - Learn about childrens books and authors. Book reviews by kids.

Spaghetti Book Club - Hundreds of book reviews for kids by kids. Find out about the authors and even the kid book reviewers.  

Yahooligans: The Web Guide for Kids - Search engine for kids.  Also has games, news, jokes, and more fun stuff.

Be a Web Site Sleuth - An activity site that lets kids search the web to investigate sites about childrens books and authors.  

Kidopedia - similar to an encyclopedia with the articles written by kids from all over the world.

MidLink Magazine - A magazine that highlights exemplary work from creative classes from around the world.  Focuses on classes that use technology as a tool to educate.

Weekly Reader - A magazine for each grade from 1-6.  Features classroom activities, games, contests, teacher and parent resources

Microsoft Kids' Web Sites - Activities, downloads, games, and teaching products for sale.

Homework Central - Helpful information for students, teachers, media specialists, and parents.  Also has a grade appropriate search engine.  

Kids Click! - A web search engine created for kids by librarians.  

School.com - Activities and resources divided into categories; primary, elementary, middle, high school, teachers, and administrators.   Also has lesson plans, teaching tools, homework help, and research area.

Internet Public Library: Youth - A good reference page for kids to do projects.

Kidlit - Offers kids and opportunity to publish literary or artistic work on the web.

Reading Language Arts Center - Resources that include , Professional Development, Author Spotlight, textbook support, Wacky Web Tales, and Intervention, Bilingual Resources.

Reading Rainbow - Interactive games and activities associated with field trips in the award-winning childrens television series.

Reading Rainbow II - Reading rainbow site with links for teachers, parents, and librarians.

Mary Cavaraugh's ChildrenStory.Com - Children can read, hear (using RealPlayer) or submit stories. 

Kid Zone - A site where children with learning disabilities can submit artwork or writing to win artist or writer of the week honors.

Wacky Web Tales - Kids can add their own words to make a unique story.

Young Writers Clubhouse - This club encourages children to enjoy writing as a creative pastime by getting them to share their work and help each other improve their writing abilities.

50 Great Sites for Kids - Web sites for pre-school and elementary age children and their parents.

KidPub - Over 42,000 stories written by and for children.

Alex's Scribbles - Interactive "point and click" stories about a koala in trouble. 

Animal Flashcards

Awesome Stories -Using the great stories of history and popular culture as a springboard, this site interactively allows users to examine the actual documents, pictures, graphics, and other primary resources that are the backbone of the story.

  Take a Closer Look - A fun guessing game for kids

  Primary Games

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