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Superintendent's Letter to
Parents
about the Flu
CDC Brochure: Seasonal and Novel H1N1 Flu-A
Guide for Parents
CDC Brochure:
Take 3 Steps To Fight The Flu
CDC Brochure: Information About the Flu for
People With Certain Medical Conditions
Centers for Disease Control 2009 H1N1 Flu
Website
US Department of Health & Human Services Flu
Website |
Flu Information |
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FreeRice |
FreeRice is a non-profit run
by the United Nations World Food Program. It has two
goals: Provide education to everyone for free, Help
end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people
for free. Answer questions about English
Vocabulary/Grammar, Geography, math, or Art. For
each right answer they donate 10 grains of rice
through the World Food Programme. |
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Reconnect |
Reconnect is a residential computer recycling
program that offers you an easy, convenient and
responsible way to recycle your used computer
equipment. You can drop off any brand of used
equipment at participating Goodwill donation centers
in your area. It's free, and you'll get a receipt
for tax purposes. What's more, you'll be helping
protect the environment and benefiting your
community at the same time. |
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Book It! |
Encourage your
child to read 20 minutes every day. This site can
help w/Read Aloud Tips, Literacy Terms, 100 Great
Read-Alouds. The R.E.D. Zone has Printables for
helping your pre-reader to become a confident and
successful reader. |
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Monoprice |
Great site for
excellent, low cost cables, adapters, networking
equipment, ink & toner, switches, and more. |
CSI: Mathematics
Curriculum support Information |
A mathematics
resource for parents, teachers, and students.
Brought to you buy Georgia Tech and the Georgia
Department of Education. Covers Kindergarten -
Eight, Math I, II, III, and IV. |
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Typing Web |
Free online
typing tutor. "TypingWeb is a free online typing
tutor and keyboarding tutorial for typists of all
ages. All skill levels will benefit from TypingWeb's
free keyboarding lessons." |
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Newton County Library System |
Directions, hours, library
card application, Frequently Visited Website page.
Get your library card today and read! |
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Study
Island |
Study Island is an all online
web-based instruction, practice, assessment and
reporting site designed to help your child master the
standards specific to his/her grade. Study Island's
focus on the standards enables students to improve
their performance in all skill areas tested on our CRCT, which leads to improved test scores.
Username: firstname.lastname.ohes
Password: Student's lunch number |
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SchoolFamily.com |
SchoolFamily.com is the only website focused
exclusively on helping parents help their kids make
the most of their school year. Developed by the
experts at
School
Family Media Inc.,
SchoolFamily.com provides parents with expert
insight, information, and resources to help them set
up their 5- to 14-year-old children for success at
school. |
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Tutor Hunt |
Tutor Hunt is
a free service for both pupils and tutors wishing to
advertise their service on this site.
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Reading/
Language Arts |
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Study
Island |
Study Island is an all online
product designed to help your child master the
standards specific to his/her grade. Study Island's
focus on the standards enables students to improve
their performance in all skill areas tested on our
CRCT, which leads to improved test scores.
Username: firstname.lastname.ohes
Password: Student's lunch number |
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KidRex
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KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids!
KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages and
are powered by Google Custom Search and use Google
SafeSearch technology.
Google's SafeSearch screens for sites that contain
explicit sexual content and deletes them from your
child’s search results. Google's filter uses
advanced technology to check keywords, phrases, and
URLs. No filter is 100 percent accurate, but
SafeSearch should eliminate most inappropriate
material. |
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e-Learning for Kids |
Established in late
2004, e-Learning for Kids is a global, nonprofit
foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the
Internet for children ages 5 - 12. We offer free,
best-in-class courseware in math, science, reading
and keyboarding; and we’re building a community for
parents and educators to share innovations and
insights in childhood education. |
Fish For
Words -
Sight Words Game for Kids |
An online sight words game for kids. Purchase for
$14.95 or use the free online demo! |
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Comprehension Strategies Index |
This site provides resources for comprehending words
and sentences, comprehending paragraphs, Using
background knowledge to aid comprehension, getting
the big picture, strategies to help students help
themselves, questioning, and assessment as an aide
to comprehension. |
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Literacy Connections Dolch's List of Basic
Sight Words |
Besides sight word lists, Literacy Connections
provides resources such as Books for Your Earliest
Readers, We Love "Readers", Multicultural Literacy,
Readers' Theater, and Reading Comprehension. |
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Database of
Award-Winning Children's Literature |
Compiled and indexed by Lisa R. Bartle, Librarian.
