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Free online Chinese, French & Spanish dictionaries: Word Reference
Spanish Central: Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary
Collins Dictionary: English-French Dictionary Online
Google News: Current news coverage, collected from sources all over the world by Google News.
BBC News Online: Up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news. Search by continent or country.
CNN : CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more.
News Trust : Online social network that aims to help people identify quality journalism. Sign-in to rate news and opinions.
PBS News Hour : Analysis, background reports and news updates to put the day's news in context.
The Washington Post: Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world national news, entertainment more.
Time Magazine : Breaking news and analysis from TIME.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science and entertainment news.
US News & World Report: The leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers by focusing on health, personal finance, education, travel, cars, news and opinion.
USA Today: Newspaper provides you with up-to-date coverage of US and international news, weather, entertainment, finance, and more. USA TODAY: User Name: 46381 Password: usatoday End Date: 06/09/2020 http://usatoday.va.newsmemory.com/charitablefoundation.php
Nimble Fingers Typing test and tutorials to help you learn the basic keystrokes. www.nimblefingers.com
Dance Mat Typing Typing, worksheets and scoreboard. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml
Free Typing Game click on the "lessons" tab and try to complete lessons #1-30 http://www.freetypinggame.net/free-typing-test.asp
Want to track your progress and earn a typing certificate? Try Typing Web, you must create a free account to use this site. http://www.typingweb.com/
Just for Fun:
Gamequarium Keyboarding Games 13 Keyboarding games at this websites! http://www.gamequarium.com/keyboarding.htm
Learning Games For Kids - KEYBOARDING Games and WPM Tests http://freeonlinetypinggames.com/
Sense Language keyboard tutorials and typing tests http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/keyboarding.php
Caillou's Magic Keyboard Typing and music combined for keyboarding practice. http://pbskids.org/caillou/games/keyboard.html
Learn 2 Type for Kids Free typing exercises and typing tests. http://kids.learn2type.com/
Practice Keyboard Download a practice keyboard in PDF format. http://www.teachnet.com/graphics/powertools/neattools/keyboard.pdf
Utah Education Network - Word Games, Vocabulary, Writing / Spelling and Grammar Games.
Knoword - challenges your vocabulary, tests your typing skills, and stimulates your mind.
How strong is your vocabulary - Weekly challenge of 10 words from the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
Word Craft - Versatile word game challenges across content areas and abilities.
Word Hippo - online thesaurus
Word Game Time 7 Word Game Time 6 Word Game Time 5 - Free word games by grade level
Visual Thesaurus - Watch words branch out into intriguing, layered language maps.
Free eMaterials and Novels for Teens & Young Adults
BookBub features limited-time offers for the best free books in over twenty genres, from both top-tier publishers and critically-acclaimed independent authors. These free ebooks are available on all devices, including Kindle, Nook, iPad, and Android. Search by category: Childrens, Middle Grade, Teen& Young Adult
BookRix has almost 1000 free ebooks in its Juvenile fiction category. These are available for free download in EPUB or for free reading online.
Booksie has over 13,000 works in its young adult category. These range from short stories to novels and are unique works of unpublished authors. All are available for free reading online or free download in PDF (press "Generate eBook" button). YA Grade 10+
Classicly has almost 1800 free novels in its Young Adults collection. These are available for free download in PDF or Kindle (AZW).
ClovisNews offers about 100 free classic novels for free reading online (the download links all appear to be dead).
Cory Doctorow offers his novel, Little Brother, for free download in a wide variety of formats.
DigiLibraries has over 2,000 free ebooks in their juvenile fiction category as well as over 200 works in their Juvenile non-Fiction category and 27 free ebooks in their Juvenile Horror & Ghost Stories category. Most are available for free reading online as well as free download in PDF, MOBI and EPUB.
FeedBooks has around 200 free novels in its Original Books Juvenile & Young Adult genre as well as over 100 free novels in their Public domain (classic) Juvenile & Young Adult section.
Free-eBooks Read & download eBooks for Free: anytime!
FunBrain Free e-books & learning games.
GoodReads has a listing of 95 free young adult ebooks. All are available for download at their site.
ICDL International Digital Children's Library, where you can find award-winning books that range in length and reading levels. There's also a wide selection of languages available, with everything from English to Farsi.
Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
MagicKeys has 7 free books for young adults. All are available for free reading online without registration.
ManyBooks (Young Readers) 2443 free classic books available for online viewing or download in an extremely large variety of formats.
Open Library his library catalog is an open online project of Internet Archive, and allows users to contribute books. You can easily search by the title, author, and subject.
PublicBookShelf free romance novels for reading online. YA Grade 10+
Read.gov has 6 classic novels for teens available for free reading online or free download in PDF.
Fair Lawn Public Library eMaterials
Overdrive/Libby/Hoopla/Kanopy/RBDigital All of the selections are free and can be downloaded right to your devices from the App Store or GooglePlay. Sign in using your Fair Lawn Public Library Card.
Free eBooks from SEBCO through 6/30/2020. Newly released titles which support state curriculum.
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Free Stories from Audible For as long as schools are closed All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.
Junior Library Guild Free ebooks unlimited access* to read books online from any device. Just scroll down.
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School filters do block many of the inappropriate images found in Google images, however, there are still an abundance of inappropriate images that slip through. Therefore, students are encouraged not to use Google to search for images. The following "Safe" search engines are available for your use. These "Safe" searches are not perfect in their filtering and often yield very limited results, but results do vary on the different search engines so if you don't find what you are looking for on one engine try another.
You can also check out some of the photo libraries.
pics4learning.com – Contains thousands of good quality, safe, educational photos. These photos are free to use without permission for educational purposes. This site appears to be 100% safe for kids.
Morguefile.com is a very large collection of high quality photos that are free to use and or adapt commercially without attribution. Photos that may be seen as objectionable are fairly rare on this site (use with caution, as you should with any website).