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Audiobooks

Free Classic Audiobooks
The Cremation of Sam McGee
audio of poem
The Gift of the Magi
short story
The Scholarship Jacket
Tumble books
Books orally read on computer
What do fish have to do with anything?
Audio

Author Sites

Blogs

Adjective List
words to describe yourself
CLB Blog 2015
Pronoun Quiz
soft schools 10?
Pronouns
types of
Unpack your Adjectives

Book Trailers

13 Reasons Why
By: Jay Asher
52 Reasons to Hate My Father
Adrift
By: Paul Griffin
After Ever After
Jordan Soonenblick
Ashes Ashes
By: Joe Treggiari
Bad Girls Don't Die
By: Katie Alender
Beautiful Creatures
By: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Blood on My Hands
By: Todd Strasser
Blood Will Tell
Boot Camp
By: Todd Strasser
By Your Side
By: Kasie West
Bystander
By: James Preller
Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
Compulsion
By: Heidi Ayarbe
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
Jordan Sonnenblick
Dead End In Norvelt
By: Jack Gantos
Deadline
By: Chris Crutcher
Divergent
By: Veronica Roth
Double Identity
By: Margaret PEterson Haddix
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
By: Jordan Sonnenblick
Embassy Row # 1: All Fall Down
By: Ally Carter
Exo
By: Fonda Lee
Feed
By: MT Anderson
Fish In A Tree
By: Lynda Mullay Hunt
Forged by Fire
By: Sharon Draper
Found
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Fracture
By: Megan Miranda
From Bad to Cursed
By: Katie Alender
Frozen Charlotte
Gone
By: Michael Grant
Gym Candy
Carl Deuker
Harry Potter
in 99 seconds
Hero
By: Mike Lupica
Hunger Games
Movie Trailer
Hush,hush
By: Becca Fitzpatrick
I Am Number 4
By: Pittacus Lore
I Am Princess X
By: Cherie Priest
I Heart You, You Haunt Me
By: Lisa Schroeder
If I Stay
By: Gayle Forman
If the Witness Lied
Caroline B. Cooney
In Case You Missed It
Irena's Children
By: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Jump
Elisa Carbone
Last Descendants: An Assassin's Creed Novel
Legend
By: Marie Lu
Leviathan
By: Scott Westerfield
Lexapros and Cons
By: Aaron Karo
Lockdown
By: Alexander Gordon Smith
Lord of the Rings
in 99 seconds
Love Aubrey
Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment
By: James Patterson
Middle School the Worst Years of My Life
By: James Patterson
Miss Pergrine's Home for Peculiar Children
By: Ransom Riggs
Mockingbird
By: Kathryn Erskine
Nineteen Minutes
By: Jodi Picoult
No Passengers Beyond This Point
By: Gennifer Choldenko
Now is the Time for Running
Okay for Now
By: Gary Schmidt
Out of My Mind
By: Sharon Draper
Overturned
By: Lamar Giles
P.S. I Like You
Paranormalcy
By: Kiersten White
Project 17
By: Laurie Faria Stolarz
Ranger's Apprentice Book One
John Flannagan
Rot & Ruin
By: Jonathan Maberry
Rules
By: Cynthia Lord
Sabatoged
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Scar Island
By: Dan Gemeinhart
Sent
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Shadow House # 1 The Gathering
Shelter" A Mickey Bolitar Novel
By: Harlan Coben
Ship Breaker
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
Skeleton Creek
By: Patrick Carman
Small As An Elephant
By: Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Smile
By: Raina Telgemeier
Smiles To Go
By: Jerry Spinnelli
Split
By: Swati Avaasthi
Storm Runners
Roland Smith
Stormbreaker
By: Anthony Horowitz
Sunny Side Up
By: Jennifer & Matthew Holm
Surviving the Applewhites
By: Stephanie Tolan
Tears of a Tiger
By: Sharon Draper
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
By: Mary Pearson
The Bar Code Tatoo
By: Suzanne Weyn
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
By: John Boyne
The Boy Who Challenged Hitler
The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Chosen One
By: Carolyn Lynch Williams
The Dead Book #2
By: Charlie Higson
The Death Cure
By: James Dashner
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
By: Nancy Farmer
The Emerald Atlas
By: John Stephens
The Enemy Book #1
ByL Charlie Higson
The Fault in Our Stars
By: John Green
The Fear Book #3
By: Charlie Higson
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
By: Carrie Ryan
The Forgetting
By: Sharon Cameron
The Iron Fey Series
By: Julie Kagawa
The Juvie Three
By: Gordon Korman
The Kill Order
By: James Dashner
The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan
The Maze Runner
By: James Dashner
The Mysterious Howling
By: Maryrose Wood
The Popularity Papers
By: Amy Ignatow
The Raven Boys
By: Maggie Stiefvator
The Running Dream
By: Wednelin Van Draanen
The Scorch Trials
By: James Dashner
The Six Rules of Maybe
By: Deb Caletti
The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence
By: Stan Lee
This Side of Home
By: Renee Watson
Torn
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Touching Spirit Bear
By: Ben Mikalsen
Trapped
By: Michael Northrop
Trash
By: Andy Mulligan
Tunnels
By: Roderick Gordon
Uglies
By: Scott Westerfield
Unwind
By: Neal Shusterman
Wait Til Helen Comes
By: Mary Downing Hahn
Wish You Were Dead
By: Todd Strasser
Witch & Wizard
By: James Patterson
Wonderstruck
By: Brian Selznick
Woods Runner
By: Gary Paulsen
Worthy
By: Donna Cooner
Zero Day
By: Jan Gangsei
Swing it, Sunny
What Waits in the Water
Book Talk Papers
Disappeared
The Rains
Don't Cosplay With My Heart
The Lie Tree
In The Shadow of the Sun
The Plot To Kill Hitler

