Time For Kids - This fun, interactive news site from TIME magazine categorizes current events articles and activities by grade level and includes games, trivia, and a homework helper. This is a great resource for working on non-fiction reading.
National Geographic for Kids - Kids News highlights news, features, and science articles on subjects of interest to kids. This is another great resource full of age appropriate, non-fiction reading materials.
ABCya.com - Free educational games modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade activities are equipped with sound to enhance understanding.
Freerice.com - Freerice has a custom database containing questions at varying levels of difficulty. There are levels appropriate for beginners and levels that will challenge the most scholarly professors. Freerice automatically adjusts to your level. It starts by giving you questions of increasing difficulty and then, based on how you do, assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. When you get a question wrong, you go to an easier level. When you get three questions in a row right, you progress to a harder level. To hear one of the vocabulary words pronounced out loud, click on the speaker symbol to the right of the word.
Discovery Education Puzzle Maker - Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists.
Fun Kids Online Math Games
My Vocabulary - A free site that allows students at upper elementary, junior high and high school levels, teachers and life-long learners to acquire and retain vocabulary.
International Digital Children's Library - Click to search a digital library of outstanding children's books from around the world. The search engine and books are available in many different languages.
Wordle - Create your own "word clouds" with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
Merriam-Webster Word Central - Online dictionary and language games for kids.