The purpose of
this database is to create a tailored reading list
of quality children's literature or to find out if a
book has won one of the indexed awards. I expect the
user to be a librarian or a teacher intervening for
a child-reader, however anyone may make use of it to
find the best in children's literature including
parents, book store personnel, and children and
young adults themselves. |
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Spelling
City |
SpellingCity.com is on a mission to make spelling
more fun, and give you the spelling help you are
looking for. Our
spelling program is a
breakthrough. All parents and students, whether you
are involved with a public, private, or homeschool,
can use SpellingCity.com to make
spelling lists, practice
for
spelling tests, and make
instant spelling and word games to play online or
print out. |
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Child
Classics |
Story
Time – Aesop’s Fables read aloud in mp3s. Also
includes Mother Goose, Fairy Tales, and Holiday
stories to be played on your computer. |
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Game
Goo |
Educational
games "that stick!" Reading and Language
Arts games. |
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Math |
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Study
Island |
A favorite in the computer
lab! |
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Math Magician Games |
Practice for
addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
You try to answer 20 questions in one minute. It
will tell you how many you answered , how much time
you took, and the percent correct. Also includes a
Math Magic page where you attempt to answer 50
questions in 2 1/2 minutes. A favorite in the
computer lab. Provided my Oswego City Schools,
Oswego, NY. |
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Cool Math |
Math Lessons-Help, Math Problems-Practice, Math
Games-Fun, Math Dictionary-Find It and more. Links
for kids, parents, & teachers |
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Figure This! |
Math Challenges for your students and their families |
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Georgia
Performance Standards - Mathematics |
Math resources focused at Georgia standards for
teachers and parents |
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Math-related
Board and Card Games |
Have you ever wondered if board
games such as Monopoly could help your child with
math? This is a great chart which shows the various
board and card games and how they relate to math
skills such as Problem Solving, Reasoning,
Estimation, Measurement, or Probability.
(Thanks to Ms. Hamaker for the chart!) |
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Math
Flash Cards |
This
simple flash card game will automatically score
you through 50 problems. You can pick from
addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
Each set offers seven levels of difficulty.
Correct answers are scored as stars and
percentages. Get 100 percent correct to earn a
medal. |
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Create
A Graph |
This
website allows you to create different types of
graphs. |
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Clickmazes |
Lots
of unique interactive puzzles and mazes found
here, and a few other things besides. Click on the
links below to find out more. Enjoy... and let me
know how well you survive. |
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Timez
Attack |
A high-quality educational game.
It teaches children multiplication tables. It has
graphics and gameplay on par with more mainstream PC
games. Testimonials from parents say their children
can’t stop playing it. And they’re learning
multiplication ahead of their class.
The full game can be downloaded
for $40. It works on the Mac and PC. The company
offers a money-back guarantee. If you don’t like the
game, call their refund line. There is also a free
version. But it only teaches 2s and 12s. |
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Practice Math |
Offers a variety of fantastic reports for monitoring
children's progress and making sure they get
just the right amount of help in the exact areas
where they need it. Covers K-3 at this time. More to
be added |
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Study
Island |
A favorite in the computer
lab! |
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Educational Freeware |
Welcome to
www.educational-freeware.com! This site is dedicated
to listings, descriptions and reviews of the best
free educational software for kids and grown-ups.
Some of the software is web based (see the
online section), and some is Windows software
that you can download (see the
downloadable section) |
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Funschool |
Funschool
is loaded with educational games that look great.