Books (reviews, lists)

Alan Brown
Ages 8-14
Book Adventure K-8
K-8 Rdg. motivation program
Book Hive
Book List Online
book reviews
Book Spot
lists, genres, reviews, electronic texts
Book Talks
brief book summaries
Book Wizard
find books by level, topic, genre
Good Reads
social networking of books
Kids Reads
reviews, trivia, scrambles, contests
Lexile
matches readers to books at their level

CLB Parts of Speech

College Awareness

College Awareness
video
Vimeo Video

Competitive Sports

Benefits of Competitive Sports
Benefits of sports for youth
Bringing A Game Changing Helmet to Market
injuries
Competitive Sports-news segment
video
Cutting In Sports
tryouts
Facts for Families: Children and Sports
pressure
For Children in Sports, A Breaking Point
pressure
Getting Cut From A Sports Team
tryouts
Helmet...Football...Concussion
injuries
Hey, data data-swing
High Cost of Youth Sports
pay to play
High Cost of Youth Sports
Kids and Sports
video
Kids and Sports-Another link
video
Listening to Wisdom from a 10 yr. old
head injury
Post Concussion-Returning to Learning
injuries
Pressure vs fun in sports is balancing act
pressure
Pros and Cons of Sports Competition at HS Level
Pushing too hard too young
kids can burn out
Sports Promote Healthy Weight in Teenagers
The Case Against Competition
pressure
Total Female Emergency Room Visits by Sport
Why I didn't want my kids to play team sports
Will Pay to Play...
pay to play

Crafts

Ebooks

Children's Books Online
illustrated antique books online
Children's Library
digital library of children's books
Free Ebooks
download free ebooks
One More Story
Hear, See and Read a Book!

Educational Games

All Subjects K-5
Computer Lab Favorites
Brain Pop
animated curriculum based content
Choose Subject & Grade
Fun Brain
Grades K-8
Kids Know It
free educational websites
Light Up Your Brain
brain teaser games and audio stories
Middle School Games
websites for students
Storyline Online
listen to children's books

English/Language Arts

Alphadictionary
search several dictionaries at once
English Games
interactive games/activities for ages 7-11
Games for M.S.
lots of links here
Grammar Blast
Grades 2-5 take a quiz
K-6 ELA
choose grade level and activity
Literacy Activities
online literacy activities
Mad Libs
for grades 3 and up
Portaportal
English Express Tab
Rock Your World
Story It
stories to read and write
Subject/Verb Agreement
online grammar review
Subjects/Predicates
websites for subject/predicate for grades 3-5
Word Games
ELA games you can play online

