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Blogs for books

Many students—and educators—still prefer the written page to a computer screen. Visit these blogs, many written by librarians or people working in the publishing industry, for reviews and synopses of children’s and young adult literature.
 

• http://bookburger.typepad.com/bookburger
• www.yaauthorscafe.blogspot.com
• www.spaghettibookclub.org
• http://pixiestixkidspix.wordpress.com
• http://childrensbookreviews.pbwiki.com
• http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com
• www.theyayayas.wordpress.com

Web sites for fast workers

Teaching students of all learning levels can sometimes lead to quicker students having “nothing” to do while others finish projects. Send your faster students to one of these Web sites, where learning is disguised as fun.

• www.funbrain.com—For students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
• www.learningplanet.com—For students in prekindergarten through middle school.
• www.eslkidstuff.com/OnlineGamesMain.htm—For English Language Learners.
• http://funschool.kaboose.com—For students in prekindergarten through sixth grade.
• www.playkidsgames.com—For elementary students.

Searching for answers

netTrekker d.i., an educational search engine, provides a quarterly index of the top 15 terms entered into its search field. The most active keywords from February through April 2008 were:

1. Games
2. Dogs
3. Animals
4. Civil War
5. George Washington
6. Holocaust
7. Abraham Lincoln
8. Multiplication
9. Math Games
10. Weather
11. Frogs
12. Fractions
13. Planets
14. Sharks
15. Plants

Source: www.nettrekker.com

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