Cannon Math has you firing human cannonballs at
correct answers. In Dungeon Escape, help Evan the
Warrior escape by unscrambling riddles. There are
dozens of activities, covering subjects including
math, language, geography and even music. Check
out Dementia 13, which quizzes you on just about
everything. |
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Thinkfinity |
This site contains 55,00 resources that are based on
state standards, and includes K-12 lesson plans and
interactive learning tools for students. |
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Links to
Learning |
Links to Learning is an interactive
test component which uses state released questions
to create CRCT quizzes that are graded immediately,
providing corrected answers, explanations, and web
recourses for each question. Click on Georgia.
Enter the User name and Password below. Then choose
the Grade Level and which Quiz you would like to
take.
User Name: newtonga
Password: 7trial
(case sensitive)
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Bartleby.com |
This
site is loaded. It includes the Columbia
Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's
Thesaurus, and Bartlett's Famous Quotations. |
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edHelper.com |
If you
need help getting up to speed, this site is
excellent. It covers reading, math, science and much
more. Much of edHelper appears aimed at younger
children. But there's a lot here for older kids,
too. |
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TheFreeDictionary |
Need to
look up a word? You're at the right place! It has
the American Heritage Dictionary. It also has
computing, medical, legal, and financial
dictionaries. There are other reference works here,
too. Nearly all of it is free. |
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The Free Library |
This
site has access to more than 3 million articles,
journals and books. The range of topics is
all-encompassing. |
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Infoplease |
This
site's slogan is "All the knowledge you need." It
has a bunch of almanacs—World & News, United States,
History & Government, Biography and so on. It also
features the Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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The Internet Public Library |
Another
site with much of the information found at physical
libraries. The nice lady will answer questions, but
she takes up to three days. It is hosted by the
Drexel University's College of Information Science &
Technology. |
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Smithsonian
for Kids |
The
Smithsonian offers interesting bits of information
on science, history and culture. The Smithsonian
Kids section tells the stories behind several
exhibits. Other parts of the site offer games. For
example, match animals with their habitats in the
Polar Pairs game. You can also find biographies of
presidents, famous scientists and artists. The
site makes a great source for reports. |
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PBS
Kids Everything |
PBS
Kids' offers history and geography tours
for young readers. For example, you can read about
New York. Or trace the evolution of jazz. Take a
break with games ranging from educational to
silly. The site also offers a Web License. To get
a license, take the quiz on Internet facts and
safety. |
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National
Geographic Kids |
Get
information on art, science, culture and geography
from National Geographic. Look at maps and read
about animals from various regions. Or learn about
earthquakes, volcanoes and tornadoes. Articles
cover everything from ancient Egypt to recent
environmentalist efforts. The site also links to
Map Machine, which lets you tour the world through
satellite photos. |
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Computing
With Kids |
The
homepage for the weekly online magazine COMPUTING
WITH KIDS (formerly, Choosing
Children's Software), your site for the latest
reviews of children's software, websites, video
games, and smart toys. |
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First
Aid Advice |
St.
John Ambulance believes that everyone should learn
at least the basic First Aid techniques. You may
need to use them at any time at home, at school or
work or even while you're traveling. Knowing what
to do can make the difference to a person's
recovery, and you could even save their life. |
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Time
Ticker |
–
easy to use world map w/time. Just move your mouse
over the continents and check the current time.
