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Learning Resources for Families

• ABC Teach is a user-friendly educational site that provides quality printable materials for immediate use by teachers, education majors, and parents.
• PBS for Parents provides resources, tips, and activities for parents on many topics such as: literacy, numeracy, and social emotional learning.
• Book Aunt is a blog in which children’s author Kate Coombs reviews children’s books.
• Boys Read is a resource that focuses on motivating boys to become lifelong readers by helping them find reading materials that interest them.
• Children’s Literature Web Guide lists books and websites about authors, illustrators, and books. Resources for parents and teachers.
• Colorín Colorado is an English-Spanish bilingual website from ReadingRockets that provides information, activities, and advice on helping children learn to read and succeed at school.
• Edutopia is a website of resources for teachers, schools, districts, and parents. This resource from the George Lucas Educational Foundation focuses on interactivity.
• Fun Brain is a site for parents, teachers and children to play games in different content areas.
• Guys Read is a resource that focuses on motivating boys to become strong readers by helping them find reading materials that interest them.
• Nancy Keane’s Children’s Literature Webpage offers ready-to-use book talks, lists of recommended reading, book reviews by children, and other information about children’s literature.
• Reading Rockets provides information, tips, and advice to help teachers and parents improve a child’s reading skills.
• Safe Kids offers advice on ways to make your family’s online experience fun and productive.
• Scholastic’s Book Wizard offers several ways to search for children’s books, including by title, author, keyword, reading level, or similar book.
• We Read Too is a mobile directory of hundreds of picture, chapter, middle grade and young adult books written by authors of color featuring main characters of color.

Learning Resources for Students

• Arcademic Skill Builders: “Arcade + Academic = Fun Learning”. Practice your math fact fluency online.
• Enchanted Learning: Activities for children of all grade levels.
• Chateau Meddybemps
• CoolMath: free online math lessons, games, and fun math activities.
• Fun Brain: For parents, teachers and children. Play games in various content areas.
• International Children’s Digital Library: Read children’s books online. Search by language, age, genre, characters, and more.
• Literacy Center Play & Learn: Early literacy games in English, Spanish, Dutch, and French
• Math Expressions Kids’ Place: Student activities from the publisher of the new APS math textbooks.
• Play MathDice Online
• PBS Kids: Activities featuring some favorite characters such as Arthur, Clifford, Teletubbies, and Barney. Activities for Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow.
• Scholastic Kids: Games, books, and activities for children of all ages. Features Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and the Magic School Bus.
• Starfall: have fun reading with phonics
• Storyline Online: Videos of celebrities reading children’s books aloud via streaming video. Includes accompanying activities. Presented by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.

More to Explore!

Check out the student online resources published on the web pages of other APS offices and schools:

• English Language Arts office
• Mathematics office
• Abingdon
• Barcroft
• Barrett
• Campbell
• Carlin Springs
• Drew
• Hoffman-Boston
• Randolph