Family Resources

What Parents Need to Know About...

Cybersafety and Online Education

• • Common Sense Media

  • Family Online Safety Institute - site offers tips on good digital parenting.

  • NetSmartz Kids - a fabulous website that teaches kids how to be safe online through interactive and engaging movie clips.

Find a Good Book

• • Best Books for Kids - from the New York Public Library

  • ALA Notable Children’s Books - yearly list from the American Library Association

  • Literature Map -  Literature Map Helps You Find Authors You Might Like

  • Project Gutenberg:  Library of more than 70,000 free eBooks

  • ReadKiddoRead.com - James Patterson’s website dedicated to making readers for life

  • Reading Rockets - an early literacy website with resources and activities for you and your children.  Offers multiple languages.

  • Spaghetti Book Club - Book reviews by kids for kids

  • Start with a Book - Start with a theme and find book suggestions.

  • 10 Free Read Aloud Sources - A compilation of sites from Picture Book Brain

MLL Resources

Colorin’ Colorado - a bilingual website for families that “helps children read and succeed!”

Spanish Experiment - Spanish Children's Stories

Unite for Literacy

 Sound Effects

  BBC Sound Effects

 Fun!

• ABC’Ya! - educational games and activities

• Brickapic - Turn your picture into a brick mosaic

• Code.org

• DinoPass - Awesome password generator for kids

• Fun Ticket Generator - Create fake concert tickets for fun.

• iFake Text message - create a fake text message conversation.

• Noisli - Improve focus and boost productivity with background sounds.

• Quick Draw with Google 

• Riddles - The Original Riddles Website - Thousands of the best riddles with answers for kids and adults.

• Seussville! - games, activities & much more!

• Starfall

• Virtual Musical Instruments