Very easy to use - |
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Map
Machine |
by
National Geographic - MapMachine is a dynamic
atlas that lets you explore hundreds of maps,
satellite images, and historical cartography to
customize your own experience. |
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Berit's
Best Site for Children |
Along with many links, Berit's site
teaches students how to look for information and
where to find it. |
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KidBibs'
SuperSites for Parents |
Provides many useful links for
parents and children. |
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Fun School |
Offers a large library of
educational games. Your kids can play math, history
and geography games, among others. There are also
games that aren’t educational. If your kids need a
break, they can play these. Funschool also has
printable worksheets and coloring pages. |
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Homework
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Homework
Spot |
HOMEWORK
SPOT - A free homework information portal that features
the very best K-12 homework-related sites. With
the help of students, parents and teachers, their
team of educators, librarians and journalists has
scoured the Web to bring you the best resources
for English, math, science, history, art, music,
technology, foreign language, college prep, health,
life skills, extracurricular activities and much
more. |
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Infoplease
Homework |
INFOPLEASE
HOMEWORK CENTER - Find useful information by subject
area, develop better writing, note-taking and study
skills, and search through previous questions and
answers from other students. |
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Kids
on the Web: Homework Tools |
THE
KIDS ON THE WEB - This is an excellent site maintained
as a labor of love by Internet luminary Brendan
Kehoe. Kids on the Web has links for Homework Tools,
Educational Sites and much more. You could spend
days exploring all these links, and Brendan adds
new ones every month. |
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Fact Monster |
This is another homework site. It is filled with
facts and articles on various topics. Children can
only search within the site. They’ll also get
results for encyclopedia entries, timelines and
biographies. |
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Homework
Helper |
Homework help for grades 1-6, 7-8, and 9-12.
Provides over 100 links for general reference. |
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Kid Info |
"The web's best student homework and
teacher, parent reference resource, an educational
card catalogue to educational resources on the
internet" |
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Homework Help.com |
At Homeworkhelp.com, we don't feed students the
answers to homework questions. Instead, we show them
how to learn. Our curriculum developers are all
experienced classroom teachers who know how to help
students understand concepts--not just memorize
them. Our teaching style is friendly and supportive.
But this doesn't mean we talk down to students, or
skimp on academic standards. Our online lessons meet
or exceed national content standards in all subject
areas. |
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refdesk.com |
This is the main page for some of the links listed.
It provides a quick, fast way to check information
using the internet. It provides a Site of the Day,
This Day in History, News Highlights, and Pictures
of the Day. |
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KOL |
Homework help, games,
adventures, and more. |
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Ask Dr. Math |
Have a math question? Can't
wait for the answer? Check out Ask Dr. Math! |
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Math.com |
Besides Homework Help this site includes Practice,
Tutoring, Calculators & Tools, Games, and a Parents
page. |
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Safe
Search Sites for Kids |
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Kids Konnect |
This site was created with
four goals in mind:
First, to create
a site that allowed children to safely and
effectively utilize the Internet.
Second, to make
sure I covered the curriculum areas taught in
school.
Third, to make sure
there were lots of fun sites for kids to visit.
Finally, to keep
the site free so that all children could use it. |
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Yahoo! Kids |
This site contains movies, games and educational
content. It also has a kid-friendly search. A real
person has checked every site that appears in search
results. There is also a Study section for finding
help with homework. |
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Ask for Kids |
This site lets children search using more than
keywords. They can ask questions to refine the
results. They can ask things like, “When did Hawaii
becomes a state?” It will return a quick answer, as
well as search results. And those results are
handpicked by editors. |
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KidsClick! |
Librarians choose the search results here. They
select sites for children in grades K-7. Your kids
can browse through specific categories like art,
math and computers. Or they can search for whatever
they want. Controversial topics (sex, religion,
etc.) are included in search results. These sites
are allowed only if they are educational and
age-appropriate. |
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ThinkQuest Library |
Oracle, the database company, holds an annual
competition called ThinkQuest. Students, ages 9-19,
create and enter educational Web sites. These sites
cover a variety of topics, including sports,
geography and history. The Library allows kids to
search through all of these student-created sites.
