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Resource Name Suggested Objective/Online Description Web/URL Address Grade Level K-5th ABCya.com offers free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students http://www.abcya.com/ to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by ABCYa certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. Australian Centre for 4th-12th ACMI is Australia’s national museum of film, TV, video games, digital culture and art – at the https://www.acmi.net.au/education/online- heart of Melbourne in Fed Square. The free online Film It lessons cover storyboarding, learning/film-it/ the Moving Image editing and sound recording. (ACMI) Pk-5th AndersenFairyTales: classic folk stories and fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Web- http://www.andersenfairytales.com/en/main published children's books with Flash animation and narration. 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Lots of great things here for young children. http://www.scholastic.com/parents/play/ Pk-4th First and foremost, the site was created to tell children stories. It is dedicated to making original http://www.freechildrenstories.com/ stories available at no cost to children all over the world, and founded on the principle that children’s literature is not just another form of media. FreeChildrenStories.Com is visited Free Children's Stories regularly by thousands of parents, teachers and children around the globe. The site is always accepting submissions from children’s authors to be selected by the review team for publication at no cost. Last updated: 2018 Pk-8th Created for kids in grades Pre-K through 8, Funbrain.com has been a leader in free educational https://www.funbrain.com/books Funbrain games for kids since 1997. Funbrain offers hundreds of games, books, comics, and videos that develop skills in math, reading, problem-solving and literacy. 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Research shows that boys are having trouble reading, and that boys are getting Guys Read worse at reading. No one is quite sure why. Some of the reasons are biological. Some of the reasons are sociological. But the good news is that research also shows that boys will read — if they are given reading that interests them. K-12th A comprehensive reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, http://www.infoplease.com/ Info Please an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single search engine allows you to search all these sources at once. International Pk-7th The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. 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Library Spot 6th-12th A free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, http://www.libraryspot.com/ families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. Magic Tree House 2nd -5th This site is provided through Random House Publishing and it is http://www.magictreehouse.com/ connected with the Magic Tree House books. Choose one of the books in the series and all of the activities, videos, games etc. are related to that theme and book. Last updated: 2018 9th grade + The creator envisioned MakeBeliefsComix.com as a place for you to come to and have fun by http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ creating your own world of comic strips. His hope is that by giving you a choice of characters with different moods and the chance to write words and thoughts for them, you will tap into Make Believe Comix your creativity and explore new possibilities. After all, there is no greater force in life than the power of the imagination to free us from our immediate problems and to spur our energies to find solutions to our befuddlements. Pk-5th MightyBook is the perfect place for children who enjoy books, music, art and games. You’ll http://www.mightybook.com/ find hundreds of original stories, songs, games and puzzles, plus scores of classic books, poems and songs. Everything is illustrated, animated and read out loud. Complete lesson plans and Mighty Book quizzes are included with many of the books and songs. You can sample a few of them here. Hundreds more are available to subscribers, with no advertising. 2nd-12th Newsela is a data base of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by https://newsela.com/articles/#/rule/latest broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student- Newsela friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Use Newsela to differentiate nonfiction reading. It's free to read Newsela. Join and get unlimited access to read every news article at every reading level. PBS Kids Pk-6th PBS has a multitude of reading games to access for free and many connect http://pbskids.org/games/reading/ with their free television shows. 2nd-6th WordGirl is a new animated series that follows the every day life and superhero adventures of http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/ “WordGirl” as she fights crime and enriches vocabulary usage, all in a day’s work. Disguised as mild-mannered 5th grader, Becky Botsford, WordGirl arrived on planet Earth when she and her monkey sidekick, Captain Huggy Face, crashed their spaceship. In classic superhero form, PBS Kids: Word Girl WordGirl possesses superhero strength with the added benefit of a colossal vocabulary. WordGirl has a family and friends who have no idea of her secret identity. As WordGirl, she battles and prevails over evil (albeit ridiculous and comical) villains. 5th-12th The Purdue University Writing Lab and Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) assist clients in https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html their development as writers—no matter what their skill level—Whether your students need clarification on grammar, style or proper citations, this site can help. With printable and online Purdue Owl practice and teacher resources, the OWL does an admirable job of fulfilling