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Free, Online: Classic Stories for Children

free electronic books (ebooks).

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

clipart, free teaching resources and personalized classroom materials (e.g. Puzzlemaker)

BigIQkids.com turns your computer into an online learning academy by providing daily academic lessons for young learners in an interactive, easy to follow format. For the best results, children should log into BigIQkids.com daily and complete their lessons and quizzes. This "daily" strategy builds invaluable study habits, leads to better grades and greater self confidence. This is NOT a free resource.

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an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards. Teachers' Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using "My Folders" and "My Groups" to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students.

Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.

Tikatok is a free creative community for kids under 13 where they can write, illustrate, and share their original stories, and have them printed out into real hardcover and paperback books. It was developed by two mothers to encourage the imagination and creativity of their children and children everywhere.

A free Website that allows teachers (or students and parents) to enter their own spelling words. The students can then learn the words, play games with the words, and take a test on the words. Now, the site has added a gradebook feature. The site works great with the SMART Board or other interactive whiteboards.

A large collection of free audio stories (Christmas, fairy tales, Alice in Wonderland, etc.)