Useful Links

Read to your child

“Experts in child literacy are unanimous in their belief that parents should read with their children. The power of the parent-child bond has a positive effect on a child’s attitude toward reading and his ability to read. Try the suggestions below to help make reading with your child both a pleasure and a learning experience.” -Great Schools website. “Reading to your child is the single most valuable thing you can do. Why?” - Reading to Babies, Toddlers and Young Children website

 

The Ultimate How-To Site

• Instrucables – Collaborative reference site of do-it-yourself projects. Tell others how to do a project or learn a new skill. This website specializes in user-created and uploaded do-it-yourself projects, which other users can comment on and rate for quality. It was created by Eric Wilhelm, a mechnical engineer, and launched in August 2005. You can even find out how to get a library card!

Test Preparation

• Princeton Review – Free profile allows access to free practice tests,
  school profiles and ranking lists, and customized
  school recommendations. PSAT/SAT, ACT, AP, SAT
  subject tests, GMAT, LSAT, GRE, MCAT, USMLE.
• Kaplan – Comprehensive, all tests including Civil Service, all
  fee-based.
• Peterson’s – Comprehensive test coverage, including Civil Service,
  all fee-based.
• TestPrepReview.com SSAT, TEAS, TExES, TOEFL, USMLE, and Wonderlic – Free practice tests for: ACT, ACCUPLACER, ARDMS, ASVAB, ASWB, CAHSEE, CBEST, CCRN, CDL,CEN, CFP, CFRN, CGFNS, CLEP, CNOR, COMPASS, Contractor, CPA, CSCS, CSET, CTEL, DANB, DAT, Dietitian, EPPP, FCAT, FPGEE, FSOT, GED, GMAT, GRE, HOBET, Home Inspector, HSPT, ISEE, Life and Health, LSAT, MAT, MCAT, NAPLEX, NBCOT, NBRC, NCBTMB, NCE, NCIDQ, NCLEX, NPTE, NREMT, Nursing, NYSTCE, OAT, PANCE, ParaPro, PCAT, PHR & SPHR, PMP, Praxis, Property Casualty, PSAT, PTCB, SAT, SERIES, SERIES 7, Test Practice.
• The Number 2 – Free ACT, SAT and GRE test preparation.
• Study Guide Zone – Free online study guides for just as many as I listed in TestPrepReview.com if not more…

Homework Help

Best Information on the Net has a wealth of information for high school students. This site demonstrates that good information can be found on the Web without distracting ads, color, or too much data crammed onto one page. Students can look up resources by major, research “hot topics” or use the site’s alphabetical index to browse subject matter.

How Stuff Works uses photographs and easy-to-read text in everyday language to help you understand how things work. The search feature helps students finds topics that are divided by categories. Categories include animals, electronics, health, history, science, geography and more.

High School Ace ,  the “Academic Homepage for High School Students,”  is a web guide to the best free educational resources for teens. This highly organized site is easy to navigate with the use of  categories like subject guides, current events and reference site links.

Spark Notes provides literature homework help, as well as a number of study guides, for subjects ranging from history and math to philosophy and even movies. This site not only provides a full literature study guide, students can better understand important quotations, character analysis, and symbolism.

The Homework Center at  Infoplease is the world’s largest free reference site. Students have access to encyclopedias, dictionaries and almanacs as well as Homework Help on english, math, history, geography, science and social studies.

Homework help is just a click away at HomeworkSpot.com. This site not only will help teens, but students from kindergarten on up. From science projects to arts and crafts to on-line field trips, students can access information from a large scope of topics.