Grammar

Adverb Movie
Adverbs
Adverbs
quia
Apostrophes
Ex.4
Apostrophes
Ex.2
Apostrophes
Ex.4
Apostrophes
Aprostrophes
Ex.3
Apstrophes
Ex.5
Commas
Direct/Indirect Objects
video 5:03
Direct/Indirect Objects
Jeopardy
Direct/Indirect Objects
Indirect Objects
m/c quiz
Indirect Objects Quiz
Irregular Verbs
Ex.3
Irregular Verbs
Ex.6
Irregular Verbs
Ex.5
Irregular Verbs
Ex.4
Irregular Verbs
Ex.1
Irregular Verbs
Ex.2
Its/It's
Lose/Loose
Loss/Lost
Quizlet Linking Verbs
& more
Their/They're, There
m/c
Too/Two/To
Trans./Intrans. Verbs
Trans/Intrans.
summary
Trans/Intrans. Verb
interactive practice
Trans/Intrans. Verbs
quia
Trans/Intrans. Verbs
m/c
Transitive/Intransitive Verbs
video
Verb Tenses
Verbs
balloon popping game
Verbs
Who/Whom
Whose/Who's

Graphic Novels & Comics

Kids Love Comics
news and links about comics for kids
No Flying No Tights
graphic novel reviews for teens

Interactive

A Tell Tale Heart
quiz
A Tell Tale Heart
quia quiz
Assonance Quiz
Conflict Quiz
Create a crossword puzzle
Elements of Story
Gift of the Magi
cloze activity
Irony
6? m/c quiz
Irony Test
25 m/c ?
Jeopardy
online
Literary Terms Quiz
40 ?
Name that Literary Element
Plot Drag/Drop
Point of View
multiple choice practice
Point of View
quia
POV Quiz
Punctuating Dialogue
The Gift of the Magi
m/c quia
The Gift of the Magi
multiple choice 20
The Gift of theMagi
Quia test review
Tone/Mood
matching
Types of Conflict
Internal or External Quiz

Lexile

Lexile Framework for Rdg.
type in your exile
Scholastic
type in book title

Literary Terms

Jeopardy

Lord of the Flies

Math

A+ Math
improve your math skills
Carnival Math
preK-6th grade activities
Cool Math
games for ages 13 and over
Cool Math 4 Kids
Early Math
games for grades 1 & 2
Fractions
games to learn fractions
Geometry
Hooda Math
Interactive Math
interactive activities to improve math skills
IXL
Learn with Math Games
all ages and categories of online math games
Math Baseball
from Funbrain
Math Fries
Grades K-8
Math Playground
elem. and m.s. practice math skills
Math Snacks
Ruler/Measurement
learn to read a ruler

Motivation

Bookloose
Britain's Got Talent
Ronan Parks
Cain's Arcade
Don't give up
Fitting in Cardboard
Gotta Keep Reading
I Like Big Books and I Can Not Lie
Kid President's 20 Things We Should Say...
Life Vest Inside
Survey
Why Middle School Matters

Music

Parents

Biddeford Rec. Dept.
Biddeford School Department
Family Reading Activities
articles to read
Parents Magazine
magazine website
Summer Reading
articles

Persuasive Writing

Ad for Chocolate Milk
Chocolate Milk Article
Chocolate Milk Good or Bad for kids
NPR audio clip 8:04
Chocolate Milk in schools
video 1:53
Drs./Celebrities talk about milk
video 3:53
MooTv Episode
video stop at 2:30
Nurse Talking of Milk Benefits
video stop at 2:30
Pros/Cons of Chocolate Milk
article
Raise Your Hand for Chocolate Milk
video 3:18
Rdg. & Wtg. Project
articles/videos on lots of topics
Sugar in Milk compared to other treats
arrticle
TruMoo Article

Pixar Shorts

Plot Videos

Poetry

180 Poems
HS-a poem for every day of the school year
Academy of American Poets
find a poem or poet
My Room
scroll to page 27
Poetry for Children
find and share poetry
Poetry Magnets
rearrange words to create a poem
The Creation of Sam McGee
By: Robert Service
The Road Not Taken
By: Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
summary of stanzas

