Links for 1st Grade Students

Standardized Testing Help

Search Engines/Reference

Google- simply the best and largest search engine today
Yahooligans- Yahoo's search engine for kids
Queryster- new metasearch engine with promising results
Google Image Seach - Google's search engine for images
Find Sounds- does exactly as the title indicates
Search Engines for Young Students was written by Julie Coiro to help guide learners and their teachers through the maze of child-friendly search engines
Dictionary.com - find the definition in a flash!
Encarta Encyclopedia - links for the encyclopedia, a dictionary, and an atlas
Britannica- the entire encyclopedia on the web with additional links to relevant sites
Biography.com enables students to learn about over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present
Information Please - an almanac, atlas, dictionary and encylopedia
World Almanac for Kids - Cool stuff about animals, the environment, inventions, nations, populations, space, sports, etc.
Altavista's Babel Fish- useful tool for translating up to 150 words at a time to or from English to Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, or Portugese. Be careful, though! Babel Fish does not account for grammar, idioms, or syntax; it's better for translating one word or short phrases
Homework Helper by 14 year-old B.J. Pinchbeck helps students access resources to help enrich their own learning

News

Crayon- customized web newpaper created just for you everyday
CNN NewsStories are current news stories accompanied by a range of multimedia interactive activities (video clip, sound clips, read text online) to build reading comprehension skills for older students
KidNews is a free news and writing service for students and teachers around the world. Anyone may submit a review, journalism piece, short story, poem, sports critique, real life accounts, opinions, or advice to fellow kids.
New York Times Learning Network- designed for Grades 3 and up, it includes news summaries, a daily quiz, science questions, student letters to the editor, a crossword puzzle, ask a reporter and lesson plan archive. Articles contain links to vocabulary and geography "knowledge tools" to build background while reading.
Scholastic NewsZone, Weekly Reader & Time for Kids are wonderful reading materials for students reading in the content areas