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Informational Texts and Research Skill Resources

Here is a wealth of resources for the content areas incorporating Informational Texts and Research Skills.

General Research Links

Ask for Kids

http://www.askkids.com/

http://www.kidsclick.org/

www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/

www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/maincur/default.htm

Kids'Search Tools

http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

Awesome Library

Yahooligans

More Kid-Friendly Search Tools

Explore

Thematic Pathfinder for Kids

America’s Stories

From the Library of Congress

Kid Info

Research by subject

Kids Government

Kids portal to US Govt.

ONLINE REFERENCE SITES

Student Reference Tools

FREE Online Reference Sources  

(Online Newspapers, Dictionaries, Thesauruses and more!)

Links/Portals for Informational Text

NCWiseOwl

ReadWriteThink.org - Reading Informational Texts using the 3-2-1 Strategy (links to Childen's magazines and newspapers as well as other sources of informational text for elementary age students)

SAS Curriculum Pathways

Thinkfinity

Library of Congress

Thomas.gov - U.S. Legal References (Library of Congress)

Smithsonian

The British Library

U.S. Supreme Court

Eastern North Carolina Digital Library

American Memory

Creative Commons Search Engine for Copyright Works

Project Gutenberg

Wikimedia Commons

Open Library

Online Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Smithsonian Photography Initiative

The Avalon Project

Eyewitness to History