Reading

Alliteration
Assonance,Consonance, Alliteration
video 4 min.
Author's Purpose
matching
Author's Purpose
online quiz 10?
Author's Purpose
Practice Test 2
Author's Purpose
Practice Test 1
Conflict
slide share
Definitions of Fig. Lang. terms
Fig. Lang. Baseball
Fig. Lang. example sentences
pers., all., ono., sim., met., hyp., oxy., puns
Fig. Lang. Powerpoint Game
download game-reveal hidden picture
Figurative Language Websites
tons of links to more sites
Flashback/Foreshadowing
powerpoint
Flashback/Foreshadowing
2:31 video
Hyperbole Examples Video
Hyperbole Hype Video
Hyperbole in Songs
school tube video
Idiom Game
Idioms
video
Idioms A-Z
list
Imagery online quiz
Inferences/Textual Evidence
Internal/External Conflict
Ironic Signs
Irony
from Teacher Tube
Irony
Ted Ed
Jeopardy 1
practice figurative language terms
Jeopardy 2
practice figurative language terms
Jeopardy 3
study figurative language terms
Jeopardy 4
study figurative language terms
Jeopardy 5
study figurative language terms
Metaphor 5 m/c examples
Mickey Mouse
The Gift of the Magi
Mood and Tone in Movies
Onomatopoeia Practice
Onomatopoeia Vide0
Oxymoron Examples
Oxymorons
Personification in songs
Personification in songs 2
Plot & Plot Diagram
Point of View multiple choice
1st & 3rd person
POV Narrative Perspective
ppt
POV Third Person Narration
ppt
Puns Interactive
Simile Activity
Smartphone article
RL1
Symbolism
chart
Symbolism in Literature
slideshare
Theme
Theme Def.
Refer to pages 4-10
Tone & Mood
powerpoint
Tone Mood
video of words
Tone Mood Clip 3
Edgar Allen Poe
Tone/Mood
in video games-2 videos
Tone/Mood Cartoon
1:55
Tone/Mood Clip 1
Mary Poppins
Tone/Mood Clip 2
Mary Poppins
Tone/Mood Info. Video
4:12
Tone/Mood ppt.
Tone/Mood Video
2:22
POV-Flocabulary
Conflict
TeacherTube
POV Breakout
Point of View Video
catchy song

Realistic Fiction Writing

Reference

Ask Kids
type your ?, get link to answer
Big Foto
free pictures
Connecting Young Adults
collection of websites for teens
Fact Monster
Free Dictionary
get definitions to words
Journal Tribune
York County newspaper
Kids Click
guide to age appropriate websites
Longman Dictionary
easy student definitions
Maine DWT Laws
McArthur Library
Biddeford's library
Merriam Webster for Kids
online dictionary
National Public Radio
radio station
One Look Dictionary
dictionary search
Portland Press Herald
Portland's newspaper
Word Smyth
educational dictionary/thesuarus

Science

Biology 4 Kids
basic biology information
Chemistry 4 Kids
basic chemistry information
National Geographic Kids
the magazine website for kids
Periodic Table of Elements
resource for elementary, m.s. & h.s.
Science Online
interactive websites K-8

Short Stories

7th Grade
By: Gary Soto
A Tell Tale Heart
video: in a nutshell
A Tell Tale Heart
story
A Tell Tale Heart
video 7:48
All Summer in a Day
identify the antagonist
Broken Chain
By: Gary Soto
Charles
By: Shirley Jackson
Charles Multiple Choice Quiz
By: Shirley Jackson
Cinderella
Flipped
By: Wendlin Van Draaden
Gum chewing article
tween tribune
On the Bridge
By: Todd Strasser
Papa's Parrot
By: Cynthia Rylant
Papa's Parrot Quiz
Sweet
By: John Triska
The Escape
By: JB Stamper
The Gift of the Magi
By: O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
video 7:48
The Three Pigs
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Repetition
Water bottle article
What do fish have to do with anything?
Who's On First?
video clip
Cinderella Summary
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Social Studies

Surveys

Technology

Animoto Tuturial
learn how to make a video
How to Use Animoto

Teens

7 Habits Quiz
7th Grade Survey
At Work
Book Reviews for Teens
from Center for Teaching and Learning
Reading Rants!
find books here
Story Tubes
2 minute video booktalks
Teen Read Week
teen reading
Teen Reads
information about authors, books, series

Test Practice

Vocabulary

A Word A Day
learn a new word each day
My Vocabulary
retain vocabulary through puzzles, root word activities
Vocabluary.com block 2
Vocabulary Builders
games to improve vocabulary
Vocabulary.com block 1
Vocabulary.com block 5
Vocabulary.com block 6
Word Game Vocab. Builder
build your vocabulary with fun activities
Word Spy
explains new words

War Horse

Younger Children

1st Grade
learn computer skills, alphabet activities
Dot to Dot
create a picture
Flat Stanley
fun and games
Keyboarding
K-5th grade typing tutor
PBS Kids
games, videos from shows on PBS
Primary Interactive Resources
interactive resources by age
Scholastic
books, games and videos
Speakaboos
Video stories read to you
Starfall
learn to read with phonics

Wonder

Wonder-Online

Olympics

ELA Project
Evidence/Theme/Research