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Lots of stories read by some famous folks! Captions can be enabled/disabled with a button. Be sure to click the MORE STORIES button to check out the rest of the selections.

Interactive online resources for grades 3-6 grouped by topic.

"Select one of the passages listed below. Complete the passage by selecting the words that best fit the context of the passage. Press the 'Check My Answers!' button when you are done to see how you did! Attention Teachers!! Add your own reading comprehension passages for your class to use!"

Stories from National Geographic for Kids

Articles, journals, blogs related to Discovery network programs.

Science News for Kids is a web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14. Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials. Our emphasis is on making the Web site appealing by offering kids opportunities to comment on and grade the subject matter, get ideas for science projects, and try out mathematical puzzles. At the same time, we offer teachers creative ways of using science news in their classrooms.

Although no longer published, you'll find archived PDFs of the Fandangle Magazine for kids here.

Includes some sample articles from their published version, and lots of printables for teachers.

TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to learn about - and it's the best nonfiction text you'll find! A powerful teaching tool, TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is easily integrated across your curriculum, including social studies, science and math. Includes example articles, worksheets, printable quizzes, graphic organizers, photos, etc.

Extra helps teachers and educators spark young people's interest in the world around them by a) providing news articles written for students with the background and context needed to understand complex topics b) creating high-quality, free lesson plans and teaching tools that make it easy to bring current events and issues into the classroom c) offering an outlet for young people to speak out on issues important to them by publishing essays, and original audio and video recordings. Often these student voices are directly related to the news and give adults insight into how events affect young people.

Information on helping students use the sequencing text structure in reading and writing. * General Information on Sequencing * Lesson Plans on Sequencing * Sequencing Teacher Tools"

This site provides thousands (currently 11,000) of videos to be used for learning. The videos are organized in categories.

'Here we aim to give you solid tips on advice to improve your writing from a wide range of different Irish authors. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, scripts or poetry we hope that you will find articles here that guide and inspire you and take you a step closer to publication. If you have queries on a topic we haven't covered here, visit our forum where you can ask the experts or discuss your thoughts with other writers in your field.'