LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCESBetween the Lions Welcome to the Between the Lions website. We've gathered a wealth of literacy resources—activities, quick tips, recommended books and curriculum materials—for you to share with your emerging reader. Check back often for news and other updates!
Game Goo from Earobics Welcome to our home for fun, stick-with-you educational games that help develop nearly reading skills identified as important language arts building blocks in state curriculum standards.
Internet 4 Classrooms Grade Level Help for PreK thru 8th Grade: Standards based links and our grade level "Skillbuilders" to help students practice, either at home or in the classroom, what they have been taught.
myON myON™ reader matches student interests and reading level with content to personalize learning and predict future reading growth. Use the online 24x7 collection of resources available anytime, anywhere, for any student with our reading scaffolds. Learn more!
PBS Kids Play, explore and read on PBS Kids with all of your favorite characters. Visit Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, Sid the Science Kid, Arthur, and many more.
Scholastic Welcome to Scholastic! Read together, print pictures, play with and watch all your favorite characters such as I Spy, Miss Spider, Magic School Bus, Word Girl, Maya and Miguel, Can You See What I See, and Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Starfall Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.
MATH RESOURCESAcademic Skill Builders Have fun learning basic facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
A Plus Math This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.
Cool Math 4 Kids An amusement park of math and more -- especially designed for kids and FUN, FUN, FUN!!
Cool Math Sites Really Cool Math Websites! Cool Algebra Sites! Cool Geometry Sites! Even Cool Discrete Math, Trigonometry and Calculus Sites! Cool Math Puzzles and Cool Math Brain Teasers Sites! Cool Math Web Quest Sites! Cool Math Humor! Cool Elementary, Middle School and High School Math Teacher Resources!
Early Math A site that helps nurture development of your child's early math skills.
First In Math Online 24 Game (Third Grade Students need Log in information) The First In Math® Online Program is a proven curriculum supplement that solidifies basic mathematics skills.
Fun Brain Let your brain explore, collect and compete in a variety of games!
Illuminations Explore our library of 104 online activities that help to make math come alive in the classroom or at home.
Internet 4 Classrooms Grade Level Help for PreK thru 8th Grade: Standards based links and our grade level "Skillbuilders" to help students practice, either at home or in the classroom, what they have been taught.
Mathwire.com | Resources for Math Teachers This series of pages is designed to help teachers as they differentiate instruction for varied learners in the class. Suggested activities include multi-sensory approaches to various mathematical skills and games to help struggling students construct deep meaning for numbers.
Multiplication This site offers activities, games, worksheets to help teach the multiplication facts.
Place Value The following worksheets, flashcards and other educational resources have been created to help develop an understanding of place value.
MATH GAMES
READING
Reading Planet This site is provided by Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit children's literacy organization. Have fun with Story Maker, Super Sorter, Poetry Splatter, and search through loads of fun activities.
Tumble Books Sit back and listen or read along at your own speed to these entertaining and amusing picture books. Have fun with all sorts of games like puzzles, word catch, memory game, match the sentence, spelling, and much more. Many of these books and games can be read in different languages.
SPELLING
Spelling City Spelling City is an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun.
TECHNOLOGY
TYPE TO LEARN 4 (available for 2nd & 3rd grade students only)
Software Requirements Whether you have a Mac or Windows, find out what you need to install Type to Learn 4 on your home computer.
Parent Letter Help improve your child's keyboarding skills by installing Type to Learn 4 on your home computer. The parent letter provides you with the user ID, password, account number, and all the support you may need. Download at home: http://ttl4.sunburst.com/downloads/
VARIOUS LINKS
Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids.
Delicious Online page created to provide specific links to students. Username and password will be provided buy the classroom teacher.
Fact Monster Online Almanac, Dictionary, and Encyclopedia
Sports Illustrated for Kids SIKIDS.COM is the online counterpart to Sports Illustrated For Kids magazine. The site changes from day to day, and even from minute to minute, but our goal stays the same: We aim to create a fun, safe environment for kids, filled with some of the best news, games, and interactive features on the internet. If it's not cool, it's not on our site. If it is, we've included plenty of places where you can click to tell us about it.
TIME For Kids TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to learn about - and it's the best nonfiction text you'll find! A powerful teaching tool, TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is easily integrated across your curriculum, including social studies, science and math.
WebPath Express / Destiny A wonderful tool to help your child search through websites that are reliable sources. These sites have been pre-screened by teachers, librarians and principals, so you know that the information they will be obtaining is correct!
Weekly Reader Weekly Reader Corporation has been helping students develop learning skills and gain an understanding of their world for more than 100 years. As a leading publisher of supplemental educational products for schools and libraries, our editors are dedicated to providing materials to support a lifetime of learning. Through its flagship product line–Weekly Reader classroom magazines–Weekly Reader publishes twelve educational magazines for students in grades pre-K to 12 and reaches an audience of almost 8 million educators, students, and their parents annually.
Zoo Books Zoobooks is the everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-didn't-know-where-to-look children's resource for animals.