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This electronic source for American literature, funded by the Library of Congress, allows students to explore multiple facets of American literature. One link leads to an exploration of Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore, while another looks to examine how the history of Salem influenced Nathaniel Hawthorne's writings. By presenting students with this tool, they will be better equipped to understand the writers' backgrounds and read deeper into their works.

This website allows students to practice what they have learned in class. It has math, literature, geography, arts and music, and science. Students can pick from many games. The website is very appealing to young children and they games are very fun.

ERIC is a wonderful research tool for educators and students alike. It is the World's largest digital library of educational literature. It meets the standard 6.5 by being a free accessible technology that allows users to compile a multitude of valuable research information specific to their needs.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

This link is for an excellent, free database for teachers to search or find literature appropriate to their students at different levels of the DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment). You can search for a specific book, or use the database to configure an appropriate list for your grade and DRA level. The website as a whole offers many other great features for educators as well, such as lesson plans and science projects. The database in itself however is a fun place to start when working with your own personal classroom library to the extent that you can be linked to Amazon to purchase a copy if you so wish.