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Education Reporting

Providing our site visitors with important trends and news regarding K - 12 education around the globe, along with providing reviews and access to tools and services that help educators, administrators, students, parents, and education related businesses improve the quality of K - 12 education around the globe.

A&E Biography Find

A grade 5-12 appropriate site for looking up famous people.

Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater

A site for grades 3-9 that offers scripts based on Aaron Shepard's stories. The site also offers tips on how to use the scripts in class.

ABCTeach

A grade K-5 appropriate site with many literacy resources for staff.

About.com's Classic Literature

A grade 9-12 site that provides extensive information on major authors, classic literature, and historical periods of literature.

Absolute Shakespeare

A grade 8-12 appropriate site with extensive information on William Shakespeare including copies of plays, summaries and background information.

Academy of American Poets

A site for grades 6-12 this site includes biographies and photos of more than 400 poets worldwide. There are many examples of their work and you can listen to many of the poems read if you have a RealOne player.

Ad Dissection 101

A site for grades 9-12 that offers activities that teaches media literacy.

Aesop's Fables

For grades 3-12 this site includes over 600 fables as well as fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Some fables have RealAudio narrations.

Aha! Poetry

For grades 4-12 this site offers a variety of poetry resources. Students can learn poetic forms such as haiku and cinquain, comment on existing poems, and links to other poetry sites.

Alfy.Com

A site for grades 3-8 that offers teacher resources and educational games.

Alphabet Soup

A site for PK-K that provides a collection of activities that teach the alphabet.

American Dreams Through the Decades

A site for grades 9-12 that offers a multi-disciplinary webquest.

Apple Learning Interchange

A site for grades K-12 that contains web activities for the classroom by grade and subject.

Awerty Notes

A site for grades 6-12 that offers summaries and analyses of classical literature.

Awesome Cards

A site for grades 3-12 that offers free online cards for students to practice writing in a fun way.

Baker Street Connection

A site for grades 7-12 that features Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels.

Bartleby.com

For grades 7-12 this site offers a comprehensive online library. The site also offers reference resources and the Columbia Encyclopedia for free.

BBC Education

Words and Pictures: For students K-2 has games and activities that focus on phonics. The site requires Macromedia's free Flash Player 5 plug-in.

Bembo's Zoo

A site for grades PK-K that offers a unique graphics for teaching the alphabet.

Berenstain Bears

A site for grades 2-5 that offers stories and activities related to the Berenstain Bears.

Bibliomania

For students 6-12 this site offers many free books, poems, articles, short stories and plays. The site also offers study guides for many of the texts on the site.

Book Adventure: Kids Zone

A grade K-8 site that offers quizzes and games on books students read offline. The site offers prizes for student progress.

Book Raps

A site for students K-12 that allows students worldwide to discuss literature. There are tips for staff on how to join or create a Book Rap as well as student tips on how to participate in Book Raps. Other features include a calendar that lists current Book Raps, chat sessions, and a student newsletter.

Building Rainbows Book Reviews

A site for grades 1-6 that offers book reviews written by students for students. Students can also submit their own book reviews.

Children's Haiku Garden

A Haiku site for grades 1-6 where students can students read Haiku from around the world. Staff can submit Haiku with illustrations for students to the site as well.

Children's Literature Web Guide

A site for grades 1-6 that offers teacher resources, online stories, book awards, links and more.

Cinderella Stories

A site for grades 3-7 that contains lesson plans for multicultural versions of Cinderella.

ClueMaster

A site for grades 5-12 that offers free subscription service for hundreds of crossword puzzles, word searches and other similar games. Each puzzle can be printed and includes an answer sheet.

Cyber Guides

A site for grades K-12 that offers standards based webquests and lessons for teachers and students.

Dave's ESL Caf'

A site for grades 3-8 that provides activities, quizzes, and more for the English Language Learner and their teachers.

Debbie's unit Factory

For grades 1-6 this site contains cross-curricular units and online resources for teaching elementary language arts. Click Contents to find a list of theme units. Online quizzes and free sample material are available as well.

Dickens Page

A site for grades 9-12 that offers links to a wide variety of resources on Charles Dickens.

Discovery Schools.com's Teaching Tools

For grades 3-12 Discovery School offers easy to use tools to develop their own printable material. Staff can create customized word searches, crosswords, worksheets, vocabulary quizzes and more.

E.L. Easton's English Online

For grades K-12 this site contains language arts resources for teachers and students.

English Server

A site for K-12 that offers free copies of over 30,000 texts that span a wide range of topics.

English-Zone.Com

A site for grades 6-12 that is designed for English Language Learners. The site is also appropriate for any student who wants to work on their grammar skills. Students can learn idioms, practice verb usage, play vocabulary games and more. Staff will find printable materials, activities, and links to other sites.

ePALS Classroom Exchange

A site for grades K-12 connects more than 65,000 classrooms. It is the world's largest online classroom community connecting students via email. The site is also available in Spanish and other languages.

