This document provides summaries of several educational websites that are good for reading, including: 1) National Geographic Kids which explores geographic, scientific, and historical concepts for students and includes homework help and videos. 2) Time for Kids which has current news summaries, science questions, profiles and features for students as well as kid reporters. 3) The New York Times Learning Network which has news summaries, science explanations, biographies and features by subject for students.

1. Good Reading on the Web
Site Includes… Tips
-Exploration of geographic, scientific, and historical “What’s popular” is midway down the page also
www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
concepts, issues and events. has video options for struggling readers
-Homework helper -TFK Mini-Sites -explores specially created sites
-Kid reporters for Black History Month, Women's History Month,
www.timeforkids.com/TFK -Photo and Video on current topics students would Earth Day and many more.
enjoy. -This site has high interest ready-to-use short
texts.
-Archive link that allows you to print any article
from TFK in English and Spanish
- News summaries, science Q&As, who’s who and Every weekday new educational resources are
what’s what features published in The New York Times – all for free.
www.nytimes.com/learning -Exploration of the NY Times learning network by
subject *I really like the “Student Opinion” section.
-Word of the day Students’ blog about topics related to the life of
-Student crosswords teenagers.
-Historic headlines
www.nws.noaa.gov -weather maps, patterns, info on natural disasters Assists students with reading maps.
www.ushmm.org/education - Provides in-depth look at the Holocaust U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum provides links
-Provides information in over 10 languages for students, teachers and families.
-Historical video footage of concentration camps
-Podcasts and webcasts that inform students I think this is a great site to pass on to any of your
www.exploratorium.org
about a wide variety of science topics science teachers; it’s a wonderful resource!
-A wide variety of books Lexile evaluates both reading ability and text
www.lexile.com complexity on the same scale
Lexile Framework uses assessment results to
match readers with texts essential for growth and
monitoring.

2. Site Includes… Tips
This site is useful for grades K-12.
-Interactive websites -It is a wikispace page so you may want to join
http://literacypathways.wikispaces -Independent reading activities -Contains many research based articles that
.com/ -Vocabulary support teaching literacy
-Graphic organizers
-Assessment resources
-Differentiated instruction
- Reading lists for grades K-12 Can be used by teachers, parents, or any other
- Easier, medium, and harder books by reading in a child.
http://mcaknights.org title and author
- Additional list of suggested books to
read aloud to Kindergarten
- Full lesson plans Primarily for teachers but could be used by
- Additional videos which include how to put homeschooling parents, as well as others
www.LitDiet.org
together a Reading Toolkit for individual interested in helping children read for pleasure.
students