Web Sites for Children
Gamequarium -an online portal for collections of online learning games and activities classified in 25 categories |
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| Noggin http://www.noggin.com | |
| Reading Planet http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/ |
| Story Circle http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/storycircle/index.shtml | |
| Learning Planet http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids1.asp | |
| Lil' Fingers http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html | |
| TVO Kids http://www.tvokids.com/framesets/nook_new.html?game=66 | |
| Preschool Express http://www.preschoolexpress.com/index.shtml http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/pep/teach.htm |
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GameGoo - High graphic educational games for kids. Challenges reading writing and spelling skills. |
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Power Proofreading - A really cool interactive way to practice proofreading skills. |
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Book Hooks - A place to publish illustrated book reviews |
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Page by Page - Tells how a book is made. |
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Listen and Write - Interactive audio pages help students create, write, and submit poems with this online exercise. They will learn all about rhyming and similes while practicing both creative writing and keyboarding skills. |
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Bo Bear - Dress and feed a teddy bear. Teaches reading of object names and spelling. |
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I'm Done, Now What? - Educational games for children |
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Crayola Coloring Pages - Free coloring page print outs and tons of fun activities. |
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Letter Writing Sheets - Printouts for children that can be used for practicing how to write letters and numbers. |
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Grammar Gorillas - A grammar game that helps players to recognize parts of grammar within a sentence. |
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Summer Reading Lists - A list of summer reading lists from libraries and schools systems all over the U.S. |
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| I Know That - This free site for kids features fun learning activities that use Shockwave. Try the phonics quizzes. 2-12) | |
Scrambled Sentences - A sentence writing activity where players click and drag words, pictures, and punctuation to out them in order. |
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Between the Lions - Stories, games, printouts, and songs. |
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Read Aloud with Random House - A weekly broadcast program featuring the authors of children's books. |
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We Read - a web site dedicated to making reading and writing fun and entertaining for children! The site has many fun and exciting activities like E-Stories, E-Coloring, E-Poems, and E-Safe-Surfing! Even parents can enjoy the Modern Parent section of the site. |
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Book Adventure - A reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Kids can take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary success. |
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Kid Bibs - A resource for helping children become good readers, writers, and learners. |
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Online Educational Games - Online learning and interactive education activities. Includes math, geography, chemistry, English, French, Spanish and holiday activities. |
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Reading Scene - Reviews of childrens books. Grades 1-8. |
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Tongue Twisters - Try ten tough tongue twisters. Tongue twisters can help you practice speaking clearly. |
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Just for Kids Who Love Books - Learn about childrens books and authors. Book reviews by kids. |
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Spaghetti Book Club - Hundreds of book reviews for kids by kids. Find out about the authors and even the kid book reviewers. |
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Yahooligans: The Web Guide for Kids - Search engine for kids. Also has games, news, jokes, and more fun stuff. |
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Be a Web Site Sleuth - An activity site that lets kids search the web to investigate sites about childrens books and authors. |
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Kidopedia - similar to an encyclopedia with the articles written by kids from all over the world. |
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MidLink Magazine - A magazine that highlights exemplary work from creative classes from around the world. Focuses on classes that use technology as a tool to educate. |
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Weekly Reader - A magazine for each grade from 1-6. Features classroom activities, games, contests, teacher and parent resources |
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Microsoft Kids' Web Sites - Activities, downloads, games, and teaching products for sale. |
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Homework Central - Helpful information for students, teachers, media specialists, and parents. Also has a grade appropriate search engine. |
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Kids Click! - A web search engine created for kids by librarians. |
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School.com - Activities and resources divided into categories; primary, elementary, middle, high school, teachers, and administrators. Also has lesson plans, teaching tools, homework help, and research area. |
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Internet Public Library: Youth - A good reference page for kids to do projects. |
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Kidlit - Offers kids and opportunity to publish literary or artistic work on the web. |
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Reading Language Arts Center - Resources that include , Professional Development, Author Spotlight, textbook support, Wacky Web Tales, and Intervention, Bilingual Resources. |
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Reading Rainbow - Interactive games and activities associated with field trips in the award-winning childrens television series. |
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Reading Rainbow II - Reading rainbow site with links for teachers, parents, and librarians. |
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Mary Cavaraugh's ChildrenStory.Com - Children can read, hear (using RealPlayer) or submit stories. |
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Kid Zone - A site where children with learning disabilities can submit artwork or writing to win artist or writer of the week honors. |
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Wacky Web Tales - Kids can add their own words to make a unique story. |
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Young Writers Clubhouse - This club encourages children to enjoy writing as a creative pastime by getting them to share their work and help each other improve their writing abilities. |
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50 Great Sites for Kids - Web sites for pre-school and elementary age children and their parents. |
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KidPub - Over 42,000 stories written by and for children. |
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Alex's Scribbles - Interactive "point and click" stories about a koala in trouble. |
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Animal Flashcards |
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Awesome Stories -Using the great stories of history and popular culture as a springboard, this site interactively allows users to examine the actual documents, pictures, graphics, and other primary resources that are the backbone of the story. |
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Take a Closer Look - A fun guessing game for kids |
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