Quick Parent Links

Parent Handbook (P.A.S.S.) 2011-2012

Parent Resources

Websites for Students and Parents:

Kahn Academy – Bill Gates favorite tutor, Sal Kahn, offers  over 2000 free math and science tutorials.  Math Tutorials are organized by topic, from Arithmetic to Calculus.  Science tutorials include  Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.  Quick, free and easy to understand.http://www.khanacademy.org/

HippoCampus:    Multimedia math, science and social studies  lessons, and  homework help 
http://www.hippocampus.org/ 

Purplemath:  Algebra help and links to other math resources
http://www.purplemath.com/

Natural Reader:  A free text-to-speech program which you can download.  Copy and paste text into the program and save for repeated use.  Open a new page and type a journal entry!  Free version has limited voices, but does include a floating mini-board to use on the internet or any other document - even email can be read out loud!
http://www.naturalreaders.com/

WordWeb :  Vocabulary support.   A free downloadable dictionary, thesaurus and reference.  Just hold down the CTRL key and right click on a word and up pops definitions and single word pronunciation.
http://www.wordweb.info/free/ 

Newseum:  View and read the front pages of newspapers from across the US and around the world.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ 

AdLit: Adolescent literacy resources for educators and parents of students in grades 4-12
http://www.adlit.org/

 "Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in math, writing, science, and reading (grades 6-12).
http://www.learner.org/interactives/

Exercise Central 3.0:  Exercise your writing skills.  The biggest and best collection of free writing exercises on the web.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/exercisecentral/

MyACCESS: an instructional, interactive, online learning environment that provides instant scoring and immediate, detailed feedback for students to revise, resubmit, and learn specific writing skills.
http://www.myaccess.com

OWL Writing Lab: The Purdue Online Writing Lab offers over 200 free writing resources for writers.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Writing @CSU: Writing at Colorado State University offers more than 150 guides and interactive activities for writers.  Click the “Learn to Write” link.
http://writing.colostate.edu/

Teenbiz:  Read and Respond articles on the Achieve 3000 website
http://www.achieve3000.com/home.php

Free Rice.com:  Build Vocabulary
www.freerice.com:

NIE World:  The News-Journal’s Newspapers in Education World
http://www.nieworld.com/

User friendly practice websites for Reading and Math courses:

http://www.coolmath.com

http://www.figurethis.org/index.html

http://www.ixl.com/?gclid=CPKpx8P4jasCFQtU7AodWWpNwA

www.Brighstorm.com

www.Pearsonsuccessnet.com