Fact Monster

A site for grades 1-6 that provides an encyclopedia and other reference tools for homework along with grade appropriate articles.

Fake Out!

A site for grades K-8 that offers weekly grade-leveled vocabulary guessing games. The site also offers teaching suggestions and the ability to choose one of next weeks words, write their own fake definitions, and email definitions.

Family Games Online

A site for grades 5-12 offers a online fantasy novel, randomly generated haikus, poems, and stories and more.

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

A site for grade levels K-12 that offers a large collection of myths and legends from all over the world.

FreeBooknotes.com

A site for grades 6-12 that provides free book summaries and study guides to more than 250 books.

FunBrain.com

A site for grades K-8 that contains a variety of games and activities for students across many subject areas. Staff are also able to create online quizzes or use ready made quizzes from the site.

Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales

A site for grades 1-6 that features silly poems and stories. The site also offers tips and materials for teaching poetry.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

A site for grades K-5 that offers a complete online collection of the fairy tales by the brothers Grimm.

Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales and Stories

A site for grades 1-5 that offers a background and stories by Hans Christian Andersen.

Harcourt Brace Spelling

A site for grades 1-6 provides a collection of online spelling games. Macromedia Shockwave is required to play games.

Harcourt's Multimedia Grammar Glossary

A site for grades 1-5 that features an animated glossary on grammar, usage, and mechanics.

I Know That: Phonics

A site for grades K-6 that offers reading online activities that have pronunciations. The site also offers activities in other subject areas.

Jan Brett's Activity Pages

A site for grades K-3 that offers language arts activities for students.

Kids Planet

A site for grades K-12 that offers a variety for lessons and activities related to wildlife around the world.

Little Explorers Picture Dictionary

A site for grades PK-6 that offers an online visual dictionary. The site is also available in other languages including Spanish.

Magnetic Poetry

A site for grades 2-6 where students unscramble or create poems.

My Hero

A site for grades 1-6 that celebrates the 'unsung hero'. Students can submit writings on their own heroes or learn about famous historical figures and ordinary people.

Mythica

A site for grades 6-12 that offers an online encyclopedia for myths and folk tales from around the world.

Pink Monkey

A site for grades 6-12 that offers homework help, book notes, online texts, SAT study guide, college planning resources and more.

Reading Planet Site

A site for grades 3-7 that offers reading and writing activities, book reviews, and educational games.

Rebus Rhymes

Mother Goose and Others: A site for grades PK-K offers online nursery rhymes, coloring print outs, and teaching tips.

Rhymezone

A site for grades 6-12 that offers an engine to find rhyming words, synonyms, or antonyms. The site also offers other vocabulary related activities.

Sesame Street

A site for grades K-6 that offers stories and activities in art, math, language arts and much more.

Seussville

A site for grades 2-5 that offers word, math and reasoning games that feature characters from the famous author.

Stories to Grow By with Whootie the Owl

For grades 3-6 this site offers a selection of stories with the option to hear them with wav or mp3 formats. The site also contains teacher and parent resources.

Tales of Wonder

A site for grades 3-8 that contains folk tales and fairy tales from around the world.

TEAMS Distance Learning

A site for grades K-12 that offers resources for learning and assessment including resources for English language Learners.

The Literacy Center

A site for grades PK-2 that offers a series of online activities that teaches colors, letters, keyboarding and more. The site offers content in Spanish as well.

Virginia's Site for Educators: Lesson Plans

A resource site for K-12 that offers standards- based lesson plans in many subject areas.

Vocabulary University

A site for grades 4-12 that offers a variety of online vocabulary activities and curriculum for staff.

Wacky Web Tales

A site for grades 3-8 that asks students to fill in parts of speech to create stories online. Students can also submit their own stories.

World Almanac For Kids

A site for grades 1-6 that offers an online research resource for elementary students with educational games.

Write Site

For grades 6-8 this site has students take on the role of news reporters and editors. The site includes unit outlines, handouts, exercises and other writing resources.

Writing Program

A site for grades 9-12 that offers writing resources for students, teachers, and tutors. Grammar, mechanics, editing, punctuation, and terminology are some of the topics covered on this site.

WritingDEN

For grades 6-12 this site provides interactive online reading, comprehension, and writing lessons. The site also offers reading and grammar guides, teacher guides, and student message boards. Students can also hear words pronounced and sentences read with a RealAudio player.

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

A K-12 site that offers a wide range of curriculum units created by teachers attending summer workshops.

Your Timesavers: Lesson Plans

A grade 5-12 site that offers Web-based lesson plans in many subject areas.

Zane-Bloser

For grades K-8 this site has sample lesson plans available for free from the company. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required.