The following websites give good advice on managing children’s behaviors:

• www.123magic.com Psychologist Thomas Phelan’s approach to discipline is straightforward and useful.

• www.empoweringparents.com. This site has particularly good advice for parents of particularly difficult children, especially teenagers.

The following websites promote learning for children in elementary school or below:

• www.ala.org American Library Association site contains booklists and additional website recommendations
• www.bookpals.net/storyline Site sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild and Verizon Reads – actors and other personalities read or encourage reading
• www.canteach.ca Site contains games and activities organized by subject for individual or group play
• www.discoveryeducation.com Discovery Channel site where you can create puzzles and paper-pencil games to aid in learning vocabulary
• www.drakensang.com/fantasy-stories Site contains classic fairy tales, folk tales, Aesop’s fables and more
• www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/reader/index.html The U.S. Department of Education’s tips on helping your child become a reader
• www.eduplace.com Houghton Mifflin website posts resources for parents and students (this is the reading program your student uses in the classroom)
• www.funbrain.com Alphabet, beginning-letter-sound and word search games
• www.funwithspot.com Fans of author Eric Hill’s Spot books will enjoy playing games and reading animated versions of some of the stories
• www.guysread.com Author Joe Scieszka makes suggestions that connect boys with books they want to read
• www.helpingwithmath.com Excellent site with math problem-solving explanations, examples, worksheets for practice
• www.ipl.org Internet public library
• www.janbrett.com Celebrated children’s author’s website
• www.khanacademy.org Tutorials on math and science that help learners from kindergarten through graduate school
• www.marylandhealthybeginnings.org The Maryland State Department of Educationwebsite gives learning advice for parents of newborns to 3-year-olds
• www.mhsschool.com Macmillan McGraw-Hill textbook publishers’ site with many content-specific learning games and activities
• www.readingrockets.org Prepared by WETA public television, presents strategies, activities and lessons designed to help children learn to read
• www.readyatfive.org Offers resources to help assure a child is ready for school at age 5
• scholastic.com Parent information, activities, and advice; kids games, contests and books
• www.starfall.com Lots of animated stories and elementary math problems
• www.storybookonline.net Presents short stories that children can read – and also add to
• www.weeklyreader.com/homepage.asp Read about current events and do fun activities related to the topics covered in that issue
• http://wonderopolis.org A daily dose of fun facts and learning activities