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= ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE =

Smithsonian for Kids
This website is a good tool for integrating instruction and practice in using online reading resources. Although the texts focus more on science, there are also history and social studies articles provding print text and multimedia resouces as well.

= NEWSPAPER = ==The Times and the Common Core Standards: Reading Strategies for ‘Informational Text’== This Times blog provides ideas for using newspaper articles to develop reading skills in the area of informational text. It also offeres specific strategeies teachers can used that are aligned to the standards. = =

= SCIENCE =

How Stuff Works
HowStuffWorks.com has been one of my favorite websites over the last seven years. Offering print text and diagrams (static and interactive), this webite has powerful potential to support the integration of knowledge and ideas in both practical and esorteric science.

National Geographic
From this website, teachers can access materials for younger readers and more mature adolescnet readers. National Geographic provides articles from current and archived publications along with images and alphabetic text that teachers can use to meet the broad range of reading standards covered by the CCSS.

Smithsonian Magazine: Science & Nature
Like many of the most respected educational journals, the Smithsonian Magazine provides online access to select current articles and many archived works.

APPLIED TECHNOLOGY
Working with students who like hands on, let's say with automtive Check out this HowStuffWorks site: []

= HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES =