Kid's Corner
DOLLY PARTON’S IMAGINATION LIBRARY
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Republic of Ireland.
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
Check out the Talking is Teaching YouTube videos below:
A 1,000 books BEFORE kindergarten?? It's possible!
http://1000booksbeforekindergarten.org/
The objectives of this organization are:
- to promote reading to newborns, infants, and toddlers
- to encourage parent and child bonding through reading
What is ABC Mouse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4x_NPIHLw
https://www.abcmouse.com/html5#libraries/home gives children access to its comprehensive online learning resource that includes language and literacy, math, social studies, arts, and music. It offers a highly engaging, expert-designed curriculum for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and beyond with more than 3,500 individual learning activities and 450 lessons.
Examples:
Subjects
- Learning Spoken Words
- Recognizing Sounds in Words
- Knowing Letter Names and Sounds
- Sight Words
- Understanding Stories & Books
- Numbers
- Shapes
- Measurements
- Patterns
- Home, Community, Earth, and Space
- Visual Art
Not available for home use.
Michigan residents or Michigan library or school access only.
Learn
Grades 3-4. Find information on countries, animals, and people. Watch and learn with videos, games, and activities.
For elementary school libraries. Content from children's magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedia entries, and images. Students can learn about animals, musicians, fitness, space exploration, and much more. Pulls content from Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, Newspaper Source Plus, and the eBook K-8 Collection.
Grades PreK-3. Animals (including dinosaurs) and social studies sections of this early literacy and learning tool. Easy-to-navigate visual interface for emerging readers.
Grades 4 through 12 skills improvement in math, writing and grammar, reading comprehension, social studies, and vocabulary and spelling through tests, eBooks, and tutorials. U.S. Constitution study and review, advanced math, and logic available for high school students.
Create a free account to access tools to help you do well in school. Grades Pre K - 5. Easy-to-read content for elementary school learners. Hundreds of activities, science projects and experiments.
Read
Grades Pre K-3. Follow Trek and Taffy the cat around the world. Share their love of colors, numbers, and other fun things. Come inside for stories and pictures.
Titles that support K-8 students across all subject areas. Also features a selection of teacher resources to support educators and administrators including Common Core alignment. You may access the full text of these eBooks from your computer, or download titles to most popular portable devices.