Magazines and Newspapers

• National Geographic Kids—A supplement Web site to the National Geographic Kids magazine

• Time Magazine for Kids—Students discover the world with the online Time for Kids magazine.

Reference Tools

• Fact Monster—An Information Please site offering information in the areas of sports, math, science, the world, states, people, and other interesting areas like homework help and movie information.

• Little Explorers Picture Dictionary—An online picture dictionary for younger students

• Merriam-Webster—Online dictionary, dictionary for kids, and Britannica encyclopedia

Virtual Library

• Awesome Library—This site organizes the Web with reviewed resources in subjects across the curriculum. The site also provides links to authors, homework help, and games.

• Louisville Free Public Library—Offers access to the automated card catalog, databases, and other research tools helpful to students

Search Engines

• KidsCLick—Web search for students by librarians

Reading Sites

• Accelerated Reader 

• Book Adventure—A free reading motivation program. Create your own book lists, take quizzes on the books you read, and earn points to obtain prizes for your success.

• Kids Reads Reviews—Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors, and special features, including trivia games, word scrambles, and awesome contests

• RIF Reading Planet—Search for a good book to read, write your own book reviews, join a book club, share your opinion, play fun games and activities, or write a story or a poem on this interactive site.

• Tumble Books

Character Sites

• Arthur Arthur—The aardvark homepage

• Berenstain Bears—Official Berenstain Bears homepage

• Magic School Bus—If you like Ms. Fizzle's adventures, you will like this site.

Author Web Sites

• Jan Brett—Homepage of Jan Brett

• Eric Carle—Official Eric Carle Web site

• Kevin Henkes—Homepage of Kevin Henkes

• Lemony Snickett—Official Web site of the Series of Unfortunate Events

• Little Critter and Mercer Mayer—Littler Critter and Mercer Mayer Web site

• Patricia Polacco—Official Web site of Patricia Polacco

• Robert Munsch—Homepage of Robert Munsch

• Tomie de Paola—Graphic icon Tomie de Paola's official Web site

Math

• IXL Math Website

• A+Math—Web site developed to help students improve their math skills interactively through a game room, flashcards, and math puzzles. There are also step-by-step video explanations of math topics.

Writing Sources

• Poetry4Kids.com—Kenn Nesbitt's children's poetry Web site, which includes funny children's poems, games, contests, lessons, plus a rhyming dictionary and much more