Parent+&+Student+Resources

=** Author Websites **=
 * ====Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney)====
 * ====Ann Cameron (author of Julian, Dream Doctor)====
 * ====[|Eric Carle]====
 * ==== [|Jan Brett] ====
 * ==== [|Kevin Henkes] ====
 * ==== [|Marc Brown] ====
 * ==== [|Tedd Arnold] ====
 * ==== [|Jan and Stan Berenstain] ====
 * ==== [|Dav Pilkey] ====
 * ==== [|Lemony Snicket] ====
 * ==== [|Beverly Cleary] ====
 * ==== [|Chris Van Allsburg] ====
 * ==== [|David Wiesner] ====
 * ==== [|Jon Scieszka] ====
 * ==== [|Laura Numeroff] ====

=** Book, Website, Movie Reviews **= Common Sense Media This site reviews books, websites, movies and more. It provides age recommendations and details about content.

=**Copyright ** =

Copyright Kids This site provides kid-friendly copyright information.

=** Educational Games & Activities **=

BrainPOP Jr. Free activities for K-3rd students on BrainPOP Jr.

BrainPOP Free activities for 3rd-8th grade students on BrainPOP

Click on the picture above to go to Compass Learning

FunBrain A variety of cool games and activities on many school subjects

Kerpoof Spell a Picture, Draw a Picture, Make a Movie, and more!

= ** eBooks and Audio Books ** =

Wisconsin Public Library Consortium eBooks & audiobooks Click here to checkout **FREE** children and adolescent **eBooks & audiobooks** through the Milwaukee Public Library System. On the left hand side of the page click on **"Juvenile Fiction"** under **"Browse eBook Fiction"** or **"Browse Audiobook Fiction".** All you need is a public library card.

Most of the eBooks can be read on a variety of eBook readers including the Kindle.

Happy browsing!

= Images =



Mark Scheiber, "Juggling Larry", Novemeber 5, 2011 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution
Pics4Learning.com This site offers copyright friendly images for students and teachers.

School Clip Art Free clip art for students and teachers. Must site source. See "Usage Rights" tab near the top.

= Inquiry Research = = (Caution: When using the internet, no site is 100% safe for kids, even when it is a filtered search engine) =

Ask Kids Kid's search engine from Ask.com

Use this link to get to "Kids Search", "Searchasaurus", "Student Research Center" and other great resources.





Kids Search Provided by BadgerLink This is a great search engine purchased by the school district. See Mr. Scheiber for a login to use at home.

Searchasaurus Provided by BadgerLink



This site makes it easy to make citations for websites, books and more. Just cut and paste.

media type="custom" key="11159666"

Yahoo! Kids Kid friendly search engine from Yahoo!

GoGooligans "The Green Search Engine for Kids and Teens"



This site comes from David Warlick and the Landmark Project.
=**Keyboarding ** =

Dance Mat Typing Typing game by the BBC

Keyboard Climber Type and climb

Space Typewriter This site, from Literactive is a great beginning keyboarding game.

Keyboard Zoo

This is a great keyboarding skills game from ABCya.com for students in grades 4K through 1st

Super Hyper Spider Typer Save Berry the Spider while learning to type

Cup Stacking Stack cups by keyboarding

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<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">Order in the Library <span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A great interactive activity from the University of Texas teaching kids how to organize books in the library. Also, teaches skills in alphabetical and numerical order.

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====<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">Between the Lions ==== ====<span style="font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This is a great website for kids from preschool through 2nd grade from PBS that has characters from the PBS show "Between the Lions". ====

====<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Awesome Adventures] by HarperCollins! This site contains great games in the arcade, sights and sounds, and much more! ====

==== <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Book Adventure] is a <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Create own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books read, and earn points and prizes for literary successes. ====

====<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Book Hive Book Reviews] - search for book reviews by genre, title, and author. ====

====<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia,fantasy; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Children's StoryBooks Online] brings you dozens of illustrated books to look at and read. ====

==== <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #741b47; font-family: georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Game Classroom] - <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; font-family: georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Language Arts for K-6th Graders ====

====<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Into the Book] is an amazing site about the different reading strategies....there are lots of fun activities to do on Into the Book! ====

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==== <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; font-family: georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Roy the Tale of a Singing Zebra] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; font-family: georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is a place to find tons of <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">interactive games, stories and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read. ====

==== <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; font-family: Georgia; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Scholastic Booktalks for Children and Young Adults] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This site contains video booktalks for a variety of books. ====

This wonderful website has great pre-school through 2nd grade reading activities.
====<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #0066cc; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">[|TeachingBooks.net] ====

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TrueFlix provides paired ebooks (fiction and nonfiction) on a variety of topics. Great for inquiry learning!

====<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Tales from the Glove Box] is a super fun interactive reading site! ====

====<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|TumbleBooks] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; color: black; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Online stories for children. ====

= ** Reference Section ** = ==

Britannica Online
=** Free encyclopedia, dictionary and thesaurus provided by BadgerLink. **= = =

<span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Merriam Webster's Word Central <span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dictionary, rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, games and more!

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<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">FOSS K-2

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= ** Social Studies ** = = National Geographic Mapping Games = = These are fun and educational interactive games to help kids learn about maps. It is from National Geographic. =

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MAP Reading Practice by RIT Range

MAP Math Practice by RIT Range

Both of these excellent pages are from the South Washington County Schools in Cottage Grove, MN

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