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Language Arts

BookPALS Storyline Online
Streaming video program featuring famous people reading children's books aloud.http://www.storylineonline.net/

PBS Teachers
PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find materials suitable for language arts in a range of grade levels. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/readlanguage/

Children's Storybooks Online
Many wonderful free children's books are available to read at Children's Storybooks Online. Stories span age ranges from preschool, young children, teens. http://www.magickeys.com/books/

Starfall
Interactive, engaging phonics and reading site for kids:
http://www.starfall.com/

Other Useful Language Resources

Games

Website that has a variety of games for students in grades 3-5 to practice various aspects of grammar.
Collection of word games for various ages and interests

Bookhive
In the Zinger Tales section you can watch online videos of professional storytellers like Jackie Torrence, Doc McConnell, Tony Tallent, and Donna Washington telling traditional folk tales. Provided by the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County.
http://www.bookhive.org/

Raz Kids
This is a website where students can login and read books at their reading level. Audio books are also available here.
http://www.raz-kids.com/main/Login

Math

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This website addresses all grade spans. The instructions are accessible by clicking on the instructions link for each cell. Please be aware that, due to the virtual manipulatives, it takes a while for pages to load.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Other Useful Math Resources

Good for practice and watching lessons is KhanAcademy
khanacademy.org
Flash Cards and Math Fact Practice
Make your own fact sheets
Place Value Games
http://www.gamequarium.com/placevalue.html

History / Social Science

The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's foremost repository of historical and literary materials. From the Family homepage, links are recommended to America's Library for grades K-8, Lifelong Literacy for grades 5-12, and American Memory for grades 8-12. The latter link takes students to a robust search engine from which students may access millions of documents.
http://www.loc.gov/families/

The Smithsonian Institution
"The Smithsonian has collected more than 142 million objects-from flags and fossils, to sculptures and spacecrafts, to toys and tapestries. There's something for everyone at the Smithsonian. Check out Smithsonian Kids for lots of fast, fun, cool, scary, patriotic, and beautiful things from the Smithsonian! You can also send free E-cards to your friends!"
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/

The White House
The federal government maintains a White House website that contains a number of interesting links for children. Students in grades K-5 will find a link to information about the various pets that Presidential families have had with them in the White House (click PETS on the left hand side of the homepage); and, students in grades 5-8 that are also sports fans will enjoy the photographs and information linked to the SPORTS site on the same homepage.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/

General Interest

Internet Public Library for Kids
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/

Scholastic Kids
Scholastic produces educational materials to assist and inspire students:
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/

PBS Kids
Free preK-12 resources to support learning at home and at school.
http://pbskids.org/

Online reference guide to educational sites for kids:
http://www.kidsites.com

Up to Ten
Award-winning early learning games and activities for kids:
http://www.uptoten.com

By Grade Level

Kinder

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

Storyline
KCLS Kids Page (incl. TumbleBooks)
Mrs. P
Book Adventure
Readers' Theater Editions
Garfield's Reading Ring
News for kids: National Geographic Kids

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