Some are cool. They might inspire your kids to enter
the contest. |
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KOL |
This is AOL’s site for kids. It has articles, games,
videos and music. Kids can search the Web through a
moderated version of AOL’s search. It returns
kid-friendly results. There is also a homework help
section and message board for kids. If you have very
young children, check the Jr. section. It’s designed
for preschoolers. |
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Pics4Learning |
This search site contains only pictures. Teachers,
students and amateur photographers donate them. The
photos are copyrighted. But t any student or teacher
can use them for free. There are pictures on almost
any topic. It’s a great resource for school
presentations. |
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SearchEdu |
This site uses Google to search for sites with the
“.edu” address. That means results are all
educational institutions, mostly colleges. These
sites are often created for adult students. As such,
they may contain adult content. But it is usually
educational. This search is great for finding help
with homework. |
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Internet Safety
Websites
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SafeKids.com |
Get
Net Wise |
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Cyber Patrol |
Stay
Safe Online |
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CyberCitizen |
The
Internet for Worried Parents |
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NetSmartz
Workshop |
The
Parents Guide to Safe Surfing |
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Online Practice Testing Sites
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Georgia Online Assessment Practice for the CRCT |
The OAS enables
students in Georgia's public schools to access tests
that consist of the same kinds of questions as
appear on the state's assessments in Reading,
English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and
Social Studies in the Criterion-Referenced
Competency Tests (CRCT). After taking an assessment,
students can view reports aligned to the state
curriculum that show instructional strengths and
needs.
10 digit login number
and password should be listed in your child's agenda
or may be obtained from the school. |
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Study
Island |
Study Island is an all online
product designed to help your child master the
standards specific to his/her grade. Study Island's
focus on the standards enables students to improve
their performance in all skill areas tested on our
CRCT, which leads to improved test scores.
Username: firstname.lastname.ohes
Password: Student's lunch number |
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Links to
Learning |
Links to Learning is an interactive
test component which uses state released questions
to create CRCT quizzes that are graded immediately,
providing corrected answers, explanations, and web
recourses for each question. Click on Georgia.
Enter the User name and Password below. Then choose
the Grade Level and which Quiz you would like to
take.
User Name: georgia
Password: 2101
(case sensitive) |
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Kid's
Lab Reading Workout |
TCAP
Testing Resources |
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5th
Grade Reading Practice Tests |
Texas
Practice Assessments |
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Free Digital Flash Cards!
Are your kids learning
how to read or studying multiplication tables,
historical events or foreign languages? Some
memorization tasks don't lend themselves to
meaningful mnemonics. For these, flash card
exercises work well.Now you can put a digital
twist on the flash card system. Instead or index
cards, use your computer. These programs will help
you make digital flash cards. Best of all, you can't
beat the price-free! (thanks to Kim Komando -
http://www.komando.com/ )
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Granule |
Granule organizes flash cards according to the
Leitner system. As you quiz yourself, the cards you
guess correctly are moved to the back of the lineup.
The cards that stump you stay up front. You spend
more time on the answers you have trouble
memorizing.Simply enter text for the fronts and
backs of your digital cards. The program was
designed for word memorization. In fact, it can
pronounce words for you. However, this setup
requires a separate sound dictionary. You can get
details on the Granule Web site. You can put any
text, including numbers, on the cards.
Granule includes everything it needs in one
folder. No installation is required. To remove
it, simply delete its folder.
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Memorize words |
Memorize words was designed to help non-native
speakers master English vocabulary. Nevertheless, it
makes a great vocabulary booster for anyone. I use
it with my kindergarten son for him to learn "sight
words."To make a flash card, simply enter a word.
Memorize words can fill in the definition for you by
searching online versions of the Oxford English or
Merriam-Webster dictionaries. The program can also
fetch pronunciation recordings from the
Merriam-Webster site.
You can enter example sentences on your cards as
hints. Memorize words can search the Internet for
sentences including your words. However, this
feature is not quite perfect.
Memorize words includes everything it needs in
one folder. No install or uninstall is necessary. To
start the program, double-click the "memorize-words.jar"
file.
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Pauker |
Pauker was designed as a tool for last-minute
cramming. Even so, it makes a great study aid for
any student. Pauker is the most intuitive program in
this list.To make a card, click the "Add new
cards" button. Then fill out the front and back of
the card. You can enter any text, including numbers.
To start quizzing yourself, click "Learn new cards."
Pauker allows you to set time limits and other
rules. You can practice by filling in a blank or by
simply revealing answers. You can also reverse the
fronts and backs of the cards. That's handy for
learning chemical elements or historical figures.
Pauker comes as a single .exe file. You don't
have to install or uninstall it. To remove it,
simply delete the file.
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