Kids Learning and Educational Websites

Reading, Games and Puzzles from Highlights Kids

For fun articles, games and crafts, the Highlights Kids website is a solid resource to check out. Highlights Kids offers articles from the Highlights for Children magazine as well as original content for the Internet only on a very wide variety of topics. Here, you and your child will find comics, animated stories, science experiments and poems. There's also a plethora of fun features, like an idea-a-day generator. Your child can even write to the site to try to have his or her letter posted in the 'Dear Highlights' section.

Learning Resources from National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids offers free articles for kids on many topics and subjects that your child can choose from. The resources on this site are great for kids who dream of traveling and learning about the world and science. In addition to articles, there are videos, games, photos, news articles, activities and crafts.

Fact Monster's Education Tools

For a comprehensive set of learning tools and resources at no cost, look no further than Fact Monster. This site features games, activities, articles, quizzes, tests and timelines. In addition to this, there are atlases, an almanac, encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference tools. Most subjects are covered by Fact Monster in sections such as 'World', 'United States', 'Math and Money', 'Science', 'Sports' and 'Word Wise'.

For help and guidance with homework and studying, you and your child can check out Fact Monster's Homework Center. The homework help center is divided into six subjects and four sets of skills. The subjects are geography, history, English/language arts, math, science and social studies. The skills are speaking and listening, writing, research and studying. Each section is divided into a number of subcategories so you can easily find the educational materials that your child specifically needs.