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FreeRice - 0 views
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A vocabulary quiz with a global conscience. Words get harder or easier depending on whether you get the answer right or wrong. For each correct answer, freerice.com donates 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program. Kids can have words read to them. Teachers should definitely check out the options page to make the best use of this site with kids.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - Reviews and teaching ideas for kids' books. - 0 views
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This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries: mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks - 0 views
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Kids read and solve mysteries online. Activities help them learn the elements of writing mysteries.
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This website has lots of online mysteries to read and solve. They provide many examples of short mysteries written by students. If you read more about the mysterynet website, you can find links to classic mystery authors and even purchase digital copies of their books. This website supports the MCPS grade 4, quarter 4 writing mysteries lesson 1.
Funny poetry for children - 0 views
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Kids can read funny poems and rate them. There are also lessons for writing poetry.
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Has poems that kids can read and rate. Also has links to poetry lessons on how to write different kinds of poems. Material is copyrighted and not for copying or distribution. Poetry theater selections are also included with permission to copy for classroom use.
Kids Space - 0 views
Redefine the dictionary - wordia - 0 views
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This is like video wikipedia for dictionaries. People can upload videos which define words. A great way to get kids to think about vocabulary and the meaning of words at a deeper level.
iTales - 0 views
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short stories for kids
Kidsreads.com - 0 views
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A website with book reviews, author biographies, quizzes and polls to engage kids in reading. Unfortunately, no search engine, so you need to explore a bit to know if there are resources specific to the book you are teaching.
Ask Kids - 0 views
AudibleKids - Audio Books for Kids - 1 views
LINKS Learning for Kids: Reading - 1 views
Online Activities and Interactive Learning for Students in Grades PreK-12 | Scholastic.com - 1 views
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Choose a grade level and a topic area and then select from a list of interactive online activities for kids. The search function will search the entire Scholastic website including lesson plans and teacher strategies, and not just the online activities.
children's short stories - 0 views
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A section of Short Stories East of the Web for kids. Very well-designed site with hundreds of short stories to browse or search. The stories can be rated by readers and there is a discussion forum in which you or students can post thoughts about the stories online.
Writing Fun by Jenny Eather - 0 views
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helping kids write using text organizers
Children's Storybooks Online - Stories for Kids of All Ages - 2 views
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A collection of online books with animation, interactive features, and sometimes audio. There is no search feature, but the list of books is short and sorted by young, older, and young adult age groups.
NewsBank KidsPage - 0 views
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search by lexile level
Poetry for Kids - 0 views
Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics - 0 views
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Starfall provides interactive books with sound.